"Wealth consists not in having great possessions," the Stoic philosopher Epictetus once said, "but in having few wants." Sounds wise.
But that doesn't keep people from wanting to be rich. Even though we all define wealth and success differently, most of us factor at least some degree of wealth into our success equations. (If nothing else, money creates choices.)
So how, if financial success is your goal, can you get rich? Science says the answer lies not just in what you do, but also in who you are. According to a 2018 study published in British Journal of Psychology, rich people are definitely different.
Especially where personality traits are concerned. For example:
Rich people tend to be extroverted. No surprise there. Since no one achieves anything worthwhile on their own, the ability to engage with others, to build relationships, to motivate and inspire, and to genuinely connect is definitely important. (Just keep in mind introverts can also be extremely successful.)
Rich people tend to be more conscientious. Also not a surprise. Making smart decisions. Delaying gratification, and focusing on long-term goals. Doing what you need to do instead of only what you want to do. Even marrying well, but not in the way you might think: Research shows that people whose partners are conscientious tend to earn more promotions, make more money, and feel more satisfied with their work. (As Jim Rohn says, we tend to be the average of the people we spend the most time with.)
Rich people tend to be more emotionally stable. Making emotional decisions? Definitely a recipe for slowing progress toward long-term goals.
Rich people tend to be less neurotic. When you're quick to respond in a negative way, with anxiety, moodiness, worry, or fear -- what psychologists call "negative arousal" -- it's much harder to be successful.
Rich people tend to be more self-centered. While that sounds like a bad thing, there is this: As Adam Grant says, humble narcissists have very high expectations for their own success -- but they also understand that great achievements are almost always the result of collective efforts. That makes for a winning combination: Believing you can achieve big things helps you get started; knowing you need other people to make it happen helps you finish. TO READ MORE, CLICK HERE...
It don't make a flying rat's ass if the WUHAN LABS in China manufactured the COVID virus and released it into the world or not because BIDEN and the Democrats, the Liberals, and Mainstream media ain't gonna do shit about it...
In a way that is good because the US would not be able to enforce anything in China even if we tried to do something... Plus, if we ever went to war with China, there is a good possibility that we would lose... not to mention the fact that Russia would join China along with most every country in the Middle East. The first thing the Chinese would do would be to subdue Japan.
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, what the Democrats want to do is eliminate the Republican Party and make sure that monies are diverted from the Military and Homeland Security so that we can create a CLASSLESS society. However, the closest that we would ever get to a classless society would be THE WEALTHY and then everyone else... whether everyone else is middle class or lower class does not really matter.
Biden and his cohorts want to give everything away to all the citizens:
free education
free healthcare
free housing
free food
free transportation
free food
free income
Once we have everyone receiving free shit, then it does not matter who controls the rest of the world because it will not be the USA...
Actually, our country will not last very long at all before it is completely controlled by CHINA...
America was number 1 in the world in 1945 because the war was fought in Europe, the manufacturing base of the US was still in tact and supplied the rest of the world with goods and services... making us even more wealthy.
American education was number 1 back then as well but over the years, it has dropped from number 1 to number 15 in the world based upon K-12.
Higher education has maintained its own but is faltering. In 1980 when I got my MBA, I had to pass with a "B" 60 hours of course work... which is 20 classes. Today, one can earn an MBA after 10 classes of course work or 30 hours. Does that mean our education is getting better?
I have also taught college students who cannot remember anything from the class that they just passed with an "A" because all they did was memorrize for the grade and not for retention. Does this mean we are getting better?
Prices are increasing but wages are not increasing as fast... at least for the workers that is true... but for management and upper management, their salaries are increasing all the time because they are meeting their goals at the expense of the workers... Does this mean we are getting better?
The gap between the wealthy and the middle class is increasing each year as the wealthy continue to increase their wealth as prices increase and as new markets are opened... Does this mean we are getting better?
America is more divided than ever before... not since the civil war has this country been more divided. Does this mean we are getting better?
In 1846, astronomer and mathematician Urbain Le Verrier sat down and attempted to locate a planet that had never been seen before by humans. Uranus (grow up) had been moving in unexpected ways, as predicted by the Newtonian theory of gravity.
Though the discrepancies were small, there was a difference between the observed orbit of Uranus and the way Newtonian physics predicted its orbit to be. In July, Le Verrier proposed that the difference could be explained by another planet beyond Uranus, and made predictions as to the orbit of this previously unknown body.
Being a mathematician first and an astronomer second, he wasn't really interested in finding it with a telescope now that he'd found it in maths, and the task of searching for it was left to German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle. On September 23, 1846, Galle looked at the spot Le Verrier had predicted the planet would be, and found to within 1 degree of the spot... the planet Neptune.
So, having discovered a new planet by looking at the orbit of another, Le Verrier was called upon to take a look at a planet whose name doesn't also mean butt hole: Mercury. Mercury, being so close to the Sun, is the most difficult planet in our Solar System to observe (assuming there is no Planet Nine out there). Le Verrier was tasked with plotting Mercury's orbit using Newtonian physics.
