Through whatever mechanisms you care to imagine; you have today been named the Supreme Ruler of Earth. Assume that all the necessary power structure you would need to accomplish your agenda is in place. YOU say it ... and it is done.
What are the things you'd do? How would you shape the world to be a better place? List the tenets and/or agenda you'd put into place. Try not to demean or criticize others choices (especially if you don't make your own list) and this might be an interesting thread.
Here's some that occur to me in no particular order:
Ensure sufficient funding to detect and eliminate threats from space i.e... comets, asteroids etc.
Begin construction of an "Earth Ring" orbiting platform connected by a series of space elevators.
Make religion and it's practice illegal in any form. Jail those who resist; for life.
Behead Oliver North with a rusty dull sword.
End the "War On Drugs" and replace it with a "War On Sorrow".
Arrest any person driving a truck with an unused bed (30 days in jail).
Limit births to a maximum of 3 per fertile female.
Support nutrition for ALL children worldwide in an egalitarian manner.
Pillory *** Cheney in the toilet pit of a giant 48 hour beer festival in Iraq (with Green Day, Tool and System of a Down as the headline acts).
Put anyone in jail who makes more than 10 times the average employee of their company makes.
Pay scientists what athletes currently make and pay athletes what scientists currently make (except for professional hockey players).
Ensure public participation in decisions regarding local everyday matters.
Ban, confiscate and destroy all individually owned firearms.
Replace all intersection stoplights with roundabouts.
Ban any vehicle that doesn't get 50 miles to the gallon.
Make (and film) George W. Bush buttfuck Mamoud Ahmandinejad in front of an audience of 100,000 gay San Franciscans.
Arrest any person who thinks the horn in their vehicle is a device with which to express their displeasure (10 days in jail).
A mandatory Eminem versus Mike Tyson 10 million dollar winner takes all boxing match.
Maroon Sarah Palin and her extended family on Rat Island, Alaska.
Reward Sasha Baron Cohen with $100,000,000 for teabagging Eminem.
Put the Retarded Policeman in charge of America (watch all his episodes ... seriously funny stuff.)
Death penalty for anyone wearing dark sunglasses indoor ... you are not so cool that even when you're inside the sun is still shining.
That's a start ... list yours.
1. Remove all the humans.
QUOTE (occidental+Jul 7 2009, 06:11 PM)
1. Remove all the humans.
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In no particular order...
1. Establish a viable Palestinian state, complete with an effective military and infrastructure.
2. Destroy all nuclear weapons, excepting a small number of tactical nukes located in top-secret facilities around the world, putting the entire planet in striking range of at least 2 missiles.
3. Create a "leak" which portrays the missiles in step 2 as strategic nukes, and informs the public about the locations of just a few of those top secret facilities.
4. Spread a few rumors about my willingness to use the afore-mentioned missiles if challenged.
5. Implement the US hate crime laws in every nation and stiffen the penalties.
6. Remove and replace the regimes in Iran, N. Korea, China, Israel, Indonesia, Myanmar & about half of the African states.
7. Create, train & equip region specific 'terrorist hunter' military/intelligence units, then deploy them throughout Africa, SE Asia, the Middle East and the former USSR.
8. Hold hearings on disputed regions such as North Ireland & Kashmir, determine to which nation they will belong, or if they will be governed autonomously.
9. Levy a welfare tax on the richest 2% of the world's population, to be used to provide infrastructure, growth technologies, & financial assistance to underdeveloped regions.
10. Levy a biennial socialism tax on the richest 50% of individuals, which operates on a sliding scale from 0.5% of income to 22% of income, to be redistributed to the poorest 50%, based on justified need. Any excess funds to be redistributed to the taxed parties.
11. Ban the teaching or preaching of any justification for violence being found in any religious order. In other words, force all religions to adopt a pacifist view, on pain of legal disenfranchisement.
12. Increase science and science education funding.
13. Place a legal limit of 10 children on each couple in underdeveloped regions, and 6 children on each couple in developed regions.
14. Abolish any and all 'morality laws', leaving only laws designed to prevent measurable harm.
15. Tax marijuana.
16. Roll around in all the money I got from taxing marijuana, before spending it on science & science education.
17. Increase public funding for research into renewable resources, recycling and environmental protection.
18. Combine all space programs under one agency and quadruple it's funding.
19. Invest 10% of all tax revenue in the private sector, create shipping, mail, health care, & private security services which operate at a profit. Seek other business ventures to make a profit, to support all the increases in funding I've mandated.
20. Find a hot bisexual girl who thinks my fiancee is the sexiest thing in the world.
21. Require all elected officials to hold at least a 4 year degree in economics, business management, or another applicable subject.
