Preconceived notions, intolerance and resistance to new thoughts

Let’s see we all know that everybody develops these preconceived notions about everything. They may be taught about it, but mostly they have experienced that notion overtime to make it a permanent part of their lives but when this notion develops into intolerance about somebody then it becomes dangerous. Then this notion and intolerance breeds into resistance to change or to new thoughts even when presented with evidence. It is human nature that resistance to new things is always strong. But to overcome those means that you have conquered your learned notions. You can see all around you and the preconceived notions just keeps on coming up. In the movies, television, and the general media and also individuals have made up in their mind that a certain race or ethnicity will act in a certain way and then that notion is hard to shed off.

Although there are laws which makes it punishable to discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity and the like but unless it is ingrained from the start that all humans being are equal, the preconceived notions, intolerance of other people based on that notion and then to resist a thought which is totally opposite to what you have experienced or thought will never change. And this process of accepting other people and respecting their opinions and developing new thoughts is constant and goes on throughout your lives. It is like continuing education on your beliefs and attitudes and fine tuning you into a responsible citizen of the society.

The email money scams

I still keep on getting these kinds of email where some so called attorney or some person is saying that he is dying or want to park his money with me or I have been included in a will and I will get millions. I usually and 100 percent delete this kind of email. Usually they are initiated from Nigeria but the more sophisticated one have originated from Europe too. Sometimes it comes direct to my person email account (despite the best efforts of the spam filter) but most of the time it goes directly to my spam filter. Here I don’t get this, if you have sent me several before and did not get a reply, why do you keep on persisting in sending me again and again.

On second thought, there are instances where people have been fooled into it and gave up their life savings and then come to regret it and that is how these scams keep on coming in and people are getting duped into it. I believe that the ease with which the internet facilitates faster and anonymous delivery of email (and sometimes really authentic ones too) have made the job of the scam artists easier and faster and they can devise various methods of duping gullible and unsuspecting people in relatively short time. I can only say that just be careful and don’t part away with your hard earn money in this too good to be true email money scams.

On the lighter side-Movies-Yes Man

Jim Carrey stars in this forgotten vehicle in which he plays a guy who keeps on avoiding people while saying no to them and then one of his friends recommend him to a Yes seminar and from then on he starts saying no and finds his true love. Jim Carrey is at his usual comedic mode but this movie was a bit of a drag to watch, with very few funny parts in it. Not Recommended.

Fund raising- a partial solution to debt woes-2

Since the Federal government is not in a position to give us what it has promised to give in the future, a type of localization of fund raising for social security and Medicaid and Medicare should in put in place for each individual state and funds raised through them should be placed in a State owned bank and then those funds invested in whatever investment vehicles are available out there to earn money to pay the retirees. I know it sounds like a lot like privatization, but since the Federal government would not be involved, the unfunded deficit portion of the budget would likely be reduced or just taken out of the equation. Let the States handle the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid exclusively by themselves and the Federal Government should get out of them completely.

I am saying completely because the Federal Government cannot pay all the unfunded obligations, as one article recently put it, if the government cannot agree to raising the debt limit by a couple of trillions, how will they agree upon dealing with almost a hundred trillion dollars in unfunded liability promised to the citizens in years and decades to come. We have not even reduced our principal and more debt means more taxes in the future, since we cannot control our expenditures. So the partial solution is to give each state to deal with its own Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid portion of the bill and they should in turn start fund raising drives constantly to raise those funds and put it in a surplus pool to pay the future recipients if the current generated funds falls short that particular year.