Questions Unanswerable: Part 1
Wherever there is a gift there must be a gift giver. Our universe’s gift giver is God. Ok, I get that. BUT, either God created us individually or God created the laws which govern the evolutionary process. So God had to come first either way. So God came from nothing? How can anything come from nothing? No further comprehension is possible at the human level.
At the end of the Super Bowl all the winning coaches, quarterbacks, and owner were all thanking God, Who they said made it possible. Now really, how self serving does someone have to be who really thinks God will engineer one team to win a football game and ignore 75 million refugees living in tent cities, many of them starving? That level of retarded idiocy is really remarkable. Or they are praying to a really cruel God.
Now why would anyone watch a football game if they thought God was determining the winner?
Where is it logical after Trump states, when he gets the urge to grab a pussy, he just does so and then his followers claim all the women who say he sexually abused them are liars? Trump a liar? Let’s not get ridiculous.
Why is a trophy wife legal and paying some gal for sex illegal? Isn’t someone who marries for money (lifestyle) just an expensive prostitute? Then again how can a government make it illegal for two consenting adults to bargain over what conditions they will mutually agree to have what kind of sex? Isn’t “If you will have kinky sex with me, I will star you in movie” just the “Art of the Deal?”
Why do people who can afford to pay for their own meals get involved in a game of taking turns buying meals? In fact, why are we so determined to buy gifts for friends or family when they are not in need of any gift and often end up giving them money to buy a gift for themselves or, even crazier, they go out and by the exact size and model of whatever we say we want as our gift from them? Wouldn’t the world be a better place if everyone just bought gifts for those in need of a gift? People I like the most may never get a gift from me, or I accept gifts from them. They are not my friend in order to get some gifts unless of course it might be a perfect house or new car, or at least a cat which pays attention to what I say.
If we love football we talk about it in great detail; if we go on a trip and enjoy it we talk about it to others in great detail, sometimes have them watch a slide show. Sex is very important to a lot of people but when, in a social setting, does anyone talk about in detail their most exciting sexual orgasms, let alone provide a slide show? I like to offer ten dollars for anyone who will do just that at the family Thanksgiving Dinner when they give thanks to God before dinner. Or is God only engineering winners for football games and not best orgasms? Maybe the same people thank God after a great orgasm. And if your greatest orgasms are not with your spouse, do you still thank God? Will we get to the point where we have our own sex chamber where we put on a complicated head set, select from the menu exactly the celebrity or image we wish to have sex with, press the button and in 3-D we will be able to control the kind of sex giving us the perfect orgasm about every time. Maybe then marriage would be entirely about something other than sex or is marriage without sex an oxymoronic thought?
Why, after all these years, where people pray for the same sort of things from God, we do not yet have clear evidence as to what group of people God is saving from these sort of things? Like most soldiers pray to God that they don’t get killed in battle but where are the stats to show just which group of soldiers get killed less in battle? If a group of devout Hindu’s or Catholics or Jews or whatever take a course together will everyone get an A on the exams via prayer? Which God protected group dies less from cancer? At best, absence such stats, God must only rarely interfere on anyone’s behalf via prayer and alter the laws which govern the evolutionary process to protect them from life’s landmines. Faith may be comforting, which is no small thing, but then bam, a horrible thing happens, and what then do we do to be comforted? “Why god, hast thou forsaken me?”
Every New Year’s Eve the Pope prays for peace. Where is the evidence that wars tend to end after New Year’s eve?
When devout religious believers of one faith accuse other religious faiths of being uncivilized monsters committing acts of brutal murders on certain people of other religious faiths, it really gets confusing. History is filled with burning at the stake, offering human sacrifices to God, quartering ‘bad’ people in the public square, beheading people, hanging people, drowning them, torturing them to death or near death, cutting body parts off for souvenirs. and the list goes on. Which religious sect, maybe excluding the Quakers, have not been guilty of many of these things now or in the past? Are they really just doing God’s will?
On what ethical basis would so many people insist it is ok for the guy, who pushes a wheel barrow around all day at work, to pay a greater percentage of his income in taxes than someone who just shuffles papers around speculating?
While most people lose their shirt in bankruptcies, some of the wealthy actually become millionaires via bankruptcy, and become multimillionaires via a series of bankruptcies while at the same time pay no taxes because of these bankruptcies. Is this fair taxation? In the state of Washington voters once rejected the very wealthy from paying more in taxes. Go figure that. Some of the wealthy, who pay no or little income tax would readily accept a 10 fold increase in taxes. 10 X 0=0.