But he couldn't. No matter how much he tried, Mercury's eccentric orbit didn't make any sense. According to Newtonian theory, the planets move in elliptical orbits around the Sun, but observations showed that Mercury's orbit wobbles more than could be accounted for by the gravity exerted by the other known planets. TO READ MORE, CLICK HERE...
General relativity is wrong. GR is not based on nature’s foundation of Euclidean space and time permeated by energy carrying immutable point charges.
We can rehabilitate GR with the concept of Quantum General Relativity which has the following corrections :
QGR is rebased into Euclidean space and time.
QGR is based on geometrical, physically immutable, quanta of charge.
In the context of QGR, the quantum is redefined and reframed as the electrino and positrino point charges (at -e/6 and +e/6 respectively).
QGR deals properly with the fixed high energy limit per charge quantum and the associated density limits and electromagnetic configuration.
QGR is enhanced with the understanding that Euclidean space is permeated by structures that have characteristics that vary with their energy, as well as the energy of local structures, tapering with distance. These physical characteristics implement Einstein’s spacetime geometry.
QGR includes mathematical bridges between Euclidean coordinates in space and time and Riemannian coordinates in spacetime aether.
Fermion particles, have energy cores with a DeBroglie wavelength, and they ‘redshift’ energy to spacetime.
What is the mechanism?
Do their energy cores leak energy or pay a toll?
Dense standard matter such as is found in a planet or star or galaxy energizes the spacetime aether in and around them. The aether is rather passive — it is mostly doing the Einstein stretchy-curvy behaviour, so in some cases the energized aether is left behind as a wake. Astrophysicists call it dark matter. TO READ MORE, CLICK HERE...
Illegal Immigration is a problem for this country because when those people are integrated into the general population, it will change the overall structure of this country in certain areas... like the cities where jobs are mainly available.
Immigrants came to this country for a better opportunity and that opportunity is not living off the handouts of our federal government but working and moving up through the ranks with or without education... but, with hard work.
These type people are not supporters of SOCIALISM... they are supporters of capitalism and the free market enterprise way of life...
DEMOCRATS and LIBERALS and PROGRESSIVES have made a miscalculation and they will soon pay for it...
Other problems that they will encounter will revolve around:
Defunding the police
Critical Race Theory
Becoming WOKE
Cancel Culture
2022 will be the telling factor as more and more people realize that what Biden and his bulldogs are doing is hurting not helping their way of life.
America is supposed to be a civilized nation when compared to other countries around the world and yet, I believe we are no better than any other country.... our only difference really are the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution. Freedom of speech and the right to bear arms even though there is some justification to believe that our right to bear arms was temporary and only necessary until we were able to form a military and subsequent local police... yet, our FOUNDING FATHERS did not remove the right once our military was formed, so most everyone believes that right was meant to stay...
However, our Freedom of Speech has never been challenged to the degree that our right to bear arms right has and while we can question why that might have been, it really is not necessary because our LIBERAL side of the house wants to censor ALL CONSERVATIVE VIEWS, so there is no need to question its existence.
This really annoys me because like so many closeted transgenered people, I straddle the fence between being LIBERAL and being CONSERVATIVE... I like the idea of a balance budget, the elimination of debt, and I am against welfare because it is typically abused by Americans. Sometimes, people need some help and I think that we should help them... but, many welfare people have been on welfare for years... shouldn't we try to help them off?
I am in favor of abortion in the sense that a woman has the right to choose what she wants to do with her body and not the government
I favor the right to bear arms but I will never own a firearm myself
I want a strong, KICK ASS military, but I am against war, especially endless wars where nothing is achieved
I am against discrimination in all forms, such as:
against blacks
against whites
against women
against Muslims
against Russians
against Chinese
I am in favor of free education but not watered down education just so everyone can earn a degree.
I want our federal government to balance our bedget
I want our federal government to pay down the debt
I want a small federal government and low taxes
I want the BILLIONAIRES to take us into outer space
I want a flat tax with no exzemptions
I don't want American to fight anymore foreign wars
I don't think the wealthy should bear the tax burden
IN OTHER WORDS I AM NEITHER REPUBLICAN NOR DEMOCRATIC AND I AM PROUD OF IT BECAUSE I KISS NO ONE'S ASS FOR FAVORS... I AM SPIRITUAL AND HAVE LOADS OF FAITH AND BELIEFS, I JUST DON'T GO THE CHURCH BECAUSE I DON'T BELIEVE IN INSTITUTIONALIZED RELIGION. I BELIEVE IN ANCIENT ALIENS AND THINK THAT ALL OUR MYTHOLOGIES ALL OVER THE WORLD IS BASED UPON ANCIENT ALIENS VISITING US INCLUDING CHRISTIANITY...
MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD... is a phrase Iwill never forget.
A newly discovered crescent of galaxies spanning 3.3 billion light-years is among the largest known structures in the universe and challenges some of astronomers' most basic assumptions about the cosmos.
The epic arrangement, called the Giant Arc, consists of galaxies, galactic clusters, and lots of gas and dust. It is located 9.2 billion light-years away and stretches across roughly a 15th of the observable universe.
