Cover-Up 101

Not only is violence the number one roadblock to human survival and progress but it is also the biggest cover-up in all of human history. Violence is glossed over, submerged, hidden, denied and swept under the rug for the purpose of doing more violence with pretend justification and avoid justice. Us peaceful people who are in the vast majority will never be able to expose all unjustified violence and it s cover-ups since violent loving people are incredible aggressive in not only doing violence but all aggressive in coming up with non stop reasons to cover it up. We however must always try to expose each and every cover-up for should one succeed the results could be devastating.

Cover-Up 101 aims to expose as many phoney reasons for violence as possible. The name Cover-Up 101 is fitting since violence loving people have 101 unjustified reasons for violence for every peaceful reason the rest of us have. What is often the real reason people do violence? We believe it is for purely selfish feel good reasons. For personal satisfaction including physical, biochemical and mental gratification. To feel good, better or best whether it is done consciously or subconsciously.

Some Common, Dishonest, Unjustified Violence Cover-Ups

For satisfaction. For that good feeling. For justice. For revenge. They took advantage of me. They are reaping what they sow. They lied to me, did me wrong, ruined my life. Created hardship. For betrayal. For business. For pleasure. It was the only way to get justice. For a good time. To protect myself/my family/people, etc. For a thrill, for discovery. They had it coming. They were asking for it. To see what it feels like. It was justifiable. For sexual satisfaction, for emotional, or physical excitement. It feels good to do it. It’s worth it. It’s human nature. It’s in man’s nature. It’s Nature's way. Most males are evil. Most women are evil. To stop someone from getting power. To stop someone with power. To stop the growth of violence. To bring peace. To bring long-lasting peace. Because I said so. Because he said so. Because I did it. Because of them. They forced me. They challenged me. They made me do it. They begged me. It was there. The prize of the superior. What we fought for. They threatened to harm us. I was trying to protect people. It was the right thing to do. To send a message. They were not macho. To feel macho. They were not doing the male thing. They were not behaving according to God’s laws. They were not behaving according to man’s laws. No reason. Many reasons. Some reason. Every reason. Think of a reason later. To send them to the next place. For fun. An experiment. It was a mistake. It was funny. I enjoyed it. Who cares? I was lazy. I was doing them a favor. It was a mercy killing. I removed them from pain. I was afraid of them. For survival. To keep skills sharp. I don’t know why. I don’t care why. I don’t remember. God told me to do it. I had to. I wasn’t thinking about it. I don’t want to think about it. Whatever. It was necessary. I wanted to. It was a matter of pride. I have my pride. It was a test. It was bad judgment. It’s what I’m made of. It’s why we are here. It was worth it. Because it was easy. It caused desired reactions. Sadism. To change the idea. To change the person. Because I can. Because I should. Because you can’t stop me. None of your business. To remove them from the equation. To gain control of someone. To gain superiority over someone. To remove the problem. I did the world a favor. Kill or be killed. To take care of my own. To take care of my friend. To take care of what I think is right. People wanted me to. Good will. People’s will. My will. God’s will. To make someone happy. They can’t be trusted. For money or things. Why not? Luck of the draw. Wrong place, wrong time. Bad luck. Good luck. They dared to challenge us. To change the balance of power. To get power. They challenged our institutions. Making waves. To be a man. To be like a man. To be a woman. To be like a woman. It was necessary. It’s not a bad thing. They were disloyal. They were traitors. They would destroy us all. They broke the rules. To counteract their violence. Their violence was imminent. Made me happy. Made someone else happy. Payback. To make it or them stop. They insulted my religion. They insulted me. They insulted someone else. To stop the spread. Only the strong survive. Survival of the fittest. To protect my faith. To protect my country. To protect freedom. For punishment. They are different. They hurt my family. Unfairness. God-given right. Instructed by God or his teachings. Might makes right. That will teach them to mess with me. That will teach them to mess with a man. They deserved it. I was part of a team. They made me angry. They hurt my feelings. They tried to hurt my feelings. They tried to hurt me physically. I had nothing to lose. I didn’t think I was going to get caught. For freedom. For peace. For violence. For democracy. To start a revolution. For my flag. No one can stop me. Everyone thinks I should. Couldn’t help myself. Nobody cares. Everyone one else was. It was the right thing to do. Had to take it out on somebody. I felt tough. I felt invincible and safe. They took advantage of me or others. It’s natural. It’s a healthy outlet. Doing my job. I had orders. Saves more lives. Felt like it. Didn’t know what I was doing. Got me offended. Reversed his stance. To show our power. Could not control myself. To show our control. To get control. To shut them up. To remove the problem. To eliminate future problems. I was right. I had the power. They told me to. Everyone was doing it. Using the power. For pride. For man. For humankind. To get my job done. For money. They were in the way. It’s the way of the world. It was kill or be killed. I was physically or mentally unbalanced. They were physically or mentally unbalanced. I was drunk. I was high. I was not myself. They made me. They forced me. They deserved it. I had to. It was their fault. They were anti-something man-made. Self defense. In the name of…. Fill in the blank.

Exploring Some of the Most Popular and Successful Violence Cover-Ups

 

“Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.” Louis Lamour (1908-1988), American author. Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1984.

 

“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), a Soviet and Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.

 

“You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.” Noam Chomsky (1928- ), American linguist, philosopher and cognitive scientist.

 

“The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest…. Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment”. William Sloan Coffin, Jr. (1924-2006), American Christian clergyman.

 

Its Nature’s Way: This argument says violence is what nature intended, the “survival of the fittest” ploy. Yes, the VG is a part of nature. Nature has supplied the VG to many forms of life that have survived, and many that have not. Its existence in nature, though, doesn't mean we shouldn’t try to control it or protect ourselves from it for our own benefit. What about hurricanes, floods, heat waves, cold waves, diseases, asteroids, black holes, and more? These are all part of nature, but we control what we can and protect ourselves from the rest. History shows we have done this continuously. We put a dam up to hold water and nature back. Maybe in some cases we need a dam to keep our VG nature from flooding out, too. Just because something exists in nature does not make it somehow untouchable. Man’s nature is a part of Mother Nature, not the other way around. Nature has already changed man and hominids in many ways we haven’t even discovered yet and it probably will in the future, too. It is natural, and in our nature, eventually to die, but we can still try to avoid it even if we must finally fail. Death is nature’s way of telling us who’s in charge. Our sex drive is also part of nature but, of course, we need to control that as well. There are many aspects of human nature that we should try to avoid and many aspects we should try to nourish and help, all strictly for our own benefit. We don't need to surrender to everything that occurs in nature or in human nature. Maybe a big part of our survival is that we can overcome certain elements of Mother Nature and our own human nature. Is life a superior form of nature? To us humans it is. Is human life a superior form of life? On this planet that may be so for the time being. Does Mother Nature feel the same way we do about life and human life being superior? I am not so sure.

 

So even if the VG exists in nature, we aren't required to let it run free when it is not in our own best interest. We need not make up a bill of rights for nature, just for ourselves. Nature can and does look out for itself. Many times violence goes against nature, changing them from the way nature had intended them to be. When you damage a person’s body on the inside or on the outside with violence, you are rearranging the way that nature wanted that body to be. You are changing a person’s natural state. A single bomb or bullet can destroy all or part of God and nature’s best work, a human life form, in just a flash.

 

Survival of the fittest does not just mean survival of the strongest or the most violent. It also means survival of the smartest. To survive, we need our physical prowess to cooperate with our smarts. Many forms of life are physically stronger than us, such as the cougar, which runs faster, or the dolphin, which swims faster. Even though we might now be doing most of the violence on this planet, there are many life forms on this planet that are more violent than humans, like the shark, lion, or insect. Though it is fair to say that we are the smartest life form on this planet, and we are the number one life form controlling this planet. Perhaps being smarter and better able to adapt is more important to our survival than being physically stronger or more violent than other animals or life forms. Survival of the fittest in many cases also means acting without violence. Many who evaluate and evade survive longer than those always looking to prove themselves in a fight. Only the strong survive? Different survival requirements may be needed at different times. There are no hard and fast rules. Sometimes it’s being strong, adaptable, intelligent, and fast; sometimes it’s something else — maybe a strong immune system. Don’t assume being strong refers only to physical or brute strength.

 

Not too long ago we needed our Violence Gene to survive against all the other living creatures on this planet but not anymore. No other life form on this planet is battling us for supremacy. We won that battle. We do not have to fight off wild, hungry beasts and compete with them for food, water or shelter. In addition, there are no extraterrestrials trying to take away our dominance of the world, either (we do not even know if there are any extraterrestrial beings). How many animals kill humans compared with how many animals are killed by humans every year? So for survival, what do we need the VG for? To use against ourselves? To use against us, them, you? Using the VG to fight for human survival by destroying human beings and their fight for human survival is self-contradictory and illogical. I am sure it doesn’t feel like survival if you are the one getting killed. If we humans keep practicing this bizarre form of survival, is there going to be anyone left? How can something that ends human survival help human survival? It simply cannot. Death is the opposite of survival. Our first enemy maybe was parts of Mother Nature but now is human nature might be our biggest enemy is many ruining neck and neck with Mother Nature for threats to our survival. The VG is like an anchor on the bottom of the sea holding back our survival ship.

 

What about surviving by using your VG against some other VG? In these cases it is almost mandatory. What about the man who declares that a first strike is for their survival when someone else’s VG has not yet been released? It could be this first strike is not for survival but to satisfy this man’s VG. I would encourage you to be very skeptical of any man who says our survival depends on violence. My belief is that our human survival chances would be considerably better off with a massive reduction in human violence. In a way, we have not one but two battles for survival. One is deciding where our battles for survival lie, for example, in doing violence or not doing violence — and the second is the actual fighting of that battle.

 

Pleasure, or just feeling better, is now the number one reason modern man commits acts of violence. Not survival. It’s amazing how the VG moved its strategy away from survival to pleasure once we became civilized. It’s also amazing how our Violence Gene has slipped this change past us. We need to realize this, and soon. Is this the way man wants to get his kicks in the future? From violence? Causing pain for pleasure? We would not then be much of a race or civilization or have a very distinguished existence. We cannot surrender our Survival Gene to our Violence Gene. Though they worked together excellently in the past, they are now at opposite ends of the spectrum. The partnership has been over for a least a few thousand years. It is time we face it. It is like we graduated from one of the big schools of survival, but we haven’t picked up our diploma yet.

 

We need to make it official and finalize the event by kicking the VG out of the survival game. Don’t worry. Despite your concerns, the two genes can be joined again in the future without any incrimination or penalty to us. Let us just hope, act, and pray that we or something else doesn’t bring that situation down upon us. I don’t think it would be much fun to go back to that era where we did have to use our VG to survive. The thousands of years when it was necessary must have been hard. Fighting daily to stay alive does not sound like the good old days to me.

 

What we need most to survive right now is us. We need to move ourselves in the right direction. There is no other choice if we want to survive. We are not going to get help anywhere else. If we are cold, we have to make ourselves warm. If we are sick, we need to find a cure. Hungry? We need food. A meteor coming? We need to find a way to deflect it. If a small section of our society is being violent, we must reduce it. Is “no violence” the linchpin of our human survival and quality of our lives? I believe so, but we don’t know for sure, since there was never a prolonged period without violence. Let's try it and find out. What's the worst that could happen?

 

Overeating, and a Host of Other Detrimental Behaviors, Can All Be Traced to Our Evolutionary Past, Experts Say. Are Our Genes Out of Date? “Basically, we're living in a world that's not the world we evolved to function in,” said anthropologist Dan Fessler, director of the Center for Behavior, Evolution and Culture at the University of California, Los Angeles (Dye 2007).

 

It turns out that people with adequate social relationships have a 50 percent greater likelihood of survival than people who have poor or insufficient relationships. That means that having good relationships is comparable to quitting smoking in terms of survival benefit, and is a stronger factor than obesity and physical activity (Landau 2010).

