Precedence

Here's a political post.... sorry.

There's this "thing" in my head that I cannot shake off.

It has to do with our white house doing an end-run around the congress and senate regarding the treatment of illegal immigrants. (The Dream Act)

Our Legislative branch is telling our law enforcement agents to NOT deport illegal immigrants unless they've committed a crime in the US.

This tells me that our white house just told our law enforcement to ignore federal law.

Since our legal system is based on precedence, we can assume that we also can ignore federal law without consequences.

So, all federal laws are no longer enforceable because of this precedence.

I'd appreciate your comments on this.

THE MEANING OF LIFE

The Meaning of Life.

It is outside the bounds of religion, but is consistent with it.

The meaning of life is....

To exist for the purpose of improving the lives of others and of lives to come.

Notice: There is no SELF interest here.

But your interests will be served without your taking action to help your self interest.

(Yea, I KNOW. The more words spoken about this the more criticism I'll get.)

I'll give you my reasons now:

1) All of us have a survival instinct.
2) Our survival is enhanced, when we team up. (Like packs of wolves.)
3) We like to feel secure and our security is enhanced when we feel others will help us survive.
4) Our value in a group is dependent on what we can provide the group to help the group survive.

We can provide value in various ways. Here's a list of some of the values to provide.

• Teach others how to provide value to the group. Farming, food preparation/preservation.
• Provide shelter, warmth, food, basic needs.
• Entertain to improve the psychology of the group.
• Provide comfort to make existence more enjoyable.
• Provide wonder and curiousness to spur improved means for survival.
• Provide direction. Each group needs a goal. A future path built on past and present experiences.
  The path being aimed at improved survival.

I think that covers it. Each value mentioned has many permutations.

Now, survival is also dependent on available resources.....

Here's where "group" must include to assemblages of groups. (Global Commerce.)

Math tells each group how many can be in the group to survive well on available resources.

I guess a population control mentality has to exist. Locally for now. Globally, later.

Think I'm tired now....

Did I just write this?

(Blush)