Its discovery was "serendipitous," Alexia Lopez, a doctoral candidate in cosmology at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in the U.K., told Live Science. Lopez was assembling maps of objects in the night sky using the light from about 120,000 quasars — distant bright cores of galaxies where supermassive black holes are consuming material and spewing out energy.
As this light passes through matter between us and the quasars, it is absorbed by different elements, leaving telltale traces that can give researchers important information. In particular, Lopez used marks left by magnesium to determine the distance to the intervening gas and dust, as well as the material’s position in the night sky.
In this way, the quasars act "like spotlights in a dark room, illuminating this intervening matter," Lopez said.
In the midst of the cosmic maps, a structure began to emerge. "It was sort of a hint of a big arc," Lopez said. "I remember going to Roger [Clowes] and saying 'Oh, look at this.'"
Clowes, her doctoral adviser at UCLan, suggested further analysis to ensure it wasn't some chance alignment or a trick of the data. After doing two different statistical tests, the researchers determined that there was less than a 0.0003% probability the Giant Arc wasn't real. They presented their results on June 7 at the 238th virtual meeting of the American Astronomical Society. TO READ MORE, CLICK HERE...
Natural selection can reverse evolution that occurs through sexual selection and this can lead to better females, new research shows.
The study — led by the University of Exeter and Okayama University — examined broad-horned flour beetles, whose males have exaggerated mandibles, while females do not.
Male beetles with the largest mandibles win more fights and mate with more females — an example of “sexual selection,” where certain characteristics (like a male peacock’s tail) improve mating success.
However, having bigger mandibles requires a masculinized body (large head and neck), and a smaller abdomen — which, for females, limits the number of eggs they can carry. A masculinized body is not good for females.
Experimentally enhanced natural selection through predation, however, targets the same males favored by sexual selection and this results in the evolution of less masculinized bodies and better-quality females.
In the study, broad-horned flour beetles were exposed to a predator called the assassin bug, which ate males with the largest mandibles.
By removing these males, predation effectively reduced the benefits of sexual selection and this means natural selection has an increased impact.
After eight generations of this, females produced about 20% more offspring across their lifespan, compared to a control group of beetles where large-horned males were not removed by predation.
“Males and females of every species share genes, but in some cases — including broad-horned flour beetles — the genes good for one sex aren’t always ideal for the other,” said Professor David Hosken, of the University of Exeter.
“We see this process, known as intralocus sexual conflict, across the natural world.
“For example, humans share the genes for hips — which males need for walking, and females need for both walking and childbirth. Optimal hips for women would be broad enough to allow childbirth, while optimal hip width for men is narrower. TO READ MORE, CLICK HERE...
One of the members of the SQUAD recently said that if someone was against Critical Race Theory then that meant that they were a RACIST.
When I hear people say that shit, all it does is makes me more angry at their stupidity and generalizations and trying to blame lack of agenda support on racism. As we say in EAST TENNESSEE, that dog don't hunt...
Using that logic I must be against God and Religion because I support a woman's right to choose... I must be against the Second Amendment because I don't want to own a firearm. I must be against the Progressives because I believe in the FIRST FRIGGING AMENDMENT... now that dog do hunt...
Because of the Black Lives Matter Movement, I don't want to do a damn thing to help the blacks... And, because of Critical Race Theory, I am not even more supportive of the Confederate South and all that it stands for... except, I think that slavery is fundamentally flawed because we should only be slaves to God...
I think half of the UNITED STATES right now is AGAINST:
Black Lives Matter
Critical Race Theory
Being WOKE
Support Cancel Culture
AND... I think the blacks might have just OVER-PLAYED their hand on this one. Think about this one:
WHAT CAN YOU DO WHEN HALF THE POPULATION IS AGAINST YOU???
I happen to like Starbucks coffee and while it may be a little pricey... I still like to purchase it, especially when I am given a Starbucks card to use...
I always get the same thing: a large vanilla cappuccino...
Using data from NASA’s IBEX satellite, scientists created the first-ever 3D map of the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space.
For the first time, the boundary of the heliosphere has been mapped, giving scientists a better understanding of how solar and interstellar winds interact.
“Physics models have theorized this boundary for years,” said Dan Reisenfeld, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and lead author on the paper, which was published in the Astrophysical Journal on June 10, 2021. “But this is the first time we’ve actually been able to measure it and make a three-dimensional map of it.”
The heliosphere is a bubble created by the solar wind, a stream of mostly protons, electrons, and alpha particles that extends from the Sun into interstellar space and protects the Earth from harmful interstellar radiation.
Reisenfeld and a team of other scientists used data from NASA’s Earth-orbiting Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite, which detects particles that come from the heliosheath, the boundary layer between the solar system and interstellar space.
The team was able to map the edge of this zone — a region called the heliopause. Here, the solar wind, which pushes out toward interstellar space, collides with the interstellar wind, which pushes in towards the Sun. TO READ MORE, CLICK HERE...
whites are oppressors and that all blacks are the ones being oppressed... it also divides the races making sure that whites are different from blacks and in some cases teach people to HATE THE WHITE RACE...