 

“In our evolution we have gone though a phase that has been very male and predatory. And that has beaten now because you can see what is happing in the world right now. It’s the male predatory impulse that was necessary for survival. Fight or flight. But the next phase of human evolution has to be not survival of the fittest but the survival of the wisest.” Deepak Chopra (1946- ) Indian-American physician and writer.

 

It’s Justified:

 

“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.” George Orwell (1903-1950), English author and journalist.

 

A necessary evil? To some men and the VG, the vast majority of all violence done is justified, whereas I believe the overwhelming majority is not. And the true figure is not somewhere in the middle, but even if it were that is still a whole lot of unjustified violence. It's the greatest sell job in history of humankind that most violence perpetrated by man, in war or individually, is deemed justified, or necessary. Self-defense against violence? Justice where violence was done? Yes, but how often does that situation really happen? Rarely. After a very short time, it is usually clear that the act of justifiable violence was just a tremendous overreaction. The reason the VG supplies almost never pans. Releasing your VG would be justified only if it were done to counteract someone else’s VG. When it is not completely evident that another’s VG is on the loose or is about to be, you have one long haul ahead of you to prove that releasing your VG is justifiable. If it is not completely evident that someone has released part or the whole of his VG, then releasing your Violence Gene is not justifiable. There are very rare situations when you need to release your VG to defeat another man’s. Such situations do occur. Again, it is rare in the course of human interactions, although your VG is telling you it’s happening every hour on the hour. In regard to the few cases in which the reasons for violence are justified, the VG will use them as examples again and again to paint all the no-good reasons with this logic. And the VG is a good painter. Perceived justified violence by the perpetrator is one of the horrible massively abused practices on the planet.

 

Whenever you are dealing with a man, there is always a risk. Your VG will not take any risks for peace, so you will have to absorb all of the risks yourself. Again, most people who do violence think they are doing the right thing. It’s justified; it's good for them, their country, their family, their world, whatever — it's also 99% wrong. Your interpretation of these actions is not going to be the final standard by which your violent actions will be judged. Your judgment will not be the ultimate judgment. You are not going to be judged in a mirror. The society of the now will be having the ultimate say. Not future societies or the societies of the past but society of the now, but people who are alive today. Don’t expect future people to be more kind to you, either, for being violent. Future generations will also be judging us on how well we judged too. Even though it convinced you, don’t automatically expect it to convince us. When you do violence, you immediately open yourself up to the strictest judging and judgments we have. If you don’t like to be judged — and who does? — Then violence is not for you because doing violence moves you to the front of the line of being judged. You start behind the eight ball. In self-defense — nothing to worry about; if not self defense — worry. Some men think other people's violence is unjustified but their brand of violence is. For the record, there is only one brand of violence:  one that causes death, pain, and suffering.

 

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?” Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948), political and spiritual leader of India.

 

There is no double or triple standard of violence, either, just the one bloody one. People’s own brand of violence can be characterized as doing any violence to any other people for any reason they have. That's their brand, and that’s justified and OK. Their brand is not one that can target and reach them with violence, for if they were targeted then they might not be able to do violence anymore, and that is not all right to them. It is my belief that unjustified violence is a crime against humanity, nature, and God, not to mention any laws on the books. Right now man sometimes is very, very trigger-happy in releasing his Violence Gene. We must stop pulling the trigger with such exorbitant and unjustifiable frequency.

 

“Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.” Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States.

 

Doing God’s Will:

 

“God hates violence.” Euripides (480 BC-406 BC), Ancient Greek playwright.

 

I love religions; sometimes the places of worship, which are on nearly every street corner. Sometimes they are the only ones talking about and promoting peace. Any way to connect to God is a good way. Each region or culture might have a different path to connect with God, but nearly all religions I know of end up embracing the principles of Peace, Life, Love, and Freedom. I do not believe this is a coincidence. Anyone who believes in God and whose religion has these basic principles, which is nearly all of them, should be the proudest and happiest person in the world to have made the connection, no matter which path you follow or religion you identify yourself with. Freedom is such a big part of religion; without freedom you would not be able to worship within the faith that helps you live with God. When I say freedom, it includes freedom of worship and freedom of religion; the freedom to worship God in your own manner and in your own way. This may be our biggest freedom. It seems human beings are the only life form on this planet that is able to connect with and worship God and in such a way that makes us totally unique on this planet. We can to tap into the greatest force in the universe, which gives us unlimited potential. It is our ultimate gift. This ability to communicate with God is as real as anything else in the universe. Some in our cultures love fictional superheroes, but we humans have the greatest superpowers ever, thanks to our connection to God.

 

Can you talk to God? Of course. Can God talk to you? Of course. Do you speak for God? That’s a different story. Unfortunately, we don’t have a “closest-to-God meter.” I don’t believe there have been many men who spoke for God. In fact, there have only been a few. History has proven the falsity of nearly all the people who said they have spoken for God. For the majority who think they talk for God but really don’t, I suggest that you give all the glory to God and take all the blame yourself, as a man. Give God only the good and you take all the bad. This is something someone who really speaks for God will do. Make sure you do not give God any of your human blame or blame him for your human faults. We may be made in God’s image, but God is not human. If you believe you speak for God but Peace, Life, Love, and Freedom are not the thoughts you speak about, then I suggest you better prepare yourself for a surprise, not only from your fellow human beings but from God himself.

 

Man is not God, but he sometimes seems to be in training to take over the job should the opportunity arise. Maybe sometimes he thinks he’s the next best thing or next in line. A man might think, “I may not be God, but I’m the next best thing for you.” This is the bad Superiority Gene speaking. Unfortunately, we might not find out the truth that you do indeed speak for God or not till you are long gone. So unless you are positive and have some proof, don’t be so quick to stick your neck out saying you speak for God. Even if you are right, and you are speaking for God, He, of course, gets all the credit, not you. If you’re wrong and it turns out you were not speaking for God, trust me, you will get all the blame.

 

Outside the few true and miraculous exceptions, when God speaks to people and when people then repeat God’s words, the words are filtered to some degree because of the translator’s personality, language, physiology, etc. When God speaks, it’s pure. When humans try to repeat it, even though they do the best they can, it is not. How can it be? We are human and our voice can never be God’s voice. Plus you may want to change God’s message for some reason. I can’t imagine why someone would want to do that, but it’s possible. We would have no way of knowing. Also maybe you didn’t understand God’s words correctly. Humans aren’t perfect. Remember, if God wishes to communicate with anyone directly, he can. He doesn’t require that a mortal do it for him. When a man says he is talking for God, except on extremely rare occasions, it becomes open to interpretation. Direct to you is one thing. People are the best sanctuaries and portals to God. From you to us is another thing. It seems mortals may be better natural receivers of God’s words and transmitters of their own words to God than they are re-broadcasters of it.

 

The VG comes from within us and can easily disguise itself. You may think its God talking when it’s really your VG. Remember, the VG has no shame and will use anything to disguise itself, even God. How do you know if it’s God talking or your VG talking to you in disguise? Easy. God talks about Peace, Life, Love, and Freedom, and the VG only talks about violence.

 

“The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.” Thomas Merton (1915-1968), American Catholic writer and a Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky.

 

There do seem to be a few fringe sects of some religions in history and today that closely straddle the line between peace and violence. Although they may seem to get all the publicity, they in no way reflect any majority of whatever religion they come from. You can’t do God’s work when you are doing anti-God actions, like destroying Peace, Life, Love, and Freedom. Only letting your bad Violence Gene control you can make you do that. You cannot have two Gods. You cannot worship God and your Violence Gene at the same time, no matter how intense you feel about it. There is no God of war, there is only one God and that is the God of peace.

 

Some men may believe they have a position in life because God put them there or their connection to God is special. They may have heavy relied on their faith but that doesn’t make them superior here or in the beyond. God did not make a superior mortal human. Not yet he hasn’t. He made all our identities equal. Don’t confuse the true will of God with your bad inbred Superiority Gene. He made all humans superior on this planet. That was enough. No mortal man can ever be in charge of doing God’s justice. You can’t, you are not allowed, and you shouldn’t even try. This eternal justice is God’s domain alone. If you interfere with God’s justice then you might have some explaining to do and create one more piece of justice that God will need to dispense.

 

Religion and science are compatible, without the underlying power of faith; we could never make it through the millions and millions of trials and errors needed to come up with a single innovation like the cure for polio or space travel. Our logic alone would tell us to stop far before any discovery could be made like how could an object heavier then air fly? Maybe these scientific riddles were laid-out for us by God to challenge us.

 

I am a scientist and a believer, and I find no conflict between those world views. As the director of the Human Genome Project, I have led a consortium of scientists to read out the 3.1 billion letters of the human genome, our own DNA instruction book. I have found there is a wonderful harmony in the complementary truths of science and faith. The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., is the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (Collins 2007).

 

I believe we should worship God only through our own personal and religious beliefs and not anything or anyone else. Human miracles are possible through God. He can change anyone at any time, so there is never a reason to give up hope for anyone. If people do not believe or haven’t connected yet or don’t want to, they are most definitely not any less of a person than someone who does. There are 1.1 billion people in the world are Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist (Adherents.com 2007). That is approximately one half the amount of people who are Christian and three-fourths the amount of people who are Islamic.  If you do not believe in God, it does not make you a non-believer especially if you believe in Peace, Life, Love, and Freedom. If you indeed believe in these principles then you believe as much as anyone who ever believed. We are all then on the same page.

 

“In a world threatened by sinister and indiscriminate forms of violence, the unified voice of religious people urges nations and communities to resolve conflicts through peaceful means and with full regard for human dignity.” Pope Benedict XVI (1927- ).

 

Anti-Something Man-Made, Symbols:

 

“Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!” Albert Einstein (1879-1955), theoretical physicist, philosopher and author. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.

 

This is another golden oldie. This cover-up allows the man to be the judge, jury, and executioner, since he created the entity in the first place and only he understands it. Something man-made is always a good shield and cover-up for the VG. The VG can also now separate this excuse easily from itself: something it likes to do.

 

Man did not make the earth, moon, and stars but he did invent countries, flags, and other symbols. A great deal written about modern-day religion in the last 6,000 years came from man’s hand. However, I do not believe man created God and I believe only God can make something divine, not man. Man, like all other life forms, is imperfect. Therefore, man cannot ever create anything perfect. I believe in worshiping only God and not something man-made. What man could possibly say he has ever created something on the same level as God? It is impossible. Elevating or worshiping something man-made at the same level as God, in my opinion, is not truly believing in God. How can it be? There is only one God. So do not confuse God's hand with man’s hand. There's one heck of a big step between them. So instead of worshiping at the altar of man I think you should aim higher.

 

Man-made things are often incorrectly elevated in many ways to provide a good cover-up for the VG. That’s because they are something people are already familiar with, and of course, most of these man-made things usually have a short or limited existence. This further proves their unreliability and fallibility. How many countries have people fought for that no longer exists? How many flags and symbols have people fought for that no longer exists? Flags themselves have been used by countries only during the last 300 years or so.

 

The historical origin of flags dates back to around 1000 BC, when the Egyptians used primitive versions of flags. The use of national flags didn't become commonplace until the 18th century (Worldflags101 2010).

 

There are also many religions that no longer exist. It is unreasonable to give undying loyalty or blind allegiance to something that is man-made. Such allegiance should be offered only to God and that, which is made by God. Again, the history of human violence has been around maybe millions of years, long before any of these man-made things were ever created. Are symbols important to us? You bet. Do they have great influence and effect over people and move them in many ways? Yes. Is one symbol more important than one human life? No, it is a symbol, not a real live living thing. That goes not just for our symbols but our art, tools, and machines too. No matter how much a symbol can move someone, it is infinitesimal compared to what just one real person can do. That rightfully puts human life on a higher plane than anything we humans could make. I feel grateful, amazed, indebted, and sometimes in awe when I consider what people make, like medicine, art, machines, and technology, but we need to keep it in proper perspective. We don’t have special glasses that separate what God or nature made and what humans have made, but it still should not be that hard to see.

