Democracy?

"In September last year, the UK Parliament rejected a bill to allow assisted dying for the terminally ill, with 330 MP's voting against it and 118 backing the measure, despite an opinion poll showing it was supported by 82% of the public. The same poll suggested that 44% of people would break the law to help a loved one to die, risking a jail sentence of up to 14 years."

What happened to democracy? Aren't those MP's suppose to represent the will of their constituents in the voting process?

09/30/2016

I have no idea what happened! The car lost traction, hit the left guard rail, spun around, hit the guard rail on the other side, spun back and stopped in the middle of the road. Four staples on my head and pretty sore left shoulder later, I'm still clueless as to why I ended up on the right side of the fork when I was going into the left one.

The Energy

Somehow, I think, this whole thing has something to do with us, or about us.
Everything that surrounds us (including ourselves) in both its micro and macro levels is nothing else but a Manifestation of Universal Energy that endlessly and seamlessly morphs itself from one form to another constantly maintaining and sustaining itself as such. All our actions and even thoughts are direct results of the morphing processes as well. It's almost as if The Energy is trying to materialize itself through all the living creatures utilizing Archimedes' four components of the universe: water, earth, air and fire and not forgetting that special dimension of itself that we call time.
The morphing process itself is constant, self serving and self sustained and evident as one form (or manifestation) depends on another for its own existence. In as much as it appears that it is wasteful due to all natural destruction and death, The Energy is constant representing every movement of everything and it never loses any of it's overall mass nor potential.
As far as we humans are concerned it all happens on our own level, although we must not ignore the other two: micro or atomic and macro or cosmic. Both are inseparable although we can not realistically see either one. It almost feels as if we are the cosmos to the micro level and at the same time our own cosmos is a micro level to another, bigger cosmos. Which begs the question whether there are multiple levels, or maybe unlimited number of them in both directions. A much bigger question is if we are a cosmos to our micro level, what are we to our cosmos. Is this where it all happens? The perfect middle?

 

MG

Freedom of Speech

"If my offended feelings can justify a travel ban on Donald Trump, I have no moral grounds on which to argue that those offended by feminism, or the fight for transgender rights, or universal suffrage, should not oppress campaigners for those causes."
"If you seek the removal of freedoms from an opponent simply on the grounds that they have offended you, you have crossed a line to stand alongside tyrants who imprison, torture and kill on exactly the same justification."

 - J.K. Rowling on petition to ban Donald Trump from entering the UK.

Elections

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will have to give up on their slogan "The greatest show on earth" and tip their hat off to our presidential campaign.
Furthermore, Mr. P.T. Barnum's quote "There is a sucker born every minute." seems to be very appropriate here.
Therefore, our presidential elections have become "The Greatest Circus on Earth."

- MG