60% of the population is white
14% of the population is black
There is much to hate about the United States of America but hating a different race is not one of them...
If you want to hate... then hate:
POLITICIANS
The WEALTHY
MANAGEMENT
FAKE NEWS
People who HATE
Socialism
Government Control
Double Standards
Ice on the roads
Racism
NOTE: the more we hate each other, the more our enemies can take advantage of us by dividing us even further. Who wants to defend a country that they HATE???
A herd of elephants traipsing through southwest China has captured the imagination of millions.
Monitored by hundreds of police officers assisted by drones, the massive animals reached Kunming in southern Yunnan province earlier this week after traveling some 300 miles from their native nature reserve, state-owned media reported.
Adam Chang was hired to deliver corn and pineapples to the elephants, which on average stand 11 feet tall and weigh 11,000 lbs.
He said what he saw was amazing.
“I saw them picking apart the corn with their trunks,” he told NBC News over the messaging and social media app WeChat.
“They are just so much more lively than those I saw in the zoo. It almost felt as if they had a holy aura around them,” he said.
While news of their migration has spread across China and gone viral online, with many expressing wonder and fascination, experts warned that this rare journey could indicate the inevitable and damaging consequences of human encroachment on the elephants’ natural habitat.
The herd reached Kunming on June 2, despite efforts from police to lure them back home. The animals took their time crossing what would have been busy thoroughfares, eating and stumbling into irrigation ditches before going to sleep in woods nearby.
After trending on social media in late May, many netizens were awestruck, while some complained about the destruction left in their wake.
Jason Cao, owner of a Yunnan mining company contracted by the government to deliver their feed, said he didn’t think the damage they caused was serious.
“Elephants are holy animals that can bring fortune and peace in Chinese culture, so we are very happy the elephants came,” he said. TO READ MORE, CLICK HERE...
We have had the second amendment since 1776 and while this amendment is designed for law abiding citizens, any half way intelligent person knows that criminals are going to find a way to provide themselves with weapons... and, if the government and other reasonable people think that making it more difficult to own firearms is going to cut down on shooting deaths, then perform a GOOGLE search and see how easy it is to find step by step directions on how to make a bomb.
If a crazy person wants to kill people for whatever reason, would you rather have those deaths be the result of a bomb explosion or bullets from a semi-automatic weapon?
Personally, I don't want either to happen but how do you think AMERICA is doing on its war with illegal drugs?
Why do Americans purchase more illegal drugs than anywhere else in the world?
We have all sorts of police forces and narcotics squads trying to stop the flow of illegal drugs and yet those people who want them always find a way to procure them...
Should we do away with the police because they cannot stop crime?
HUMAN NATURE dictates that the more you tell me that I cannot do something the more I am going to want to do it...
Right now, our police department is perceived as being NO LONGER APPROPRIATE to regulate Americans in cities... but, those complaints are coming from BLACK AMERICANS not WHITE AMERICANS. It would appear that WHITES have no problems with police and BLACKS have a problem with police because they perceive that LAW ENFORCEMENT (including both whites and blacks) are RACIALLY PROFILING them.
SO... why is a black law enforcement person, RACIALLY PROFILING another black person?
There are ENLIGHTENED POLITICIANS called LIBERAL DEMOCRATS who believe that if we pour a ton of money into our cities and give blacks a better place to live, better education, better healthcare, and a reason to grow up successful, that it will reduce crime, especially in our inner cities.
HELL... I think it is worth a try... and, we should with all due haste dismantle our police departments and use that money to give blacks more opportunities. Perhaps, we should give them THE EXACT SAME OPPORTUNITIES that the blacks perceive the whites received automatically. NOT MORE... just the same.
WHAT DO WE DO WITH ALL THE LAID OFF LAW ENFORCEMENT employees?
Who gives a shit about them... we just care about BLACKS...
It is important for BLACKS TO PERCEIVE that WHITE AMERICA EMBRACES them in the same way that it has embraced whites... except, the embracing that this country does is not for EVERY WHITE... just the WEALTHY WHITES...
However, the term can also denote actual experiments in what participants regard as a vastly superior manner of living, generally in what are termed intentional communities. In common parlance it is synonymous with "impossible", "far-fetched", and "deluded".
Literary utopias focus on, amongst other things, equality, in such categories as economics, government and justice, with the method and structure of proposed implementation varying based on ideology.
Lyman Tower Sargent argues that the nature of a utopia is inherently contradictory because societies are not homogeneous and have desires which conflict and therefore cannot simultaneously be satisfied. SOURCE: Wikipedia
The television series Star Trek was based upon a Utopia under the control of a ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT: The United Federation of Planets. And, it was this Federation that operated much like our United Nations but with a hell of a lot more power.
People did not have to work unless they wanted to and if they did work they were paid according to their level of skill, not necessarily education but some form of formalized training in order to acquire those skills. They were paid in credits but everything was provided for them: housing, clothes, transportation, medical, etc.
And, no one bitched about it costing too much money or that one's taxes would be increasing... it was just an accepted lifestyle. However, there were some that rejected this space-age lifestyle and preferred to live "off the grid" so to speak but they were non violent and wanted to be left alone.
