Creation vs Evolution

A combination of the two is most likely the answer. Let me try to explain what I mean...

If an action calls for a reaction than reaction needs an action as well. In this case: if the Big Bang was the beginning than what caused it. It couldn't have happened by itself (is the chicken really older than an egg?). There had to have been an action that had created this reaction. The Big Bang had to have been preceded by something else (creation). And all the subsequent phases in the development of the universe, solar system, earth, living creatures were nothing but adaptations and reactions to the existing conditions (evolution). Therefore some form of initial force (creation) was needed in the beginning, and was rudimentary, giving only rough guidelines to the development (evolution) which is suppose to continue and arrive at the purpose point.

Consequently, we arrive at the question weather the action (creation) was an accident or was it done with some particular purpose. The answer might lie in the existence and interpretation of our genetic code. The shear presence of the code in all of the living creatures warrants the coexistence of both creation (someone had to have programmed it) and evolution (the main purpose of the code is to guide the evolutionary development). Just the existence itself (I think therefore I am) leads one to believe of the purpose behind creation, but once we are able to fully encode our genes we might be able to answer this question.

Now, given the fact that I believe what I just mentioned, I need to know who is playing with us and what kind of game are we all involved in? If anybody is playing any games.

I don't think life would be as interesting if we knew all the answers, but being that we are curious creatures, the quest continues.

To Bail Out Or Not

The basic principle of capitalism is the survival of the fittest. Therefore, no bailing out should be performed regardless of how big and important the company. It is much better for the economy of a country as a whole to let the rotten apple fall down than to pour billions in keeping it alive and still having an uncertain future.

And the bigger the company the harder it is to manage. Let's not forget Standard Oil and AT&T (to name only these two), who at their peaks were dismantled by our government simply because they were too big to be effectively managed and of course to dangerously big to control their appetites. It is a fair question weather some of these companies that are demanding help now are really too big of a bite for us to deal with at this moment. Are we getting ourselves into the same predicament we had to deal with at the beginning of the 20th century passing the Antitrust laws and curbing monopoly?

If anything, some sort of help involving manufacturing sector would be better of the two evils. Perhaps, restructuring and cutting off dead weight, will give an example to the rest of potential bail seekers. On the other hand, the infamous $700bn hat trick (helping the sole creators of the present mess) will go down in history as the quickest theft of our national wealth ever. That should not have happened and if it happens again we might kiss our future as a nation of the free good bye.

Imagine

"Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one."

- John Lennon

Business

Business is a perpetual struggle in obtaining, maintaining and expanding one's share of the market and control thereof. It is a constant war, based on simple greed, in which rules and norms are often neglected and broken. All in the name of getting return on investment, irrelevant of means and consequences. It is no wonder that the biggest reason for all wars in history of human kind, second only to religion, was business interest of some kind.

Give it a shot

"Do not do to others what you would not do to yourself."
- Kong Qiu