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Bertrand Russell was a smart mathematician. What he said few decades ago still rings true:
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.” — B. Russell
Here is my 2 cents:
A good leader needs to have conviction. Conviction is hard to come by unless you are a fool. So leaders are usually fools that apeal to ignorance of masses! I am sure you know of some examples in contemporary politics!! 
Yours truly has developed an alergy against bull shit!! Those of you who have worked in Corporate America are well familiar with the role that HR (Human resources) department plays! They are always there to find problems they are never part of the solution. Masters of paper work and bureaucracy. I am sure you have heard of the expression “Think out of box“. These folks not only can not think out of box, they are “The Box“!!
For most part “Human resources” is a waste of company’s resources!! They only exist as an interface to the rest of bureaucratic world. You hear a lot form them saying: “No”, “Not”, “Can’t”, “Not able”, “Impossible”, “Not allowed” and pretty much everything else that implies negativity and obstruction. Following is one of my correspondences with one Queen of HR. One of those who has never solved a real problem in life so tend to fabricate stupid ones!I have disguised the identities but text is original.
—–Original Message—–
From: me
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 9:50 AM
To: Shari (HR)
Subject: RE: outside counsel service ?
Shari,
I rather you to respond to the email. I need documented material in case I need to talk to people in charge within the firm. I schedule a conference call separately. Please have in mind that I am interested to know things you can do not things you can not do. Day in and day out we are in the business of solving problems on a short notice. As such I don’t have much appreciation to hear about impossibilities and difficulties of getting the job done.
Idiots, idiots, idiots all over the place!! This planet is full of maniacs. Delusional, schizophrenic, mad people. From zealot followers of main religions to those who practice voodoo religion and now this little sect in Kenya. They predicted end of the world(on Sep 12 2006) like many idiot morons before them only to find their dumb miserable brains to be ticking the day after !!
WHY SO MANY IDIOTS ON THIS PLANET?!!
Here is the news on yahoo about them:
MAUCHE, Kenya (Reuters) – Kenyan followers of a U.S.-based religious sect which predicted the world would end after a September 12 outbreak of nuclear war moved into bunkers on Wednesday despite the failure of their prediction. Dozens of members of the House of Yahweh — dressed in gas masks, gloves and long overcoats — have built a network of underground hideouts in the small highland village of Mauche.
They have stocked the bunkers with dried fermented flour meant to feed them for a year, by which time sinners would have been wiped off the Earth, according to their beliefs.
“Those who have been doubting us will in hours be ashamed and if the effect of the war is not felt here, then let the police arrest us,” Mosheh Sang, leader of the sect in Kenya, told journalists while packing sacks of flour into a bunker.
“We shall stay in the bunkers for a period of one year.”
According to Sang, a nuclear war between the United States and
North Korea only failed to kick off Tuesday as expected due to difference in international time zones.“Members of our sect who are in the U.S. will not be affected as they are protected by Yahweh,” Sang added.According to its web site www.yahweh.com, the group was founded in Abilene, Texas.“September 12…You need to put this date on your bathroom mirror. You also need to make preparations for the dark days ahead, which will affect every person on earth,” the site says.“There is a place of safety but like their unbelief in the Sabbath, the world will not believe this message, neither will they repent of their sins of murder, fornication, or theft. You need to start training now in the ways of Yahweh.”Kenyan authorities have been closely watching sect members to avoid a repeat of the aftermath of an unfulfilled prophecy in Uganda when more than 900 members of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments were burned alive in 2000. Police said they were worried that the bunkers could cave in despite followers of the cult erecting supporting wooden pillars in the six-by-ten foot bunkers. Underground water was seeping into the hideouts which police said would weaken the structures.“Though there is freedom of worship in the country, our fears are that the members could die not from the so-called nuclear war but by the bunkers caving in,” Dominic Karanja, a senior police officer in the area, told reporters.But the cult’s followers said it was Yahweh’s (Hebrew for God) way of providing water for them.
