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A wise God gave us dogs and cats
To live with us so we could see
How we can live our lives without
Religion and philosophy.
They look to us with trusting eyes.
They don’t ask us what we believe.
Their love is unconditional;
It's all that they want to receive.
If only we could be like pets
Our world would be devoid of strife.
We’d not divide humanity.
Together we’d enjoy "real life".
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Obama is so eloquent
In all the speeches that he makes.
It seems from heaven he has come
To save us all from our mistakes.
A savior could be what he is.
I will admit I do not know.
But this reminds me of a time
Another tried so long ago.
His message too was one of change.
"Do unto others..." was his cry.
It seems to me we still don't hear.
In ways some will not, others die.
So can Obama have success
In making changes that we need?
Of course he can't; no leader can.
To make these changes, we must lead.
The change we must make to survive
Is one we desperately avoid.
Instead of trying to fill it
We have to empty now, the void!
It's filled with our 'philosophies'
We think give meaning to our life
Despite a history that shows
They've given us nothing but strife.
We should take care to analyse
Our leaders and what we have tried.
We must live what is "natural".
We won't if we're Obamafied.
Barack Obama: four more years of same
Barack Obama: attack on greed
Barack Obama: fighting for change
Barack Obama: my hope
Barack Obama: victory speech
Barack Obama: inauguration day
Barack Obama: professing change
Barack Obama: sacrificing lives
Barack Obama: healthcare
Barack Obama: his Gulf oil war
Barack Obama: winning the future
We brag about how proud we are
Of our great gifts to charity.
But really, should we take such pride
In this state of humanity?
The poor are not a second class.
It isn't what they want to be.
They're poor because they cannot climb
Our vertical economy.
No one should have to beg for health.
We have responsibility;
But for ill health beyond control
The stricken should not pay a fee.
It should be free to reach out to
The bounds of our capacity.
To leave out those who can not pay
Diminishes society.
What sense is there in having more?
We know it doesn't make us free
For more will never be enough.
What good is this disparity?
The reason we should not feel pride
In charity philosophy
Is numbers of unfortunate
Reveal our inhumanity.
IMAGINE
The eagles' eyes are so alive;
Their soaring so assured.
It is no wonder men of old
Adopted this great bird
To symbolize how we can feel
When our activity
Is only that which can take us
Toward what we can be.
We should look up and contemplate
The message that it brings.
When freed, our spirit too can soar
As if on eagle's wings.
Had we the vision eagles have
When soaring on their wings,
Forever we would be released
From all those worldly things
That are attempts to fill "the void"
Found under "the last why."
Instead, we would "reach out..." and be;
And with the eagles fly.
There was a time beliefs were not,
Before our 'Mother' gave us thought
Which found then fought the void within
With made beliefs to help us win.
And now because we can't agree
There is one reason we should be,
Our senses we behind us leave
To fight for what is make-believe.
Biology can tell us why
For our beliefs we shouldn't die.
Each gives us a concocted name
Without which we are all the same.
We have unique capacities
That by our realizing frees
Us from beliefs that can't succeed
In giving us the life we need.
Instead they're causing fatal strife
That will no doubt destroy our life.
For life we have to heed the call
To see the reasoned view for all.
It’s reaching to the limits of
Our personal capacity,
To others, and to Nature’s God,
And thus create humanity.
The explanation of life and related writings.
02/02/24
RHYMED REASON
TRUTH
DONALD TRUMP
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN
AGE of ASININITY
LIFE: a reaction to the void
ANALYZING CONFLICT
ABORTION
DEMOCRACY: the death of us
ECONOMY
ARRESTING CLIMATE CHANGE
KNOWLEDGE and ESSENTIAL FACTS
DEMOCRACY: a debacle
RELIGION
BELIEFS
AFTERLIFE
ALONE: an anthem for humanity
ALCOHOL, DRUGS, SEX and other anesthetics
JESUS’ SONG
THE LAST WHY: the poem
LOVE
SOLDIER’S LAMENT
PROSETRY
$$NATURE’S NUTRITIONAL IDEAL$$
CANADA’S NATIONAL ANTHEM (x3)
CANADIAN ELECTION 2025
OUR LIFE LINE
OUR HISTORY and THE LAST WHY
INTRODUCTION
Like everyone, I inherited an existence. Mine collapsed circa 1970 while I was at McMaster U, Hamilton, ON, Canada, getting a BA(math) and B. Phys Ed, so I could teach. While sorting through the rubble of my life I noticed, though not as pervasive as it is today, a continuum of varied and increasing conflict permeating our existence. I wondered why.