 

The VG will gladly hide behind a symbol and use the goodwill it created as a cover for its violence, and many symbols have served as a powerful camouflage for the VG. Sometimes the more goodwill the symbol has, the better cover it is for the VG. But don’t blame the symbols. I feel sorry for people who commit violent crimes and give up their interpersonal freedom and possibly their outside freedom for symbols, be it money or other material objects that they don’t have to have. They might want these symbols but do they need them in order to live? They really succumbed to the idea that a symbol can be more important than a person, risking the most important thing given them — their freedom or individuality — for an object that is as lifeless and inanimate as any other. Don’t get me wrong. We need money and other material things to survive, and we need to be responsible for them, but we shouldn’t put them on the same level as a human. They are billions of miles apart. Humans are better. This is especially true when these material things might cause violence against a human. Money does not elevate the VG righteousness in any way. In this world many places have laws and rules that are focused around money. Some forms of money may go back nearly 9,000 years.

 

The advent of a writing system seems to coincide with the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to more permanent agrarian encampments when it became necessary to count ones property, whether it be parcels of land, animals or measures of grain or to transfer that property to another individual or another settlement. We see the first evidence for this with incised “counting tokens” about 9,000 years ago in the neolithic fertile crescent (Kilmon 2010).

 

Money can be an important and probably necessary tool for us for tracking accountability and productivity. Money and symbols are like the VG in a way. We care more about them than they care about us.

 

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” Howard Zinn (1922-2010), American historian, author and activist.

 

“Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.” Patrick Henry (1736-1799), the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

 

He is a list of pre-modern, countries, nations, states, empires or territories that no longer exist that were on the same land that we occupy now:

 

Achaean League, Adiabene, Aetolian League, Akkad, Alamanni, Ammon, Kingdom of Araba, Assyria, Atropatene, Avar Kingdom, Axumite Kingdom, Babylonia, Bithynia, Bosporan Kingdom, Kingdoms of Sub-Roman Britain, Burgundian Kingdom, Cappadocia, Caucasian Iberia, Carthage, Chaldea, Characene, Commagene, Colchis, Cyrene, Dacia, Edom, Egrisi, Egyptian Empire, Elam, Elymais, Ancient Epirus, Etruria, Fatimid Caliphate,  Finnveden, Kingdom of the Franks, Frisian kingdom, Galatia, Gallic Empire, Gepid Kingdom, Ghassanid Kingdom, Gordyene, Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. Hellenic city-states Athens, Sparta, Syracuse, Hellenistic Empires Ptolemaic, Seleucid, Antigonid, Himyar, Hittites, Hunnic Empire, Hurrians, Illyria, Judah, Judaea, Kindah, Kush, Lakhmids, Lombard Kingdoms, Lycia, Lydia, Macedon, Mauritania, Media, Meroe. Moab, Nabataean kingdom, Nekor, Njudung, Nubia, Numidian Kingdom, Saxons, Odrysian kingdom of Thrace, Osroene, Ostrogothic Kingdom, Kingdom of Pergamon, Palmyra, Parthia, Philistines, Phoenician city states, Kingdom of Pontus, Rome, Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic, Roman Empire, Rugiland, Scythia, Domain of Soissons, Suebic Kingdom, Sumerian city states, Tartessos, Thuringia, Urartu, Värend, Vasconia, Visigothic Kingdom, Yamkhad, Yemeni Kingdoms, qataban, hadramaut, Sabaeans, Minaeans, Troy, Dumnonia, Bryneich, Ebrauc, Calchfynedd, Elmet, Rheged, Pengwern,  Deira, Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Kent, Sussex, Wessex, Essex, Haestingas, Magonsaete, Hwicce, Middle Saxons,  Suthrege, Hicca, Wreoconsaete, Gyre, Witware, the Jutes of the Isle of Wight, Wales, Kingdom of Gwynedd, Dyfed, Deheubarth, Powys, Brycheiniog, Ceredigion, Gwent, Morgannwg, Gwerthyrnion, Meirionnydd, Seisyllwg, Rhufoniog, Rhos, Dogfeiling, Dunoting, Maelienydd, Scotland, Sub-Roman Cumbric kingdoms in Scotland, Valentia, Alt Clud (Strathclyde), Gododdin, Manau Gododdin, Pictish kingdoms in Scotland, Cait, Ce, Circinn, Fib, Fidach, Gaelic kingdoms in Scotland, Dál Riata, Kingdom of Scotland, Ireland, Airgíalla, Ulaid, Mide, Laighin, Osraighe, Munster, Uí Maine, Connacht, Aidhne, Breifne, Dál Fiatach, Dál nAraidi, Dál Riata, Desmond, Dublin, Fir Manach, Meath, Moylurg, Uí Failghe, Frankish Kingdom/Carolingian Empire, West Francia, Central Francia, Kingdom of Lotharingia, Duchy of Lorraine, Duchy of Burgundy, Duchy of Brittany, Avignon, Peñíscola under antipope Benedict XIII, Republic of St. Tropez , Duchy of Normandy, Duchy of Bar, Batavian Republic, Countship of Flanders, Duchy of Gelre, Countship of Holland, Duchy of Bouillon, Countship of Namur, Drenthe, Prince-bishopric of Liège, Duchy of Brabant, Countship of Hainaut, Countship of Hoorn, Breda, Bergen op Zoom, Arkel, Thorn, Montfoort, Friesland (Frisia), Groningen, Oostergo, Westergo, Gemert, Woerden, Prince-bishopric of Utrecht, Countship of Zutphen, East Francia , Holy Roman Empire , Pomerania ruled by the Dukes of Pomerania, Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights, Christian Hispania, Crown of Aragon, Aragon, Ribagorza, Sobrarbe, Principality of Catalonia , Countship of Barcelona, Urgell, Pallars Sobirà, Pallars Jussà, Empúries, Kingdom of Valencia, Kingdom of Majorca, Kingdom of Asturias, Kingdom of León, Kingdom/County of Galicia, Kingdom of Galicia and Portugal, County of Coimbra, Kingdom of Castile, Kingdom of Navarre, Suebic Kingdom of Gallaecia, Visigothic Hispania, Vandalic and Alanic kingdoms in Iberia, Moorish Al Andalus , Caliphate of Cordoba, Taifa kingdoms, Albarracín, Algeciras, Almería, Alpuente, Badajoz, Baeza, Balearic Islands or Majorca, Beja and Évora, Carmona, Constantina and Hornachuelos, Cordova, Denia, Granada, Guadix and Baza, Huelva, Jaen, Jérica, Lisbon, Lorca, Malaga, Menorca, Mértola, Molina, Morón, Murcia, Murviedro and Sagunto, Niebla, Orihuela, Purchena, Ronda, Saltés and Huelva, Algarve, Santarém, Segorbe, Segura, Seville, Silves, Tavira, Tejada, Toledo, Tortosa, Valencia, Zaragoza, Post-Roman Kingdom of Italy, Republic of Venice, Republic of Genoa, Carantania, Duchy of Lucca, Duchy of Modena and Reggio, Duchy of Parma, Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont, Duchy (first Countship) of Savoy, Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Tuscany, Volga Bulgaria, Novgorod Republic, Golden Horde, Kazan Khanate, Crimean Khanate, Astrakhan Khanate, Siberia Khanate, Big Horde, Khazar Empire, Kievan Rus, Trubczewsk, Grand Duchy of Lithuania , Republic of Ragusa/Dubrovnik, Medieval Croatian state, Great Bulgaria, First Bulgarian Empire, Second Bulgarian Empire, Bulgarian Khanate, Byzantine Empire, Empire of Nicaea, Empire of Trebizond, Despotate of Epirus, Despotate of Morea, European Crusader States, Latin Empire of Constantinople, Kingdom of Thessalonica, Principality of Achaea, Duchy of Athens, Duchy of the Archipelago, Sultanate of Rüm, Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, Crusader States, Countship of Edessa, Kingdom of Jerusalem, Principality of Antioch, Countship of Tripoli, Kingdom of Cyprus, Khwarezmian Empire, Mongol Empire, Crimean Khanate, Tibetan Empire, Nanzhao, Kingdom of Dali, Guge, Fatimid Caliphate, In North Africa: Seljuk Empire, Frisia, Timurid Empire Persia, Central Asia: Dzungar, Mahajanapadas, Indus Valley Civilisation (Harappa, Mohenjo Daro in present Pakistan) South Asia, Magadha, Nanda Empire, Maurya Empire, Sunga Empire, Kanva Empire, Kharavela Empire, Kuninda Kingdom, Indo Scythian Kingdom, Chera dynasty, Pandyan Kingdom, Chola Empire, Satavahana Empire, Indo-Greek Kingdom, Indo-Parthian Kingdom, Western Satraps, Kushan Empire, Indo-Sassanid Kingdom, Kalabhras Kingdom, Gupta Empire, Pallava dynasty, Kadamba Dynasty, Western Ganga Dynasty, Vishnukundina, Huna Kingdom, Chalukya dynasty, Harsha, Eastern Chalukyas, Pratihara Empire, Pala Empire, Rashtrakuta Dynasty, Paramara dynasty, Yadava Kingdom, Solanki, Western Chalukya Empire, Hoysala Empire, Sena dynasty, Eastern Ganga dynasty, Kakatiya dynasty, Kalachuri, Muslim Sultanates , Delhi Sultanate, Ahom Kingdom, Vijayanagara Empire, Kingdom of Mysore, Madurai, Thanjavur Nayak kingdom, Maratha Empire, Sikh Empire, Mughal Empire, China, Shang Dynasty, Zhou Dynasty, Warring States, Chu, Cai, Cao, Chen, Lu, Song, Yue, Wu, Jin, Han, Zheng, Wei, Zhao, Qi, Yan, Qin, Qin Dynasty, Han Dynasty, Three Kingdoms, Eastern Wu, Cao Wei, Shu Han, Jin Dynasty, Sixteen Kingdoms, Cheng Han, Former Liang, Former Qin, Former Yan, Han Zhao, Later Liang, Later Qin, Later Yan, Later Zhao, Northern Liang, Northern Yan, Southern Liang, Southern Yan, Western Liang, Western Qin, Xia, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Liu Song, Northern Wei, Southern Qi, Eastern Wei, Liang Dynasty, Western Wei, Chen, Northern Qi, Northern Zhou, Sui Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Later Liang Dynasty, Later Tang Dynasty, Later Jin Dynasty, Later Han Dynasty, Later Zhou Dynasty, Wu, Wuyue, Min, Chu, Southern Han, Former Shu, Later Shu, Jingnan, Southern Tang, Northern Han, Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty,Liao Dynasty, Western Xia, Jin Dynasty, Karasahr, Khotan, Kucha, Yarkand, Gojoseon, Jin, Buyeo, Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, Gaya Confederacy, Unified Silla, Balhae, Taebong, Hubaekje, Goryeo, Republic of Ezo, Ryukyu Kingdom,:Sultanate of Maguindanao, Kingdom of Tondo, Kingdom of Maynila, Kingdom of Namayan, Annam, Âu Lạc, Champa, Amaravati (Champa), Kauthara, Panduranga, Vijaya, Cochinchina, Funan, Kampuchea Krom, Nam Việt, North Vietnam, Sedang, South Vietnam, Tonkin, Vạn Xuân, Văn Lang, Khmer Empire, Chenla, Shambhupura, Óc Eo, Langkasuka, Sukhothai kingdom, Tambralinga, Patani Kingdom, Lanna, Dvaravati, Raktamaritika, Hariphunchai, Pyu city-states,Mon kingdoms,Singhanavati, Pasai, Gangga Negara, Pan Pan, Tarumanagara, Sultanate of Aceh, Sultanate of Demak, Majapahit, Mataram Kingdom, Sunda Kingdom, Melayu Kingdom, Singhasari, Kediri, Malacca Sultanate, Pala Empire, Singhasari, Srivijaya, Johor Sultanate, Federation of Malaya, Kingdom of Pajang, Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo. Ancient Pueblo Peoples (Anasazi), Aztec Empire, Cahokia, Carib, Chachapoya, Chimú, Ciboney, Huari (Wari), Inca civilization, Tiwanaku, Maya civilization, Moche (Mochica), Nazca (Ica-Nazca), Olmec, Selk’nam, Taino, Timucuan, Teotihuacan Empire, Tlaxcala, Toltecs, Tahuantinsuyu (the Inca Empire), Tu'i Tonga Empire, Kingdom of Hawaii, Kingdom of Maui, Kingdom of Molokai, Kingdom of Oahu, Kingdom of Kauai (Wikipedia 2010).