22. Ban the teaching of "supply side economics".
1. Establish a viable Palestinian state, complete with an effective military and infrastructure.
2. Destroy all nuclear weapons, excepting a small number of tactical nukes located in top-secret facilities around the world, putting the entire planet in striking range of at least 2 missiles.
3. Create a "leak" which portrays the missiles in step 2 as strategic nukes, and informs the public about the locations of just a few of those top secret facilities.
4. Spread a few rumors about my willingness to use the afore-mentioned missiles if challenged.
5. Implement the US hate crime laws in every nation and stiffen the penalties.
6. Remove and replace the regimes in Iran, N. Korea, China, Israel, Indonesia, Myanmar & about half of the African states.
7. Create, train & equip region specific 'terrorist hunter' military/intelligence units, then deploy them throughout Africa, SE Asia, the Middle East and the former USSR.
8. Hold hearings on disputed regions such as North Ireland & Kashmir, determine to which nation they will belong, or if they will be governed autonomously.
9. Levy a welfare tax on the richest 2% of the world's population, to be used to provide infrastructure, growth technologies, & financial assistance to underdeveloped regions.
10. Levy a biennial socialism tax on the richest 50% of individuals, which operates on a sliding scale from 0.5% of income to 22% of income, to be redistributed to the poorest 50%, based on justified need. Any excess funds to be redistributed to the taxed parties.
11. Ban the teaching or preaching of any justification for violence being found in any religious order. In other words, force all religions to adopt a pacifist view, on pain of legal disenfranchisement.
12. Increase science and science education funding.
13. Place a legal limit of 10 children on each couple in underdeveloped regions, and 6 children on each couple in developed regions.
14. Abolish any and all 'morality laws', leaving only laws designed to prevent measurable harm.
15. Tax marijuana.
16. Roll around in all the money I got from taxing marijuana, before spending it on science & science education.
17. Increase public funding for research into renewable resources, recycling and environmental protection.
18. Combine all space programs under one agency and quadruple it's funding.
19. Invest 10% of all tax revenue in the private sector, create shipping, mail, health care, & private security services which operate at a profit. Seek other business ventures to make a profit, to support all the increases in funding I've mandated.
20. Find a hot bisexual girl who thinks my fiancee is the sexiest thing in the world.
21. Require all elected officials to hold at least a 4 year degree in economics, business management, or another applicable subject.
22. Ban the teaching of "supply side economics".
23. Make cow tipping illegal
QUOTE (Edward 3+Jul 7 2009, 02:12 PM)
23. Make cow tipping illegal
Get a fuсking life, dude. You spend almost as much time whining and trolling as you do discussing anything.
Seriously, this is advice, not a request. You know how much I enjoy seeing you go around desperately trying to insult me, but I'm willing to forgo that pleasure if it means you'll actually better yourself in some small way.
Get a fuсking life, dude. You spend almost as much time whining and trolling as you do discussing anything.
Seriously, this is advice, not a request. You know how much I enjoy seeing you go around desperately trying to insult me, but I'm willing to forgo that pleasure if it means you'll actually better yourself in some small way.
Trying to insult you Molly? - this is an insult? Last exchange we had you called me a sack of ***, one before a *** *****, before that a friggin mo and I also seem to recall you addressing me as a dishonest prick - so to accuse me of insulting you by referring to your hayseed activities will surely go down in history as one of the great examples of advanced revisionism.
You are very active at the moment Molly - particularly proclaiming your extensive knowledge of physics - you going to respond to my thread on Cyclic Cosmology and Entropy? Come on Moll, let´s have the benefit of your knowledge and wisdom -please Molly !! Might even take your mind off this latest fantasy: "20. Find a hot bisexual girl who thinks my fiancee is the sexiest thing in the world. "
You are very active at the moment Molly - particularly proclaiming your extensive knowledge of physics - you going to respond to my thread on Cyclic Cosmology and Entropy? Come on Moll, let´s have the benefit of your knowledge and wisdom -please Molly !! Might even take your mind off this latest fantasy: "20. Find a hot bisexual girl who thinks my fiancee is the sexiest thing in the world. "
let nature take it's course, perhaps. But if there were a "cosmic-curve-fast-ball" coming this way, I think I would prevent it. Because, it is not my duty so save only myself or those I see fit. I'm not sure I am fit to survive myself, if I follow along with popular opinion.
I was actually going to write a book about something like this but I didn't.
QUOTE (Edward 3+Jul 7 2009, 02:48 PM)
you going to respond to my thread on Cyclic Cosmology and Entropy?
