JMH Dull Productions: fresh thoughts

3/26/09

Dear Dictator,

Recently I read an article in Parade Magazine called “The World’s 10 Worst Dictators” by David Wallechinsky. It was very interesting to me. I hope you get this letter, although I know you must be very busy.

It surprised me that all of the world’s 10 worst dictators were supposedly of the male gender. It also surprised me that you were accused of very violent things.

This created a conflict in me.

Being of the male gender, I had always thought that a true feeling of manhood brings you an internal sense of strength and peace. The article, though, hinted at the fact that you are insecure and that you had to resort to violence and bullying and suppression especially to ladies to feel secure. It hinted that you are afraid of everyone. This made me think that maybe you’re really a sissypoop.

I would like to meet you.

But if you are insecure, you will not want to meet me.

I am conflicted.
Please advise.

Yours Sincerely,
John Dull
Dull Music Company

THE SUN REVOLVES AROUND THE EARTH, AND THE BIG RIGAMAROLL

Periodically in the course of human events new perceptions come along that radically shift our understandings of the universe.

Such was the realization that the earth revolves around the sun. In historic terms, this realization dramatically affected most human institutions – while changing philosophy, religion and science, this thought made its way into politics, government and the social structures that we use to regulate our existence.

Valid new perceptions take their time to be incorporated into the general think–tank. We chew on them, we debate them, we resist them, and we adjust them. Eventually, we stubbornly accept their validity in some form. We earthlings chew on a new thought before it completely takes root. We are still regurgitating Darwin’s Theory of Evolution for instance.

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You will be privy here to a new perception that will radically change all things. It will take its time, but it will run its course and be incorporated. It’s another idea like – “the earth revolves around the sun” – it just is.

If you know some neuro-scientists, share this essay with them. They may thank you profusely. Some neuropsychologist may run with this idea to the tune of millions. Some jounalist may run with it and scoop the news-world. Some government may run with it and take a huge step ahead.

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Here Goes:

1. Love exists.

2. In neurological terms, love is a direct result of the advanced evolutionary development of the interplay between certain neo-cortical mechanisms and the stimulation variation drive regulated by the activity of certain brainstem structures.

3. Love is an attractive force existing between individuals when a dynamic interplay of Alpha and Beta states in the brain creates a shifting and pleasant equilibrium that results in attraction to the source of pleasure.

4. Alpha is reached between individuals as a result of comfort, trust and truth. Beta comes into play when the stimulation variation drive is triggered by creative input from individuals, thus creating an attractive force between the individuals. This force, highly evolved in the human species, is what we have come to call “love.”

The above information defines the neuro–biological mechanism that Abraham Maslow was searching for while unfolding theories of “hierarchy of need.”

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“Our duty is clear here. We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.”
--- Abraham Maslow

The roof over your head,
Bread and a bed,
Good things in your head,
And love.
All else you think you need, instead,
Only makes you dead.

So shred your vision
of what is wealth.
Acquire that which gives you health.
You'll live so full
You'll bust your gut
While friends around
May call you nuts.

There is substantial DNA evidence that a significant part of our individuality came into being at our conception.

There could be a standard analytical and organizable template for all governmental accounts, and budgets could be placed on the internet for public scrutiny. This would serve many purposes as an inherent part of the democratic process.

1. It would make us a truly open society where public servants were held accountable for their work and could be evaluated openly by the people who elect (hire) them.

2. It would provide material for acccounting courses. Colleges/high schools could use the templates to audit public offices as part of their course work.

3. It would open public accounts to the media for similar purposes.

Graft, in this way, could be kept to a minimum.

The universal templates could be designed in such terminology and code that all expenses and income could be immediately understood and analyzed by the public. This could get us closer to a the democracy "of the people, by the people."

Do you think that your individual DNA footprint came into being at your conception?

Opinions are like our butts. We all have them and they all stink.

Decisions based on information
are the tools of those who think.

There are a few pages of fresh thoughts. Fresh thoughts are randomly mixed and may change position order. You may want to visit this section periodically if it speaks to you.
FRESH THOUGHTS ARE NOW POSTED CONCERNING: THOMAS EDISON;
THE INTERNET; PLASTIC BAGS; INTIMACY; TACTILE LIES; OWNERSHIP; PUBLIC BUDGETS; "IF I WAS AN HERMAPHRODITE"; OPINIONS; MUSEUM of MONOTHEISM; environment; discipline; when does life begin?; we all go to war; agape; neuro-theology; DNA evidence; pretty; ROAD RAGE; RACE RELATIONS; mouth of the universe, etc. Each thought is titled. Enjoy.

