** 25-May-2021 World View: Fizzling Out
Tom Mazanec wrote: ↑Mon May 24, 2021 1:10 pm
> John I don't have a clue as to how to set up a "GoFundMe"
> site...if I did I would do it for you.
> I could have wasted me time telling you to call Suicide Prevention
> Hotline, but since you declared you had not an intention of
> preserving your life once your money ran out I would have just
> been wasting electrons. I said people in your situation had
> survived using government resources and charity, and indeed
> billions of people throughout history have been in as bad or even
> worse situations without giving up.
I'm not sure what you're lecturing me about since I actually did do
what you're suggesting. I didn't give up, and "wheels on meals" is a
government resource. What I objected to is the insanity of
humiliating me by sending the police to my apartment in a big
apartment building. Here's something you should think about: If you
do something that crazy to a person who is really on the brink, then
he may say to himself, "Holy Cow! Someone like Mazanec is going to
get me locked up in a prison or a nuthouse, so I'd better kill myself
while I can, before I lose the opportunity!" In that case, you would
be directly responsible for causing that person to commit suicide, and
by your own criteria, your soul would be doomed to eternal hell. So
the moral of the story is that you should think twice before
inflicting your God complex on someone, since you have no control over
anyone's soul but your own.
Tom Mazanec wrote: ↑Mon May 24, 2021 1:10 pm
> My cousin and guardian goes over my credit card every month and
> has already threatened to cut off my credit card because of
> "frivolous expenses". He is not tolerant of people asking handouts
> either. So the books I bought from you were all I could do. If
> they were not a little help for you, frankly, I would not have
> bought them, but would have spent my limited budget on items of
> more interest to me that had to wait until the following
> month.
I've never asked you or anyone else for a handout or a donation, but
I'm eternally grateful to those who provided donations and still do
provide donations.
I would hope that you bought the books because you wanted to read
them. In my humble, humble opinion, those books are fantastically
good. If you're interested in the history of Iran, China or Vietnam,
or for any neighboring countries, or if you're interested in the
history and theology of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism,
Confucianism and Daoism, then there are no better books than the ones
that I've written.
Tom Mazanec wrote: ↑Mon May 24, 2021 1:10 pm
> I am sorry that you do not like that I did what I could to save
> your life, if not your soul. From now on, as far as I am
> concerned, you may do as you please. I will continue to contribute
> CPI data to this thread and my comments on Generational Dynamics
> and World Geopolitics to the Weblog News Comments and Discussion
> thread until you either die a natural death or take your own life,
> at which point I expect the site to fizzle out; or until the Third
> World War features a Thermonuclear Spasm, at which point I expect
> the
internet to fizzle out; or until my natural death (at
> which point I will obviously stop posting).
Once again, you are not God, and you cannot save anyone's soul.
Calling the police would not save anyone's soul, but might doom your
own soul to eternal fire and brimstone, as I described above. So I'm
very happy that you've decided, in your infinite wisdom, that "I may
now do as I please," and that you've granted me your permission to do
so.
With regard to the Generational Dynamics web site and the Generational
Dynamics Forum, these web sites are truly unique. There is nothing
like them anywhere in the world.
This is a good time to remind people that I've arranged with the web
site hosting service that if I should "softly and suddenly vanish
away," then Higgenbotham will take over, and the sites will be up for
at least six additional months.
It's an interesting question how long these web sites could survive
without me, or if they'd just fizzle out as you say. It would be very
interesting to see what happens either way but, fortunately for me,
that's a question that I cannot possibly ever know the answer to.