Lawrence R. Spencer's Blog, page 21
November 22, 2024
CRIME & JUSTICE
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George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theater, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
November 21, 2024
THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND DEATH
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SURVIVAL OPTIONS by Lawrence R. SpencerLike millions of world citizens I am slipping down the Rabbit Hole of Physical Mortality toward a certain and irrevocable death of my physical body. I will be 65 years old in August of 2011, along with 36.3 million others in the USA. There will be 86.7 million people 65 and over by the year 2050. That’s a 147% projected increase in the 65-and-over population between 2000 and 2050. By comparison, the population as a whole would have increased by only 49 percent over the same.
THE VALUE OF LIVING
Isn’t the purpose of living in a body to experience as much joy and pleasurable experience as possible? Sumptuous smells, sexual sensation, marvelous sights, exhilarating sounds, unpredictable motions, textures, physical / emotional impact and dramatic moments of interaction with other living beings are worthy reasons for life. Wonder, intellectual intrigue, mental challenges, freedom to play and barriers to accomplishment are all a part of the games that make life a pleasant preoccupation.
Conversely, isn’t the purpose of every living being to avoid painful sensation and emotion, failure, loneliness and oblivion?
Memories of pleasure never diminish from the mind: remember your first true love? Your most exquisite moments of sexual bliss or the most tender moments of compassion, cuteness, communication and compassion? The joys of living endure in our heart and mind forever. We can resurrect and relive the emotional rapture of music, the aesthetics of dance, the exuberance of sporting competition, dramatic performances, victories in life and each passionate moment of love: simply by remembering. Every moment of pleasure can be relived in the present as though it happened yesterday!
Painful memories, however, can be suppressed and forgotten with medication, drugs, time and ultimately with death. Pain does not linger beyond consciousness. For millennia sages and seers have assured us that it is washed away in the amnesia waves of afterlife. Likewise, the newborn baby does not suffer from memories of a life recently departed. Rather, it eagerly grasps the vigorous promise of action, joy and the sensations of new adventures that await.
Isn’t it logical, then, to live out one’s natural life with as much enjoyment as possible? Do the supposed benefits of physical longevity justify the disability, pain, dysfunction, financial expense and burden of labour placed upon others who must become your care-givers during these so-called “Golden Years” of life?
THE COSTS OF DYING
In truth, the vast majority of people live those “golden” years in ever-increasing pain, loneliness and sorrow — a relentless accumulation of physical and emotional pain and dysfunction during their declining years. They must also endure agony and grief as their life partners, friends, family and workmates wither and die around them.
In addition, the majority of people over 65 years of age can anticipate a multitude of diseases such as heart failure, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, pneumonia, atrophied muscles, dementia, failing memory, inability to function sexually, digestive disorders and depression to name of few. And finally, the ultimate certainty of death.
What about the financial expense involved to support an aging person for 10, 20 or 30 years after they leave the work force? What are the cumulative expenses of hospitalization, medical examinations, medical insurance, medical testing, prescription drugs, long-term care assistance and medical support? How much of one’s accumulated life savings or investments are consumed in order to keep an old, disabled, pain-riddled body alive for these last, lingering days?
$100,000? $500,000? $1,000,000? $5,000,000 or more?
In the US we spend an average of $6,500 to bury a depleted corpse six feet under the ground. There are about 23,000 active cemeteries in the United States alone. Every year we bury enough embalming fluid to fill eight Olympic-size swimming pools, enough metal to build the Golden Gate Bridge, and so much reinforced concrete in burial vaults that we could build a two-lane highway from New York to Detroit!
How much real estate is used to accommodate the billions of dead bodies that pile up under the Earth in a decade? What could the millions of acres of land used for graveyards be used for instead? The cost of maintaining cemeteries is billions of dollars a year! For what purpose? To remind living people that you had a body once, but that it’s dead now? Is this the height of vanity or the abyss of stupidity? Or both.
What does the tremendous expense of dying and death really buy? Who is the recipient of this money? Doctors, hospitals, drug companies, pharmacies, insurance companies, assisted living facilities, morticians, funeral homes, lawyers, government tax collectors, and possibly – if you plan very carefully and don’t outlive your life savings – your own family.
YOUR FINAL VACATION
How much pleasurable life experience could you pay for with the same amount of money if you spent it on a few years of pleasurable traveling, luxurious living and youthful adventures? What kind of vacation could you pay for with $350,000 or $750,000? How about 2 years in a luxury condominium on the beach in Maui? Or, perhaps first class accommodations on an 18-month luxury cruise ship around the world? Perhaps you could visit every beautiful travel destination you ever imagined: Tuscany, Paris, The Norwegian fjords, New Zealand, Switzerland, Banff, or the Grand Tetons.
Or, with a little planning the benefactors of your life insurance policy upon your death could live a more comfortable, pleasurable life. You could invest the same money in putting all of your grandchildren through college. Why not become the benefactor of a charity that creates a better future for the adults of tomorrow, or ensures the well-being of the natural environment for future generation? Your generosity will ensure that you name lives in the mind and hearts of others for centuries: at least as engraved on a plaque or monument or building façade, instead of a gravestone.
What if we combined the resources spent on supporting each of our 150 pounds of decaying flesh for the last 20 or 30 more years of painfully unproductive lives? These accumulated resources, carefully distributed and ethically invested, could be used to turn Earth into an actual Paradise for all living creatures, the environment and for future generations of people.