 

More into the future, look at this list of  sovereign, countries, nations, states, empires or territories that have ceased to exist as political entities:

 

Kingdom of Ireland , Lordship of Ireland, Kingdom of Osraige, Kingdom of Aidhne, Kingdom of Mide, Kingdom of Uí Failghe, Kingdom of Tara, Kingdom of Dublin, Kingdom of Breifne, Kingdom of Leinster, Kingdom of Connacht, Kingdom of Munster. Modern states: Europe: Icelandic Commonwealth, Grand Duchy of Finland in personal union with imperial Russia, Finnish Democratic Republic, Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic in southern Finland , Kingdom of Finland, Kingdom of Iceland, Kalmar Union, Union of Denmark-Norway, Union of Sweden and Norway, Carolingian Empire, French First Republic, First French Empire,  French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic, Vichy France, French Fourth Republic, Corsican Republic, Anglo-Corsican Kingdom, County of Foix, Republic of Goust, Free States of Menton and Roquebrune, Holy Roman Empire, Confederation of the Rhine, German Confederation, North German Federation, German Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, Federal Republic of Germany, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, German Democratic Republic, Alsace-Lorraine, Alsace Soviet Republic, Anhalt, Anhalt-Bernburg, Anhalt-Dessau, Anhalt-Köthen, Baden, Bavaria, Bavarian Soviet Republic, Bremen, Brunswick, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Kingdom of Hanover, Hesse-Darmstadt, Hesse-Homburg, Hesse-Kassel, Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Holstein, Lippe, Lübeck, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Nassau, Oldenburg, Prussia, Duchy of Prussia, Brandenburg-Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia, Reuss, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Saxe-Gotha, Saxe-Hildburghausen, Saxe-Lauenburg, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Saxony, Schaumburg-Lippe, Schleswig, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Waldeck, Württemberg, Cisalpine Republic, Cispadane Republic, Republic of Cospaia, Sovereign Principality of Elba, Kingdom of Etruria, Italian Republic (Napoleonic), Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic), Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, Duchy of Lucca, Duchy of Mantua, Duchy of Massa and Carrara, Duchy of Milan, Duchy of Modena, Kingdom of Naples, Duchy of Parma, Papal States, Roman Republic, Kingdom of Sardinia, Kingdom of Tavolara, Transpadane Republic, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Free Territory of Trieste, Republic of Venice, Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland, Kingdom of Ireland, Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, United Kingdom of Great Britain, Prince-Bishopric of Liège, United Belgian States, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, Batavian Republic, Kingdom of Holland, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Lemko-Rusyn Republic, Duchy of Warsaw, Free City of Danzig, Galician Soviet Socialist Republic, Republic of Kraków, Duchy of Courland, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Kingdom of Lithuania, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Republic of Central Lithuania, Duchy of Courland, Republic of Perloja, Russian Empire, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Soviet Republic of Naissaar, Hungarian Soviet Republic, Slovak Soviet Republic, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Caliphate of Córdoba, Crown of Aragon, Crown of Castile, Emirate of Granada, Kingdom of Asturias, Kingdom of Galicia, Kingdom of León, Kingdom of Navarre, Suebic Kingdom of Galicia, County of Barcelona, County of Empúries, County of Pallars Sobirà, County of Urgell, Taifa of Almería, Taifa of Badajoz, Taifa of Córdoba, Taifa of Denia, Taifa of Lisbon, Taifa of Málaga, Taifa of Murcia, Taifa of Seville, Taifa of Toledo, Taifa of Valencia, Taifa of Zaragoza, Taifa of Lleida, Taifa of Tortosa, Republic of Catalonia, Visigothic Kingdom, Couto Mixto, Ottoman Empire, Lazistan, Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic, Republic of Mountainous Armenia, Durrani Empire, Kingdom of Iraq, Persian Soviet Socialist Republic in Gilan, Republic of Ararat, Republic of Mahabad, Alawite State, Jabal el Druze, State of Aleppo, State of Damascus, People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, Sikkim, Kingdom of Mysore, Chinese Soviet Republic in Jiangxi Province, Korean Empire, Republic of Ezo, Republic of Formosa, Hunan Soviet in a continental Chinese province, Manchukuo, Mongolian People's Republic, Ryukyu Kingdom, Tuva, Pattani kingdom, Kingdom of Sarawak, Sultanate of Johore, Sultanate of Maguindanao, Sultanate of Malacca, Sultanate of Mataram, Sultanate of Rajah Buayan, Sultanate of Sulu, North Vietnam. South Vietnam, Pyu city-states, Mon kingdoms, Bagan Dynasty, Ava, Pegu, Mrauk U, Taungoo Dynasty, Konbaung Dynasty, Shan States, Arakan, North America:Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Cahokia, Huron Confederacy, Iroquois Confederacy, Cherokee Nation, Vermont Republic, State of Franklin, State of Muskogee, First Mexican Empire, West Florida, Republic of Indian Stream, Republic of Texas, California Republic, Alta California, Confederate States of America, Second Mexican Empire, Republic of Manitoba, Dominion of Newfoundland, Olmec nation, Toltec kingdom/empire, Aztec Empire, Tlaxcala nation, Zapotec kingdom, Maya civilization, Northern America, Republic of the Rio Grande, Republic of Yucatán, United Provinces of Central America, Chan Santa Cruz, Republic of Acre, Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia, Kingdom of Chimor, Confederation of the Equator, Gran Colombia, Inca Empire, Juliana Republic, Liga Federal, Peru-Bolivian Confederation, Riograndense Republic, Pre-colonial Africa, Republic of Salè, Republic of Bou Regreg, Ashanti Empire, Aro Confederacy, Basutoland, Benin, Buganda, Bunyoro, Burundi, Dahomey, Fante Confederacy, Fulani Empire, Gao, Ghana, Great Zimbabwe, Kanem-Borno, Mali, Merina, Monomotapa, Pemba, Tanzania, Songhai, Toro, Zanzibar, Zululand, Afars and Issas, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Belgian Congo, British America, British East Africa, British Guiana, British Honduras, British India, British North America, Congo Free State, Danish West Indies, Dutch Guiana, French Equatorial Africa, French Indochina, French Somaliland, French Sudan, French West Africa, German East Africa, German New Guinea, German South-West Africa, Gold Coast, Hong Kong, Indian princely states, Italian East Africa, Italian North Africa, Macao, Middle Congo, Minorca, Netherlands East Indies, Netherlands Guiana, Netherlands New Guinea, New France, New Granada, New Hebrides, New Netherlands, New Spain Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Orange River Sovereignty, Oubangui-Chari, Panama Canal Zone, Commonwealth of the Philippines, Portuguese East Africa, Portuguese Guinea, Portuguese India, Portuguese Timor, Portuguese West Africa, Rhodesia, Rio Muni, Ruanda-Urundi, Kingdom of Sarawak, Protectorate of South Arabia, Southern Rhodesia Spanish East Indies, Spanish Guinea, Spanish Sahara, The Straits Settlements, Tanganyika, The colonies of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Upper Canada and Lower Canada (later, the Province of Canada), Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland, plus the territory of Rupert's Land, West Indies (Wikipedia 2010).

 

That’s quite a few social/governmental entities for just 6,000 earth trips around the sun. If each had their own flag then there must have been a lot of flag sales throughout the years. The lists sort of makes you wonder how long the 200 or more countries that exist today will last. There were probably some people in each of these countries/states/empires that though their country would last forever. The oldest government that exists today is only 410 years old and this for the small country of San Marino in Italy whose constitution was created in the year 1600 (CIA 2010).

 

“Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.” Frederick Moore Vinson (1890-1953), the thirteenth Chief Justice of the United States.

 

“If God is just, I tremble for my country.” Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), third President of the United States and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.

 

Because They Are Different:

 

“Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.” Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850), Scottish judge and literary critic.

 

This is another massive exaggeration trying to make the .1% that is unique in men appear to be 99.9%. We use these minor differences in men so we can attack other men with our VG without seeming like we are being irrational and attacking ourselves. Some of the significant and man-made differences that the VG uses to worm its way out are different races, religions, countries, cultures, and appearances. Again, these are all insignificant and extremely minor, even considering the percentage in man that is special or different from each other. The VG probably uses only a tiniest fraction of us to describe men as different from each other. Not even the whole .1%. So the premise that men are different from each other for any violence is a falsehood. However, man’s common genetics and heredity do not let him off the hook. Each person is totally responsible for his individual actions.

 

Closer scrutiny of this VG myth — that men are more different than alike — will probably eliminate more than half of the cover-ups the VG uses for getting control of a man. If we knock this one out, it will also make the VG work harder to cover itself up. It will never give up, but we should make it as hard as possible for it to get out.

 

Race, for example, is just another tried and tested cover-up that the Violence Gene currently uses, sometimes successfully, to get men to accept it and let it out of its deep realm. In contradiction to what we may have been told, race is not a cause of violence, but rather, just an age-old scapegoat for violence, along with religions, ethnicity, cultures, nationalities, and many more man-made concepts. If you think that some man’s so-called race makes him predominantly different from other men, then you have not done your homework on man, although you may think you have. The easiest way to be on the good and right side of history, I know, is to defend someone because of his or her so-called race. We should celebrate what tiny “race” differences exist anyway. We have survived long enough on this planet that we don’t have to be 100% the same instead of the 99.9% we are. We all at one time must have started at 99.999% the same, so I believe this shows good progress. Perhaps it has something to do with our ability to travel in the past compared to now. Maybe that is the only difference. Maybe there are different races because we got lost in the past and wouldn’t ask for directions. Sometimes when we can’t figure something out we try to pin the blame on concepts familiar to us, like race. Why would someone be racist? To use a traditional cover-up for the VG.

 

Skin cancer is colorblind -- no 'free pass'. “Pigmentation doesn't give you a free pass,” said Dr. Charles E. Crutchfield III, a dermatologist specializing in ethnic skin. “It doesn't matter what color your skin is, everyone can get skin cancer” (Rice 2009).

 

Persecution is not exclusive to any beings on earth. Most groups at one time or another have been persecuted by the VG. It is even possible we Homo sapiens successfully persecuted our cousins the Neanderthals to a degree where we may have contributed to their extinction. We humans are the only model to survive from the 10 or more types of hominids that may have been on this planet throughout the last 7 million years or more. In a way we already won the human race by being the only surviving hominid. What else do we want? God or nature, both or something else already make us humans superior. That was enough. We are all alone now. Maybe that saying is right: It’s lonely at the top. Do we make up fights and differences among ourselves so we can interact and not be so lonely?

 

A Neanderthal man who lived as recently as 50,000 years ago may have been killed by a modern human armed with an advanced projectile weapon, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the Paleolithic “murder” would be the first compelling case for an anatomically modern human using a weapon against a member of the extinct human species (Than 2009).

