From my palliative care end of life days over 30 years of noticing: the folks who had the most pleasant deaths were: Hare Krishna folk Catholic Alcoholic folk, usually men Moslems. and then the rest... Those who had the most horrible painful deaths were Evangelical Christians Mahayana Buddhists Vegans and then the rest... Interestingly, Hare Krishna and Vegans have the same diet, so I'd suggest that the meaning of life, at the end of life, in terms of rank human life suffering, has more to do with something other than diet.

Tibetan Liberation Front: What did the Chinese ever do for us? "Well, roads, bridges, trains, houses, jobs, education, a future for the kids, heat in winter, scholarships to world universities, peace, food, a future for non-religious kids, they stop the kids from setting themselves on fire, and we are not serfs anymore, and not slaves to a theocratic dynasty that locks up boys with celibate holy men instead of getting an education."

I know swearing is harsh, and I often don't like it at all, but at the same time, it can be meaningful or very funny...context and timing are most critical. Swearing and a comedic theme can go well together. Comedy is funny because it breaks some social law in some way. A man slips on a banana whereas he should have just been walking...pretty much all comedy is like that...something that shouldn't happen...happens. So I think pretty well all comedy comes about as some sort of insult to what is normal or acceptable or appropriate, whatever 'appropriate' means. I taught my children as best i could that swearing was for a few reasons: Either to indicate significant pain, shock, indignation or betrayal. Swearing in these contexts was a very good thing to do. Or, swearing was a way to improve comedy delivery. The Australian vernacular is rich with possibilities in this manner. The traditional saying 'every man and his dog were there' still, to me, is far more entertaining and meaningful when one says 'Every cunt and his dog were there'.It means the same thing, yet is just more fun and colourful to say. We should teach our children well. Imagine, if when reading the bible, instead of Pilate dismissing his wife's concern about having a threatening dream of Jesus the night before, instead of just dismissing her concerns, he had said "look, Cheryl, I acknowledge that you've had a bad dream, but, I just got home...just let me relax a bit. I received a bad scroll from Rome, the city is running out of wheat, and I've been dealing with the Jews all day...I've had a cunt of a day."

I'm not opposed to Donald Trump. If he can improve the lot of poor and working class Americans, then he will be a good President of that country. Obama, Bush, etc didn't do that because their focus was about the world with America as policeman. I agree with Trump that the world doesn't need a policeman, that the world is far better off without America as a Policeman or an influence. But America does need someone who delivers jobs to people in America. So far, he is doing that. That's his job. Americans voted for Trump, so his job is to meet their needs. It hasn't got anything to do with the World Order, international financial stability, NATO, or anything else. He has his elected term, see how he goes in that hard ground

Interestingly, the one fellow in China who foresaw the Western World Crash of 2008 in 2003, and helped China to avoid it, and thus jumped China 20 years ahead of all expectations, is now their Minister for Propaganda. He makes Coca Cola, the BBC, Google and Facebook look very amateur indeed...simply because they are real amateurs in the real world and don't really know what they are doing. The world has changed, and they missed it.

Once a year, in China, the mothers gather together and study the world gold price. When the gold price goes low, they arrange parties in Singapore and Hong Kong to catch up and talk about their husbands and the world. They arrive in hordes of thousands, they stay in nice hotels, buy everything made of gold at a low price, and take it home. This causes the world gold price to go up. Then, they sell. Women....

China, like India, like Korea, like japan, like Pakistan, produces very intensely bright human beings. If all universities on earth based their acceptance of students on the basis of their applicants on merit, on intellectual test results and real promise, then one third of every university on earth would be made up of North Asian women.