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.