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To: koan who wrote (135232)	7/29/2013 10:18:41 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

koan, since you say so much about science, this is a question from me to you: Can you define "right hand" and "left hand" What is a group of folks say that it is what others say is the "right hand" is actually the group's "left hand"

To: koan who wrote (135232)	7/30/2013 7:15:05 AM
From: one_less	1 Recommendation Recommended By Bread Upon The Water Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Take notice, being against slavery and segregation is not difficult. It is the politically correct position to take whether left or right. It is a script from which we dare not deviate in thought, utterance, or action. We have agreed to Affirmative Action dictates in legal sense, we support diversity in the community sense, mixed race is as normal as having a single ethnicity. A racial caste system in our culture is simply not condoned or tolerated in any sector of society. Quite the contrary we are more likely to come to the defense or aid of a struggling minority than the consider to plight of someone in the majority. Slavery? You think we are here because we are free Koan? We are slaves to that which would bind us in various forms: slave to a mortgage, slave to the expectations or gentleness of others, slave to a job, to laws, to the limits of our abilities, or slave to our own passions and desires for power and influence, a slave to habit or fashion. No? How about fashionable ideas? As we've seen throughout history, the mores, values, and politically correct expectations of an era become mockably doltish when viewed by ensuing generations, yet we dare not speak or act in any politically incorrect manner. It would be seen correctly as an act of stupidity. And being on the right side does not mean you are not free; it means you are not stupid-lol. Is there no politically correct script of this age? Of course there is. The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus; 26 April 121 AD – 17 March 180 AD) So why would you say a slave is not equal? Is it because another can be seen as having power over their activity. What is an employer, what is a supervisor, what is a debtor, what are the courts, what is a judge or a cop if not someone who has the power to determine the course and extent of one's conduct. Are we free from such? More importantly are we equal? Are we free from our own culture? As we condemn the caste system of India or the class system of Egypt, do we declare ourselves equal to the Wall Street one percenter or does a Wall Street one percenter declare themselves equal to the "common" person? Are we equal to the impoverished and uneducated addict begging on some street in the world for whatever will get them through another night? Does everyone have the same ability, the same resources with which to wield power and influence? If not then why elect leaders ? Why lend the power of the masses to a few elites? Don't we see that it is the powerful who cheat, or those would be power mongers who are corruptible? We're not here because we're free; we're here because we're not free. There's no escaping reason, no denying purpose, for as we both know, without purpose we would not exist. It is purpose that created us, purpose that connects us, purpose that pulls us, that guides us, that drives us; it is purpose that defines us, purpose that binds us. (The Matrix Reloaded 2003) We are slaves to the limitations of our chosen idealisms, politics, enculturations, and desires. Bound by the limitations of a particular chosen wing as the case may be. No such limitations exist you say, hmmmm? We are further bound by the culture we expect to enable us. "Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street. The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master... Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags." (Mary E Lease 1890) Yeah that same Wallstreet where the law was posted in 1711: 1711 Law Appointing a Place for the More Convenient Hiring of Slaves Source: Minutes of the Common Council of the City of New York, vol. II, 458, December 13, 1711 Be it Ordained by the Mayor Recorder Aldermen and Assistants of the City of New York Convened in Common Council and it is hereby Ordained by the Authority of the same That all Negro and Indian slaves that are lett out to hire within this City do take up their Standing in Order to be hired at the Markett house at the Wall Street Slip untill Such time as they are hired, whereby all Persons may Know where to hire slaves as their Occasions Shall require and also Masters discover when their Slaves are so hired and all the Inhabitants of this City are to take Notice hereof Accordingly.