 

If you put this particular VG cover-up that men are mostly different, under closer scrutiny, you will probably eliminate more than half of the VG cover-ups for getting control of a man and disguising itself when it does. Should we knock this one out, it will also make the VG work harder to cover itself up. It will never give up, but we should make it as hard as possible for it to get out.

 

“Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.” Charles Curtis (1860-1936), 31st Vice President of the United States.

 

Universal Right, Wrong, and Truth: These are incredibly important to humans, and rightly so. It’s a shame we will never be able to get them all right for certain. Of course we must do the very best we can. We must make right and wrong and truth important bedrocks for our thoughts and behaviors. Just do not assume these are universal rights and wrongs and truths. We just don’t know. They definitely may be right for us, now and maybe even during the last 6,000 years of documented human history. We do not know if they are true for any other planet or any other beings, which is 99.99% of the universe. Some people don’t seem to like to talk about something unless they can come up with what is the universal right or universally true. The chance in any single conversation that universal right and wrong and truth will be spoken even for a second is astronomical. Even if it were, we probably wouldn’t know it. The truth could be there but not visible to us or it might not be evident yet. If you believe something is universally true for you and the universal truth for everyone else and there be many who also believe what you do, but it still does not prove something is true because that is not the standard for truth. Everyone must be able to freely believe it too without any incrimination if they don’t, and to be able prove it to all people beyond any reasonable doubt and not just a percentage. It’s a high standard even in this short explanation. So we need to say what is right and wrong and true for us, but we can only say for sure that it is just for us.

 

“Truth in science, however, is never final, and what is accepted as a fact today may be modified or even discarded tomorrow. Science has been greatly successful at explaining natural processes, and this has led not only to increased understanding of the universe but also to major improvements in technology and public health and welfare.”  “Science is not the only way of acquiring knowledge about ourselves and the world around us. Humans gain understanding in many other ways, such as through literature, the arts, philosophical reflection, and religious experience. Scientific knowledge may enrich aesthetic and moral perceptions, but these subjects extend beyond science's realm, which is to obtain a better understanding of the natural world.” According to the National Academy of Sciences (NASA 2010).

 

Even when we say it is absolutely right and wrong and true for ourselves, we still need to be cautious. One reason is that human leadership has not had a stellar record in the past about what is right and wrong and true. From the flat Earth to witch burning to slavery to leeches for medical treatments to idol worshiping, the list goes on and on throughout our civilizations. We tried to do right and be true, but our records of judging have been iffy at best. There have been countless false persecutions, prosecutions, and actions throughout human history. People who thought they were right ended up being wrong and many people who thought they were wrong have ended up being right from the sun orbiting the earth to curing diseases with leaches. Looking at a few parts of our history, the fewer the people who believed something to be right, the higher the likelihood that it actually was. It also makes you wonder about the thoughts and ideas that we believe today are right and wrong and true. Will they be so tomorrow? Theories like the speed of light being the cosmic speed limit or the shape and size of a hot dog? Based on historical averages alone, I wouldn’t insist that they were right or know the truth about everything. Even if you studied everything that was written in the last 6,000 years, there is still much left to write. I think that might be true no matter how much time has gone by. Though a great idea lasts only one second, all our ideas have had to pass the test of time for just the last 6,000 years. That’s only 0.0000004% of how long the universe might have been here (13.7 billion years). No matter how many people believe in how absolutely right something is, it does not necessarily mean that it is any closer to being right.

 

Until recently, astronomers estimated that the Big Bang occurred between 12 and 14 billion years ago. To put this in perspective, the Solar System is thought to be 4.5 billion years old and humans have existed as a genus for only a few million years. If current ideas about the origin of large-scale structure are correct, then the detailed structure of the cosmic microwave background fluctuations will depend on the current density of the universe, the composition of the universe and its expansion rate. The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe WMAP has been able to determine these parameters with an accuracy of better than 3% of the critical density. In turn, knowing the composition with this precision, we can estimate the age of the universe to about 1%: 13.7 ± 0.13 billion years! WMAP definitively determined the age of the universe to be 13.73 billion years old to within 1% (0.12 billion years) (NASA 2010).

 

Plus, when just one tiny little detail or specific is changed in a situation, it can totally change the nature of the problem or the answer. Time itself always changes any situation, whether any of the details have changed or not. My point is it is very hard for us to say that we even know what is right or wrong and true for ourselves in some cases. Some judgments are easy: Violence is wrong, peace is right, love is good, and hate is bad. Unfortunately, most choices we deal with in life are not so easy to state categorically.

 

Humans are subjective; all of us and that is not wrong. It is important to know how events affect each one of us. Although being subjective is important, we still need to make our best effort to be objective. We can never succeed at being totally objective, but we have to make many great and small efforts to get as close as humanly possible. In that way, we may be an inch or two closer to human right and wrong and truth than we would be otherwise. I think sometimes we need to be both subjective and objective when making decisions. We need all our tools to try to get it right, but the more effort you make in being objective, the better the chances you have of getting to the Promised Land of Truth. Even with our best efforts, we might not get close, but we have to do the best we can with what we have. When in doubt tell the truth, and even if you are not in doubt, tell the truth anyway. It could be a long haul to find what the truth is, so we need your help to get it started right away. Sometimes we need to look past our eye level, past what is directly in front of us, past our experiences, and even past our lives to get to what is right, fair, true, and just — the flint stones that keep our principles burning bright.

 

“Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.” Timothy Radcliffe (1945- ), Catholic priest and Dominican friar of the English Province.

 

“Fair” is another great and important word. People must hate this word because we rarely see it applied or talked about it public. It is a great human concept. Is the world fair? No. Should we try to be as fair as we possibly can? Yes. Why on earth not? Sometimes the world is unfair only because we let it be. You have a better chance of being fair than objective. “Subjective” is what you are, “objective” is what you try to be, and “fairness” is what you do. There may even be times when you cannot make sense of situations. In these cases, just make them fair. Many scientists think our universe will eventually end. So then why not be fair? It’s only fair.

 

There's no escaping the fact that life isn't always fair, but that usually doesn't make unfair treatment any easier to accept. Now new brain imaging studies may help explain why. The research shows that being on the receiving end of fair treatment is inherently rewarding, activating the portion of the brain associated with happiness. Being treated unfairly was shown to activate a region of the brain previously linked to negative emotions, such as moral disgust (Boyles 2008).

 

Asking each generation to come up with right and wrong and truth is a tall order, too. We really need to muster all the information we have from the past and present. We are always forcing ourselves unnecessarily to make judgments with only a hundred bits and pieces of information when there are thousands of bits and pieces for any given situation. Any of these bits and pieces can drastically change the outcome or solution. We need all the bits and pieces of information for every situation to make a proper judgment.

 

We also should always strive to be consistent. Consistent conditions on this planet maybe contributed to life evolving here. However, sometimes, temporarily, being consistent might not be that easy. If we must be inconsistent we must do it for the right reasons, our principles. Our principles of Peace, Life, Love, and Freedom must be judged in their entirety and equally. Sometimes the difference can be razor thin. When it’s that close it can be painful exercise deciding between two principles or more. Decisions must be made sometimes so events don’t get worse but I think in these cases we need to continue to accumulate some more bits and pieces of information to make sure the decision on this issue won’t be as difficult in the future. This is how I think we should handle these tough decisions so we don’t make a painful decision even more painful. Like the saying says, we cannot let good be the enemy of perfect but we also cannot give up on perfect. I know it seems like a dichotomy but life itself is sort of a dichotomy. We spend all our time fighting to survive when we all end up losing in the end. As long as the exception isn’t on its way to becoming the rule then I think we have to live with inconsistency once in a great while, though of course, we would rather not.

 

People sometimes raise subjects just to “bring them to light,” let their thoughts and idea see the light of day. That’s all. The idea may be a message, the truth, a warning, a question, whatever. There's nothing wrong bringing any words to light for consideration. There are two sides to every story, at least. Sometimes it may be better to think aloud rather than act in silence.

 

“In war, truth is the first casualty.” Aeschylus (456 BC-455 BC), Ancient Greek playwright.

 

Does might make right? No, might has nothing to do with right. Violence and dominance do not make someone right; they just make him violent and domineering. One might get you to agree that he is right, agreement doesn't indicate truth. Concerning violence, you must realize that the VG does not care one iota about human or universal right or wrong, truth, or consistency. The only thing the VG is interested in is violence, plain and simple. Universal or earthly right, wrong, or truth are just a few of the many casualties of the VG. Once violence has been released, all these tremendously important values and principles get thrown out the window. Violence wipes out fairness, quickly, efficiently, and completely. Men, who don’t want to be fair, use violence to override it totally.

 

“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.” Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher, mathematician, and historian. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950.

 

Your belief in something does not necessarily make it true or right, either. How intensely someone believes he is right or true does not add any more concrete weight if something is, in fact, not true, or right. We should not confuse intense, vitriolic emotions and words with the true search for righteousness. However, someone’s emotions certainly does carry a great deal of weight on how a person feels and how they will react to a certain situation. Might is often just another word for violence, an anti-right and anti-truth device. When might is violence, then might is not right; it is wrong.

 

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish writer and poet.

 

We need to keep working on our own rights and wrongs and truths, teaming up and grouping up, like we have been doing. We may never be perfect all the time, but we should do the best we can. Just be very careful about who or what is right or wrong, for how long, and exactly where. Although many people claim to know what is universally right, wrong, and true, I believe so far it has been elusive to us much of the time. So if you do think you know the universal right, wrong, and truth, you may need a great deal of proof — not just some, but a whole lot — and then maybe we can consider it. There have been only a few people who have had a grasp on universal truth, so don’t feel bad if we don’t know if you are another one yet. Chances are it will be a long time before all the evidence is in, and you won’t be around anyway. We need to take the time to get our decisions right. Are you too busy? Too busy for truth, fairness, right and wrong. That is just a lousy excuse for doing a lousy job. If you do not have time to take care of these bedrock evaluations, then all you are doing is wasting your time.

 

A good place to start testing right, wrong, and truth is with families. That is the real acid test. If it’s good for the family, I think you are on the right track. If it can withstand that environment, it can take on anything. We need fairness, truth, objectivity, right, and wrong to keep the compass of Peace, Life, Love, and Freedom accurate. Those are the sandstones that sharpen our ideals. Without them these ideals become rusty and dull and they just don’t cut it. We need them to keep our principles fit and trim and to maintain their true identity, to keep them meaning what they are supposed to mean.

 

I think in the future when people look back at our times they might see that there were many thoughts that we were lead to believe were truly important, like presuming differences in people because of their country, race, gender, sexuality, appearances, education, political and religious beliefs, or monetary wealth. People in the future might look back and see these differences not as facts, truths, or important distinctions but as lies, falsehoods, and trivialities that we believed and elevated to our own detriment. It may seem that we greatly over-judged people over realties they did not control instead of actions they could control. Some people may even have suppressed their individual identities and replaced them with hyper-extended man-made surrogates.

 

“Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.” Andre Gide (1869-1951), French author. Awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947.

 

Peace and Freedom:

 

“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.” H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), American journalist, essayist and magazine editor.

 

Men will even use the words “peace” and “freedom” to commit violence and worship their VG. I often hear how people must unite everyone, even if it is through violence, to get long-lasting peace. Very inventive VG, but very wrong again, 99% of the time. You don’t achieve peace through violence. You obviously destroy peace as soon as you commit violence in the name of peace. You lose the peace game immediately upon starting. Perhaps short-term violence is necessary in some rare situations to stop a violent act, but your destroying people won’t take you one step closer to stopping long-term violence because you are not tackling the core of the violence problem. The core of the problem is not just violent people, but the personal individual identity struggle each person has with their own Violence Gene.