Probably not. You see, I actually do have better things to do than follow you around trying to insult you.
Probably not. You see, I actually do have better things to do than follow you around trying to insult you.
I do not want to be supreme ruler
Do not have world war three.
This action in a great measure, will diminish Earth as you understand it.
Allow off world contact now. Open centers to where filtered sorts of aliens can land and do business with humans out in the open.
Allow humans to either relocate off of Earth, or travel from Earth with the aliens of their choice, or in a domestically made program.
The reason why I say make open above ground contact with aliens now, is that by a search, there are other sorts of aliens that have invasion designs placed on Earth.
So if we go into world war three and markedly weaken a our collective abilities to defend ourselves, this will have made invasion for the other types of aliens besides the ones hidden here, much easier.
Do not have world war three.
This action in a great measure, will diminish Earth as you understand it.
Allow off world contact now. Open centers to where filtered sorts of aliens can land and do business with humans out in the open.
Allow humans to either relocate off of Earth, or travel from Earth with the aliens of their choice, or in a domestically made program.
The reason why I say make open above ground contact with aliens now, is that by a search, there are other sorts of aliens that have invasion designs placed on Earth.
So if we go into world war three and markedly weaken a our collective abilities to defend ourselves, this will have made invasion for the other types of aliens besides the ones hidden here, much easier.
Phillip347
While I am not ruler of the Earth (yet), be assured that you have my blessing and encouragement if you decide to leave the Earth with the Alien of your choice.
Have a good trip...
While I am not ruler of the Earth (yet), be assured that you have my blessing and encouragement if you decide to leave the Earth with the Alien of your choice.
Have a good trip...
i like 15:
15. Tax marijuana.
15. Tax marijuana.
QUOTE (uaafanblog+Jul 7 2009, 02:01 PM)
Maroon Sarah Palin and her extended family on Rat Island, Alaska.
I think she has just marooned herself lately!
This idea of being empress of the world, I'll have to mull it over.
This is the first three outline sections I made. I have more and I actually started writing it. I don't know though. It was strange, I wanted to do it more than anything and suddenly I didn't nor do I want to anymore. I don't want to play "dictator." I'd be much more interested in seeing how things "play-out" and let history write itself I guess. The bold is the chapter titles of course. And that is how I was going to have them appear in the book, the title followed by the definition of the words as were intended.
QUOTE
Outline-2012
1.)2012, in this year, things become more visibly apparent then ever before in respects to climate change. Finally, there is a large sweeping movement through governments that they must begin to take serious action, at the base of this movement are the voices of many common people. In 2010, the world seemed to be smoothing out its difficulties in economics, politics, and humanity. In 2011 things begin to change with the final cavitation of the economic system, and spreads throughout the many other systems of human activity.
(Cry Havoc)
–noun 1. great destruction or devastation; ruinous damage.
–verb (used with object) 2. to work havoc upon; devastate.
–verb (used without object) 3. to work havoc: The fire havocked throughout the house.
—Idioms
4. cry havoc, to warn of danger or disaster.
5. play havoc with, a. to create confusion or disorder in: The wind played havoc with the papers on the desk.
b. to destroy; ruin: The bad weather played havoc with our vacation plans.
2.)Vigorous posturing over oil and its use leads to conflict of interests for international government organizations. Blame, accusations, and blind actions are bringing the situation to a boiling point. Armies are mobilizing, lines are being drawn, men sit in rooms … calculating risks, forming strategies, and foreseeing terrible possibilities. People are consumed with fear as they see the forming of an ominous storm on the horizon. There are whispers of world war, and foretelling of the coming of the end.
(Let Loose)
1. free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
2. free from anything that binds or restrains; unfettered: loose cats prowling around in alleyways at night
a. to free or become free.
3.)In the great many population centers of the world, the masses are in chaos griped by fear. In many places marshal-law is barely able to keep some symbolization of order and structure, and in many places it is not enough. Countries find themselves measuring the worth of cities, states, and regions to which they must not let slip totally into chaos, and letting go of others to which they do not have the resources to maintain. Groups of citizens form, some to keep order, some to destroy it, and others to escape the battle of the two sides. There is a migration of those whom seek peace into the countryside, seeking places to reforge what it means to have a home, order, and peace. They seek solitude in nature.
(The Dogs of War)
–noun
5. a despicable man or youth.
6. Informal. a fellow in general: a lucky dog.
7. dogs, Slang. feet.
8. Slang. a) something worthless or of extremely poor quality: That used car you bought is a dog.
an utter failure; flop: Critics say his new play is a dog.
verb (used with object)
19. to follow or track like a dog, esp. with hostile intent; hound.
