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ONE PARTY RULE WORKS
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Let's forget the Senate for a minute. Let's say there are 10 people in a room and they're a group, and the room is made up of six men and four women. Okay? The group has a rule that the men cannot rape the women. The group also has a rule that says any rule that will be changed must require six votes of the 10 to change the rule. Every now and then some lunatic in the group proposes to change the rule to allow women to be raped. But they never were able to get six votes for it. There were always the four women voting against it, and they always found two guys. Well, the guy that kept proposing that women be raped finally got tired of it and he was in the majority, he was one of the men, said, "You know what, we're gonna change the rule. Now all we need is five."
And the women said, "You can't do that."
"Yes, we are. We're the majority, we're changing the rule." Then
they vote. Can the women be raped? Well, all it would take then is
half the room. You could change the rule to say three. You could change
the rule say three people want it, it's gonna happen. There's no
rule. When the majority can change the rules, there aren't any. I have
to think, if Sheets Byrd were still alive -- of course, Sheets Byrd was
senile in the old days. I don't know how he'd come down on this. But
for everything else he was, this guy, the Senate was church to him. It
was inviolate. At least for a while. But it really is a fundamental
discarding of hundreds of years of tradition, and for one reason only.
Barack Obama can't get what he wants democratically. There's no other
reason for this.


dictatorship &
tyranny.

see tagroom

try harder ..
over time
there are no rules
...
see also the movie
El Topo
Well obviously there is a spectrum from no rule based behavior whatsoever on one end to absolute rule based behavior on the other end. Me i say if a rule is not working change the rule ... the idea that people can make up rules that are always going to work much later in some other context is fundamentally flawed. I'm convinced that a flexible attitude towards changing rules works better and improves chances of survival ... see plastic habits. the filibuster rule for confirming judges was obviously not working ... the senate changed the rule ... good for them ... of course the other side is going to complain.
See - you missed the point. It is not about a temporary power grab to give POTUS his way, but what kind of a government you want: one of laws & precedent or one of men & tyranny.




Reticular activating system senses the things around us and sorts them out. There are so many things in our daily routine which are to be considered and which are not to be considered. These are categorized by the Reticular activating system.
If something good occurs in your life that is treated as positive
e.g. meeting of an old best mate whom you’ve lost contact with etc., and
similarly If you’re thinking something negative in the mind or
something bad happens in your life e.g. someone ditches you, then these
are informed to you by the Reticular activating system to make you
realize the presence of either positive or negative impact.
The best part of this part of reticular activating system is if you
really concentrate on what you want to focus then you will find that
everything is at your presence whatever you want is with you.
The collective vs the individual is the eternal question that freedom must ask & solve.

well yes, it would seem that spectrum would be the critical balance that concerns us. your sentence espressess it from the point of view of the individual for certainly the "freedom" your refer to must be the freedom of the individual. right?? but must it necessarily happen that way? certainly the is way things work today the more force there is in the collective, the less freedom an individual has to act. but what if the individual won all his freedom and then the Leviathan emerged on top of that? all the individual's free creations then would be the very pixels which form the pattern of the Leviathan. in other words the freedom of the individual would be directly proportional ... not inversly proportional ... to the strength of the collective pattern.

An interesting dialogue indeed


For me freedom is the ability to think feel and act voluntarily without force or obstruction from another. I am merely a human who does not believe that i can judge whether a immense being, orders of magnitude more powerful than myself, is benign, good or evil ... and for that same reason i do not trust the judgemet, good or evil, of any other human. I have never bought into the idea that the purpose of my freedom is merly to "transform evil to good" ... for were that the case, then it is not freedom at all but some kind of sick trick. In other words, for me, the freedom to act is quite literally that ... the freedom to act ... is is not just the freedom to act good.
The collective vs the individual is the eternal question that freedom must ask & solve.

well yes, it would seem that spectrum would be the critical balance that concerns us. your sentence espressess it from the point of view of the individual for certainly the "freedom" your refer to must be the freedom of the individual. right?? but must it necessarily happen that way? certainly the is way things work today the more force there is in the collective, the less freedom an individual has to act. but what if the individual won all his freedom and then the Leviathan emerged on top of that? all the individual's free creations then would be the very pixels which form the pattern of the Leviathan. in other words the freedom of the individual would be directly proportional ... not inversly proportional ... to the strength of the collective pattern.
The collective vs the individual is the eternal question that freedom must ask & solve.

well yes, it would seem that spectrum would be the critical balance that concerns us. your sentence espressess it from the point of view of the individual for certainly the "freedom" your refer to must be the freedom of the individual. right?? but must it necessarily happen that way? certainly the is way things work today the more force there is in the collective, the less freedom an individual has to act. but what if the individual won all his freedom and then the Leviathan emerged on top of that? all the individual's free creations then would be the very pixels which form the pattern of the Leviathan. in other words the freedom of the individual would be directly proportional ... not inversly proportional ... to the strength of the collective pattern.




then too think ... how does a pattern become aware of itself? ... especially if we are part of it?
Anthroposophically, all thoughts are beings of some kind with some level of consciousness which is a primary category (see Aristotle). There is also beings that are not thoughts. But,,... one might have to concede to using some metaphysics or spiritual science to grok that.





perhaps you missed my point that pattern is not exclusively subjective ... not always just "in our minds" ... sometimes they also can be scientifically detected and reliably recognized outside of our minds.
then too there is a corollary to your reticular activation ... anticipation of something can tend to cause it to happen ... there is a term for that but it escapes me at the moment.
then too there is that pesky fact that where the mind ends (and its "not" starts) is itself quite subjective. can it not be considered a grand system of cause and effect ... a complex maze ... a vast network. when does a pattern become a being?

Reticular activating system senses the things around us and sorts them out. There are so many things in our daily routine which are to be considered and which are not to be considered. These are categorized by the Reticular activating system.
If something good occurs in your life that is treated as positive e.g. meeting of an old best mate whom you’ve lost contact with etc., and similarly If you’re thinking something negative in the mind or something bad happens in your life e.g. someone ditches you, then these are informed to you by the Reticular activating system to make you realize the presence of either positive or negative impact.
The best part of this part of reticular activating system is if you really concentrate on what you want to focus then you will find that everything is at your presence whatever you want is with you.
well there is no doubt, me thinks, that patterns of behavior are subjective ... even when we ourselves participate in them. yet still and all sometimes they can be detected objectively ... er, from the outside, scientifically ... the emergence of people stroking their gadgets in the mall is a example. reticular activation itself is a very real pattern and no doubt can be objectively recognized. i think when we recognize a pattern there certainly can be a feedback between it and us ... so that as we participate in it, it grows and our awareness of it does too.
when does a pattern become a being? when is a pattern being?
then too think ... how does a pattern become aware of itself? ... especially if we are part of it?
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