 

I believe through violence you create much less chance for long-lasting peace, not only because you did not address the root of the problem, but because you now create a possible justified eye-for-an-eye scenario. Plus the Pandora’s Box of violence is now open, which may create more violence because of a strong human trait. For when a person is exposed to violence, such behavior may come to seem more acceptable. Exposure to violence may also lead us to imitate that violence because we are also excellent imitators. It provides powerful argumentative ammunition for another man’s VG to use against its male host to take over that man’s identity and life. The one who first uncorks the violence genie from its bottle should assume responsibility for all the subsequent damage that ensues, and this first one also has the responsibility to re-cork the violence genie. He can’t just walk away after creating a disaster.

 

Creating freedom by destroying other people’s freedom to live and enjoy life is a contradiction if there ever was one. Living could be the greatest freedom we have or will ever have. The opposite of freedom, even more so than slavery, is death. We all must have freedom, everyone, and everywhere. It’s our birthright. Peace, Life, Love, and Freedom are all connected. You cannot get one of these at the expense of another. It doesn’t work that way. You are just trying to cover up your violence, hiding it behind good and positive ideals. If peace comes through violence, why don’t we have peace yet? We have certainly have had enough violence for one million years of peace. I would say that theory isn’t working.

 

If you take peace out of the equation of Peace, Life, Love, and Freedom, you remove the chance to enjoy the life, love, and freedom because you will be dead. Peace, Life, Love, and Freedom must all work together or you are accomplishing nothing for yourself, your family, or anyone else. You should not sacrifice one for the other in your goals and ambitions in life. Can freedom be achieved without violence? I would say the only way to get true freedom is without violence. Is it easy to do this faced with some external VG? No, it is not. Freedom should let you do what you want when you want to. Unfortunately, with great reluctance, I must tell you that choosing violence has to be one big exception. You do not have the freedom to worship the VG, because that erases other people’s freedom. Let’s be honest. When we are talking about freedom, we are talking about freedom from men. There is no history of anything else taking away our freedom. Let us not make it more complicated than it is. It seems sometimes man finds it easier to try to control others then to try to control himself.

 

Contrary to popular belief, freedom is free. It wouldn’t be freedom unless it was free. We should never pay any man for the natural right or use of our freedom it no matter what he or his VG tells us. Our freedom should never be thought of as something that can be given to us or taken from us by a mortal man. Man is not a collector and dispenser or freedom even if he thinks he is. It is a birthright. It’s like some men are resentful that it did not cost us anything when we were born and they want to collect a toll retroactive to the day we entered this world. Freedom is so important to people that sometimes it is not enough just to be free. We have to know we are free.

 

Unfortunately, men who thrive on violence would gladly take our freedom away if we let them. That’s why we need to use our freedom to protect ourselves. Freedom may be free to get but the cost of defending it can be very high. Freedom costs us much, both in sacrifice of lives and in money. Life is the highest cost we must pay for the eternal defense of freedom. Freedom is not for mortal man to give or take away, but it is the responsibility of all men to defend it. Work shall set you free? You are already born free — you don’t have to work to get freedom — but you have to work and work extremely hard to keep it.

 

We must use our freedom to make our defenses and protections strong enough to stop any threat from violent people bent on our destruction or enslavement. Like everything else that is good in our lives like our health, principles or relationships, our defense will also need constant maintenance.

 

Rest assured the only ones who will be interested in destroying our lives and freedoms are the men who have given up their control to the Violence Gene. You may say that our lives and freedom cost nothing to get, but once gone, they would be expensive to regain. For the Violence Gene is a formidable enemy. The Violence Gene might say “Hey, want do you want for nothing?” We will tell you what we want: Peace, Life, Love, and Freedom held together with equality. Nothing more and nothing less.

 

Sometimes words like “freedom” are twisted by the VG to mean the opposite of what they really are. For example, “we need to be violent to be free” when the opposite is true. Or “violence should get the credit for peace,” or “freedom hurts the security and the defense of our freedom.” These are myths created by the Violence Gene that need to be debunked. Sometimes it uses the word “freedom” to solicit money from you to aid in your defense but uses the money for attacks to take away other people's freedoms to satisfy its blood lust. If we allow this to happen, who is to say we are not next.

 

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One who believes himself the master of others is nonetheless a greater slave than they.” Jean Jaques Rousseau (1712-1778), Genevois philosopher, writer and composer.

 

“Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority of government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put on this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.” Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), 40th President of the United States.

 

Our freedoms must be free and equal in order to keep them strong. You cannot have a little freedom that takes away someone’s big freedom. That is not real freedom. Freedom, like the rest of our principles, must be free and equal for all and balanced for all. You may say, “Don’t worry about the other guy.” Hey, I am the other guy and so are you. You can’t have lopsided, unequal freedoms, a situation that would weaken freedom and one of its components, democracy, which is a great defense against the VG. All freedoms have to be judged and based on their relation to each other. Freedom is not a reason for violence. It is a concrete action against violence. Why? Because violence eliminates our greatest freedom of all, our freedom to live. So when people pound their chest about freedom make sure you point out the freedom to live in peace and freedom from violence and see if they are still pounding.

 

“Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. Article 1. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. Article 3. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. Article 6. Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law”. The UN Universal Declaration of human rights. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has been awarded the Guinness World Record for having collected, translated and disseminated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into more than 300 languages and dialects (UN 1948).

 

“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” James Madison (1751-1836), fourth President of the United States and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

 

Part of Being a Macho Male:

 

“Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.” John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), American Quaker poet.

 

Being a man and being macho can be the greatest feeling in the world. The power of being a man, the power to feel good and to control many things, the power to be free inside and out is fantastic. You feel like you are the boss, in control, like a mini-God. Gods of our own worlds. Gods of our own minds and bodies and surroundings. We feel like we have near unlimited power, literally in the palms of our hands. It is an incredible feeling. It feels like we were chosen; chosen to rule. It feels like a God-given right. God gave us the power to dominate because he wanted us to dominate. It is God’s will. If we can feel it and do it, it must be God’s will. We are one hundred percent proud of our position and abilities too and equally proud of our male pride. We could not be any prouder; it is impossible. I will do what I please when I please. Who is going to stop me? You? Each and every one of us is a king. That is what it feels like. And if we could be king of other people as well, that feels good too; to be a king’s king. We men also have an uncanny ability to act in ways that make us feel good, really good.

 

What is the worst thing a man can call another man? A woman. An anti-man. That to us men is the biggest insult we can swing; to be as far from who we are as possible. “You are not a real man.” It’s like calling someone a traitor. You have turned your back on everything it means to be a man. You need to fall back to your roots and, if necessary, do the male imitation thing. You might not take these comments as insults but that is their design.

 

Machismo is a beautiful thing if not taken to some weird extreme. The same goes for the testosterone in our system. It aids in helping us master the super talent we have of looking tough. Machismo should not be confused with male chauvinism, which is a bad thing. The bad male Superiority Gene, which is anti-positive and anti-productive, is responsible for male chauvinism, not machismo.

 

Being aggressive is different; it’s not necessarily bad. Sometimes it is good, as long as you’re aggressive and not violent. You can be very aggressive without being violent. Sometimes being aggressive and physical helps gives men an edge. Kicking ass is what men want to do. Just ask us; this is what we want to do, whether in work, or play. We want to kick ass. Being aggressive and winning through aggression is completely natural and healthy as long as kicking ass is figurative and not literal. Extreme aggression is intimidation, and when this intimidation has any air or hint of violence in it, then it becomes the threat of violence. This means some man’s Violence Gene has already peeked its ugly head out. Kicking ass, figuratively, can be good clean fun for a man, but doing it for real is a crime in every sense of the word. Being tough or being mean? Being mean is not cool. In fact, it stinks. When you want to do violence, you are not a macho lone wolf but a wimpy bunny that can’t stand up to his own Violence Gene.

 

Same thing with domination: Men want to dominate. That’s not automatically bad. It all depends on what and how. There are good ways of domination, there are bad ways, and there is a whole lot of stuff in the middle. Wanting to win is healthy. Dominating and winning though violence? Then we are at rock bottom on the humanity scale. So when dominating, be sure not to violate our overriding principles of Peace, Life, Love, and Freedom. Those things are off-limits to domination.

 

Another great thing about being a man is that it makes each of us fully qualified to be an expert on man. We are men, so we don’t need anyone to tell us what it is like to be men. We already know so there is no need for a discussion. There is no point, and we are our own authority. Don’t tell me what to do or think, and don’t try to analyze me, either. If you don’t like or agree with what I’m doing, it is tough. You can kiss my you-know-what.

 

I agree. Each man is his own authority until that moment when he gives up his own authority to his internal Violence Gene. It’s all good until a man gives up his control. Even male machismo, manhood, or male pride is not in any way an acceptable cover for the VG or reason to do violence. Being macho and being tough should not be used as camouflage for a love of violence. A man might understand violence as part of who we are, but it is not who a man is. It is who “it” is the Violence Gene. This is the important difference and distinction: The violence problem is not man; it is in man just as it is in other living creatures. I think it would be a tremendous burden taken off man to realize he does not have to be violent to be a man and that he really does have nearly total choice in the matter.

 

There is one trait of man I’d like to mention, and that is our talent for Macho Reminders. A Macho Reminder is a one- or two-sentence, statement designed to remind people who they are dealing with, which is man. If we believe you are unfairly stopping us men from doing what we want to do when we want to do it, or if you are not doing what we men say you should do, when we want you to do it, you are going to get this not so subtle reminder. It’s designed to show both our contempt and our superiority. And some of these Macho Reminders are very, very clever and catchy, especially to the rest of us men. They fit perfectly on a sign or a bump sticker. The only problem is that man made the laws or rules that they are upset about. Man put in laws that say that just a few of them will be able to decide on them. So don’t blame us. At least these laws were written to put adult men first and you do not have to wait in line like the rest of the population. I also see a lot of Macho Misfires. These are unnecessary and illogical safety risks men take to get others to take to look or feel cool or tough. But when you are seriously injured looking cool or tough will be a negligible consolation to what has happened to your brain and body. Ridiculing safety is also ridiculing the intelligence of everyone involved. Better to be safe today to ensure that you will look cool and tough tomorrow.

 

Man is probably one of the greatest things in this universe. We can’t confuse man and being macho, celebrating man and everything he is and can do with his Violence Gene. One is unbelievably fantastic, and the other is unbelievably evil. The same goes with our wondrous testosterone. Testosterone is a good thing, and violence is a bad thing. There are much better uses for our testosterone then violence. We can’t let the VG waste a drop. We cannot let male machismo be used as a successful cover-up for the VG. In defense of peace, which may not look very macho on the surface, I must say that peace is not wimpy. It’s being strong and not giving into your own or other men’s VG. When you stand up to the VG, you’re a huge, massive pillar of strength. Wimpy men are the ones who can’t take it and then give in to their Violence Gene.

 

Hollywood star Clint Eastwood said his acclaimed picture “Letters from Iwo Jima” aimed to show the futility of war, after its European premiere at the 57th Berlin Film Festival. “I think every war has a certain parallel in the futility of it and that's one of the reasons for telling these stories -- they are not pro-war stories.”The emotions of the mothers who lose their sons and the emotions of the women who lose their husbands in war, it's the same regardless of any nationality. And that's what I was just trying to show” (AFP 2005).

 

“Violence is my last option.” Chuck Norris (1940- ), American martial artist and actor.

