The absurd idea that is marriage

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     "Marriage as defined by The Bible" might not be what you think it is. Modern marriage is defined by capitalism and a nostalgia -for an age that never was- more so than anything in the bible.
     What was once the slavery of women has transformed in to a corporate merger. Marry someone if it makes business sense, approach it as a financial agreement with someone you love. Otherwise, don't add unnecessary paper work to your love life. Nobody goes around saying "I love you so much, I want to get the government involved in this shit!" but they do it anyway. We do so many things without thinking or stopping to know why, just because we see everyone else doing it.
      There was a study done where a group of monkeys were put in front of a ladder with food at the top of it. If a monkey would try to climb the ladder, the researchers would spray the other monkeys with a hose. After a while, if a monkey went for the ladder, the group would attack (so they wouldn't get hosed again.)
      They replaced the monkeys, one by one, over time until there were no monkeys left that had been sprayed with the hose. Still, the group would gang up on any monkey that tried to climb the ladder for the food. It was just the way that group worked now, without knowing about the hose, they were taught to fear that ladder (by the terrorized monkeys of the past.)
      Marriage is similar to the monkeys and the ladder. Two people fall in love and it seems like everyone (and everything) around them tells them to get married. Yet none of them can tell you a good reason to, unless money/citizenship is involved.
      If you love someone and they love rings (and you,) get them a ring. If you like their name, get your name changed; it's easy. If you believe in god and want your relationship to be OK with him, then don't worry, it is; people say she/he's a nice guy/lady. If it makes sense for your taxes, insurance, or immigration then go and get the paper work involved... but it's nothing more then the relic of a time when women were bought and sold for goats and land-rights. It should be recognized as such more often.

Inuteration!

Man and Woman are having sex, both exhibit extreme talent and force in the act.
Camera zooms to Woman's torso. It twists in an uncomfortable looking way. Both scream in pain/ecstasy. Woman's torso cuts away, slice by slice, to reveal a biologically accurate depiction of coitus, inside her. You can see the uterus slowly shift, and move in to the penis hole, down the urethra and into the bladder.
Cut to Man in hospital bed. He look's bad, but responsive.
Doctors over him: It's like insemination. But instead of the semen going in the uterus, the uterus went in to his...
Doctors are interrupted by Nurses pulling Woman's dead body past them
Cut to Some Bar. Man looks a lot better now. Man is talking to Another Woman. They copulate in the bathroom
Another woman: Pull out!
Man grunts as he orgasms over Another Woman's back.
Camera pans to her back and reveals no cum.
Slow fade to mans apartment, man is masturbating. Man makes noises, then looks at his dry hand.
Camera zooms in to sweat on his brow.
Cut to man walking down a city street. Man clenches his torso near his bladder, he doesn't look well.
Cut to Another Bar. Man is talking to Yet Another Woman, they are getting along. Man gets up and walks to the bathroom. Man walks to the urinal, he's sweaty and looks even worse than before.
Cut to the urinal, piss starts filling it as the man starts screaming. Hundreds of tiny fetuses start landing in the urinal. The stream falls to the left and there is a loud thud.
Camera pans to the door and stays on it for a long time. Some Dude Who Was in the Bar opens the door and screams.
Camera turns the urinal where hundreds of premature fetuses crawl out on to the floor, and follows them to Mans body where hundreds more are eating his body.

A real gripe with the RUDEST kingdom of life

You'd think plants would find a less disgusting way of reproducing than distributing their genetic material in the air I breathe. It makes my throat all itchy, and my eyes red... I feel like I'm gonna sneeze as I type this, but I know I'm not going to. No one likes that shit; you can't possibly get more rude than jizzing in to the air that everyone breaths.

If reindeer's shot their baby batter in to the air to make new reindeer's, there would be no reindeer's. We would have killed them, long ago. It wouldn't matter how cute they are; even if they were bunny rabbits, no one would be OK with inhaling bunny spunk. So why do we let all these male plants go on, busting out nut butter, when they obviously don't care about us? Even lowly algae or bacteria have the decency to not to blow their wad in the air I'm breathing.

The only solution is to kill all the male plants, and clone new ones from females. It's only fair, that's what they get for splooging on everything for over 400 million years! If you want a new tree, then go cut a branch off a tree and stick it in the ground; if you can't get it to root with any of the hundreds of rooting agents on the market, that plant just wasn't meant to live.

Monsanto can figure out how to combat diseases and fungi, since the plant's will be extremely susceptible to those. The people there have been doing amazing things with plants, it seems like a lot of my friends are really excited about them. 

Insects will also be a problem, so we can just kill all of them too. Insects are almost as rude as male plants; right now, anywhere from one hundred thousand, to ten million dust mites are shitting in your bed. That's only slightly less rude than spreading your pole milk on everything in a two mile radius.

I have no idea how you're going to go about killing all the male plants-hey, its my idea! I don't have to do the work if I don't want to-but I say we burn 'em; It would look real pretty.