Star Trek was an instant success because of this ideal lifestyle and living conditions and complete acceptance without concerns or regret...
BUT, that will never happen today because most people do not want to be controlled by the government... which is one of the main reasons why we wanted our independence from Great Britain. We wanted to be free of government but we also wanted religious freedom as well... and, the freedom to be able to say whatever without fear of going to jail.
Utopia's are nice concepts but they are impractical because of man's desire to be different... no body agrees with everyone else ALL THE TIME... and, this is exactly why Utopias will always FAIL... except in Star Trek.
I am more keenly aware of black people than ever before and now I see them as different than me in so many ways and that even though we are still Americans, we are different type Americans...
White people live in their own communities while black people live in their own communities. White people go to their own churches while black people go to their own churches. Wherever I go, I always see more whites than blacks whether that is to:
Walmart
Lowes
A shopping Mall
A movie theater
Myrtle Beach, SC
Most restaurant
Best Buy
Weigel's Convenience Store
UT Medical Center
UT Cancer Center
Our family clinic
Toyota repair center
Douglas or Cherokee Lakes
RV camping areas
Kohls
Before, I would not have paid any attention to what black people were doing, but now, and because of BLM and all the violence that I see surrounding BLM, I am more aware of black people around me and more cautious when I am around them and the violence they might follow.
The more that Critical Race Theory is pushed in our school systems, the more I AM AGAINST what it teaches and the fact that it is separating blacks and whites... and, painting us as two separate and distinct races...
I don't really care if black see me as the oppressor and see themselves as the oppressed because I am not changing my behavior for them or for anyone else. In short, I want to avoid anything that has to do with blacks and focus on the white race and what we have accomplished as a race without the help of the blacks.
As humans, we know we are conscious because we experience and feel things. Yet scientists and great thinkers are unable to explain what consciousness is and they are equally baffled about where it comes from.
"Consciousness — or better, conscious experience — is obviously a part of reality," said Johannes Kleiner, a mathematician and theoretical physicist at the Munich Center For Mathematical Philosophy, Germany. "We're all having it but without understanding how it relates to the known physics, our understanding of the universe is incomplete."
With that in mind, Kleiner is hoping math will enable him to precisely define consciousness. Working with colleague Sean Tull, a mathematician at the University of Oxford, U.K., the pair are being driven, to some degree, by a philosophical point of view called panpsychism.
This claims consciousness is inherent in even the tiniest pieces of matter — an idea that suggests the fundamental building blocks of reality have conscious experience. Crucially, it implies consciousness could be found throughout the universe.
If the researchers can answer how our brains give rise to subjective experience, there's a chance their mathematical model could extend to inanimate matter too, they said.
"A mathematical theory can be applied to many different systems, not just brains," Kleiner told All About Space via email. "If you develop a mathematical model of consciousness based on data obtained from brains, you can apply the model to other systems, for example, computers or thermostats, to see what it says about their conscious experience too."
Some prominent minds lend weight to the view of panpsychism, not least renowned Oxford physicist Sir Roger Penrose, who was among the first academics to propose we go beyond neuroscience when looking at consciousness. TO READ MORE, CLICK HERE...
Although, one could make the claim that I am because I have had some of my writing published in a book and on a variety of social media forums and my own blogs but none of it has been for the exchange of money, and therefore would not be considered, by me, to be professional as I think of being professional as being paid to do something.
However, regardless of being professional or not, I have been writing relatively seriously since 1972 and really serious in 2015 when I retired from full time employment. My writing since since 1972 has been poetry, short stories, and opinion articles that is pretty much all that I write when posting my thoughts on my blogs.
From 2015 until the present time, I have been writing full blown novels of at least 300 MS Word pages which translates into about 450 paperback novel pages... so, my novels are full length so to speak... My first one took the longest time and is entitled: The Cosmic Priesthood: the unveiling of consciousness and is about the main characters desire to find and assemble 12 keys that he believes will SAVE THE WORLD... The forces of evil are trying to stop him and outweigh the forces of good that are trying to help him. That is when the Cosmic Priesthood steps in... (completed)
Their rationale for helping our character is to maintain balance in the universe, and sometimes these Priests help and sometimes they don't. Interestingly, there is a group of Priests that are against our character's actions... and, the reason why is only revealed if you read the novel.