20. to drive or chase with a dog or dogs.
—Idioms
23. go to the dogs, Informal. to deteriorate; degenerate morally or physically: This neighborhood is going to the dogs.
24. lead a dog's life, to have an unhappy or harassed existence: He maintained that he led a dog's life in the army.
25. let sleeping dogs lie, to refrain from action that would alter an existing situation for fear of causing greater problems or complexities.
26. put on the dog, Informal. to assume an attitude of wealth or importance; put on airs.
1.)2012, in this year, things become more visibly apparent then ever before in respects to climate change. Finally, there is a large sweeping movement through governments that they must begin to take serious action, at the base of this movement are the voices of many common people. In 2010, the world seemed to be smoothing out its difficulties in economics, politics, and humanity. In 2011 things begin to change with the final cavitation of the economic system, and spreads throughout the many other systems of human activity.
(Cry Havoc)
–noun 1. great destruction or devastation; ruinous damage.
–verb (used with object) 2. to work havoc upon; devastate.
–verb (used without object) 3. to work havoc: The fire havocked throughout the house.
—Idioms
4. cry havoc, to warn of danger or disaster.
5. play havoc with, a. to create confusion or disorder in: The wind played havoc with the papers on the desk.
b. to destroy; ruin: The bad weather played havoc with our vacation plans.
2.)Vigorous posturing over oil and its use leads to conflict of interests for international government organizations. Blame, accusations, and blind actions are bringing the situation to a boiling point. Armies are mobilizing, lines are being drawn, men sit in rooms … calculating risks, forming strategies, and foreseeing terrible possibilities. People are consumed with fear as they see the forming of an ominous storm on the horizon. There are whispers of world war, and foretelling of the coming of the end.
(Let Loose)
1. free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
2. free from anything that binds or restrains; unfettered: loose cats prowling around in alleyways at night
a. to free or become free.
3.)In the great many population centers of the world, the masses are in chaos griped by fear. In many places marshal-law is barely able to keep some symbolization of order and structure, and in many places it is not enough. Countries find themselves measuring the worth of cities, states, and regions to which they must not let slip totally into chaos, and letting go of others to which they do not have the resources to maintain. Groups of citizens form, some to keep order, some to destroy it, and others to escape the battle of the two sides. There is a migration of those whom seek peace into the countryside, seeking places to reforge what it means to have a home, order, and peace. They seek solitude in nature.
(The Dogs of War)
–noun
5. a despicable man or youth.
6. Informal. a fellow in general: a lucky dog.
7. dogs, Slang. feet.
8. Slang. a) something worthless or of extremely poor quality: That used car you bought is a dog.
an utter failure; flop: Critics say his new play is a dog. verb (used with object)
19. to follow or track like a dog, esp. with hostile intent; hound.
20. to drive or chase with a dog or dogs.
—Idioms
23. go to the dogs, Informal. to deteriorate; degenerate morally or physically: This neighborhood is going to the dogs.
24. lead a dog's life, to have an unhappy or harassed existence: He maintained that he led a dog's life in the army.
25. let sleeping dogs lie, to refrain from action that would alter an existing situation for fear of causing greater problems or complexities.
26. put on the dog, Informal. to assume an attitude of wealth or importance; put on airs.
Hi,I am new.
I agree with philip 347,
>>Allow off world contact now. Open centers to where filtered sorts of aliens can land and do business with humans out in the open.
Allow humans to either relocate off of Earth, or travel from Earth with the aliens of their choice, or in a domestically made program.<<
I believe that space is our last great hope. Some say if we cannot heal or correct problems on earth first then we should not focus on space. This is absolutely not true for if we let everyone go as they will to space,greater technologies will be born and used,new freedoms and constitutions can be formed,increased natural resources will be mined on say asteroids,food supplies could increase along with space to exist.
If not, we will only be an Easter Island and may not survive at all.
space or bust
Dona
I agree with philip 347,
>>Allow off world contact now. Open centers to where filtered sorts of aliens can land and do business with humans out in the open.
Allow humans to either relocate off of Earth, or travel from Earth with the aliens of their choice, or in a domestically made program.<<
I believe that space is our last great hope. Some say if we cannot heal or correct problems on earth first then we should not focus on space. This is absolutely not true for if we let everyone go as they will to space,greater technologies will be born and used,new freedoms and constitutions can be formed,increased natural resources will be mined on say asteroids,food supplies could increase along with space to exist.
If not, we will only be an Easter Island and may not survive at all.
space or bust
Dona
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