Jesus camp!! Brain laundry for kids! Breeding fanaticism & extremism!! Kids are taught to become dedicated christian soldiers for God’s army. Yet another god’s army!!!! A welcomed development for the disturbed and delusional minds awaiting and hastening the apocalypse, an ominous sign for rest of us!! Watch for yourself (video link below). Here is what they say:
“As I understood, your question to me was ‘Do you feel it’s right for the fundamentalists to indoctrinate their children with their own beliefs?’ I guess fundamentally, yes I do, because every other religion is indoctrinating their kids. I would like to see more churches indoctrinating,” she says.Papantonio responds: “You can tell a child anything … you can make a child into a soldier that carries an AK47.”
Fischer says: “You could call it brainwashing, but I am radical and passionate in teaching children about their responsibility as Christians, as God-fearing people…..”
Today I was stripped of my shaving cream and tooth paste when attempted to go through airport security! What a pain in the butt! I had a hunch that they are not gonna let them through but rather than asking a friend I thought to try it for myself. Usually when you ask people a question they feel obliged to answer even though they don’t know the answer!! So I said to myself may be a pressurized gel is different from just gel and may be it’s ok. Anyhow, my carry on was caught by the screening machine and I had to open my bag and expose my dirty laundry!! You say who cares? obviously I do! 
Notwithstanding my story, I want to make a point that US government and perhaps others always seem to be behind the curve. They do catch up game with terrorists!! How? You very well know it. 9/11 had to happen before they decided that knives & box cutters are bad ideas on the plane. Thanks so much!! Then they waited for the shoe bomber (The guy who wanted to set off explosives in his shoe on the plane. If you saw the guy’s picture you never forget it!) before they decided to check people’s shoes when boarding the planes!!
How about anti terror gurus predicting these things beforehand?!!
Ofcource after the latest attempt to use liquid explosives, we all have to live with the inconvenience of not being able to carry any liquid on board, including juices and drinks!! Aren’t you alarmed that whoever is in charge of safety seems to be lagging behind all the time and waiting for terrorists to come up with the idea first?!! Something is seriously wrong with this picture!! On the other hand if we are to extrapolate the situation pretty soon everyone is allowed to get on board only with underwear!!
When playing Roulette there seems to be two competing, contradictory notions at work the same time. One says: The wheel does not have a memory so it does not keep track of the previous numbers and probability of each number coming is the same as any other regardless if it came previous round or how many times in past 20 rounds. On the other hand we know that there is a law in probability, called law of large numbers that miantains that the average value of many trials/outcomes has to approach the expected value of the distribution. In case of roullete the expected value is something around 18. So basically it says you can not have high numbers forever. In other words if you have had lets say 12 high numbers it’s inevitable that smaller numbers start to come. So can be said about red and black outcomes. So which one is it? No memory or memory.I have seen answers to this all over but I am not convienced yet!!
Looking at the picture from Mars surface, quite, dead, pointless, inhabitable, inhospitable one wonders:
If there was no intelligent life around what would be god doing in universe?
There was no meaning to good and evil, no judgment or punishment to handout.
Material/Physical world would just go along following laws of physics.
Without intelligent life there would not be any point or meaning of creating universe.
So does god created intelligence or vice versa?
Just keep looking at the surface of Mars!! Universe is awfully quite! It’s just sound of Dick cheney grinding his teeth !! 
I remember vividly that scene. Arafat and Barak attending a peace summit in US. There came a time that they had to go through a door. TV cameras were witness to the generosity.”you first..no no you first ..please after you..”!! What? These guys would have killed each other hundred times over in any other circumstances, so why so respectful all of a sudden?!!
Answer, this is how humans behave!! The walls, the barriers, distances make for animosity and hatred. At a distance, beyond headlines everyone is an image just a name and usually an evil one. Shake hands, drink tea, crack some jokes and everyone comes back to earth, human again.