My second novel is entitled: HOLD ON and is about one of the evil characters in my first novel and about how he tries to corner the market on honeybees. He is also involved in a variety of other illegal activities and is eventually brought to justice but not by the law... perhaps by the goodness of the universe one could say. (completed)
My third novel which to this day is only have finished, is entitled: CODENAME: Hanging Church and is about an American Spy working in Cairo, Egypt trying to track down the secret organization that is behind all the terrorist activities in the middle east, Europe, and other places. He is also a hired assassin for the CIA, performing those duties on the side. (work in progress)
My fourth novel is a sequel to the first entitled: The Cosmic Priesthood: Beyond the Milky Way and takes place in the year 2253 and earth has been all but abandoned and living on a variety of planets in our solar system. There is only one government composed of all earth countries, The Galactic Corporation of Commerce and Interplanetary Exploration. Our colonies on these planets are being invading by a society from a different galaxies in a different dimension. The Cosmic Priests are able to tap into the power of the Cosmic Consciousness imbedded in the whole of the universe. (completed)
My fifth novel is entitled: Ghost Dancer and is about sex trafficking and drug trafficking on Native American Reservations all over the USA for the pleasure of wealthy individuals located in the US and Canada and maybe other places as well. I have completed a chapter outline and have written an introduction but done nothing else. (work in progress)
My sixth novel is entitled: Lost Creek Diaries and is about a small college in the south, specifically in the foothills of TN beside the Great Smoky Mountains and that when the college was formed in 1835, it was created a college and as a brothel. A slave diary was kept exposing what was going on but the practice has continued up until the present. The Mexican Drug Cartel, The Russian Mafia, and the Japanese YAKUZA are involved as they lauder money through a Native American Casino. (work in progress)
My seventh novel is entitled: Caucasian Male and was started because I wanted to write about my life but I also wanted to write about what it was like living as a white person, especially in the light of BLM, ANTIFA, and Critical Race Theory. (work in progress)
I have 7 other novels rolling around in my head for a total of 14 if I ever live long enough to write them all... I have not really thought about publishing them and not sure that I want to go through the shit of receiving rejections... Just the fact that I wrote them is what is important to me.
The way we think about sexuality is changing. Where there was once a single, well-known rainbow pride flag, today, a wide array of colourful flags fly to showcase the diversity of orientations. People seem increasingly open to discussing their sexuality, and more unconventional, even formerly “invisible”, identities have become part of an increasingly mainstream discourse. With the open dialogue, sexual identities are becoming less rigid and more fluid.
But new data show that this shift is more prevalent in one group: in many countries, women are embracing sexual fluidity now at much higher rates than they have in the past, and more significantly than men are overall.
So, what accounts for this discrepancy? Experts believe there are many factors that feed into this progression, especially changes in social climate that have let women break out of conventional gender roles and identities. With these new insights, however, the question remains: what does this mean for sexual fluidity in the future for all genders?
A notable shift Sean Massey and his colleagues at the Binghamton Human Sexualities Research Lab in New York have been studying sexual behaviours for about a decade. In each of their studies, they asked participants to report their sexual orientation and gender. They’d never before looked at how that data changed over time – until Massey and colleagues recently realised they were sitting on a treasure trove of information about sexual attraction.
“We thought, gosh, we've collected this data for 10 years,” says Massey, an ssociate professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Binghamton University. “Why don't we go back and look and see if there's been any trends?”
They found that between 2011 and 2019, college-age women had increasingly moved away from exclusive heterosexuality. In 2019, 65% of women reported only being attracted to men, a notable decrease from 77% in 2011. The number of women exclusively having sex with men also dropped between those years. Meanwhile, men’s attraction and sexual behaviour stayed mostly static in the same time frame: about 85% reported sexual attraction to women only, and close to 90% reported engaging in sex exclusively with women.
Father's Day is a holiday of honoring fatherhood and paternal bonds, as well as the influence of fathers in society. In Catholic countries of Europe, it has been celebrated on 19 March as Saint Joseph's Day since the Middle Ages. Wikipedia
As a father myself, I understand the importance of a father in a child's life and while my father did not provide me with what I needed in life outside of discipline and responsibility, I tried to allow my daughter to grow as she wanted to grow without my influence on what I wanted her to become. She did well in high school, college, and in her professional life as well.
However, somewhere along the line but only after moved overseas and began living in China, she stopped all communications with me and left me with NO IDEA why she had decided to do this which served to only increase her hatred and bitterness towards me in my mind. I tried to reach out several times, including her FB page but she still refuses to contact me, especially at those times when contact should be made like:
Christmas
Birthday
Father's Day
Interestingly, I had gotten mad at my father as well and I cannot even remember why nowadays but I refused to reach out to him as well... I think my abandonment of my father lasted for about 10-15 years... So, turnabouts is fair play or so they say... anyway, there is nothing that I can do about my daughter... all I can do is regulate my own behavior...
As I have mentioned before... I am a liberal in my beliefs and actions as ANYONE... but, I am NOT A DEMOCRAT.
As I have mentioned before... I am a conservative in my financial dealings as most NO ONE... but, I am NOT A REPUBLICAN.
I am well educated
I am well experienced
I am a Vietnam Veteran
I am an anti-war protestor
I don't exercise my right to vote because that right is bullshit
But, to blame everything either on TRUMP or the GOP is like telling everyone that you have your head firmly implanted into your anal region.
One of the days, the media is going to realized that they have been fooled by the Democrats and are going to start wondering why the hell isn't our country getting any better.
Hell Trump is Gone
COVID locked down the cities
Biden gave us stimulus money
Why do we have inflation?
What did those frigging Republicans do while Trump was President that is causing us to have inflation NOW???
I mean for Christ's sake he was a WHITE FRIGGING SUPREMACIST... you could just tell that by the words that came out of his mouth... and, it was in his eyes as well... And, the rest of the world hated him as well...