If we could imagine that traffic is just "moving boulders," we may be able quell our road rage.
Statistically, you will, from time to time, experience erratic moving boulders while driving, that you must avoid.
If those moving boulders pose a significant threat to you or someone else, call the folks you've hired with your taxes to take care of such things.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN
This is what is going to happen.
1. All spiritualities will unite into one spirituality. The catalyst that will enable this is the advent of neuro-scientific findings concerning the neuro-mechanisms of all spirituality.
2. Agape love will be found to be intrinsically part of all spirituality, and the neuro-mechanisms of agape love will be understood.
3. The above 2 developments will profoundly affect all human institutions – i.e. business, government, athletics, religions – ALL HUMAN INSTITUTIONS.
4. This is what is going to happen.

“We acknowledge the possibility that life begins at conception.”
Comment:
This is an amoral statement based on what, we think, is a logical progression of thought.
If you are incensed, please leave this thought alone.
If you would allow us to share the logic of the statement, please read on.
1. When your mother’s egg joined your father’s sperm, a new single cell came to be. (fact)
2. That cell was a human cell. It was not an elephant cell. It was not a salamander cell. It was not a horse cell. It was a human cell. (fact)
3. In that cell was encrypted information that was not your neighbor’s information, it was not your sister or brother’s information, it was not anyone else’s information. This was not an elephant cell. This cell had your information encrypted in it. (fact)
4. If that cell had been eliminated, your life would have been eliminated. (fact)
5. In that cell was encrypted your eye color, your height, your skin color, your sex. There were factors that encrypted the longevity of your life, your personality traits, your health. Statisticians could probably make an argument that this was a one -time event.
“We acknowledge the possibility that life may begin at conception.”
If you want to moralize the above statement, go ahead. The statement in itself is like “a rose is a rose is a rose.” It just is.
If you must have a discussion about this, we suggest you take it up with Mother Theresa, Gloria Steinham, the Dalai Lama, Joe Biden , John McCain and Sean Penn. All may have an opinion on it.

A series of essays/letters about the regional environment written by Dull Music have been published by the media over the past few years.
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In the near future, these articles will be available on this site, when we figure out where and how to place them. Keep posted.
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Dull Music makes its home in Rutherford, NJ, a beautiful town in the middle of a heavily debated environmental area.
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Blue collar and white collar folks that have lived here for years and years are faced with the problem of predatory developers fueled by corruption who would devastate the last vestige of open space that we enjoy - the north Jersey Meadowlands. They would bring us traffic, pollution, cancer, increased crime, loss of quality of life, etc.
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The 2 major developments that forces are attempting to push on locals are a mega-mall called Xanadu and a lavish sub-lot of townhouses and playlands called Encap, built over now toxic dumping grounds.
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These Meadows promise to be an incredibly resource-full ENVIRONMENTALLY PRESERVED PARK OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC when remediated. They host bald eagles, countless species of birds, fish and wildlife.
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Media documentation shows that already $128,000,000 of taxpayer money has been stolen by graft from the pockets of those without a voice strong enough to fight the corruption of developing plans.
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Most public officials stand by silent - a few are brave enough to voice dissent.
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Dull Music coined new names for developers' ideas: - "Xana-doo-doo" and "Encrap"

Neuropsychologists, the folks that study the structure of the brain and the parts of the brain that affect certain behaviors, are finding that there are brain mechanisms that show prominent activity during spiritual experience.
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As Time Magazine and other mainstream media outlets (Nightline, major newspapers, The Discovery Channel) reported, our brains are “hardwired for spiritual experience. “ It is a part of our natural make-up.
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When Neuropsychologists study the brain wave patterns of Tibetan monks and Franciscan contemplatives in prayer, they find the same neurological mechanisms at play in the deep spiritual experience.
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This information, as it comes to the forefront, will totally revolutionize human understanding.
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When Muslims, Jews and Christians discover that all their religions were founded in the neurological experience of Abraham, they will realize that the experience that their faith is built on, is rooted in an experience that each person can attain.
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All the great faiths are rooted in that experience. All religions come from the same root. The experience of Abraham, Moses, Mohammed, Buddha, Krishna and Christ was basically the same experience. Our interpretations of that experience give us the religions that we adhere to.
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Departments of Neuro-Theology are now being created in universities, Columbia University being one of them.
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There is only one religion, and it is rooted in an experience that is attainable.

