The Internet-Enabled Computer

These days, people seem to have this erroneous notion that their personal computer and the Internet will make them a better person. They think that they can point and click their way to a greater sense of wisdom and a more rock-solid foundation of virtues and character. They are all quite sadly mistaken. Internet-enabled computers cannot, in and of themselves, stimulate personal growth. Only people can do that. The only thing an Internet-enabled computer can do is enable its human users to do more of what they were already doing. If a person was already a virtuous leader, then the computer will only make that person a virtuous leader who can do more. And if a person was already a violent rapist, then the computer will only make that person a violent rapist who can do more. With the computer, Pastors can govern churches more effectively, thieves can steal more than mere money, doctors can heal more patients, pedophiles can molest more children, law-enforcement agents can uphold the law with greater efficiency, criminals can break the law with greater efficiency, emergency response teams can save more lives, and serial killers can murder more victims. The Internet-enabled computer can only amplify what a person already has. It cannot change a person from evil to good unless those seeds of change have already been planted into that person's soul. And those seeds of change can only come from another human being, not from a computer.

As such, Internet-enabled computers cannot improve the overall quality of life in modern society. Only honest, genuine, decent, respectful people can do that. If anything, the rise of the Internet has brought with it the birth of cyber-crime, hacking, cyber-bullying, identity theft, and cyberporn, elements that have worsened the overall quality of life in modern society. And in the field of education, children, who are still going through the formative years of their social lives, are being robbed of the much-needed social environments provided by traditional brick-and-mortar schools, their original method of education being replaced by an insular online home-based school. If adult people need to physically interact with other people in order to maintain their psychological equilibrium, then children need even more physical interaction in order to learn how to socialize with their peers, and how to respect the authority of their elders. A child simply cannot learn such valuable social skills while being isolated in a room with a computer. And it is those very social skills that a child will need in order to function properly as an adult in modern society. Taking away the physical school experience and replacing it with an online school at home will truly deprive that child of the social growth he or she desperately needs.

The reason the Internet-enabled computer fails to serve as a stable medium for social interaction can be summed up in just one word: anonymity. It is absolutely impossible to completely validate a person's true identity, beyond all reasonable doubt, using only an Internet-enabled computer. If a person can get away with lying about himself or herself for a certain amount of time in the real physical world, then imagine how much havoc he or she can wreak in cyberspace. It is absolutely foolish to have a purely online friendship or relationship with a person whose identity has never been validated in the real physical world. And you absolutely cannot trust an individual you have only met in cyberspace, especially since that individual could be a complete lie. How can you tell that your teen-aged daughter's online friend really is another teen-aged girl, and not some big, sleazy, middle-aged pedophile who enjoys kidnapping, brutally raping, sodomizing, and then savagely murdering teen-aged girls like your daughter? And how can you tell whether or not such a pedophile has stolen the online identity of one of your daughter's real teen-aged friends in order to lure your daughter into a real physical trap? Is the Internet really worth a human life? Is it worth your life? Is it worth your child's life? As long as people choose to blindly ignore the perils of Internet anonymity, modern society will continue to be destroyed by unprecedented cyber-crime. And humanity is truly doomed if people at large trust an Internet-enabled computer more than they trust each other.

Modern society needs to remember how to survive without the Internet-enabled computer if modern society really wants to survive at all. Our most basic social skills, our financial endeavors, our abilities to successfully research and collaborate, our abilities to investigate and invent, and even our abilities to teach and heal, were once all accomplished without the Internet-enabled computer. The greater part of American history saw the nation rise to the level of a global superpower without the Internet-enabled computer. Americans harnessed electricity, utilized atomic power, and even landed astronauts on the Moon without the Internet-enabled computer. The Internet-enabled computer was never responsible for American greatness. Americans are responsible for American greatness. To build all of America's future hopes, dreams, visions, and aspirations upon a foundation consisting of soulless machines is to doom the entire nation to a perpetual oblivion.