Now the world LOVES BIDEN... his is like a father to all the communists, socialists, Marxists, and terrorists...
The Mexican Drug Cartels love him because of our open borders giving them easy access to moving drugs into the USA so Americans can get HIGH and zone out and not care about their future.
THAT ASSHOLE TRUMP TRIED TO STOP DRUGS FROM ENTERING THE USA... he should be arrested and put in jail for doing that... he's a criminal.
AND... don't you also realize that TRUMP and the GOP caused the inflation that we are experiencing today... By doing what they did... caused all hell to break lose after BIDEN undid everything TRUMP had done... IF Trump had not done what he did... we would have have this problem...
Since I was born Caucasian and have no desire to feel guilty because of being born white, I see no reason why I should even celebrate this holiday because it really does not pertain to me like July 4 pertains... and, all I do for the 4th of July is cook a hamburger and put up the American Flag outside on the front porch.
I am no politician and I am glad that I never had that desire, but I fear that Juneteenth is going to send the wrong message here in the US and that after whites are forced to take a day off by either the government or their employers, that they will do absolutely nothing to celebrate black freedom...
Why are we not authorizing a Federal Holiday for all the Native Americans to whom we gave their freedom as well by putting them on RESERVATIONS...
To be honest, I have more empathy for Native Americans than I have for Black Americans... because UNLIKE BLACKS they were here first and WHITES took their land and their freedoms away from them...
To me, our Federal Government is making a mistake and will begin to cause more division than ever before by recognizing the different between whites and blacks.
I remember not too long ago, about 30 years or so, about the time that I moved to East TN from the Piedmont of NC, that I found myself professionally in demand because I possessed skills that were taken for granted in NC, but that were just coming to fruition in TN. The skills about which I write were: Total Quality Management, Statistical Problem Solving, Team Oriented Problem Solving, Process Improvement, and Strategic Long Range Planning, along with !SO 9000/2000, QS 9000, and ISO/QS Auditing and being hired as a consultant not just for these but to help organizations prepare for Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award, which had been modeled after the Deming Prize in Japan.
My cup runneth over with high paying consulting contracts of no less than $2,500/day plus expenses or $100/hour plus expenses.
In NC, all this training had already been done and was in their past and they were moving on to something newer and more progressive... which was actually more of the same just packaged differently with a different focus like seemless manufacturing... that was kinda silly because the OLD MAN FORD started seemless manufacturing when he came up with the assembly line.
So, I rode the crest of that WAVE from 1990 until 2015 when I retired... after spending my last 3 years teaching business class for a local, but still small and never wanting to really grow university.. And, after having worked 60 plus hours for over 20 years, it was a difficult adjustment trying to find work to do just to fill 20 hours... The university required 4 to 5 classes taught each semester which is 12-15 hours and then 5-8 hours had to be spent as office hours in case a student wanted to come in and talk to you about something.
So, if there were any papers to be graded, I used my time for that, and possibly class prep but there really wasn't much of that either because all the business knowledge that was in the textbook, was also in my head after so many years of working in the field.
Of course, there might be a meeting or two to attend once a month which took a couple or three hours but being a professor is BORING unless you are on tenure or seeking tenure and you need to research and publish... then, teaching 12 hours is almost too many.
The Valley was hot today... in the 90's but the humidity was low so it was rather comfortable out on the back porch. However, the cats prefer outside in the warmth rather than inside in the air. The day reminded me of some of those old movies that take place in the south and there is always a big ole hound dog or two laying around on the wooden porch or dirt ground.
I waited until after 6:00 pm to mow the lawn to keep out of the heat of the sun so that I could continue to wear shorts and a t-shirt rather than cover up with long sleeves. There was no one else outside, but then again, there seldom is as our neighbors like to spend most of their time indoors. And, for that matter so do I but for different reasons, I suppose.
I watched only a little news this morning as it was SOS and please don't confuse this with the SOS served in the Navy mess halls... but, it appears that national news stations get fixated on one or two topics and then spend the rest of the day and week, running those topics into the ground with redundant coverage.
Chicken Noodle News (CNN) was the first to do this when they started 24/.7 news coverage.
We have had several Hollywood actors decide to get into politics and their reasons are unclear other than they want to use their celebrity status to acquire votes so that they can attempt to force their thoughts and beliefs on others whether they are right for the people or not seems not to be of any concern to them.
I suppose they have a "right" to do this but I doubt very seriously if they would be kind towards a politician who tried to make it in Hollywood... but for many... turnabouts is never fair play. Still that does not seem to matte... especially to those who woke up being WOKE.
I have no sympathy for woke people, nor do I have any sympathy for those cities where crime and violence is on the increase because they have defunded the police departments so that money can be diverted to helping black people can have better SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS on their way from childhood to adulthood.
I also don't give a rat's ass about being told that I am an oppressor because I was born white and free, like the lions in Africa. I am not who my father was nor his father nor his father nor his father or the one before that. I am me from 1947 to the present... no more no less... and, my grandfather was a druggist but neither was my father or me... so, there was no influence there...