-So go ahead and take my awesome idea, world. Expand on it any way you like, but we should really hurry up and get this shit done before summer's over. This allergy medicine makes me grumpy and tired.

Why socialism is more nessecary with time

As anyone can tell you, capitalism depends on a lower class. To own something implies that someone else doesn't, and when a system gives value to people depending on what they have then they will always try to have more. Ideas are bought and sold, creating secrets in order to retain their capital value. Information is given a dollar value, even if it is freely available, making both sides lose (with less content and no profit.) Everything in the modern world is requiring less manpower; people are becoming more educated and working longer hours. All of these contribute to inequality in capital on a exponential curve, so how could any significant amount of us be happy in 60 years under a capitalist system if there is no money coming to most of us?

Our system of patenting is flawed; when I first heard of creative commons licensing I was elated. For years I tried to think of a proper patent system since I was sure ours was more interested in profit than creating new ideas, then I fond out about creative commons and realized one already exists. The main problem that I have with the modern patent system is the capitalization of ideas. Anything from light bulbs to Bob Marley are monopolized by greed for ages after the creators death. Eddison should have profited in a great way for popularizing the light bulb, sure; I can see that, but why does his company (GE) get to renew the patent so long after his death? Bob Marley's relatives own different rites to different songs of his, making boat loads of money off them to this day, yet we never had a good compilation of all his best songs since none of them can get along and put one together.
Light bulbs, Bob Marley and many other things never seem to become public domain like so many great works of literature and art have, which seems to claim that an individual deserves something for part of the accumulated achievements of man-kind. Everything I have ever thought is thanks to the billions of dead people that came up with ideas for me, the same is true for us all and patent laws should reflect that.

Entertainment used to be a rare thing in this world; not too long ago, a story by a fire was our only source of entertainment. At the start of broadcast television and radio there were only a few channels on at one time and no real competition besides that. Now we live in an age where digital video recorders, Netflix and torrents make watching whatever you want easy; the same is true for all types of entertainment. All information is becoming easily available, and that is a good thing. The more we know about each other, the better we know one another. Education is no longer something that only the elite can truly gain access to, information is abundantly available to anyone who wants to find it. Capitalizing on an idea seems so 19th century when new ideas are freely available to anyone with access to the internet.

We left the industrial era ages ago yet we still have this industry mind set, where everyone can get a job if they look for one. That is not the case anymore; efficiency is king in this digital age, less people are needed to sustain our culture and civilization. Robots have invaded warehouses and assembly lines, it's only a matter of time before they start making most jobs more efficient.
Workers at Amazon warehouses don't need to go to shelves to find products, the shelves come to them on robots and line up next to the packager. All you have to do is watch an episode (or 100) of How It's Made to see how unnecessary people are when it comes to making products for the entire world to enjoy. If that isn't enough, then think about how many more people are working past the age of 65 these days, and how an education alone is no longer enough to demand a job (like it was when they were getting out of school.)

All of these problems grow. As more ideas are hoarded for profit, copying information for educational or entertainment purposes becomes a crime; the working population grows in numbers while being educated isn't enough to get a job. Everything about Western life is based on an old system that only worked for a industrialization. Now that we are in the information age, we don't have the amount of well paying jobs to employ enough people to fool the lower class in to thinking they can all climb up to the middle class. The middle class is shrinking constantly (as all this happens) which is devastating to the dream that this country has been reliant on. With out a real middle class, the riots that we see today will only get worse.

The only real answer is to socialize, to a point where everyone in the world gets help and we all get enough to eat for the month and to sustain us for a normal life. Heath care is a huge issue in The West, yet few think that a home and food should be free to all. Any other expenses can be considered luxuries (in some way) and you can buy those with money from your job if you are so lucky to have one, but the old idea of working to keep a roof over your head and food in your stomach is not going to work forever as long as people keep working more hours (for less money) to stay alive.
We should be able to move away from the concept of greed; start thinking of a way to feed and house everyone alive to a certain level of comfort. We could easily spend the entire Western budget on a world wide initiative to give every man, woman and child the basics of life (and heath) if we weren't spending most of it a war machine. Possibly if we were charitable to all, friend and enemy alike, then we wouldn't need such an impressive war machine to hide behind in fear of a world unifying (without our interests in mind.)

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day, give a man a house and he'll have a house to live in, you don't have to teach him anything either.

Video game idea: Corporate Machine

Pure capitalism, unchecked would be horrific for the people but quite fun for the robber baron. This is an idea I had for a game called Corporate Machine. It could be offline or online but I think the online version would be a million times cooler so I will describe the online version. The layout of the game is similar to Sim City or one of those Farmville type games but the game starts with a fully built city. Everything runs in real time while the player isn't on and most actions take a long time to pan out making it hard for someone who plays a lot to get too far ahead.

When the game starts, different businesses trade with each other to make products to sell for profit to AI citizens. All of these businesses are originally controlled by AI that will look for the shortest routs and cheapest prices in order to make their product faster or cheaper and earn more money.

