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repeal all drug laws because they are state tyranny practiced on an arbitrary divide between persons of the same class. alcohol and tobacco are the most dangerous and damaging drugs in society and are mind altering substances. Peace users of other mind altering substances are denied equality of treatment under the law, simply for cultural reasonsi

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holding our politicians to account

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soaring Hang gliders

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google "Do human's have a Political Gene?" klaus Kaczor original science concieved on LSD by me.

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• A comment on Talk: Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from

  Feb 11 2013: necessity is often the mother of invention. The two following audios about spontaneous conceptions or innovations which were born due to personal need. one in the sport of hang gliding "A pilot's tale, bud oracle" and the other while riding a BMW motorcycle in New Brunswick "Penny Repair for a motorcycle (500 BMW) : bud oracle"

• A reply on Conversation: Solving gun violence in the US in today's insane political climate requires a solution that makes it painless for everyone.

  Feb 8 2013: Take a look at the real facts: America lowest deaths percentage of population WW1 .13% Canada had .92 and for WW2 again only .32% Canada .40% and their ally the Soviet Union 13.88% It's telling that you have to go back that far. The Soviet Union was quickly turned into their enemy to give an excuse to arm with nukes. This ritual of throwing former friends under the bus is very common, even unto today. Americans have a high self centered fraudulent opinion of themselves. It's not as if you helped us out for altruistic measures and got nothin' from it. Revisionism is rampant beyond Hollywood, too

• A comment on Conversation: Solving gun violence in the US in today's insane political climate requires a solution that makes it painless for everyone.

  Feb 7 2013: I haven't read the comments, but I can imagine their content having followed this issue from all political sides of the fence. When I was young I owned guns including legal hand guns in Canada. Now I have no use for them as I don't hunt or target shoot anymore. I have no fear of others so I never thought that I might need them for protection. I can talk my way out of anything and usually know when to keep my mouth shut.
  
  I am fearful of the random gang violence and shootings surrounding the drug market which I believe is also a non viable political solution causing a deadly larger problem, rather than solving a small personal one of addiction. To this end I have tried to change the dug laws through unique methods of activism and challenging the courts.
  
  I am strongly against violence no matter who is perpetrating it: gangs, Individuals, police, governments. This problem of gun violence by individuals, I am sad to say, is not something that can be solved by policies generated via politics, imo.
  
  Get a grip. There is no linear quick fix to this multifaceted challenge. The problem is culturally entrenched for many generations. The NRA came close to pinning the tail on the donkey when they say it is largely due to media influence.
  
  It is a cultural devotion to vengeance, although the Bible says "Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord." From victims who want maximum sentences, to every violent movie which shows that when you want to get even, firepower is the answer your art presents. It is the way your government is seen to meet out armed revenge with eager retribution by psyched techno nerds almost like video game players as can be seen on wikileaks. This is the model seen by all Amerikans countless times before the are old enough to own a gun. Does no one believe that there are no side effects that might make borderline mental malcontents try to re-enact some of those situations they have been imprinted with since birth? No one wants to look in the mirror as usual.

• A reply on Conversation: Is the increased occupation of earth's less-livable terrain a productive endeavor?

  Feb 6 2013: According to Sam Harris the idea of free choice may be an illusion. I think humanity's prime directive as every species must be, is go forth and multiply. I believe it is imprinted genetically. Therefore, the solution may be untenable in a healthy free breeding population not withstanding political policies. But nature may make those unpalatable-to-us options the selected outcome. We see birthrates decline in declining societies. We see global political tensions rise making a culling nuclear war more likely, we also see a natural limiting homeostatic effect with human industrial causes for climate change. Nature has created us through natural selection and will limit us via the same mechanism. The numbers of humans are sure to decline soon without our "help." What people such as these all around the world are doing is creating a new paradigm shift in understanding, in knowledge. Here and there remnants of this great accumulation of human knowledge may be transported across the gap of coming dark ages, to be incorporated in the next hopefully morphed to a more survivable human or non human intelligent, species. We really have no choice in the matter of when the next planet changing impact happens, of when life changing disease decimates us. Evolutionary change will come, even if we are the cause of it or not. Therefore, it is only grandiose intellectual naval gazing folly to think that we can "plan" the future to any degree hoping to perhaps enforce them globally through politically generated policies. We elect the most resistant to change types that might use this for war. We value the experts who have been taught the way they should think based on past performances and discoveries, templates based on past understandings. The more I see of great changes in the past during human civilization I see them primarily caused by environmental factors, mostly after cataclysmic natural events, not the results of political policies but visa versa, the cause of them

• A comment on Talk: Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology

  Feb 6 2013: I never thought magic was real until I saw this magician! Wow!

• A reply on Conversation: Should discussions about transformative liberation experiences be relegated to the realm of personal conceit?

  Feb 6 2013: It;s much safer to explore this phenomena safely at will and in a measured progressive way with the use of psychedelic substances. Don't wait for a stroke and don't believe the bs about these beneficial gifts from nature. Much more interesting and less dangerous than alcohol or tobacco. Plus all psychedelics are anti cancer agents. You'll experience everything except the pain, the danger and the setbacks