Quantum Philosophy

--Freedom is not a privilege it is a responsibility to the rest of the species.

--The ultimate cause is the survival of the species.

--Religion and politics should be discussed anytime including while eating.

--Gossip serves several purposes including:

1) regulating behavior

2) passing along information though often

incorrect and distorted from the truth.

3) introducing a member to a group

--Winning by intimidation is a waste of time: one wins by bringing out the best in people – that way everyone wins in the long run.

--The image of God was created by man.

--Economics is applied mathematics and attempts to bring some order to the chaos of human interaction during the trading of goods and services.

--Deterrents to crime:	1) Education – ignorance breeds fear which, in turn, makes a	desperate hostility.

2) Jobs – idleness creates unfocused aggression.

--All growth and change involve pain and disturbance to a system.

--There is no one socioeconomic system just a collection of sub-systems.

--Society can be compared to the human body: people are like the billions of individual cells which live and die and are constantly replaced. The cells collect and form muscle, bone, and the organs, each of which combine to form the whole body. The functions of intellectuals are the cells of the brain, those of artists are the cells of the eyes, those of laborers the cells of the muscles, those of police are the white blood cells, etc. The roles of every member of society can correspond to a part of the body including the diseased and cancerous areas which must be removed to insure the life of the whole body.

--Women have the power to create human life if that is their choice but people can create things beyond and separate from themselves which are beneficial to society. Overpopulation would be the result of everyone having children that could not be fed. According to Malthus population increases exponentially while food supply increases arithmetically. Each person can contribute to create things beneficial to the people who are already here and to those who are to come.

--Competition properly executed is healthy: it causes businesses to create better products, governments to provide better services to the governed, athletic teams to play better, and quality to rise and progress in all areas.

--Creativity is Man's most god-like activity.

--Survival is our most basic drive and is responsible for our every action including individual growth	and enrichment, satisfying our biological needs and our desire for immortality which causes us to produce things that outlive us such as children or aesthetic or scientific creations, and if individual survival is outweighed by collective necessity, we sacrifice for the benefit of the species.

--The only opinions we develop are those that serve us best.

--Total objectivity does not exist: the object cannot be perceived without the subject; therefore, objectivity without subjectivity is impossible. Of what use would pure objective truth be without the subject to contemplate or appreciate it?

--Drama is the event as it happens; comedy is a detached view of the event: what is funny is so in retrospect or by removing one's self from the immediate situation. In comedy only the audience is laughing-- the participants in the comedic situation are serious, concerned, and usually in some sort of pain.

--Every concept has its corresponding opposite without which the concept could not exist: good could not exist without bad, order without chaos, winning without losing, pleasure without pain, beauty without ugliness, solutions without problems, etc.

--Intellectual manipulation is persuasion or change of belief in an opponent's mind. Every word uttered by the persuader is an attempt to alter the subject's mind and correct only to the speaker while being incorrect to the subject-listener until the subject becomes changed by being assimilated into the speaker's consciousness. The speaker's before-the-change false statements become true to the subject only after the latter's conversion occurs. Therefore truth is relative and true only to the speaker and his converts while remaining false to the unconvinced. So truth, in order to be complete, must contain falseness in its concept. Like the familiar example of whether a glass is half empty or half full being affirmed the former by a pessimist and the latter by an optimist the truth lies in the union of the opposites and contains elements of both so that the glass is neither exclusively half empty nor half full but in truth both simultaneously; only one answer would be incorrect, both must coexist in order to approach that unrealizable ideal: truth.

--We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.