Past: I used to believe that God was just energy and that I was made up of God. You can thank Wayne Dyer for that. I also believed that I could manifest things.
Present: I do not believe in God. I believe that cruel animal farming practices should be stopped, that marijuana and prostitution should be decriminalized and that gay people should be allowed to get married.
Products not manufactured according to American labor/environment regulations cannot be sold in the US (i.e. if they were manufactured in China or elsewhere.)
A global human rights police force, court system, and penal system with the ability to serve warrants to heads of state, terrorists, rebel leaders, etc. globally and be given (by the warranting court) military aid from world nations to aid in extraction of these people.
Organ donation as an opt-out system rather than an opt-in.
A child-per-woman cap limit or somesuch should be enacted in the US (3-4.)
Corporations given some sort of official government representation, and the lobby system to be dismantled.
Along with various other things that I would need to research and consider further for their viability (the above similarly need to be given deeper consideration before I would actually want to lobby for any of them, except organ donation.)
People should attend driving school and pass the written exams as well as the road test in order to obtain a driver’s license.
Psychological exams should be considered part of medicine and people should have regular psych checkups with their annual physicals.
Candidates for head of state should be approved by a UN body which conducts psychological tests and a battery of interviews to determine the candidats’ fitness to lead a state.
Parents should similarly be given psych checkups. Heck, I’d even go so far as to say parents should have to have licenses before they can have kids. Bad parents can do an awful lot of damage to people who can grow up and do damage to others. It’s a shame.
How do you differentiate between unconventional and just plain crazy ideas?
Marc
If you would self-identify as being insane, then that’s probably a good indicator of how your ideas will be taken.
Crazy is just another way of saying very unconventional. You can post your crazy beliefs here if you’d like.
I pick up all money I find, even pennies. I am afraid if I don’t the universe will assume that I am rich enough and stop sending me money.
Say, I like this one. It would remove the US trade deficit at the stroke of a pen!
I’m sure I read that this had bee tried somewhere. Anyone know where, and how well it worked?
Some of my own ideas…
Thus, instead of saying, “Thou shalt not be a Class F1 (light industrial) occupancy”, we would say, “As long as you don’t pollute more than these limits, cause more than this amount of traffic congestion, greenspace usage, noise, etc, you can do wahtever you want.”
Cities, transport systems, and buildings (especially dwellings) should be consciously designed like spacecraft, with multiply-redundant life-support systems. If the power goes off, no problem; you start your gas-fired generator. If the gas supply goes, you switch to electric heat. If both go, you switch to solar panels and the thermal storage in the walls. And so on.
The goal for all buildings should be that they produce as much energy as they consume (obviously, this can’t hold for eveything). If you produce more, you should be able to sell the excess.
All forms of marriage between consenting adults should be legalised, even the squicky ones. Crimes such as “bigamy” should be stricken from the books. Instead, the crime of “marriage fraud” should be created to take care of people who lied aboud being free to marry.
Marijuana should be legalised, sold, and taxed through the same places as beer and hard liquor (in Ontario, the LCBO and places licensed by it, plus the Beer Store). So should cigarettes and other addictive recreational substances. This means no more ciggies in the convenience stores… or joints, beer and liquor there as well.
That would be a secondary benefit yes. China would still probably be able to work cheaper (due to wage differences), but it wouldn’t be quite as cheap.
Religion is both factually wrong and bad in itself.
The founding and spread of Christianity was one of the greatest disasters in history.
People shouldn’t hold up other people as heros.
Love is really not all that admirable an emotion, given how blind people are to the faults of those they love.
Hard work is not a virtue in itself.
America is not the greatest country in the world.
Gays should be allowed to get married if they feel like it.
If the robots/genetically engineered/aliens vrs humans scifi scenario ever happens, the humans are not necessarily the good guys.
There would be nothing inherently wrong in a society where most or all people are supported by an automated economy, without having to have jobs themselves.
There’s nothing wrong with cloning people, although I feel the technology isn’t safe enough to use on human yet.
Outside of it’s own borders, America’s behavior has never been much better than the Soviet Union’s.
Bisexuality is superior to either homo- or heterosexuality.
When it comes to porn, as long as no real people are involved nothing should be forbidden.
If humanity becomes extinct and is replaced by it’s robots, genetic constructs or our own highly modified descendents, it isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Actually, if you produce excess electricity you can sell it back to the power company. I know a couple of people who do it. The downside is they buy it from you at a wholesale rate, but if you need a little extra power one month then they charge you full retail price.
Okay, one from me:
(BTW, didn’t we just do this thread not too long ago?)