Why do we insist poor people make the effort to amass their own wealth and yet declare the wealthy can give their excess wealth to create a genetic cabal where the genetic members can receive massive amounts of unearned wealth? Isn't this a form of welfare? I thought the American way was for every adult to earn their own wealth? Shouldn’t the excess wealth anyone earns be put back into the society from which it came upon death, so the playing field is kept more level for everyone trying to make a success of themselves? How can so many people state all humans are God’s children and then insist it is ok to just ensure their children get all the advantages in life? Somebody is disingenuous here somewhere. If all children are God’s children then God must be furious with us right now. Except me. “Reid is just being Reid”. Next case.
If we create a nickname for someone or some group which they feel is insulting, on what basis would we not refrain from using the name unless we simply don’t care if they are insulted? What is the big deal here? The Golden Rule is so simple—do onto others as you would have them do unto you. Maybe this universal ethical principle is to too complicated for some, especially the ‘darkies’, the ‘spics’, the ‘redskins’, the ‘honkies’, the ‘skin heads’, the ‘queers’, the ‘fat slobs’, the religious ’nuts’, the ‘couch potatoes’, and so on.
If half the things I am saying here are true and I can’t pass mustard on some of them myself, how can I not follow my own advice? I know, unanswerable.
On what basis is it fair, in a particular state, for some cites to have casinos and others cannot? If it is a good income source for them, why is not just as good and legal source of income for other cities? For that matter, maybe someone wants to put out some machines in their backyard and have a gambling party.
There now exists a prototype for an ‘air taxi’. It is capable of a vertical takeoff, fly at twice the speed of a helicopter, then make a vertical descent to drop off the passenger. It is said to make about as much noise as a swarm of bees. I guess all this is well and good, but it just seems strange to actively deal with ways to lessen human congestion and make no efforts whatsoever to have global control to deal with human overpopulation. With ‘air taxi’s’, where do you find a nice quiet neighborhood to live? “Is that a naked, by the hour, rented, trophy sex partner that just got out of the ‘air taxi’ on Honschnivels balcony at 2:00 AM?”
I thought the American Flag represented, in part, the freedom for peaceful dissent. Now if someone (a bastard of some sort of course) protests something by kneeling during the anthem, isn’t what they are protesting about what they say they are protesting about, and isn't it illogical it illogical for someone else to deny that, and claim they are disrespecting the flag? Maybe we are disrespecting the flag or national anthem by using sport events to pretend everyone is there to show respect for the flag or national anthem. How many people would attend if the purpose was to sing the national anthem, recite the pledge of allegiance, honor patriots of varied sorts, and listen to speeches about what the flag and national anthem stand for? There is something disingenuous about the way we use sports as the bait to pretend people are there for patriotic reasons. I always feel like a dumb ass fool, when before the first horse race at a track, everyone stands with their betting card selection in hand and continues to try to make up their mind on which horses to pick and continue to chat with others sometimes, and all this is suppose to be showing respect for the flag or national anthem? It’s no big deal, but it is disingenuous, a bit silly, and trivializes what the flag and anthem represent. Is blind patriotism really a good thing anywhere? Quite a lot of people get killed as a consequence. Ask Germany.
Some cities are now experimenting with a sealant that goes on top of asphalt which reflects solar rays instead of absorbing them. It reduces street temperatures on hot days by about 10 degrees. Is this a good idea? Maybe, maybe not: it costs $25,000 to $40,000 per mile. There are roughly 4 million miles of paved asphalt streets in the U.S. The math seems pretty high here. Also, that much light being reflected back up makes it rather uncomfortable for pedestrians. Maybe everyone could wear protective goggles and make a mad dash from place to place. The slow just become blind.
In the 1960’s, businessman John Jay Hooker teamed with country singer Minnie Pearl to launch a chain of restaurants bearing her name. Initially a success, there were nearly 500 locations at one point. I wonder if the waitresses and cashier’s were required to give a robust “Howdeeeeee” to customers? I would hate the job after one half hour.
Since anyone can go on the internet to a porno sight and select a high definition big screen sex video from 50+ different kinds of human sex acts, are peeping Toms still in existence? Well, at least we have solved that problem. One problem down, hundreds more to go., or does it just mean the peeping Tom population has grown exponentially? Remember when, if you got a hold of some grainy sex video with vanilla sex between partners wearing masks with no high definition or close ups, it attracted tons of friends to some basement to drink and watch the video? Whatever became of all these naive childish comrades? I mean, besides Trump?
End of Part 1. I didn’t realize there are more unanswerable questions than answerable ones. Last one here: Is anyone totally sane? Besides me and you? Sometimes I wonder about you.