 

For Land: Territory is also, as you probably know, a popular cover-up for VG, but it is only the land peeking out above the water. Therefore, we are really fighting for just over 29.1% of the earth’s surface and only the top half mile of land instead of the 3,963 miles or so to the center of the earth. It’s really not even the top land or the soil. If we trucked up the top one half mile of any disputed land and shipped it to someone else who wanted the land, it would not make them happy. Most of our land has the same access to the sun, air, gravity, too. Much of the land fought over doesn’t involve anything environmental at all that may either benefit or hurt humans. Men sometimes fight over land that is less environmentally friendly to humans, like a desert, rather than what other real estate might be. They seem to fight most about land, not in different parts of the world, but the parts right next door to them, which means the land is even more similar.

 

A new study of ancient “desert pavement“ in Israel's Negev Desert finds a vast region that's been sitting there exposed, pretty much as-is, for about 1.8 million years, according to Ari Matmon and colleagues at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It is the oldest known vast expanse of surface area. The newly dated desert pavement does not represent the oldest material on Earth, however. A lot of individual rocks have been found that are much older (Britt 2009).

 

“Peace is more precious than a piece of land.” Anwar Sadat (1918-1981), third President of Egypt. Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1978.

 

All lands are attached to the same planet moving at the same speed and have the same orbit and place in the universe. Sometimes we can even visit the soil in question, but that never seems to be enough. Here is something else about our surface land. You can’t tell the difference. If I took several bottles of surface dirt from different parts of the world, few could tell the difference. Rarely can you even tell where one country ends and where the next one begins, unless we make some sort of man-made boundary or physical marker. Most fights over land are not about what’s in the soil but who will be able to live on it during their short time on earth.

 

What if one day we could float and fly ourselves? Are we not going to have to fight over the land as much? What if the oceans recede? Is that new land now going to be included in the land we will fight for? Will the importance of that land now be elevated?  What if the oceans rise? Are we not going to share the land with the people who have been displaced? What about the surface land on other planets? There is infinitely more land in space than here on Earth, and that land is even more rare and special to us since it is not from our own planet. What about when all the land on Earth was one continent called Pangaea? Did anyone have any dibs on what lands would shift where?

 

The Earth’s land was here before us and probably will be here after we are gone. Symbols attached to land that we live on are fine, but whenever these symbols are used as excuses for violence, the symbols represent only violence and nothing else. At best, the symbols lose all meaning. We should try to have peace with one another no matter where we are on this planet. Every place is someplace. We cannot expect the land to give us peace, either. Moving some humans to one place or another has never been a good strategy in the fight against the VG. Land itself does not guarantee equality, security, or independence. How could it, as an inanimate object? Only people among themselves can do this. If you are looking for these things, I suggest you look at peace. It is chock-full of this stuff.

 

If you want to honor human achievement during the past 6,000 years, I consider that fantastic. Honoring human achievement with violence, however, is not honoring anything at all. Violence destroys and prevents future human achievements. Does everyone want and need a home? Of course they do. What does that have to do with releasing your Violence Gene? Making a home is hard, hard work for anybody. Giving up control of your life to your VG and letting your own identity take a back seat is not. What kind of home is it that gets built with violence anyway? A house of horrors? You want security for your people? Of course you do, but killing people only secures you a spot in the worst moments of man and his ultimate lack of self-control. If people want to get together to share their common heritages and cultures that is great and good, especially if it makes most people happy and is totally voluntary. But this has absolutely nothing to do with violence.

 

Let’s be realistic for a second. The reality, I believe, is this; the people on top of that land over there are the same as these people on this land over here. In the possible 7 million years of hominid history on this planet, there has been continual and nonstop migration and travel by us human folk. It’s one of our many talents. We could not catalog all this movement if we tried. Life should not be like a game of musical chairs where the music stops and nobody can move from their spot anymore and someone gets left out.

 

I wish the VG would stop trying to convince us that some speck or crust of land is worth one single human life. We are talking about dirt and rock, and there is much more in the universe. Making land more important than people is wrong. It’s just another cover-up for the VG. We are so picky, and sometimes so nonsensical, concerning land that it can easily be seen as the cover-up for the VG that it is.

 

It Gets Things Done/Violent Protests:

 

“We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.” Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), American clergyman, civil rights activist.

 

What is worth fighting for is Peace, Life, Love, and Freedom. No other reason to do violence is more important than these principles. You cannot cut corners on these four subjects, no matter what else you are fighting for. You should be able to accomplish anything without sacrificing any of these four beliefs. The end does not justify the means if the means involves violence. Otherwise, the means are just another excuse and cover-up for the Violence Gene to do violence: That is the “end” of the Violence Gene. Violence is not to be judged on whether it gets things done or brings attention to successful campaigns because it will be accomplished by violence, which will get more attention than anything else you are trying to do.

 

Violence does not take a back seat to many things in life. By elevating violence above your cause, which is what happens when you do employ violence, you have actually diminished the meaning of what you are fighting for. Violence will get the news and attention for your cause; no matter if it is good or bad; will just go along for the ride. It’s not much of a cause if it has to hide behind the Violence Gene. The Violence Gene only has one cause, doing violence, over and over again. You may get what you wanted, but the VG also gets what it wanted, violence, and that is worse than any good your cause carries. What your VG wants is in no one’s best interest. The opposition may even be glad you did violence so they can then do violence to you. If you do violence during a protest when it not self-defense against violence, then they rightly need to go after you.

 

If you are able to coattail on your Violence Gene to get what you want, you will also find the VG does not like to go dormant again. Once you let this horrible thing free, you learn the hard way that restraining it is a million times tougher than releasing it. Fighting your VG will now be an even tougher battle than the one you had before.

 

Releasing your VG also shows you might not be able to handle the cause you are fighting for. Men, who cannot control their VG, are the most dangerous living creatures in the world. Why would someone like that be left in charge of your cause? No one wins when violence is used. We all lose because violence sets us back centuries on the developmental and evolutionary scale and move us further from our freedom and independence. These are the things that are really important to man.

 

“How can anyone prevail against such pervasive social subjugation? The answer's been here all along. You simply ... disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don't. We disobey social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom. I learned the awesome power of disobedience from Dr.King ... who learned it from Gandhi, and Thoreau, and Jesus, and every other great man who led those in the right against those with the might.” Charlton Heston (1923- 2008), American actor, president of the National Rifle Association.

 

To Satisfy Other Bad Genes:  I use the term Bad Gene as another metaphor for other very strong desire by people that are mainly used for very bad things. There is the Greed Gene, Superiority Gene, Power/Control Gene, and the Lust Gene, to name a few. All of these, strong as they are negative, make up the roundtable of bad habits and actions by man. Each also offers a feel-good reward for its master for being fed no matter how it gets it. However, none of them together or separated are any match for the VG. None offer the feel-good reward blockbuster that the VG does. The VG loves these Genes because they act like a bridge to the outside world. It loves to first sneak out through them and then use them for cover. It hides behind their purpose. Once this has happened, the game has totally changed. Then these other bad genes’ priorities as well as your own individual priorities are thrown out the window. We never seem to realize it until it’s too late. We think these other bad genes can control the VG, but they can’t. These other bad genes might even get what they want to fill their greed, superiority, power/control or lust desires but they now will have a new boss, the Violence Gene. Although these other bad genes might have started out as a motive, once the VG and violence are released, they are merely cover-ups for it.

 

“Five enemies of peace inhabit us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.” Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374), Italian scholar and poet.

 

For Attention:

 

West must be alert, not alarmist: experts. “Terrorism is as much as anything an act of theater,” wrote Nigel Inkster, a former British intelligence officer, and Alexander Nicoll in Survival, a journal of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. “Presumably an important part of his al-Qaeda-inspired mission: To contribute to the unnerving of America” (Maclean 2010).

 

Doing violence for attention? Even if it’s negative attention? I definitely think that is possible. I think we all need to pay attention to each other. Let’s face it. Nobody likes to be ignored. There are certainly enough of us to give anyone on this planet attention. We all want it, and we all can give it. It’s a relatively easy solution. We have to see each other every day anyway. Very few people on this planet live completely alone and have zero contact with humans. We need to pay attention both to other people and to ourselves and then pay attention to what we and the other persons are doing. It’s not that hard to most humans to pay attention. I think it’s harder not to pay attention to people and surroundings than block them out completely. In actuality, our lives should be easier.

 

For those who are not getting attention, it’s tough. It hurts. It’s insulting. It hurts our pride and ego and more. What in the whole wide world does that have to do with giving in to your Violence Gene? Trust me. You do not want that kind of attention. If your VG is the only one paying attention to you at the time, you must still ignore it. You are already important and worthy. Someone somewhere will get around to you and see you for the one-of-a-kind, special person you are. Just give it time. Finding people who feel that way about you is half the fun. If necessary, get out more often so people will have a better chance to notice you.

 

Maybe you just want to be where the action is so you feel important too. If you are non-violent you are already part of the War Against Violence Everywhere and boy, is that important. Violence is tremendously important to us and gets a lot of attention. Peace, however, which is even more important to us, doesn’t get as much press. That should tell you something about attention.

 

If you still want a headline for doing violence, be careful what you asked for; you might get it. Don’t be surprised is the headline is, “You Stink.” Then you find out too late that not all attention is good attention. Although you might feel like a rock star with all the attention you will be getting from doing violence you should know that violence looks different from the outside than from the inside. What you think might make you look special makes you look like a hideous being from outer space to us. You will see it right away in our faces. It’s the same misconception that people have if they do drugs or do damage to themselves. You think you might look cool doing it but what we see is the court jester of the un-cool kingdom. The subject is the biggest canyon between what you might think and what others might think is violence. I sincerely hope you don’t have to learn the hard way about this huge but often unforeseen discrepancy in what you think about violence and what other people think about it.

 

“I made a horrible decision to end another human being's life, for reasons of selfishness, and that was my decision at that time,” Mark David Chapman said. “I felt that by killing John Lennon I would become somebody, and instead of that I became a murderer and murderers are not somebodies.” He's been in prison for 29 years (Fantz 2010).

 

To Accomplish Something, It’s A Big Accomplishment: Trying to keep a person alive is a big accomplishment. Ending a person’s life is not. Human beings are fragile. We are roughly two thirds water, depending on our age and other factors.

 

Liquid H2O is the sine qua non of life. Making up about 66 percent of the human body, water runs through the blood, inhabits the cells, and lurks in the spaces between (Ballantyne 2007).

 

It’s not hard to upset 5 to 20 gallons of water. Some water heaters alone carry that amount. Our skin and veins are paper-thin, like tissue paper. Breaking soft tissue paper to let some water leak out is no great accomplishment. Just a branch on a tree or scratching an itch can start a leak. Our bodies can plug up small leaks, but they can’t control anything larger. The average density of the human body is approximately 64 pounds per cubic foot just slightly above water, which is 62.4 pounds per cubic foot. Air, gravity, and temperature must also fall in very narrow zones for us to live. Upsetting these small parameters is just not that tough. If you want to impress people, stopping someone’s human’s existence is not going to do it. You will have to find something much more difficult. The VG is so proud when it’s killing someone. We were dead (or not yet living) for maybe 13.7 billion years before we were born, and we will be dead (or no longer living) after the big chill or the big crunch of our Universe.

 

Some say the world will end with fire, others say in ice. Just as Robert Frost imagined two possible fates for the Earth in his poem, cosmologists envision two possible fates for the universe: Gravity might slow the expansion rate down over time, but for densities below the critical density, there isn’t enough gravitational pull from the material to ever stop or reverse the outward expansion. This is also known as the “Big Chill” or “Big Freeze” because the universe will slowly cool as it expands until eventually it is unable to sustain any life. If the density of the universe is greater than the critical density, then gravity will eventually win and the universe will collapse back on itself, the so called “Big Crunch”. In this universe, there is sufficient mass in the universe to slow the expansion to a stop, and then eventually reverse it. The WMAP satellite measures the basic parameters of the Big Bang theory including the fate of the universe. The results suggest the geometry of the universe is flat and will expand forever (NASA 2010).