My father worked for the federal government all of his career while staying in the naval reserves and when he retired he received TWO PENSIONS... I did not work for the government, nor did I work anywhere long enough to have received a pension. How frigging different can I be than that?
I was born in NC which makes me a Southerner. And, like I said, I was born white and free. I was born with natural athletic abilities that were never developed and I was born with artistic abilities that were never developed either. I am not as wealthy as my father was and I have no idea if I am more happy or not.
Scorpio is my birth zodiac sign... and, if you believe in that nonsense then according to the positive side, I am:
determined
brave
loyal
honest
ambitious
However, this negative aspects are:
jealous
secretive
resentful
controlling
stubborn
Some might say that these 10 bullet points fit me perfectly while others might say, not at all... Personally, I am not sure if they do or not because I like the sign of Scorpio and don't mind being affiliated with it at all... I can think of worse things that could describe a person and I could easily fall into those other categories as well... I don't perceive myself as anything other than different than most and perhaps that is because according personality traits, I am an INTJ...
When I was growing up just outside of Alexandria, VA, we lived in a community called Wellington Heights where the houses were close to each other but not that close... still, I remember my father saying that he did not want to live in a community where he could reached out the bedroom window and touch the house next door. Now, this was an exaggeration but I have driven through communities where this is the norm... like the photo on the left... and most of these houses are fairly large, there is precious little room to go outside and be alone unless you construct a privacy fence in between the houses on your left and right as well as the one behind you... obviously there is a road in front of you otherwise you would have to be air-dropped onto your property.
Some say this is still a good example of THE AMERICAN DREAM and expected by those who want to live in this type of environment... I do not. And, this is why I decided to remain in the South and earn less money than I could by moving up North, so that I could have a little elbow room wherever I wanted to live. I have always had at least an acre of land surrounding my house in a variety of configurations some of which were appealing while others were not.
However, if you like this type of CLOSENESS, then this is what you should try and find yourself and even down here in the South you can find communities where houses and homes are placed side by side with space in between where only one person can walk at a time. And the property values are so high because many people want to live like that... you might as well stay in the city and pay rent for an apartment than have to maintain a house and cannot go get your mail in your underwear without a neighbor calling the police and reporting you for indecent exposure.
There are one or two, maybe three phrases that I did not hear until I moved over to TN and a couple of them really frost my tail pipes...
I don't care to do that
Bless her little heart
It's all good
The first one really means I don't mind doing that... and, the second one is said when you want to give someone the benefit of the doubt for being stupid... and the third one is said, when you really don't give a shit about being pissed off anymore.
As long as I might live, I cannot ever imagine that I will ever stopped getting pissed off at something or someone... it is just in my nature... including getting pissed off at myself... I mean, I can't really bitch about anyone or anything unless I am willing to bitch at myself...
AND... it will NEVER BE frigging ALL GOOD... that shit just ain't possible.
Yesterday, I had my monthly IVIG treatment and part of my premeds is taking steroids which keep me from sleeping unless I take Benadryl which I always do and did last night and had no problems falling to sleep but unfortunately and unlike previous times, I woke up after 4-5 hours of sleep and just knew that my sleeping time was over. That took place about 2:30 am this morning, give or take, and I have been screwing around on the internet, cleaning up files, and searching out free online storage because of a recent corrupt flash drive that has or had all my recent files... PISSER... but, what can you do?
Well, I refuse to pay for online storage and that attitude might be a death wish for me regarding future lost files... but, I also know that I can send myself an email with attachments and use that email service as storage. But, emails are easily hacked. So, I have looked in DROPBOX which offers 2 Gigs for free and let CHROME select and save my very complicated password...
Actually, I had gotten DROPBOX right after it first came out (for some reason) and I was given 6 Gigs of free storage so they must have reduced the storage amounts over the years. Mainly, I was storing photos there and I am not sure if I really need to keep too many of them, so I will replace them with other documents that I want/need to save for a variety of reasons.
I did not grow up with the INTERNET or the WWW and do not know it like someone who is 25-30 let's say... but, I am learning, even though my learning curve is slow.
Interestingly, my mother FORCED ME like most mothers have a fancy of doing, to take a typing course in summer school... Her thoughts were that I will always need typing and the idle mind is the devil's workshop... At 73 years of age, that typing course was the single most important course that I ever took in my entire life so far... THANKS MOM...
America is supposed to be a civilized nation when compared to other countries around the world and yet, I believe we are no better than any other country.... our only difference really are the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution. Freedom of speech and the right to bear arms even though there is some justification to believe that our right to bear arms was temporary and only necessary until we were able to form a military and subsequent local police... yet, our FOUNDING FATHERS did not remove the right once our military was formed, so most everyone believes that right was meant to stay...
Its discovery was "serendipitous," Alexia Lopez, a doctoral candidate in cosmology at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in the U.K., told Live Science. Lopez was assembling maps of objects in the night sky using the light from about 120,000 quasars — distant bright cores of galaxies where supermassive black holes are consuming material and spewing out energy.
I am more keenly aware of black people than ever before and now I see them as different than me in so many ways and that even though we are still Americans, we are different type Americans... 