We are all like that for most part. Without trying to trivialize the major crisis in the world and ignoring or down playing the suffering of some people I would like to forward the following idea in order to diffuse world crisis, at least the ones that are unnecessary and I believe most of them are!!
Ready? Every year set up a summit, say in United nations. Invite the heads of states, leaders, etc. Don’t let them sit stiff on their chairs and look at the world from their own egotistic, self righteous point of view. Mix’em up. Let them interact. May be do some karaoke, divide them into teams and let them play in a volley ball tournament. Just try to break the egos. Break the walls among them. Let them feel they are all humans. For example set up a beach volleyball tournament and let them compete for the seats on security council (swim suits are optional!!), seriously. Let them form a bond with each other. you see a world takes a sigh of relief when Bush and Ahmadinejad exchange high fives when they score a point against Assad and Olmer!!
Call me crazy, but I’ve seen enough homo sapiens in my life to know what to expect from them. Lots of the dire problems we have in the world are rooted in ignorance. Lets break the walls. Lets stop being gods and be humans again. I am serious!!!
The age of universe expressed in atomic units is very close to the ratio of electromagnetic to gravitational forces in the atom (both 10 to power 40). Is this a coincidence?
Astrophysicist Robert Dicke argued it is because of anthropic reasons. The age of the universe means of course the epoch at which we happen to be living. What determines that epoch? Life as we know it demands the existence of carbon and other heavy elements, none of which existed in abundance at the origin of universe. Instead, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen etc, were synthesized in the interiors of stars. These elements were then distributed through space as a result of supernova that destroyed the stars. Terrestrial type biology therefore had to wait for at least one generation of stars to live and die before it could start. At the other extreme, life would become problematical after several stellar life cycles due to paucity of suitable stars. Hence we would expect to find ourselves living at a cosmic epoch between one and several stellar lifetimes after the big bang.
Now, the lifetime of a star is determined by the physical processes that control the rate at which fuel is consumed and its energy flows away into space. The rate turns out to depend on the ratio of the electromagnetic to gravitational forces!!
From: Are we alone? by P. Davis
Ours is the only planet we know of that is hospitable to life. We are also the only “intelligent” life in the universe as far as we have searched. Knowing that, as well as we do I want to argue that we are not that “intelligent” after all and in fact our planet is rather a ”dumb” one!
Look around you, your building elevator is missing the number 13, so was the row number 13 in the airplane I took last month. 13 is a very very “bad” number!! Bad things happen to you if you are associated with number 13 in any shape and form!!!!
Of course no one exactly knows why. The poor number is one of the primes, what else is its fault?!!
I am amazed how many different cultures have this “Knock on the wood” concept?! You acknowledge something good about someone an then you knock on the wood! What the hell is that supposed to mean? We all carry laptops, cell phone other high tech gadgets but still keep knocking the wood!! What is the problem with us?
How many people you know who believe in astrology? Man has walked on the moon, robots are landing on the Mars and we still believe in that kind of stuff!! Just because you are born at the time when seemingly sun was in the middle of an illusion across the sky called constellation does not make you any different from others!!! beyond that are you saying we have just only 12 different kind of idiots on this planet not more?!! All of this in the face of Sequencing of human Genome?! Try saying that to thousands of people who look into these stuff to find out clues about their life and future and romance and so on. I read somewhere that coach of French soccer national team crossed out all the “Pisces” players from the roaster to win the world cup!
Not sure what was Zidane’s sign?
Look further. Not too far though. See people who worship cows, those who are waiting for the “End of the world” and give you exact time and day (They have revised that quite few times already!!). Yet these are folks who live in major cities and centers of the civilizations in the world. I am not even talking about what people believe in forests of Amazon or tribes of Africa.
Why are we still so ignorant in the face of mind blowing scientific achievements in space science, communication, biology, etc?
If I got you thinking, ask me why?
