Well, I use both sides of my brain, thank you very much, though only about 5% of it at any one time.

Whichever side is good at math and science and music and TERRIBLE at visualization is probably used more often, though.

As for government, there are two phrases I've heard that are always appropriate to say in any situation: "and this, too, shall end" is the first. "For we are all selfish bastards" is the second. They both apply here.

Okay- what I was aiming for was how people think mentally, not just veiws and opinions. More like OCD/ not OCD. Let's lay off the politics (I used them only for an example) for now- I don't want anyone (Including myself) banned.

So, you're a zombie?
You know, only dead/dieing people only use 10% of their brain.

Communism with voting. noone gets power, everything is done by the ballot box. what goes ON the ballot is what the scientists, emergency responce, and military/police 'classes' add, or what is suggested by someone else. The other problem is, people manage to wedge their way into power, by getting a large amount of money, and bribing people. Do what the mayans did, Re-set all the money every 50 years. well, not every 50 years, in this day and age, maybe every 10 years. you know, replace the money with credits that are only valid inside the state.

the problem with my theory is, it can become a headless monster. that is to say, lets suggest for a minute that a group of extremists took this up. about 3 million of them. and lets say that they think they are the only ones on earth who are right, and that everyone else has to convert, or die. they'd vote, they'd convert 100% to war, and everyone would be a soldier. they'd declare war. no president, no senate or congress, the generals are just whoever has the most experience or wants the job. even if they died in war, someone else would take their place. that would continue until every last one of them was dead, or until they win. it would be like the nazi's on steroids. hitler dies, the war is over. if there was never a hitler, and all the germans, and I mean ALL of them, went with it, it would have gone on until their was no germany left, and even then with that kind of total commitment they'd have probably won.


thats the problem. With noone at the top, the morality, and actions of the whole, are dependent upon the morality and decisions of the whole, not any group of individuals, which means if only good people where in, it would be good. the problem is, good is to objective, you'd have 8 different groups trying to organize and start this, and they'd have conflict, then you'd have a pile of nations following this, fighting over who gets who, and they'd be declaring war on each other.

Now, I know I said I was leaving because this is not the time or the place, If I keep talking its going to become me actually writing everything out the way I think it should be, and I'd keep going until I had every law written out, and every contingency, to the extent that I could hand it to the UN and be like "i wanna do this, can I has some land or sumtin?", because I have the laws in my head that would prevent most of this from happening. unfortunately it requires using something that I personally hate. If I didn't know what was going on at the top i'd resist it till my dying breath, RFID implants. Why? it means they can store the currency in a chip in your hand, which could result in hacking of course, but it would also ensure that people only vote once, and if they ever get an 'abnormal balance' like they vote and get 10K without cause, their vote becomes invalid due to bribes, AND their funds would be wiped.

Its like I said, the list of problems is a mile long, considering I just suggested RFID, and yet consider myself 'liberal'.

If anyone wants to know ANYTHING else about MY opinions, because of how absurdly long it is, PM Me. it might take a day or 3 to respond, but whatever.


I will be trying not to post any more of my ideas here because they are to longwinded and in depth. I will however, if you comment about something ELSE that is unrelated to my statements, such as about your views on... hell i dont know, gun laws, or going back to a gold standard, I'll join that dialog.

Otherwise, good day to you sir(s)

Also what the hell did any of this have to do with being left brained?



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OH! okay I get it now! I was starting to wonder what this topic did.
well, as for other mental stuff, there's to much to keep track of. have fun with a thread we've already done.

yeah the problem with the ballot box - be it in democracy or some utopian communist state - will be stuffed with decisions like "let's lower taxes!" until the ballot boxes can't be afforded anymore. then the country goes to hell. People make personally benefiting decisions - greedy, basically - without regard to the whole, the country.

I only have minor OCD though. I hate wasting time

thats why things only appear in the ballot box to be voted on, are put there by the scientists, emergency response, and military/police, not random people. if random people suggest something all of the scientests ER's and M/P's consider it and if it works, they accept it and add it to the ballot.

Also my system doesn't use taxes, after all, why tax the money if, as I already said, the money gets re-set every X amount of time. I've re-invented the economy for this. its complicated to explain. case in point, Only things that have to do with laws, ethics, policy, and what projects get developed first. money = non-valued credit, backed against requisition/need, not actual monetary value. the government distributes resources for credit based on supply/demand, not how much something is worth. I'd have to make like 3 charts and a 9 page report to explain it. and i'm to lazy to just start writing.

why am I still talking about this T_T

Miles, your "system" is just extreme communism with a touch of egoism.
Stop trying to make something better than the allready f'd-up systems we have today.

I fail to see any relationship between your two statements. Which means I don't see any reason to justify the second statement.

Living humans are only able to use 10% of their brains at maximum, if they above that percentage who knows what the mental strain would amount to.

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Meh, we really need to step up education, and bring down many of todays fads, and labels.
At our current state, we'd be ready to gun each other down if the labels fester another generation!

No.
No.
They really don't.
100% of the brain is used throughout a variety of tasks.
A large fraction of it is used at any one time.
The 10% thing was made up as a guess in a self-help book and then spread as fact.

I seriously hope you are joking.
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/tenper.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%25_of_brain_myth

Yet it is true that about 10% of your neurons are "firing" at any one given point in time, though others may be receiving signals or otherwise passively involved. Yes, we use all (or at least most) of our brains throughout daily activity, but not all at once.

The 5% thing was meant to be a thickly-veiled statement of superiority, in that my brain runs efficiently enough to only need 5% to accomplish any given task. But then people got worked up over it, so I guess it's about time we left this subject.