There can be many instances of the game at once, with a new games spawning each day and each game lasting from a few days to a few months depending on the instance. An instance opens and a player can join in at any time and buy a business to make profits then upgrade that business or buy a new one. Players compete to monopolize everything or have the most money at the end of the time limit.

The player would chose a section of business to specialize in like food, clothing or electronics. After choosing a specialization they can buy any business that falls in to that specialization so if you picked food you could buy slaughter houses, restaurants or farms. Some of these would cross over with loose connections like farms being bought by clothing and food specialists. Business will send out trucks to another business to pick up materials to make a product to sell, or send to a business that sells to citizens. Each specialization has it's own end business that sells to the AI, who will buy from the business that is offering the cheapest end product.

Each player would have a persistent character that will gain experience and money to give them a slight edge in their next game. You could upgrade yourself to have faster workers, efficiency of certain businesses, smaller buy fees and larger sell fees. There can be instances for separate tiers of players with different rewards for winning.

All buildings start out as the nicest version when taking health, comfort and quality in consideration. These things are detrimental to your sole goal of profit, so as you upgrade your business if becomes more soulless, unhealthy and cheap. So you upgrade your mom and pop TV repair shop to something like a Radio Shack, then it resembles a Best Buy and finally some mutant Walmart. All of the industries would end up with the same end output building after upgrading and would then compete to monopolize everything and try to end the game early for more points.

The employees would start as unionized high paid workers and as you upgrade them they would go down to minimum wage, then be illegal workers, then slaves and finally intelligent robots (but with souls so they feel a million times more sorrow then a human slave.) Every part of the game should try to follow the theme of greed except for one important part, the system the game uses to make money.

The game would be truly free to play and only have advertisement in lobbies or other non-game environments. A player could buy the game for five dollars and have no ads at all. Players  could buy clothes for their persistent character or make their businesses look cool/funny but nothing you could buy in game would actually help your progress. The contrast of the greed displayed in the game and the desire to bring the game to people freely and not try to nickle and dime them would add appeal to the game.

So it is kind of like Sim City meets Monopoly with an online RTS edge. I'm looking for someone to help me make this real, it would be a truly unique game that could end up being very popular. It could be done easily on a PC, Android or iPhone.

The only humane answer to overpopulation: mass sterilization

OK maybe it's extreme, maybe it's a horrible thing to do but stick with me here. There is no more humane way to deal with the overpopulation of the world then sterilizing 90% of the population. If we don't act soon a massive disease, war or famine will take care of over population instead.
I am offering an alternative: find a way to sterilize everyone in the world except a small random population.
This is the only fair and safe way to go about doing this. We should still have about 10% of the population fertile but they must also be randomly so they can still represent the vast differences across the human race. This can be done with both sexes or just one.
What this would do would be the same as killing 90% of the population with out having to kill anyone at all and giving the next generation plenty of room to grow.
I have no idea how such a thing would be some but I imagine putting something in the swattered or crop dusters.

Transhumanism: are we there yet?

It's hard to notice all the miracles that we have around us,  some of the most useful things are simple, like pockets. My life would be a mess every time I leave my house with out pockets. A life without pockets is one of the many things a lot of women do that I just wouldn't have the strength or patience for.

We live in a world where more and more people travel around with the internet in their pocket. Many of us have a digital identity separate from ourselves on blogs, social networks, video games or forums (I have at least one of each.) Sites like Wikipedia operate as a collective mind to create more useful information then people twenty years ago could imagine. People have grown new trachea and bladders out of patients cells and those patients are walking around today with those new parts in them. There are completely deaf people who have been given back some form of hearing with cochlear implants, similar things are being done with blind patients. Japanese tech companies and US defense contractors are building exoskeletons that increase the strength of the user over ten times and they are coming out with new ones every other year that blow the last line out of the water, and those are just the ones they are showing us now.

This growth is exponential in every field of science. If we invest in the rite technology's we could see a world 30-50 years from now where impossible things are ordinary. The move of multitouch screens from some cool thing I saw on a TED talk to the backbone of a world changing device (the smartphone) was incredibly fast. Medical research is funded in all the wrong ways, if the focus was on improving lives and curing disease we could be decades ahead of where we are now. Science and medicine are constantly exploited for greed and war, yet we cheer for joy when they give us some technology they have been monopolizing on for years.

Evolution is so 400,000BC ever since then, technology has been calling the shots not genetic superiority. The more technologically advanced your society is the higher your chances of living. It was proven in many cases when civilizations met for the first time.

This new technological evolution has been going on at an exponential rate. What started with controlling fire 400,000 years ago, became stone weapons 100,000 years ago, then 11,000 years for bows and 6,000 for the wheel, continues now with More's law and stem cell research. The rate of advancement has gotten to a very hopeful point for humanity where we can become more than human. It is only a matter of time for technology to become a part of nearly everything we do, I could argue that it has for most of us. Humanity can only slow this down if it chooses to but I would rather move on to a truly higher state as long as I am still "me."