Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Inconsistent Results

First Source: http://nypost.com/2014/12/03/cop-cleared-in-eric-garner-chokehold-death/

Second Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/28/knoxville-cop-fired-immediately-after-photos-show-brutal-choking-of-student/

In both cases, police officers are applying what could be considered excessive force.  One dies, the other survives.  In one case, the offending officer is immediately fired.  In the other, the officer is let off with not a single charge, not even involuntary manslaughter.  In both cases, there is video evidence regarding the actions of the officers.

Rising above the fact that the victims were of historically conflicting groups of people, there is the issue of justice.  Should not the same crime result in a reliably consistent punishment?  One human was actually killed by suffocation and the officer who applied the suffocation was summarily let off, while the other officer who momentarily choked the other victim was quickly fired.  Why the inconsistency?

Mathematically speaking, it is an illogical result.  If we have an equation, say 10 + x = y, and input one number and get a certain answer (9), we know that x is equal to one.  If you input the same number into the same equation and yet you get a different result (1), one could be conclusively accused of "fudging the numbers", or proposing inaccurate data.

In summary, this situation reads like this: 10 + 1 = 10 equals 10 + 1 = 1.   Obviously inaccurate, and rightfully subject to investigation.

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Food For Thought (If You Wish)

Why is it that people seem to pay attention to the logic and not the complexity of the words themselves.   Words are ideas, and ideas are like space-time.  In essence, they are capable of twisting and turning in on itself and initiating its own destruction like an imploding black hole.
Got that image in your head?  Good.

Now take words and subject it to your imagination.  "Car" becomes either a 2-ton machine with the delicious smell of leather, heated seats, an elegant paint job of black, silver and a touch of gold, or a toy car that most people under the age of 2 play with and subsequently destroy with their Herculean strength.

Seriously, if a 2 year old can wreck a living room in less than a day, imagine how much a grown man can do to a country in an hour.  This speaks about the potential growth of human beings to be the worst of satanic destroyers or the best of ethical scientists.  It just depends on if the seed is getting enough water, and if they have not been sheltered in.

By the way, there is a difference between "sheltered" and "protected".  Think about it, but in the context of plants, then apply the principle to human growth patterns.  Then add the subject time to the thought simulation.

Musings

"How often things turn around to smile at you.  Or to curse you, depending on what you did to karma.  Hm...Karma personified.  That would be a very interesting person...  Hm.  I think I just came up with a new idea.  Everyone a person interacts with is karma personified.  If this idea has any merit, it would mean that since they are inherently karmic, and therefore symbolically could be stylized as a scale...this has the potential honestly be the key to understanding people as a whole, once and for all."  

This line of thought (in and of itself) is but one major "branch" of a statement, off of which many smaller branches, twigs, little leaves, flowers, and unripened fruits come forth.  These fruits were plucked from the Main Tree of my Mind and planted, which then blossomed into a tree on which one, linear, narrow branch was selected to be tracked (much like the brain, I think)  The subsequent analysis does not take into account everything that is possible; it is just one seed of one thought.

Basically, I'm saying that from this point forward, whenever someone is making a statement, they are describing one very specific pattern that arose from one very specific pattern of brain cell activation.  This brain cell activation marks thought, which leads to specific patterns of thought, which leads to words, emotions, and actions (not necessarily in that order), which may or may not be in sync with what others are thinking.  This, in turn, shows us how to be in sync.  Remember the phrase "show, not tell"?  That is what pictures do, they "show" us, not tell us how.  That is all that bodies are; images, not the reality of who the person actually is.  This raises the question: who is the person?  Not the body, although they are intimately connected to them.  The person (him/herself) is unseen.  The mind and emotions of a person are subject to the whim of...the real you.  


Tuesday, December 2, 2014

First Quote (By Me. Sue me. Yes, I just quoted Michael Jackson)

"Humor is the realm of the ingenious.  Honestly funny people tend to be highly intelligent."
~I'jaaz Muhammad