Though wondering for myself I thought I should find the reason for conflict before a student I might teach asked me. I couldn’t deduce the reason with math; nor did I think I found it in the 5 major religions and their thousands of offspring, or in the 11 volume history of philosophy I skimmed for electives.
So besides my formal degrees, I graduated with a major degree of motivation to find before I taught, the reason for conflict. I never taught. By the time I discovered the answer to why increasing conflict pervades our existence, I’d become, with the help of my brother, a self-employed carpenter.
I tried and failed to share the answer at least three times and each time I vowed to quit trying. The last was in 1998 when a friend of a friend, a philosophy professor, wished me good luck on other projects. To help keep my last vow I started an addition to my house. I received even more help in 2000 when I began caring for my parents.
But then, when my father died in 2004 I was motivated to try sharing my analysis one more time before I died. I was still thinking of a hard copy when a friend suggested I publish on a website. I’d never heard of websites nor could I type but with more help from my Mother I bought a computer, learned to type, and with expert help, created a website.
I first thought I’d bury the reason for conflict in an essay. But having already experienced web attention deficit disorder I decided to highlight the essence of it in my website logo and add context with blog posts.
Since there is no answer to “Why am I?”, attempts to answer it, such as the myriad religions and philosophies I skimmed, and a variety of other responses I found, are tries to fill the void. Though we can mix them, some may be similar and even have identical names, because we direct them to the void within us, our tries are all opposed and so cause conflict to the extent of our belief in them.
But, conflict is not inevitable. We can diminish it and resulting death to the degree we empty the void. Now, if we choose to empty the void, our lives are not then devoid of activity, on the contrary! Because it is essential, we each possess some remnant of “reaching out to the limits of our capacities, to others and to Nature’s God”, the natural activity that creates and tries to maintain all life.
So, even though in the 200k years since the birth of humanity we have replaced almost all our inherited natural activity with the human made unnatural, self-destructive activity of trying to fill the void, if we choose to empty the void, the remnants of our natural, self-creative activity will at least refill our lives and possibly answer “Why am I?”
I have been trying share these basic facts of life for a few years by advertising. Last year (2023) I bought 8 million page views with half the value of my home, without effect; but this time I won’t quit. The warnings about fatal climate change by hundreds of climate scientists over many more years have also been ignored.
However, I do have to reduce my advertising. If it is too late to prevent it, I’ll need a place to live where I can watch the increasing conflict within us, between us and with Nature, causing at least the death of us and maybe all of Nature, possibly even before I’d have died in peace.
If you feel moved to help me share these facts you can by using the share icon at the end of any post, notably my most recent piece of rhymed reason, “Analyzing Conflict”, or any other way of sharing. If you also click on the like icon you will see an explosion of hearts, an expression of my gratitude. 🙏 Doug E Barr.
Part 1.Nature’s ideal diet: It was designed to maintain our immune/ maintenance system at its optimum operating condition to protect us from both pathogenic and autoimmune diseases. It protected our predecessors from conception to the birth of humanity when they realized the mental capacity to choose. It can still protect us but over the millennia increasing numbers of us chose to ignore ’Her’ ideal, and thus our increasing disease. Specifically, ignoring the overlap causes, it could save the $34 billion cost of weight loss drugs, about $800 billion cost for treating type II diabetes, and many billions more in other healthcare costs.
Part 2. Nature’s ideal life: It protected our predecessors from conflict until the birth of humanity. It can still protect us but over the millennia increasing numbers of individuals chose to ignore ‘Her’ ideal and thus, our increasing conflict.
Part 3. The integration of parts 1 and 2
Part 4. Existential risks: They are the result of our ancestors increasingly choosing to ignore Nature’s nutritional ideal. They may be reduced by expanding our mental capacity beyond what was realized at the birth of humanity. It would only take an instant, but the time we have to make the necessary choice is quickly running out.
Part 5. Appendix: Mostly diet related math that may have caused the mathematically challenged to quit reading in the middle of Part 1.
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