His Highness the TibetanMonkey, originator of the Stop the Bullshit Campaign
2011-03-18 14:42:30 UTC
(I didn't initiate this thread, so I guess "moving to Japan" means
going to live where things are intelligent, ie. bullet trains, etc.
But notice that my choice of "intelligent design" is not casual. God
also did so --so they claim-- but in such a stupid way as to lead many
to deny intelligence to such a chaotic universe. In other words, only
humans can give intelligence to things. If there's a God, he's highly
hierarchical in his design as well as totally dumb)
We have discussed so many issues here, but I remember that we
discussed stupid design in the engineering of bike lanes and city
planning...
Well, a smart listener called in NPR and reminded the experts that
"Tsunami" is a Japanese word and they could have placed easily the
reactors on higher ground expecting such events. That would have been
INTELLIGENT DESIGN.
Wherever we turn though we see stupid design, particularly when it
comes to bike facilities, a very low priority in safety since we are
the only casualties. We have mixed paths that mix people, dogs and
bikes and we have bike lanes that disappear. The issue is --more than
an oversight-- that we live in a hierarchical system --forget
democracy-- where decisions are taken without the feedback of the
people, who must shut up and accept what they get.
That's a recipe for disaster for the whole species as we sit back and
watch the catastrophic blunders such as the nuclear plants in Japan,
or the less dramatic, but much more catastrophic events associated
with Climate Change unfold.
The other day a kid got loose from his mom and darted across this
mixed path where cyclists can go very fast and I went, "Oh my God!"...
Nothing happened though. The Wise TibetanMonkey was going nice and
slow on his beach cruiser --Revolutions for the Planet, by Sun--
predicting events.
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going to live where things are intelligent, ie. bullet trains, etc.
But notice that my choice of "intelligent design" is not casual. God
also did so --so they claim-- but in such a stupid way as to lead many
to deny intelligence to such a chaotic universe. In other words, only
humans can give intelligence to things. If there's a God, he's highly
hierarchical in his design as well as totally dumb)
We have discussed so many issues here, but I remember that we
discussed stupid design in the engineering of bike lanes and city
planning...
Well, a smart listener called in NPR and reminded the experts that
"Tsunami" is a Japanese word and they could have placed easily the
reactors on higher ground expecting such events. That would have been
INTELLIGENT DESIGN.
Wherever we turn though we see stupid design, particularly when it
comes to bike facilities, a very low priority in safety since we are
the only casualties. We have mixed paths that mix people, dogs and
bikes and we have bike lanes that disappear. The issue is --more than
an oversight-- that we live in a hierarchical system --forget
democracy-- where decisions are taken without the feedback of the
people, who must shut up and accept what they get.
That's a recipe for disaster for the whole species as we sit back and
watch the catastrophic blunders such as the nuclear plants in Japan,
or the less dramatic, but much more catastrophic events associated
with Climate Change unfold.
The other day a kid got loose from his mom and darted across this
mixed path where cyclists can go very fast and I went, "Oh my God!"...
Nothing happened though. The Wise TibetanMonkey was going nice and
slow on his beach cruiser --Revolutions for the Planet, by Sun--
predicting events.
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http://webspawner.com/users/BANANAREVOLUTION