Madoff – Made off!

(below the commentary is a song about the Madoff fiasco)

COMMENTARY:
There have been some public statements to the effect that Bernie Madoff does not represent the Jewish race. Let’s take that universal truth a step further.
Albert Einstein doesn’t represent us. Jesus Christ doesn’t represent us. George Bush, Fidel Castro and Barak Obama don’t represent us. Mother Teresa doesn’t represent us. Adolf Hitler doesn’t represent us. Dorothy Day and Abraham Lincoln don’t represent us.
Soldiers who kill innocent people don’t represent us. Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King don’t represent us. Carol Doda and Madam Albright do not represent us. Madame Curie doesn’t represent us.
As our world becomes more and more homogenous, we will realize that each of us represent the good and/or the evil that we personally create.
We will become more and more free and courageous, with less need to hide behind heritage or label.

CHORUS:
Madoff made off with lots of folks money.
50 billion – OH! – Quite a hunk of honey!
In matters financial, an energizer bunny,
Madoff made off with lots of folks money.


VERSE:
My value is tied up in bundles of paper
That drastically dwindled – a slanderous caper!
Swindled by Bernie, that mover and shaker!
Plundered by oh such a treacherous faker?!
(sing chorus)


VERSE:
Ruined, aghast, with this new situation
So swift was the shift in my status and station
Gone days of joy and financial elation
Embarrassed and scorned, oh the sheer degradation!
(sing chorus)


VERSE:
Good t’would be this Bernie in all tar and feathers!
For stealing my dignity, value and treasures
To skin him, and hang him would be oh such pleasure!
Too civil would be all these dastardly measures!
(sing chorus)

©2008 John Dull

SELF WORTH

People sit around a table and go back and forth.
They decide what a certain person is worth.
It’s a deal. They agree.
They provide paper as collateral.

Here’s the deal.
We are worth the entire universe and more.
If we agree, it’s a deal.
The universe and more is our collateral.
If anyone contests the deal – ask “Who says?”

If you agree:
Congratulations and thank you!

With happiness comes the realization that YOU ARE IN TOTAL CONTROL of nothing.

If the universe is nothing, you are in total control.

By design a person discovered that they had 18 hours to live and were unable to tell anyone about it.
Friends found it hard to understand why the person showed little interest in heated political conversations, in local gossip, or all of the very important discussions and projects that they wanted to engage their friend in.
So little seemed to matter to the person.
During the course of the 18 hours, our subject came upon another individual whose life was in imminent danger. Our protagonist risked all to save the individual in danger.
By design most of us have 18 more hours to live.

When logic is skewed by dogmatic belief, it creates a tension.
The mind will always seek to alleviate that tension.

The Dalai Lama had a fresh take on this dilemna:

"If science found a serious error in Tibetan Buddhism, of course we would change Tibetan Buddhism."

A POKE at CREATIONISM ET AL

Manipulative dictator types foam at the mouth when faced with the opportunity to rev up a bunch of non-rational folks. When you mix agenda with emotion and add a dash of ignorance, a fine-tuned “stupid-machine” starts cranking – and once energized it has devastating potential. Such is the lot faced by creationists and intelligent designers – folks who have manipulated logic to achieve congruency with a belief system. We all know the famous story of the pseudo-thinkers who refused to allow us to acknowledge that the earth revolves around the sun.

Clump into that group the DNA de-bunkers – those who fail to acknowledge that an individual’s life process begins when that individual’s DNA footprint comes into being. For crap sakes, the DNA footprint is sacrosanct as an identifier of individuality. We use it as indisputable evidence in cases of execution. At least we could afford the courtesy of acknowledging that an individual’s life process begins when their individual DNA footprint comes into being. There’s DNA evidence for that. The next thing out of the de-bunkers’ mouths will be that some mystical hokey-pokey comes out of the sky and infuses with DNA at some point in the growth process, and “poof!” that’s when life begins. Get a brain, man.

The scary thing is that many creationists, intelligent designers and DNA de-bunkers have some power. Allow a society to plunge itself into the Dark Ages by manipulating logic and a rational scientific thought process and anything becomes permissible. History is full of sad stories.

It’s high time that the non-rational self-adjust or remove themselves from the table. You’d figure by now they’d be embarrassed to admit their position and stay there.


A brilliant satirical comment on sad thinking methodologies came from Bobby Henderson in 2005 in protest to the Kansas State Board of Education’s decision to require the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution in public school curriculums. We highly recommend it.
http://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter/


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster