Greatness?? What your History teachers don't tell you!

Ok, here are some examples of societies that were built up to become conquerors of all or much of the known world...:
Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde
Alexander the Great the Macedonian Prince
Adolf Hitler The German Totaltarian
Charles V and the Spanish-Holy Roman Empire
The Empire of the Persians
The Empire of the Egyptians
The Empire of the Romans and Byzantines
Hirohito and the Japanese Empire

I am going to go through each one and show two big things in common with them...
BIG THING NUMBER ONE:  The Empires were built up by WARFARE
   Genghis Khan swept in with death and fear leading the way, ditto to nearly all the other empires up there. They built themselves up by looking all mean and bad. They kept their provinces and subjects in order by threats and fear. They were essentially bullys and eventually the nerds they picked on, struck back.

BIG THING NUMBER TWO: The country of origin for these empires are either bad off now, or were earlier.

I am gonna make this fast but try to follow me: *GDP is Gross Domestic Product, Annual income on average per working person*

Genghis Khan originated from Mongolia, conquered all the way to Poland and Hungary, including all of Asia. Now... Mongolia is a country of 2.5 Million people and a GDP of only$1,500...thats not really very prosperous.

Alexander the Great started in Macedonia and conquered the known world east of the Etruscans. Macedonia is now a South Eastern European lower tier country of only 2 Million people and a GDP of $4,500...that is still really bad. It is neither been accepted in the EU and is struggling to become part of NATO.

Spain is not as bad as Mongolia or Macedonia but it is a definite lesser power of Europe. It has the current worst unemployment rate among European countries and the USA, it has a projected $4,000 decrease in GDP for upcoming years. Charles V had once had it built up to control most of the New World, and a good portion of Western Europe, most of Central Europe and Southern Italy.

Persia once had most of the known world, now, the country known as Iran is all that is left, a war-torn country that has made enemies with all sorts of organizations, neighbors and other powers. It has a small GDP of $4,750 and 74 and a half Million people who are not content.

Egypt, once the world superpower, the world would bow to Egypt in ancient times. But now?? A third-world nation barely making it on their own in Northern Africa. They got beat up by tiny Israel in 6 days. And a very low $2,750 GDP.

Nations that are not as bad off right now could be Italy, Japan and Germany. Rome, after the fall of the Empire was in ruins, torn by barbarians and vagabonds. Later it had a revival of the Renaissance, only to fall into a mess of quabbling city states who sought for more power. It then consistently decreased and was a poor nation up to WWII and afterwards gradually has been inclining and returning with power.

Germany was once, after Hitler and the Nazi reign, was broken and beaten. Their people were unhappy and many were enslaved otherwise. Germany now is in much better state than previously, but after WWII was not even a unified country and took a while to stand on its feet again.

Japan? Well several hundred thousand people being nuked and killed is most certainly not an increase in prosperity. They were broken and economically destitute. They now have a top 5 economy in the world and are prospering greatly, yet they have upset many neighbors like Taiwan, China, and Russia.


Another thing to notice is that two empires that have been broken down slightly and are still alive and prospering (Russia and China) Were/are/will be built on communism...scary thought.


Hence, dont be a bully or else it may cost you ^_^

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Office Philosophy

Office Philosophy Video <<<CLICK ME Just felt that maybe some of you might want some Office Philosophy--Click the link, I absolutely love this comic strip and the dog is by far my favorite!

Super Leo!!

So there is an exhibit in town about Leonardo Da Vinci. His feats and accomplishments are extensive and amazing. I got to wondering though, why dont we have any geniuses like Leo in today's New Renaissance? The answer is, is that we do! Leonardo's Renaissance was an era of self-aggrandizement and he was the one genius of the Renaissance who devoted his work not simply for his self benefit. He was the lone genius that gained the such high amounts of accreditation among other world genius throughout history.

    Today we have billions of more people than there were in the first renaissance and our minds have changed so that we are focused more on the benefit of everyone, rather than ones self. Hence we have many more geniuses so not just one genius gains all the credit and glory bestowed by mankind. So we do have super Leos of our own time, just that we have more than one, is the reason that we dont have any as prominent as
Leonardo da Vinci.

Productivity Series--part 5: Family

(Family is a suppoint of Time)

So when you think of your family, think about their status. Are they poor? Wealthy? Well fed? Starving? There are all sorts of other questions you could ask yourself, but how they are right now, is probably due to productivity based on families. If a certain family has gone through divorce, then cooperation will not be as high amongst members and thus productivity will decrease. If a family has a certain religion that motivates the family to be strong and united, then the family will work well together and get more work done. The family is like a sports team. You need to be able to work together, pass on burdens to each other, and create a good environment for the children and even the parents. A family is also only as strong as its weakest link, if there is a father that is drunk constantly, then the family will loose a good chunk of valued work.
   Now this applies to nations and societies, because if you have a lot of families in a nation, and these families are a large majority of all the families in that nation. And if these families all are hardworking families, then the nation will have a boom of productivity and will prosper as long as those families are still working. Accordingly, if you have families that are lazy, or corrupt, or broken down. Then you will have a nation that is just that: Lazy, corrupt, and broken down.
   Families are some of the MOST important things we can experience in life, please, don't mess them up.

New season--New Tasks

YAY!!! FALL HAS ENDED NO MORE RAKING STUPID LEAVES!!!..
(*Here boy, grab a shovel*) >_<
YAY!!!! SPRING HAS COME NO MORE SHOVELING LOTS!!!!
(*Hey, go and crank up the lawn mower will ya?*) >_<
YAY!!!! FALL IS HERE!!! THE GRASS WONT GROW AND THAT STUPID LAWN MOWER CAN GO ROT IN THE SHED!!!!!!
(*Hey, kid, go grab a rake!*) >_<

Productivity Series part 4: Diet

Diet:(Sub-point of Climate)The diet of many cultures will affect the productivity. In Germany they drink beer, not too much though, hence their morale is boosted but not enough where their productivity is harmed much...unlike in Ireland and Scotland...In America we have a very full diet on average, thus, high productivity. Vegetarians miss something in their diet and hence are usually less productive on average. Japanese eat A LOT of fish, which is brain food, and hence we come out with a nation who was totally devastated 50 years ago and now has one of the best world economies. Also, the availability of food helps a lot! If you spend half your time looking for food, then you wont have much other time to be productive.

Productivity Series Part 3 -- Language

There are SO many things that affect productivity in the world: color, language, diet, religion, foundations, families, politics, morale, and more, but I have come to discover that all of these things fall under either Time or Climate. So I am thus now making this productivity series filled with sub-effectors: Today's will be language.
(Language falls under time category) (Colour falls under Language and Morale Categories).



Every language has different words for different things, they are said differently, some languages have more words, some have less, but we all manage to communicate. But because of the differences in languages, some people see things in different ways than others. In the Time video, we noticed that Sicily does not have a way to make a verb future tense. So nothing gets done! Colour also affects the productivity, different languages say colours in different ways. We see purple and blue as two different colours, but some see purple as a shade of blue. This can possibly affect morale, and coordination. Morale, because we get happy when we see certain colours, and if those colours are really just other colours, then things might be more gloomy...or more prosperous.

Come on guys, lets not fight on Christmas!

In Germany there are "concrete" threats of terrorist attacks that will be launched when the Christmas markets are open. Why must the terrorists be so terrible!? I mean its in the name but, we need to end this...I dont know how, but we as a world, unifyed against this need to put an end to this rampage of terror and fear! Do we want to go down in the history books as another Korean or Vietnam war where we simply stay put and get killed!? NO! I say we charge!!!

Affects on Productivity Part 2

If you liked the first part, this will be great for you! Climate often has an affect on Productivity. When you think of Boston one of the first things that comes to many peoples minds is colleges*. When we think of Los Angeles we think of Hollywood and beaches*. *(I took a poll with people)* So Boston is in New England and L.A. is in the more sub-tropical part of America. San Francisco is often said to have the most perfect climate in America. And it is also known for homosexuals and rich people. People go there to Hawaii to relax, not to work. In Germany(colder climate) they have had many innovative advances such as automobiles and other things in industry and trade and military. Whilst can you name more than three things great to have come out of Spain(more desirable climate) that are still relevant in today's society? The most advanced place in America is New England, that is where all the work gets done.
     Why does Climate have an effect on productivity? One good reason brought to my attention was agriculture. In places with a better climate, such as sub-tropical areas like California, you can throw a seed in the soil, anytime in the year and it will grow with minimal care. In the Northwest and New England you need to care and tend for your crops more, and you need to plan exactly when to plant and harvest your crops. or they will not grow to sufficient sizes or will freeze. Another possible reason is that the places with more desirable climates have people that are more attracted to things of material pleasure for one's self. While in working environments the focus is not necessarily on one's self rather it is on society or community as a whole. We all can assume that a full baseball team is more affective than a team of one.
    Another interesting side-note is that many of the World's Superpowers are in the Northern Hemisphere and have cooler climates. USA, Russia, Germany, China, UK, Japan. 
Please feel free to comment and leave an opinion.

TIME POWERS!!! ACTIVATE!!!

This is the first post on a series on productivity:


Oh my word, this documentary can change your life or at least on how you think about it.

It is 10 minutes long, but you will hear all about the meaning of time the affects of time the value of time and other amazing things. It does not seem 10 minutes it is truly an amazing video, YOU MUST WATCH THIS!!!!!!!
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Unified by the grace of Chicken

"Jews cant eat pork, Muslims cant eat beef, but we all love chicken!" ~Homer Simpson

 Why cant there be a unification or a peace of Muslims, Jews and Christians in the Middle East? Well I have two theories that to me make that clear.

According to the story of Abraham, Abraham's oldest son Ishmael and Ishmael's mother, Hagar, were sent away from the family, and Abraham's other son. born of his favored wife, was Issac. The boys hated each other in the end and since then the two ethnic groups have always been fighting.

According to the Muslim Quran, the Muslims must "kill the infidels" and the Jews have pestered them more than anyone else of an opposing religion. Also they are next door neighbors so it makes it easier. Hence
(Radical) Muslims want to kill the Jews.

Seasonal Queen

As every 10 days I change around the blog a bit, share your opinion on the new poll of favorite seasons and check out the featured band: Queen

Veterans Day Dedication

As we sit here...thinking... thinking about tomorrow's schedule, or maybe today's, your friendships, relationships, family, thinking about what to make for dinner, what to wear to dinner, where to go for dinner, why we eat dinner, how to properly eat dinner, who to eat dinner with, how much dinner to eat, and what to eat tomorrow,

your answers might be:
 Roast Beef with Potatoes, possibly something niceish today, Sizzler, because we need food and its a good way to bond. with politeness and silverware, family or friends?, enough but not too much because Im watching my weight, and what about Wild Rice Soup??

A Soldier overseas might answer:
Whatever slop they make me, what I wear everyday, mess hall where else would I go, because it gives the energy to fight, like its your last because it might just be, with your best friends because they might not be there tomorrow, as much as you can, whatever they make me granted that I'm here tomorrow.

Lets not take for granted the food we eat and who gives us the freedom to have it in abundance.


~Thank You Veterans and Current Soldiers fighting overseas~

Facebookers Anonymous

They are gonna need to make one of these soon. I mean there is:

• More than 500 million active users
• 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
• Average user has 130 friends
• People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
• There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages)
• Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events
• Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month
• More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.
• More than 70 translations available on the site
• About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
• Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application
• There are more than 200 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
• People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
• There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile product

Daaaaang,....

A Blizzard of Thought

Presumably any snowflake is different from any other snowflake, but each one either sticks to the others to form a beautiful and entertaining blanket of white, or simply falls on the road and melts. We as humans are all different from each other, and we must make sure that our life's path does not send us to melt into road, serving no purpose, but to cling to life and make the best of it. Note I say best, and that usually does not mean partying frequently and "living your life for fun."

How did this come to be?

My inquiry is, if we refer back to the New Renaissance post, how did this New Renaissance, come to be?? I tried pondering about it and I have drawn a blank, any help would be awesome!

QUOTE DAY!!!!

On random occasions I will give a quote day, people need to comment their FAVORITE quote that IS RELEVANT TO THE GIVEN TOPIC and I will judge the on the one I think is the best on that topic.

TOPIC: Quotes on Eating

Quote On!!! 

Philosophy on Speech

I have come to the conclusion that ALL speech is the telling of or asking of stories. When you tell someone how your day went, when you ask someone "wassup" when you ask for food, you are telling the person that you are hungry, a story, boring, yet a story nonetheless. -STORIES-

Ok so it worked but...

The republicans of USA most definitely got the seats in the House they wanted and had good improvements in Senate and very much so in the Governors. Yet it wasnt the epic legendary landslide victory they had anticipated.
Republicans gained: 6 seats in senate (hoped for 8)
                               60 house seats (hoped for 80)          
                               8 governors (hoped for 5)

Lets see how these next two years turn out with the Obama administration having taken a shot in the leg.
                              

Geography WIN!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHA Oh yes!! WIN!!!!

 CANADIAN ELEPHANT!!!!!!!!!!

I love Geography...

Well...the time has come

The first 10 days of Info 'fe are over and out, so I want people to throw out what they want in the band bar! Its the music session, cuz we all know that a coffee house without music is simply lame. Comment!!!