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Any reasonable Nation should be happy to provide
peace
and good government and should stay away from too many
inalienable rights.
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XII.
If things sound crazy they usually are.
Most conspiracy
theories make my head hurt. They are never internally
consistent, they rarely mesh with observables and only once
in a blue moon (I have some of those) are even tiny little
bits of them true.
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Remember, you never know if all the
facts you know are all the facts.
XIII.
When unexpected things happen,
`Don’t Panic.’
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With a
little practice you should find it almost second-nature to
apply the principles implicit in my
earlier Tenets to resolve
the issue on your own.
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For example, on tropical diseases,
resource management, global warming, and weapons
all the ways you mess up your domestic lives. Ironically, given Xavier’s double-barreled
moniker, I’m more logical-positivist or Popperian than idealist.
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Don’t get me wrong, all sentient life has rights, on Earth, Ursa Minor or wherever. I
certainly can’t count the Galaxies I’m supposed to be Godify-ing.
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In illustration, I
point you to the writings of
arch-kookazoid Dr Bill Deagle whose
residence pollutes my otherwise charming and quiet city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Place
“Bill Deagle” in a search engine of your choice and prepare to gasp. Then revisit the
Tenth Tenet and lots of the others. You might continue by taking the rational-consistency
test for religions at www.philosophersnet.com/games/god.htm.
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Reading the Hitchhikers Guide can’t hurt either; or watch the original UK TV series.
Don’t bother with the 2003 movie version.
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I’ve left enough space for you to write down a few more Tenets at the end of these
pages. They will not be official tenets of Larryism, so I do ask you to use them with a
General Public License (www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html). The Microsoft Word© version
is of course indefinitely expansible; but be moderate and I quite understand if you only
use open-source software. I do like to consider myself an open-source sort of God.
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