 

So far, over 100 billion people have already died (Haub 2002) and 56 million people die every year (census.gov 2010). You and your VG may have interrupted our tiny life span, but don’t act like you invented anything. You did not bring something new or special to the universe, so don’t think that you yourself have created death. We are not going to be alive for billions and billions of years and not because of anything you might do. You can’t change that even if you wanted to. Whoever or whatever created the universe created the VG, not the other way around.

 

To End the Problem: The heck with it all. If I am not around anymore, then no more pain, and no more problems. Violence, good or bad, is a possible solution to the whole problem. Here are three words for you if these thoughts cross your mind: wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong. I threw an extra one in there to make it clear. First, being a victim of violence or death, even by your own hand, can be very painful. It’s painful to the person who finds you, and to everyone who knows you. It is painful to our society that all the fruits of life were not enough to keep you around. It is not pain you are eliminating. It is life. You are eliminating the enjoyment of life. You are killing the happiness one might feel, the hope, and laughter. You end all those positive aspects too. If you want to end your pain or other people’s pain, join us in whatever little ways you can to promote Peace, Life, Love, and Freedom. From your tears we will learn and they will nurture the growth of many new promising seeds. If you change the present that means you have changed the future, for today is yesterday's future. See, there is hope. Violence is a way out, but not for you.  It's a way for your VG to get out and cause terror. You, your identity get submerged. Cruel world? It’s a beautiful world. The only cruel aspect is what a small minority do to it and to us.

 

If you think getting rid of someone else will end your problem, I say that you now have a bigger problem because you now worry about the rest of us. You went from having one problem to have 7 billion people having a problem with you.

 

“Nonviolence doesn't always work - but violence never does.” Madge Micheels-Cyrus, author and activist.

 

Nothing to Lose: Nothing to lose? You have no family? You have no children? You have no parents, wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend, friends, or significant other? There is no chance of ever meeting anyone? You have no love to give? You cannot accept any more love? You have no life? You have no civilization? You have no society? You have no place in this universe? You have no brothers and sisters whom you are united within a common heritage and existence? There is no chance for healing? There is no possibility of any chance? There is no chance to make the world a better place? There is no chance to teach us what you have lived through? There is no chance that perhaps someone cares about you? You have no identity or soul or hope? You have no faith? You have no past, no present, and no future? People who say they have nothing to lose usually have a great deal to lose. There is much more one person can have and lose than I have listed here. Even if you have just one of these that is enough proof that you have something to lose, and something is not “nothing,” no matter how insignificant you might think it is.

 

Even if you cannot be convinced that you have something to lose, the rest of us shouldn't have to pay the price of your incorrect perceptions. Most of us don’t even know you. Try not to blame us and make us responsible for all your woes and those of the world. We were just born a few years ago, and many of us are struggling as well, although it might not appear that way to you. We are all only human and therefore, potentially flawed. Don’t just single out a few of us. It was the same for the people who were here before us and the same for the people who will be lucky enough to come after us. If you become violent because you think you have nothing to lose, it is not our fault. We did not make you do it; your Violence Gene did.

 

“The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.” François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French author.

 

We Do Not Need to Do Anything About It Right Now: Some people will say violence is not a problem, or at least not a big problem. They will say we are exaggerating because the instances and percentages of people doing violence are too small. These are other tried and tested cover-ups for the VG. What the Violence Gene is saying is don’t worry about it. Sweep it under the rug. The world is not at peace at the present time with or without wars or with or without government-sanctioned events. Telling us the world is at peace is just another cover-up. The VG is hiding most of its violence anyway. Just the fact that we have not destroyed ourselves yet is not proof enough. Violence, unfortunately, is everywhere, and it involves spouses, partners, and children. Of course it is fortunate that it is not everywhere all the time. But it exists enough that we need to do something about it. It should be a priority in all societies. Violence is small in percentage but one tiny drop of poison, small in percentage to our entire body, can kill us anyway. Violence is the same. It is that potent.

 

If people want to believe their VG propaganda that violence is not a humongous problem, we will have plenty of information to back it up including statistic and testimonials and cemeteries. The death tolls and damages over the centuries speak for themselves, culminating with the 20th century, when almost 200 million people lost their lives to violence. The violence we did in one century would now take us only one day to match.

 

Any person who has come into contact with violence can tell you what devastation it brings and what a tremendous negative ripple effect it has. This negative ripple effect from violence may be the most underreported and under-researched aspect of violence. It should also be noted that the records and statistics we use to keep track of violence are made and kept by adult males — the one-third of our population that is doing most of the violence. I wonder if this may cause a little “protect our own” thinking, whether conscious or not, by the men involved with these records. I think if it were mostly who women did the information gathering and kept these records, there might be a difference in standards, and the numbers might look different.

 

We already know that any amount of violence is too much and we are not going to stick our heads in the sand just because the VG told us to do so. Unless we take off these glasses, we will never be able to see where the violence is and where it is not.

 

I think most of the people who would say they do not want peace already have peace in their lives and do not live in extremely dangerous situations. The people on the frontline of violence situation most surely will want it bad. In a way, peace is more important to people who have not obtained it yet. When they do have peace then they have the luxury of saying it’s no big deal and they don’t want it.

 

I know it is amazing that, after experiencing or witnessing death, destruction, injury, and suffering from violence, the next day the world outside still seems the same and semi-normal. Sometimes it is like we all live in a violent, glossed-over society. It is as though there is a gun to our back forcing us to wear rose-colored glasses. Credit our resiliency and survivability and not only our insensitivity. We know that life is not the same after violence. We are one step back, we have time travelled and gone back in time as a society and civilization. It's like taking two steps up, then one step back. Better to be peaceful and take three steps forward. It's the same amount of effort.

 

The Global Peace Index records less armed conflict, but increasing rates of homicide and violent crime across the world. The world has become less peaceful over the last year, despite a drop in the number of armed conflicts, according to this year's Global Peace Index (GPI) (Ford 2010).

 

It’s the Principle: You might say “It’s the principle” as an excuse for violent activity, and you may have a point. Perhaps someone did something in bad faith or did something wrong. However, I do not know of any greater human principles than Peace, Life, Love, and Freedom. You can’t have a valid principle if it skips any of these four. Does the principle you want to fight over pass this principle test? Remember, violence has no principles whatsoever. Only people do.

 

“Conquest is not in our principles.” Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), third President of the United States and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.

 

There Is Nothing We Can Do About It: It’s waste of time and you are wasting your time and wasting my time. It’s beyond our control, trust me. It’s an unfortunate fact of life. We would if we could but we can’t. Giving up before we even start is a lazy and cheap excuse of the VG. Our own violence is easily within our own control. I hope our race's future problems will be as simple as controlling violence. When people say “there is nothing we can do about it,” they greatly underestimate the power of our individual identities as well as our principles, faith, and courage. There are thousands of ways we stop ourselves and others from doing violence. The more we try, the more successful we will be. I believe there is little that humans cannot accomplish if we put our minds and hearts to it. There are also studies that say we already becoming more peaceful. This is proof that we can do something about it.

 

To be sure, any attempt to document changes in violence must be soaked in uncertainty. In much of the world, the distant past was a tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it, even for events in the historical record, statistics are spotty until recent periods. Long-term trends can be discerned only by smoothing out zigzags and spikes in horrific bloodletting. “Yet, despite these caveats, a picture is taking shape. The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon, visible at the scale millennia, century decade, and years (Pinker 2007).

 

Fortunately, we humans never believed “there is nothing we can do about it” in the past, or we would have never made it this far. We may have already conquered challenges even harder than reducing violence. Plus we have already made some progress on violence; we have many laws on the books to protect us and have created resources to enforce them. The truth is that the VG does not want us to try to reduce violence because that is one less death and one less injury we might prevent. That is bad news for the VG but very good news for us. If our VG wants to try to persuade us to do violence, it will have to try harder than to use this lame, old excuse that there is nothing we can do about it. We didn’t fall for it in the past, and we certainly are not going to fall for it now, especially taking its source into consideration.

 

Everybody’s Doing It: Oh, I beg to differ. There are only a few people doing violence. Men seem to like to blame their love for violence on the whole human race’s love or the whole animal kingdom's love for it. Yet it is men who cause most of the violent damage these days. Most everybody is not doing it. We just don’t go running around shouting about it like the people who do violence. Screaming and trying to convince us that it’s justified when it wasn’t. If all our peaceful voices rose to the same level of the few violence-loving it would be a roar that would be heard around the world.

 

Largest Anti-War Rally. On February 15, 2003, anti-war rallies took place across the globe – the largest occurring in Rome, Italy, where a crowd of 3 million gathered to protest against the USA’s threat to invade Iraq. Police figures report that millions more demonstrated in nearly 600 cities worldwide: on the same day, 1.3 million rallied in Barcelona, Spain, 1 million participated in a peace march through the streets of London, UK, and 500,000 people in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, joined the biggest marches since the Vietnam War peace protests (Guinness 2004).

 

Nobody Cares:  Forget about everyone else for a second. Do you care? That’s the important question. If you don’t care about doing violence, then you have no right to concentrate on what other people do. You need to concentrate on you and what you’re doing. Oh, and by the way, most of us care a heck of a lot about violence. Don’t dump your lack of identity enforcement and personal will on us. If nobody cared we are a race would not have made it this far already. You will care plenty when violence happens to you or someone you love.

 

Mothers' Plea: Stop the Violence. About 250 people prayed and sang Sunday evening at an anti-violence rally organized by mothers whose children have been wounded or killed. “There's nothing worse than losing a loved one to violence,” Lorraine Stackhouse told the crowd (McAndrew 2007).

 

We Like It This Way: Only a person who loves violence could say this awful thing. An individual who is the victim of violence would certainly not say he or she likes it this way. Of course there may be people who like violence, but don’t think for a second that they are anywhere near the majority of any population. The vast number of people in all countries and cultures do not want to live in a violent society or a violent world. They may think it is all good, fast, quick fun to do violence, but in reality, it is good and fast suffering. The victims' suffering and soon the attackers' suffering, is the usual result of all violent acts. You might think it is fun to be mean, but mean people usually get theirs in the end.

 

“Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.” Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian writer.

 

Because I Can: Yes, you can. You can choose to give in to your VG and do violence, or you can choose not to. Just remember, a gorilla might also do violence because it can, and we keep many of them in cages in zoos. I like to think we are smarter than gorillas. To prove it, look at our civilization and look at theirs. So you must decide: Are you a man or a gorilla? A cage and prison cell will be in store for you if you don’t choose the reality, which is that you are a Homo sapiens, and you get the final say in what you choose to do or not do. God, nature, and genetics give us the power of free will. It is the responsibility of each of us individually to decide how to use that power and whether we should do violence just because we can.

 

“All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.” Marshall Rosenberg (1934- ), American psychologist.

 

Because That’s the Way It Is: You don’t like it? Too bad. Tough luck. No excuse is offered or necessary. We don’t need a reason. We answer to no one. Why? That is why. Because I said so. That’s the way it always was, and that’s the way it will always be. It will never change. It’s not gonna happen. I can understand this reaction. A man does not like to be told what to do or what not to do. I am the same. Unfortunately, violence requires an exception. If we do not do something now about violence, we all must pay for it someday and we might not get a second chance. Sometimes the way it is was not how it was in the past or how it will be. Sometimes it is the way it is because we want it this way or simply have not put in the effort to change it yet.

 

We need to convince men of how serious the problem violence is. No one can force man to make our world more peaceful and control his own violence. It must be done by his identity voluntarily. This world is his world now, and we need him to fix it — and himself if necessary. We are not blaming man for all the violence or most of the problems in the world. That is the fault of the Violence Gene. However, we have to go through him to get to it. Instead of saying “that’s the way it is,” we should be asking ourselves “is this the way we want it?”

 

“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.” George Orwell (1903-1950), English author and journalist.

 

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