Saturday, February 18, 2006

Definitions

As thing are today:

Buenocracy = Domination by good people. (It doesn't exist anywhere.)

Democracy = Universal equality of opinion and domination of majority opinion.

Democratic government = Domination by a group of people who have demonstrated their ability to manipulate public opinion better than others.

General = One authorized to get soldiers killed.

Engineering = The art and science of creating inorganic life.

God = The Singularity discovered thousands of years ago, but never defined scientifically.

Gravity = Inherent interconnection between bodies of matter.

Happiness = Disciplined pursuit of pleasure that does not result in regret.

Life = Ability to change others' perceptions.

Love = Urge to protect, nourish and share pleasures with.

Nation = A group of people who identify themselves with each other.

Marriage = License to share privacy.

Patriot = One willing to make sacrifices to defend the freedom of his or her homeland.

Peace = Absence of irritation.

Politics = Exploitation of the community's weaknesses.

Poverty = Absence of affluence.

Religion = Fixed belief in the unknown.

Science = Study of the nature and working of things and events; and belief in proven and verified facts.

Soldier = A man who waives his right of free judgment and becomes so scared that never puts down his weapon.

Space = Occupied part of the void.

Spiritualism = Interaction of central nervous and autonomic systems.

Terrorism = Tendency to achieve by violent intimidation rather than by asking, bargaining, creating, developing or earning.

Time = Differential element of age.

Zero = Difference between equals.