How you would feel if you suddenly become completely certain that you would return to live again shortly after your death to live a new body, and begin a new life?
VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA AND CREMATIONIf you knew this could you chose to knowingly plan a painless end of your own life? Does it make any sense to suffer through decades of pain and decay when you could leave this world in a blaze of joy, pleasure while ensuring a life of prosperity for the those to come – which may even effect your own future self?
The paraphrase the ethical enigma posed by the Elizabethan bard:
Painful, lingering death or a pleasant departure? That is the question. Whether it is nobler in the lives of men to bear the slings and arrows of misfortune, or, to die with grace and dignity with prosperity for all?
I wish you and all of us a happy and prosperous “Rest of your Eternity”.
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Here are a few EDUCATIONAL LINKS to assist you to make an educated decision about the options available to you:Unassisted Euthanasia: http://www.exitinternational.net/page/Home
“Green Burial” (Cremation) Information: http://www.greenburials.org/index.htm
Cremation Facilities in your area: http://www.greenburialcouncil.org/finding-a-provider/
Planning Your “Final Cruise”: http://www.cruisecritic.com/
Charitable Giving: http://www.charitywatch.org/toprated.html
November 18, 2024
“OVER” POPULATION?
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The issue of human “overpopulation” of Earth is the subject of much debate. The “Agenda 21” advocates insist that the human population must be reduced or, at least, controlled. The “elite” (financially wealthy, greed-driven, Caucasian, self-appointed, Only Ones, Divinely Entitled, self-important, Entitled by Manifest Destiny of the One and Only God) insist that the optimum human population must be reduced and maintained at 500,000,000 people. This is a number that “they” consider to be the optimum number of SLAVES required to serve their physical needs on Earth. 500 million slaves are required to “feed” the “1%” which, mathematically, must be no more than 5o,ooo multi-billionaires. According the “Agenda 21”, the United Nations program to reduce and control the world population, these are idea numbers.
Their argument for “population control” is that Earth cannot sustain the current and growing human population. However, the “logic” of this fallacious propaganda is based on “artificially created scarcity”. What are the lowest common denominator of unlimited survival resources? Water. Food. Electricity.
Oil, coal, fossil fuels, gasoline, and internal combustion engines were funded and promoted for personal financial power and control by “The Elite”. Who are the “elite”? Bankers. JP Morgan championed and established (under the direction of the Rothschild Zionist Dynasty) an artificially created “fiat currency” system. The Federal Reserve (Private Bank) Act was bludgeoned through the US Congress by Morgan and his minions. Thereafter, the elimination and control of global human survival was curtailed, controlled and eliminated. Fallacious and artificially contrived wars have been conceived and funded by Private Bankers to profit from manufacturing weapons, military conquest, murder and destruction for personal financial gain.
With unlimited FREE ENERGY, invented by Nikola Tesla, the oceans of the world could be desalinated! Unlimited food supplies could be cultivated in the vast deserts of the world. And a myriad of illimitable resources for human survival could be conceived, created, built and sustained.
How many human beings, animals and plants could coexist, peaceably, on Earth if unlimited, uncontrolled FREE ENERGY were available? You do the math.
We live on a planet that is carefully controlled and monitored by a Criminal Elite whose sole aim to to CREATE SCARCITY for their own personal financial power and control. They lobby loudly, under the covert banner of “philanthropy” to reduce population, primarily of “Third World (non-Caucasian) nations. Yet, they do not volunteer to reduce their own number, do they?
Therefore, it is logical and self-evident that the “humanitarian” solution to “over population” is to eliminate the BANKER population first. Any volunteers?
November 16, 2024
BUDDHA STATUES
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November 15, 2024
REDWOOD TAX SHELTER
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The object in this photograph is a wood shop project constructed by Howard J. Cutter, and his fellow students, in the Redwood City High School graduating class of 1930. His instructor, Mr. Carver, also worked part time at the Redwood City Lumber Co. as the night time janitor. Each evening Mr. Carver swept up all of the refuse from the workings in the lumber mill during the day. Beginning in 1903 he was allowed by the owner of the lumber mill, Mr. Sawyer, to carry off any scraps of redwood for use by his students, for which Mr. Sawyer reported a very substantial “donation” and tax deduction to the IRS at the end of each fiscal year.
This practice continued for 27 years at which time the IRS, coincidentally, conducted an audit of the books of the lumber mill. It was revealed that Mr. Sawyer had falsely claimed accumulated deductions amounting to $123,459.38! Well, the IRS prosecuted the fellow, of course. As the lumber industry had declined severely over the intervening 27 years, Mr. Sawyer did not have the ready cash or assets to repay the sum. The judge presiding over the case, The Honorable R.T. Whitleman, declared that Mr. Sawyer should serve a term of imprisonment in a fashion suitable to the crime.
Therefore, the judge ordered that the students of the wood shop class construct a prison cell made of the wood remaining at the lumber mill in which Mr. Sawyer would be incarcerated for a period not less than 26 months. After the offending man had completed his term the cage was donated to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. as a tribute to the students of the wood shop class of Redwood City High School. The cage survives as a constant reminder to citizens of one simple, important fact: Don’t deduct scraps when you pay your tax.
November 14, 2024
November 13, 2024
DUNE — SERIES OF NOVELS BY FRANK HERBERT
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If you have not yet read the series of DUNE novels by Frank Herbert I recommend them as some of the best science fiction stories ever written. Here is a link to the Frank Herbert website —
