Now that I am back online and with power I figured I'd check my regular home internet connection thru Service Electric. Humm, maybe I can get away with using my cell phone as my ISP.

After being with out power for a few days, we have lights again. However our ISP Service Electric has yet to restore connectivity. I am forced to use my new cell phone a Cingular 3125 as my modem. The service isn't too bad, ping is a bit too high for gaming.

Conscience, there is new research in Neuroscience and Evolutionary psychology which seek to explain conscience as a function of the human brain that evolved. It would have evolved this way to facilitate the production of functional societies, as well as altruism within those societies. It is one of the genetically determined traits most humans have, while there are people that seem to be without conscience or their conscience seems to have a different set of guide lines is easily explained as a disorder, there are plenty of genetic disorders. This will also lend it's self to Sigmund Freud's view on conscience that they are an aspect of the super-ego. Why cant the super-ego have evolved into mankind the around the same time we started forming hunter gather tribes. Around 7,000 BCE in Mesopotamia the ancient Sumer or Ashurai people would have been the first to exercises their super-ego's wanting what is good for their society, sacrificing some of what would have been normal to co exist with others in the first culture. This would be the time mankind would have been metaphorically over coming their Oedipus complex, coming into it's own. However with out a metaphorical father figure we had to figure it out for our selves for the next 3,000 years. I think by the time of the Egyptians the genetic idea of a conscience was fairly well formed.

That leads to my next idea that the conscience is imprinted on us genetically but it is molded or shaped from our surroundings, throughout history there has been a socially accepted conscience. As example, 200 years ago slavery was accepted as normal, but there were people with stronger genetic imprints of what a proper conscience should be, They rose up and made changes. Even in modern day Middle East murder is not as problem some to consciences, in fact in some cases their consciences demand them to eradicate the infidels. I am not making any judgments, as I only have my morals and conscience to guide me, who knows what it would look like 200, heck 1000 years from now.

According to a Justice Department report released in July 2003, the U.S. prison population surpassed 2 million for the first time, 2,166,260 people were incarcerated in prisons or jails at the end of 2002. Since 1990, the U.S. prison population, already the world's largest, has almost doubled. The report does not count all juvenile offenders, but noted that there were more than 10,000 inmates under age 18 held in adult prisons and jails in 2002. The number of women in federal and state prisons reached 97,491. About 10.4% of the entire African-American male population in the United States aged 25 to 29 was incarcerated, 2.4% of Hispanic men and 1.2% of white men in that same age group were incarcerated. According to a report by the Justice Policy Institute in 2002, the number of black men in prison has grown to five times the rate it was twenty years ago. Today, more African-American men are in jail than in college. In 2000 there were 791,600 black men in prison and 603,032 enrolled in college. In 1980, there were 143,000 black men in prison and 463,700 enrolled in college.

This brings up a question in my mind. Who would Jesus send to jail? You can forgive, and turn the other cheek until you have no more cheeks but then what? Once all the serial murders have murdered the forgiving how will the world look, that can't possibly be what was intended. How many prisons would Jesus build? I doubt he would want them to be over crowded. Where would he put them? Near populations, on an island by them selves, like Australia. Obviously we need to give everyone a second chance, the death penalty is out. What about second, third, fourth offenders? How would Jesus deal with those who seem to be lost cases? I really wonder if we wouldn't be allot better off if Jesus ran the DoJ.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want a religious politician or judge, they always seem to get it wrong. Jesus got it right, at least after several years of orally passed down stories once they were written down. I never though I would say it but we need more religion in politics, or maybe ethics.

Colour me your colour, baby
Colour me your car
Colour me your colour, darling
I know who you are
Come up off your colour chart
I know where you're coming from
Call me on the line
Call me call me any anytime


I am adding a link to the right side at the top, it is a link which will connect you to me. Give it a try let me know what you think.