So the Home Business Group keeps going through endless name changes. I got suckered into their schemes in 2001. I was one of the few people who got all their money back. Their charges are outrageous. These kind of people create endless companies, all of which are in adjacent cubicles somewhere in Utah.
I suppose we are fortunate, since we do not show up period.
I find it disturbing that so many people people seem to think that bullying is not part of the problem. This sort of thing has been rampant in schools for generations. Even after fifty years, I would still like to get even with those who singled me out and bullied me. I did not know at the time that I had a form of autism. Bullies regularly figure out who the different ones are and go after them. Some of us do not know how to respond and just end up getting angrier.
When I was young, there was no culture of gun violence like we have today. I do not own any guns and do not condone them as a tool for dealing with social problems, but the news is filled with guns being used in the most trivial situations.
Over the years, I have gained more social skills. At high school reunions, the former, aging bullies are now terrified of me, because I changed my gender.
Reality is evolving all the time. Physical laws likely do not change much over billions of years, but physical structures are constantly evolving. Since our part of reality is now highly subjective, it is evolving extremely.
Nothing is actually constant. Our universe will evolve over billions or trillions of years. Just as prior universes likely spawned our universe, so will our universe spawn other universes.
It is sad that we cannot get away from all this polarity. There are other points of view. I claim that both camps, the theists and the atheists, have got it wrong. All their fuss is a form of teleology. This philosophy is human-centric, without regard for how we actually fit into a much larger and more complex reality. Reality is the way it is because it evolved to be that way. Because of pervasive feedback, all components affect all other components. While I see no evidence that any being can be in charge, we all receive non-persuasive information. Everyone connects to reality in their own way. Some will sense a powerful God, while others will not sense any God at all. Subconscious mechanisms help all of us to live our lives; however, they are not good vehicles for deducing philosophical truths.
Someday, transgender topics will not longer be news. Certainly, transitioning teachers long ago ceased to be news in Seattle.
Boeing has had CEO-mania ever since the merger with McDonald Douglas. Wheeling and Dealing is always the order of the day, Merge, move, take-over, reorganize, and lay-off, but don't worry what effect it has on the bottom line, because you can always blame it on the employees. It was at Boeing that I learned that management is always reponsible for 85% of a company's problems. W. Edwards Deming taught this, but Boeing has yet to learn it.
Tim Eyman makes a lot of money because our lawmakers in Olympia can never successfully fix our state government. Even the tiniest "improvement" will be bitterly fought by at least one special interest. Believe that someone is getting rich off the bad design.__Take the B&O tax, which is grossly unfair to nearly any business, but some are doing quite well with it, or they are exempt from taxes period. This tax should be replaced by a corporate income tax, but many do not want exemptions and inequities to go away.
A lot of the comments here are very strange. With all the press, especially on talk shows, I am surpised that so many people are nervous that a transwoman would appear in an exhibit on diversity. Binary black and white division of any features in living things is a myth, and every human being starts out as female until sexual differentiation takes place. Surprise, a lot of famous actresses are X-Y women.
Our current culture is very anti-diversity, especially in orthodox religious circles. Besides living as a transwoman, I also have "Asperger's Syndrome," which brings in yet more discrimination. Just look at the financial collapse; businesses have been purging competent technical anaylysts for years in favor of verbally articulate people with no technical sense.
Approximately 10% of any group of people in the population will be different in some way. No amount psychological shame will make people conform to the rest of the 90%. This is why I am a philosopher, not a psychologist, since modern scientifically based philosophy says that diversity will always maximize. It is unfortunate that some people want to constrain or even destroy as much as possible.
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