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Didn't the late George Carlin contend that religious zealots are basically arguing over the omnipotence of their respective invisible imaginary friends? Why do these powerful invisible imaginary friends demand that any of us who do not believe in him or her or it must die? And why are so many zealots homophobic? In a divine revelation from my God, He made it known that He favors felatio, because He made glanses with a rim so lips won't slip off or slide off the glans!

There are 6-billion people on this planet, and to feed everyone, we must use genetically modified food and pesticides. Clearly, some of the chemicals used to obtain the food crops we need are killing bees as well as other necessary critters such as frogs etc. If we continue to live foolishly, the Earth just might have a system of re-setting or re-booting. We have reached a world population of 6-billion in approximately six or seven thousand years of recorded history. Could the human race have reached this stage of civilization in the past? If you park your car and let it sit for 10,000 years in Earth's weathering, nothing of it will remain at the end of 10,000 years. Add to the equation an ice age with grinding glaciers, and your car will not even leave a stain where it once sat. Frankly, contemplating this is depressing. The problem seems really much more serious than the collapse of bee hives and the disappearance of frogs. When you try to work out a theory of history for the past 100,000 years that explains the Sphinx, gobekli tepe, underwater cities off India and Sicily and Indonesia, one is left wondering whether Mother Earth has a system which allows it to re-boot to erase and expunge the damage done by humans. It depresses me, but we really have to confront these issues.

As of today, Nov. 9, 2015, the Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, in a meeting with Saudi Arabian officials asked for leniency for Ali Mohammed Al-Namir who is under sentence of death and for Raif Badawi who faces 1000 lashes and 10 years in prison. Both citizens of Saudi Arabia advocated democratic reforms in the Kingdom which is the protector of the Islamic holy places of Mecca and Medina. In Islamic theological terms, to question Islamic doctrine or to advocate change is blasphemy and treason. Frankly, there does not appear any room for "leniency" or forgiveness for the "crimes" of Al-Namir and Badawi, because leniency and forgiveness would, pursuant to Islamic doctrine, be blasphemy and treason to Sharia Law by the magistrates who were forgiving the sins or crimes. The only path to reform is conduct the necessary research to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that religions such as Islam and all the others are false doctrines. To gather the proof may take decades or even centuries. However, we must begin. My theory is that the human race has climbed as high as this current level of civilization and technology, and has fallen or collapsed when dragged down by religious fanatics and political egocentric elitists. Much of the "evidence" is several hundred feet beneath the ocean. Melting ice caps caused the ocean levels to rise, and sea water would have destroyed any records on clay tablets, paper, cloth, bronze plaques, plastic, etc. However, it is remotely possible that tightly sealed records might have been preserved on Earth, the moon, Mars, and possibly elsewhere in the solar system. Therefore, we must support space programs and as well as archaeological programs on Earth. Mankind's history at present only goes back less than 7000 years in Chinese and Hebrew records. Sanscrit and Hindu records might date further back, but are generally deemed to be mythical. There are folks like Graham Hancock who have tried to push back the boundaries of history, but sadly, mainstream historians portray the Graham Hancocks of the world as unscholarly, silly people. Can we be smart enough to prevent religious crazies and neo-fascists from dragging humanity and civilization down again? As they have again and again in the past?! And what are your thoughts?!?!

Guadalcanal was important to Japan, because evey other great power aleady had a canal. Great Britain had the Suez Canal which they had acquired from the French in a stock market manipulation after it was built by Ferdinand De Lessups. The Germans had the Kiel Canal. The Americans had the Panama Canal and the Cape Cod Canal. Sooo, it seemed only fair for the Japanese to seize Guadalcanal.