DEATH PENALTY:
NO. I'm AGAINST it. Though maybe we should allow the victim’s families to torture the really horrendous murderers to death, penalty free. But, there should be public executions for junk mailers, subscription telephone solicitors, and the "you've-won-11-million"/fake check scam people. They must die painfully.

ABORTION: PRO CHOICE
Many people have asked me how I can be anti-death penalty yet pro-choice. Good question. Here's my take on what must be the most un-resolvable moral question ever asked of the human race. Basically it's a question of which is to be respected more: a human’s own body, which is, and should be his/her own domain, and the unborn fetus, which is a life, albeit unconscious at that early stage. It's Murder versus Personal Freedom and Choice. Both Life and Freedom are sacred, so, what to do? Well, my feeling is it's UNRESOLVABLE, therefore it must be the mothers choice, who must carry the child or carry the burden of killing the fetus. Some religions say you will go to Hell. (I don't quite believe in Hell myself, unless you count infomercials or hangovers). So, if Hell exists, then it's up to God punish us there, NOT our Government’s. We therefore must make the better of two bad situations and let the mother have the choice and have her own conscience to deal with. It's not a fun decision. But that soul (if there is a soul) will probably have another chance anyway. And I think people who kill doctors, mothers, and bomb abortion clinics are pretty much psychotic. “How come when we kill a fetus it’s murder, but when we kill a chicken it’s an omelet?” –George Carlin

SUICIDE/LEGALIZED EUTHANASIA:
I'm FOR doctor assisted euthanasia if there's no other way to deal with a bad situation and the patient is not just suffering from a curable depression about an illness. Although Dr. Kevorkian may be nuts. Have you seen his paintings? Wow.

DRUGS:
I'm generally for legalizing ALL of the basic ones...yeah you heard me. The war against them will never be won by making criminals of people. In fact we create a whole underworld because of the laws. Drugs will always be around as they have throughout history. If you love and educate your children enough, they will make the right decision and not misuse drugs. But this "war on drugs' is even less effective than the Vietnam war. Lets ruin the drug dealers by making them legal, and then half of the criminals will be out of work.

PROSTITUTION:
Legalize it, tax it, and create health plans and areas where it is conducted. Another example of something humans have always wanted throughout history. There are lonely people, and people who don't mind doing it for money. So why not accept the fact, make some money from it, create healthier prostitutes, and take away the damn stigma of it. Nobody needs the guilt for being a normal lonely horn dog! Though I myself have never...ahem, er…of course not. But, can you make one change? Can we make them prettier?

HOMOPHOBIA & RACISM:
This is just plain bizarre to me. How this is still around in the year 2002 is mind boggling. Lots of fake Bible people support homophobia, and that's so misguided, so ugly, so low-IQ. At a demonstration against hate crimes surrounding that poor boy who was beaten and dragged to death recently, people who were "supposedly Christians", were actually yelling he deserved it, as if all human compassion and feeling for another human were non-existent. Really sad to witness people so low on the food chain. Sometimes I despair for the human race, I really do.

GUN CONTROL:
I have recently softened my ideas on this, however, not by much. I WISH the government had never made it legal to own guns, but now it's done, it's too late to take them away. People have been SO fucking irresponsible with guns in this nation, one almost wishes that a benign dictator would take over and force us all to hand them in. Some NRA people get on their high horses and say it's in the constitution!! SO WHAT? May I remind you all that it also said, until recently, that it was constitutional to OWN another human being? Just in case you forgot, our forefathers were only human. They couldn't possibly have imagined what morons we'd become with all this foolish-ness. Maybe we're just too immature to own guns. But if we were mature, we wouldn't need guns anyway, would we? I think it's better in Japan, England, etc...But it may be too late here...sad. School kids are shooting people for Christ sake. However, if you can't totally ban em, at LEAST make a reasonable waiting period, even at gun shows, with a thorough personality check! I WISH it was ok and people could own whatever they want, because I am a liberal and I hate government restrictions. I do feel uneasy that the only people to have firearms would be the governing powers, but I am a pragmatist, and we, the stupid people, have showed nothing but idiotic and reckless behavior with guns. So, I wish we could take them away, but it's too late.

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING:

IF YOU'RE GONNA HAVE CHILDREN, PLEASE LOVE THEM. NURTURE THEIR OWN INDIVIDUAL GROWTH. EDUCATE THEM BETTER THAN YOU YOURSELF WERE EDUCATED, IF POSSIBLE. DO NOT IGNORE THEM. LOVE THEM AS MUCH AS YOU CAN. BE HONEST. BE TENDER.APPRECIATE THEM.

RELIGION:
Overall, I think the various churches have a good message, but also, it seems many people are scared of dying (who isn't?), and I think they become desperate enough to latch on to anything to get away from fear of the unknown. So, they invent father like God. Also, organized religion tends to corrupt from within, so most organized religions aren’t really doing very well by people in my book. Many people think I'm Jewish, but I'm not, at least not by the official standard (Mom's not, Dad's only part on his Dad’s side...and he was raised Lutheran AND VERY lapsed.) Buddhism or related religions would be the closest thing to a religion I could relate to. I feel is that all of creation likely is just consciousness (an absolute consciousness) that manifest’s itself outward to play and explore, and we are part of that. We are atoms in a Universal Mind. I also believe that God has a Light/Good/Bliss side AND a Dark/destructive/bad side. I do not believe we are separate from God, or that there is a Satan that is separate either. There is probably only one thing with many facets. I am also prepared to just accept that I will never know the ultimate truth, if such a thing even exists. READ THE COSMIC MIND by Stanislov Grov. THAT rings truest to me, for some reason.

PSYCHOANALYSIS
It's not what people who are afraid of it, or misunderstanding of it, say. And it's not usually a cure-all or a guarantee of happiness. But it can be very revealing and show us a lot about ourselves, which is always good. That creates choice in our lives.I would recommend it to anybody, at least for a time. But there are idiots out there posing as shrinks too, so have a care.

POLITICS
Um....I generally think the very nature of social politics is to please as many people as possible, which is impossible without lying to at least someone. However, in world politics it's way worse, and I find it hard to find anyone with an IQ above 100, or any real ethics at all. I find posturing, hypocritical moralizing and lies, mainly. And really bad hair styles. Truth be told, eons ago I was seriously hoping that Linda Ronstadt would be first lady with Jerry Brown as President (okay...it was never gonna happen, ok??), but that I would then go to the White House and do drugs or get laid in the bathroom....I loved the perverseness or irony of that scenario. Didn't happen, obviously, and then, unfortunately, I grew up a bit.

LIFE AFTER DEATH
If anything does happen, it's probably untranslatable. Maybe we become Quantum Monads, to quote Goswami. If there’s reincarnation, I hope I come back way richer and better looking with a really good woman to love. That’s about it.

THE UNIVERSE:
Infinite dimensions, universes....we live in universe number 26aß´µ, which is one of the infinite, expanding multi-verses, and our black holes are the birthplaces of other universes with different dimensions, which spew out in unobservable other universe bubble big bangs. Who knows? OK, probably we have at least 11 dimensions in our universe and one time dimension, most of which are curled up in calabi yua shapes on the quantum level. Read THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE. I believe in String theory/M-Theory, at least for now. There is only one thing that exists: absolute consciousness playing and exploring by manifesting. There is no one thing that is true. It is all true.
ANDREW GOLD - 2002

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