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True Entrepreneurship

Why do you want to be an Entrepreneur? Is it because you have a desire to "be your own boss," retire wealthy at age thirty-five, go on exotic vacation trips, and have the freedom to spend your own time in whatever way you desire? Or is it because you want to make a name for yourself by successfully creating and building several Fortune 500 Companies? Or is it because you have a unique new idea for a product or service that will genuinely benefit humanity? There are many reasons Americans want to quit their grueling 9-to-5 day-job and start their own business. And the more selfish the reason, the more likely those Americans will fail in all of their attempts to become entrepreneurs. If you want to become an entrepreneur simply because you want to become a billionaire and live a more luxurious lifestyle, then, in all honesty, you're better off keeping your day-job. TRUE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IS NOT ABOUT YOU. True entrepreneurship is about LEADERSHIP. True leadership demands that you put the needs of your subordinates and clients first, and your own selfish desires last. True leadership demands that you build your business with a Vision that will outlive even yourself. True leadership demands that you inspire your subordinates to work together as a team to fulfill the Vision of the greater good that your business was created for. As long as your mind is clouded with short-term selfishness (i.e. I wanna own a mansion and a yacht!), you are totally unfit to fulfill any long-term Vision, and you are on the path of a selfish, reckless entrepreneur.

Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits???

Sunday, 31 January 2010, 9:45AM

When I was raised in Los Angeles, my parents were heavily into New Age philosophy and Eastern religions. And I myself continued in that tradition, getting involved with Yoga, meditation, and numerous types of psychic research until I got Saved in 1986. But in all of my years as a Born-Again Christian who has been dedicated to the Word of God, I have never seen anything as perplexing and frustrating as this. On the average, the people who flat-out deny the lordship and Saving Grace of Jesus Christ are the most beautiful, humane, generous, responsible people I have ever met, while the people who verbally worship the Lord Jesus Christ are the most hideous, inhumane, selfish, irresponsible people I have ever met.

I have seen the average Non-christian demonstrate a genuine concern for bodily health, eating only organic foods, natural foods, and foods that were not obtained through cruelty to animals. I have seen the average Non-christian regularly engage in physical and mental exercises, including Yoga and meditation, that increase the health and balance of body and mind. I have seen the average Non-christian go out of his or her way to treat the Earth with respect and reverence. And I have seen the average Non-christian go out of his or her way to fight for justice, equality, education, and human rights for all people throughout the world.

On the other hand, I have seen the average Christian eat the most sordid things under the Sun, including red meat laced with chemicals and growth-hormones, heavily-processed fast-foods containing absolutely no nutritional value whatsoever, and foods laced with fat, grease, cholesterol, alcohol, processed sugar, and salt. I have seen the average Christian refer to exercise as walking to the refrigerator to microwave several slices of pizza and grab a cold beer, and then walking back to the lazy-boy couch to continue watching the NFL Playoffs. (Both that and the aforementioned grievously poor diet explain why so many Christians are horrendously obese.) I have seen the average Christian place his or her own selfish luxuries above the well-being of the environment. ("So what if global warming destroys the Earth several decades from now? I still want my gas-guzzling super-sized SUV right now!") I have seen the average Christian prefer corporate greed over the rights of the people. (Some of the most selfish, greedy, avaricious, conservative, racist Christians are at the very core of the American Republican Party.) I have seen the average Caucasian Christian go out of his or her way to call African-Americans the "N" word, burn crosses on an African-American's front lawn, hang innocent African-Americans from the highest trees, and paint Nazi swastikas on Jewish temples. I have seen the average Christian engage in the most hypocritical behavior, like claiming to be "Pro-life" while savagely gunning down an abortion doctor in his own church. And I have seen the average Christian routinely indulge in perverse sexual immorality, including the repeated violation of marriage vows, the rape of innocent children, and repeatedly having children outside of wedlock.

At this point, I can only say that these are the days when good is evil and evil is good. These are the days when the church is so corrupt, the world is filled with strong delusion, that people should believe the lie. And these are the days of a church who calls herself rich, increased with goods, and having need of nothing, when in reality she is wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.

The Destruction of African-Americans through Thug-Music

For decades, Satan has been doing his best to destroy African-Americans and African-American history. But for the most recent two decades, Satan has been succeeding, not through some new segregation policy, not through some new rash of hate-crimes, and not through some new terrorist hate-group, but through taking African-American thugs, criminals, and gangsters out of prison and off of death row, then paying them billions of dollars to flood African-American society with a music and culture that glorifies violence, lust, misogyny, narcotics, crime, and blatant ignorance. Young African-Americans are being thoroughly deceived by this thug-music, and many of them actually believe that a thug’s life is something to be desired. What they don’t realize is that when Satan has finally succeeded in thoroughly erasing African-Americans as a people, the thugs who were instrumental in that erasure will likewise be erased, in the blink of an eye, and not one penny of their wealth will save them in that day.

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