My mind has wandered but to get people thinking and to post something you guys can read during a boring office break I shall post some pertinent questions. Feel free to answer as many as you like as views to these questions can make for quite a discussion, maybe even post some of your own thought provoking questions:

Did you know you could fly to another country for an operation and come out less broke from the insurance/healthcare and it’s just a safe (if not safer) than in the states?

Why are we allowing certain factors that control us to control us?

Are we spiritual enough to not rely heavily on the thoughts and influences of others?

What role exactly does our God or higher being play within religion which has been organized and streamlined for the masses?

Why must we follow what other people that live, breath and bleed like us say or believe? What exactly makes them better?

Do we really know right from wrong anymore? If so, why are we participating in these wrongs?

Why the hell do prisons have weight rooms so convicted criminals can get physically stronger and healthier when they reach parole? Why are my tax dollars paying for a convicted felons college degree and insurance? Why does it cost more in tax dollars for instituting the death penalty versus a life sentence? (Last time I checked a single bullet cost about 10 cents.) Are the lethal injection syringes sterilized and why does it even matter?

Can perhaps peaceful nonviolent world human population control help with the overall standard of living and the world’s ecosystem as well as global warming? In a world that is constant, and with a population of exponential growth in a world of decreasing land and resources, shouldn’t we seriously start thinking about advocating birth control versus abstinence in our sexual education programs?

I love Bob Dylan’s music, but would he or others like him stand a snowballs chance in hell in making it in today’s music industry? Whatever happened to “the cover song?” How come it seems artists aren’t revered as long or developed anymore? Also we don’t want to hear thoughtful mind provoking based songs on our BillBoard Top 20, instead we want to hear about booty, partying, clubs, sex, and/or falling in and out of love. Whatever happened to variety?

Dude thats awesome haha.

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RIP Shiloh

Are we spiritual enough to not rely heavily on the thoughts and influences of others?
What's the connection between being spiritual and not adopting others' thoughts? I'm not spiritual and I tend to think for myself. The idea of spirituality itself is something that thrives and multiplies off people copying other people.

What role exactly does our God or higher being play within religion which has been organized and streamlined for the masses?
How can anyone know? What source would this information come from? My guess is that there is no God, and that people mold his character like play-doh to fit whatever opinions are prevalent in the church at the time.

Why must we follow what other people that live, breath and bleed like us say or believe? What exactly makes them better?
Even though there is both peer pressure and convenience factor, we don't have to copycat others. I think it makes you a stronger individual if you don't.

Do we really know right from wrong anymore? If so, why are we participating in these wrongs?
Right and wrong are relative to the individual, and they can change with respect to the individual and with respect to a society. People participate in wrongdoings if they think they can get away with it, and if they don't think the guilt will plague their mind. We're all just a bunch of DNA machines, and the ones that are the most selfish are the ones that will win the game of life. But being the most selfish often requires being selfless. Because in this complex society, it's the long-term gameplan that is most important.

Can perhaps peaceful nonviolent world human population control help with the overall standard of living and the world’s ecosystem as well as global warming? In a world that is constant, and with a population of exponential growth in a world of decreasing land and resources, shouldn’t we seriously start thinking about advocating birth control versus abstinence in our sexual education programs?
Population usually works itself out on its own, hitting a maximum and then dropping back down trying to find a balance. But in our case it is kind of scary to wonder how it will happen because our environment is the whole world. I'm not sure about global warming, but the standard of living will start to noticeably taper off when we near the maximum limit. Sex ed classes I was in did advocate birth control.

I love Bob Dylan’s music, but would he or others like him stand a snowballs chance in hell in making it in today’s music industry? Whatever happened to “the cover song?” How come it seems artists aren’t revered as long or developed anymore? Also we don’t want to hear thoughtful mind provoking based songs on our BillBoard Top 20, instead we want to hear about booty, partying, clubs, sex, and/or falling in and out of love. Whatever happened to variety?
Yea I hate that. Who are these retarded music fans? Who are these people that determine what's good? If you can't get drunk and shake your assfat to it then it's not good music? If the lyrics say anything remotely intelligent, you get a confused look on your face. Is this too much for your weak little brain? oh well

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RIP Shiloh - I'll never forget ya

yea i think i heard about this from george carlin

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RIP Shiloh - I'll never forget ya

I think George Carlin's joke was about them using alcohol swaps before injection.

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Whisp needs to run for public office, I demand more intelligent human beings (like Whisp) running our society.

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No the masses need someone stupid like Gorge W. Bush so they have someone to relate too.

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RIP Shiloh

I agree with the music thing. And Supafly saying Whisp needs to run the world. And Yarr saying everyone's an idiot. Anyone want to start a Utopia?

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[In Yarr we trust.]

lol
the intelligent ones usually become jaded long before they could run for some kind of public office. my passion is science anyway.

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RIP Shiloh - I'll never forget ya

We'll elect a council of officials so not one person can be solely in charge.

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[In Yarr we trust.]

Prison is supposed to be about rehabilitation. And constant appeals to evade the death penalty cost thousands and thousands of dollars in legal fees. And the syringe is just funny.

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Retired 8/21/06
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If they rot physically they can't do physical labor when they get out, and that's probably the only job they can get.