Tiny Eden

Anti Sexuality, Culture and religion

2008-11-25T22:19:00.000-05:00

Anti-sexuality. Culture & Religion:

Today we are bombarded with many anti-sexuality issues. Be it the debates about same sex marriage, child molestation, nudism and more. Each time a controversial topic is started, researched or a question thrown out into the masses, the reactions from the RRR are almost an instant one.
Each time the RRR counters, they counter with “Cultural, Civilization and religious values”. They often do go back into history “just a bit” to argue that “all cultures and civilizations” prohibit for example same sex marriage or homosexuality. However, do they go back into history far enough?
In my blog on nudism I have scraped on the surface of this history. Now I shall explain it a bit deeper.
When we talk about “Culture & Civilization” we simply scrape the surface by associating it with specific dynasties, architecture & styles, specific foods, clothing and rites. What we forget to look at is what civilization actually is.
Culture defines itself as an adoption and use of local materials. The culinary culture of a country is for example pretty much defined by the agricultural and natural food resources available. Although Europe is today a region in which almost all countries use potatoes as their staple, one has to understand that potatoes are only known since the discovery of the Americas after Columbus. Therefore the “potatoes in every dish” culinary culture for most of Europe is a recent adoption.
Going into a furniture shop and seeing furniture made from bamboo does not take a rocket scientist to label it as “Asian”. A more refined person will identify the said furniture as Chinese, Thai or something else. When we call it “Asian” we mean the regions in which bamboo is the most common and easiest to work with wood. Therefore the Asians have adopted these vast resources to be part of their architectural use and common use all around. They use bamboo for their houses, furniture, various implements and even grander structures as bridges in the past. In the same token other regions in which bamboo is not part of the vegetation have adopted the use of pine, oak and other woods for their architecture and furniture. The same goes for the Inuit in the American Arctic in the adoption of seal pelts for their clothing. While other regions use cotton and hemp fibers for their clothing. Additionally the temperature of the region defines the type of clothing. Furthermore the regional main activity prior to modern times defines the style of the clothing. For instance the “cowboy-style” is a direct result of the needs of a cowboy for specific protective clothing that is unique to his activity and conditions of the region he works in. All these tools, implements and designs originated in the past. At times some of such still today used implements date back 1,000’s of years in their origins.
However when we consider “Culture” to be synonym to Art, then we touch a different subject already. Islam for example prohibits the painting of images. Islamic art is beautiful in symbolism, but unlike a Christian church with its frescos and life-size paintings of biblical images, the same is absent in Muslim Mosques. To now claim that Muslims cannot paint or draw pictures of human faces is totally untrue. It is not that Muslims lack the skills to paint this way, it is that they are not used to doing it due to their religious directives imposed on them. Therefore the now so distinct Muslim art is not so much a culture due to resources as the bamboo example, but a culture based on religious and social values.
Whenever we assess culture we have to look at one factor. The Human being is a “Naked Ape”. With this we have to understand that man was not meant to live in regions other than what were temperature and season wise suitable for a nude lifestyle. So in order to inhabit the regions outside the 24/7 nude temperature range, mankind adopted to clothing and building of dwellings that enabled them to sustain such a life outside the their natural habitat. And it is this where culture begins in the sense of the unique use of their local resources to their needs. If oak does not exist in ones region, then the skills to work an oak tree into furniture or more would and could not be developed.
However when we talk culture in the sense of civilization, then the entire picture begins to change.
Foremost, civilization in the sense that we understand it today began with the invention/adoption of agriculture. When the European explorers came to North America, they were a bit surprised to see 1st nation tribes being pretty much independent and living off the land quite well. I discussed the difference between agriculture and garden culture combined with hunting and gathering. Many accounts of 1st arrivals of European settlers dealt with the 1st nation Americans helping them out through the winters. However with all the security on sustainability that the 1st nations enjoyed, hardly anyone called them a “Civilization” while on the other hand the Aztecs, Mayans and Incas were called “Civilizations”. However the 1st nation people in general were quite peaceful people. The few disputes between neighboring tribes were minor compared to the grand scale “War-Civilization” and human sacrifice “Culture” of the Aztecs and Incas.
As more of a “joke” I once defined the term “civilization” as a “useless building upwards versus a productive building lengthwise…” – I still stick to this definition.
We marvel at the incredible monuments such ancient civilizations as the Egyptians, Romans, Incas and Aztecs left us. They truly are engineering marvels and yet their marvel has very little to do with a daily life use. These architectural marvels are of little use for the sustainability of a people. Therefore the term “Empire” is much more fitting than the term “Civilization”.
Animals in general spend their day with such activities as eating, grooming, procreation and sleeping. Animals sleep a lot! The minute their sustainability needs – (Food) – has been met, they sleep! They dig borrows and build nests to rear their young, but beyond that, they do pretty much “nothing”. Tribal communities still stick pretty much to the same rules, even if they are agricultural communities. Their buildings and infrastructure are purpose built. The art is pretty much basic to please the artist and owners, and this is about it. The rest of their life is spent in communal activity of enjoying themselves.
During the Vietnam War peace movement a common slogan was seen: “Fuck for Peace”. As cute or funny this slogan may sound the truth behind it is strikingly true. If one lives a life of sustainability and makes the best tools and equipment to enhance that life, but then after all work is done is “Interacting” with his fellow tribes people, then this man is enjoying himself. Tribal communities use much of their time in interaction with each other and in plain simply having “fun”. A tribe for sure will work communally on the improvement of their village. They will pitch in to rebuild a house that had been gutted by fire or leveled by a flood. Yet past this activity to have a good life, these people see no reason to use more of their time energy and resources to build something that is of absolute no use, - like a pyramid. The few remaining tribal cultures are renown for their much more open sex-life, for what we westerners would call “excessive promiscuity” and more. These cultures enjoy life. They bundle their efforts and energies together when it is in the communal interest, but beyond that they won’t move a finger. Why go and build a pyramid if one can spend the same time much better with some happy drinking, sex or dancing. This “hedonistic lifestyle” is naturally not ideal to build an “Empire”!
From an engineering point of view, the tones of rocks used to build a pyramid some 100 meters “Tall” or so could have been much better used to build highways or canals for shipping and irrigation some 10 Kilometers “Long”. If a tribe would have seen need to expand the local infrastructure then they would have build just that in the common interest for all. The reason why tribes in the Amazon region spend extra time and efforts to build their houses on stilts is due to the seasonal flooding. If they did not maximize their total efforts and just build on the ground, then run and hide on higher ground till the flood is over and then rebuild, then their efforts are a waste of time that is repeated each year. For this reason they build their houses on stilts. Also the time and effort it takes is quite substantial in comparison to a straw hut on the flat ground, the same effort is rewarded and “paid for” within a few years for not having to rebuild from scratch after each seasonal flood. So the term “laziness” does not apply to these people. They are not lazy! They are “Efficient”! They operate on a principle of: “Do it once! Do it right and enjoy the rest of life.” Therefore a tribe will have no problem to mobilize its members to any project that affects the common good of all, even if it is a 10 year project to link a lake with a river via a canal, “IF” such project makes sense to them from their economical points of needs and sustainability.
An empire however has needs far beyond one’s sustainability! Tribal cultures also post their guards around their herds and villages. However these guards and volunteer armies are a far cry from the professional armies that empires entertain.
An Empire is in essence a tribe on steroids. Tribes define themselves as clans of families that remain within an acceptable population limit. In essence a tribe is much more a collective of families that hardly exceed in numbers the mental ability to remember every persons name. An empire, in its earliest stage, is a unity of many tribes. The moment this happens, the workload increases for each member of the tribe. Suddenly, besides to meet ones own sustainability requirements, the sustainability of the entire empire is to be considered. This means the tribal economy has to produce more than what it would need for the tribe alone.
For example let us take a situation in which one region of a new empire is wealthy in agricultural land but lacks the access to salt. Salt is one of our foremost commodities that were used in early trade and it is vital for food preservation. Natural and on the ground salt deposits are all over the world and were used from very early on by mankind. However if a tribe was near such a deposit of salt, then the amount of salt that they mined was just for their own use. Now let us see this “Salt-tribe” being integrated into a larger region and empire. The benefit of this integration is a wider variety of goods available to them. The down side of this integration is the need to produce and trade now salt for the entire empire. Soon with the demand of salt being so high, the tribe that was at 1st totally self-sufficient is beginning to rely on trade only. All its efforts go into salt mining. Their entire culture now becomes a full time workforce of salt miners and traders. As the empire expands, the demand for their salt increases. Finally the workload is beyond the workforce that that tribe counts in men, women and children. On top of this, mining salt is not an easy job. Remember that for a common good people easily accept a short time hardship, but not a long time hardship. Most likely to meet the demand, the use of slave labor will be introduced. Centuries later, suddenly the salt trade shifts and the community that had entirely depended on its salt mines are stuck in poverty. The best example is the rise and fall of the Sahara region of Timbuktu in today’s Niger region. 100’s if not 1,000’s of years of salt mining and trading have eroded all other skills as agricultural ones, how to irrigate fields and more. Suddenly from an empire plastered with gold a nation of abysmal poverty is born.
As I said before, people will always work hard on something, IF it benefits them in the form of a better life. How does one however then turn this personal “greed” or desire for a better life into a common culture? What logic is behind the reasoning to waste tones of materials, years of back braking labor and 1,000’s of lives of workers to build a pyramid that in the case of Egypt housed the corpse of a Pharaoh and God, or in the case of the Aztecs was used to slaughter and sacrifice people to some “Sun-God”.
Simple tribes have all sorts of “coming of age” initiation rituals, but hardly do they have the wholesale slaughter of people to satisfy a “god”. Hardly do they ever waste their time, resources and energy to totally mindless and useless tasks as to build a temple or a pyramid. The reason for this is the “Higher Cause”.
Every human wants to live forever. Many humans are very afraid of death. So what a better “Joke” to motivate as to promise ever lasting life or a better world in the afterlife! And strangely enough, from the 1st recorded empires we have evidence that they had laws that governed sexual conduct.
Why Sex? – Simply because – “If you fuck for peace, you have no time to waste on building pyramids.”
We all know about the nerdy professor that forgets to go to his own wedding because he got sidetracked by some exciting research. Many people do have strong interests in other things as just sex. If this would be not the case, then artists would not exist.
Let us make that clear: Sex is not just a procreation instinct. The more advanced a living organism, (animal) is the more the same engages in “recreational sex”. They do it, just because it “feels good”. So the people that wanted pyramids built got pretty much sick and tired asking “recreationally sexercising people” if they are “done yet” so they could go back to work. So they invented “Morality”.
Morality is based on the demonizing of the sexual acts. The female was quickly turned from an egalitarian partner of man into a 2-legged “breeding cow” for the empire so the same had more boys for the army and more laborers for the quarries. It is not surprising that female genital mutilation, - FGM, is believed to have started in Egypt under the times of the pharaohs. The reason for FGM is to reduce the sexual pleasures and naturally to ensure domination. In the case of male circumcision the arguments that it prevents masturbation are not just recent “Medical claims” but are even documented in ancient Jewish texts. So in both cases of genital mutilation the intent is to lower the sex-drive.
As we progressed from natural and common sense living and governing ourselves to more and more rule of law governments, we invented the “Criminal”. This was a very good invention for empire builders. With more and more laws more and more people committed crimes. Thus the solution was to either execute them by brutal means to the entertainment of the masses, - but also to drive home the message that this could be “YOU” who is next in line if you don’t obey the law. Or even more economic, to use them for slave labor! The draft was not just used to raise armies, but also used for huge projects as in Egypt for the pyramids and in China for similar projects.
The difference between “common sense” and “law” are quite large. In the case of murder for example: It is unnatural for most species to deliberately kill its own. There is a difference between self-defense, a small territorial squabble that might get a few killed and the whole sale organized slaughter in war.
To force ones will onto another person is rare if one lives according to natural instincts. Even unwanted touch is quickly repelled at any age. In a tight knit community, any transgression to this common sense behavior is immediately corrected. So the rare “criminally insane psychopath” is also disposed of quite rapidly.
In a civilization of empire mentality, the behavior is “uniform”. And in this uniformity we are taught restraint. We are behaving like actors on a stage playing the role of someone who we are not in person. We are “pressure cooked” and as everyone knows, eventually this pressure cooker will blow steam. Of course nothing unites us to a common cause as much as a common shared disaster or hardship. The more complex a society becomes the more compartmentalized each persons responsibilities become. Naturally we also increase our communal knowledge. Specialization results in better research and refinements of techniques. However it also removes from us the total oversight and transparency of the situation. How for example can a people vote for or against a war with some country if it does not even know what true evidence are in the files of its respective national secret service agency? How do we really know what is behind a financial crisis if we have not seen the minutes of the world bankers of their latest meetings?
With certainty however we can state that the more advanced and complex a society becomes, the more addicted to consumer goods this society becomes, the more the anti sexual agendas become relevant. And the more we get caught in this artificial “World economy” the more the powers that be desire to look at our sexual behavior and the more they will try to tell us what is “normal”, what we can watch, read, think and discuss. Instead of being tied to the needs for true sustainability we are now tied to an absolute abstract duty and dependence to the artificial world of Money and Morality.
Maybe the slogan should be changed to “Fuck for peace, the environment, humanity and natural life …”
“No boss! I’ll be at work next week maybe. I am not done YET … “

The importance of an "ALF" to the community at large:

2008-11-17T16:27:00.001-05:00

ALF’s (Anonymous Lying FU**) importance to the community at large:

In news groups in general, ALF’s are a nuisance! Many readers simply put them into their kill-files since an ALF repeats the same BS over and over again. However ALF’s do an incredible service to the community. They are like the vultures or maggots that feast on rotten flesh. They are repulsive creatures but nevertheless vital for the balance in nature. I adore ALF’s! Be it in news groups, in forums or in blogs!

Here is why!

1ts of all blogs, newsgroups and forums that have anything got to do with politics and actual issues that require people to take sides, are definitely not frequented by teens and mere pranksters. An ALF will always shine by his consistency, persistence and punctuality in which he posts his BS. Pranksters might last a week or two and then loose interests. An ALF however sees in himself the crusader, the knight in shining (rusted) armor. An ALF also stands out in that he is mostly active in groups with controversial topics; topics that usually do not appeal to or are much of a concern to the teen and younger generations. Teens usually do their work on the face-book and similar social network sites.
An ALF can be found mostly in places that deal with religion, Lifestyles as homosexuality & nudity, politics on issues of free trade, immigration, war on terror, economy and so forth. An ALF usually is found on the Radical Right side of the points of view spectrum.
An ALF also has another mark that makes him easily identifiable. He never quotes from reliable and accepted sources. For instance he hardly knows what a Webster’s Dictionary is or can quote from the CIA fact book or the likes. His quotes and proof come from RRR fringe publications with no scientific value. An ALF might also be a rejected LEA person. He is someone who was considered by LEA as a loose cannon and too dangerous to be trusted with the enforcement of law in the best interest of the community. In politically incorrect speak: He is a looser! He is a Jack-of-all-trades and a master of none. This makes him a dangerous agitator and a slime ball recruiter to the unaware masses. Similar like an advertisement agent, he operates with ½ truth slogans.
We all know about the $29.99 life insurance policies that will cover you for a million, - providing you don’t smoke, drink, have sex, have high blood pressure etc, - in clear terms it only applies if you are healthy as super-man. The trick is to get you to see one of these agents and then once informed you do not qualify for the 29.99 special you then are coaxed to sign up for a 59.98 special, which, it then turns out you have been paying anyhow with your other life insurance company since years.
An ALF is mostly a middle-aged man who looks back as his life and has to realize that he has been a looser all his 45 years long. He has grand ideas but never got anywhere, even his church sort of sidetracks him and has him in the position of the church clown.
But! Suddenly ALF discovers the Internet! He finds news groups that discuss such issues as the same sex marriage, the acceptance of nudism in the mainstream, the possible amnesty for illegal immigrants and so forth. Now he has something he can sink his teeth in! He attacks and agitates and throws his RRR BS around. If he were to preach this BS before a congregation of similar cooks, he would be very successful. However this is the Internet, not the closed conference room in the church basement.
A news group has listed for example a membership of 1,200 people. However a mere 10-20 regular posters are observed. What are the other 1,180 readers of this group doing? Foremost readers of news groups are people who are concerned about specific issues and want to have more answers. Newsgroups do provide a valuable service in that very often links to otherwise unknown web sites are posted that deal with specific topics in a more analytic way. Activists do have their network of people and are linked with the sites that provide the information required for this topic. The major search engines do not do a good service if one tries to research a topic in more detail. What is also the fact is that those remaining 1.180 readers of a news group are also people in the voting age. The reason why these people are in such news groups is to get informed. If you just want to look at porn pictures, one does not read through miles of political discussions. This is the reason why one joins a news group, to be informed. Again, the readers are mostly middleaged people! The topic they are now following is a topic that had never been part of their concerns until now. The reason for this is of no importance. One might for example never heard or been concerned about nudity, till one suddenly has a neighbor who is an active nudist. Just a conversation with this person now prompts one to research the subject more closely. Or the news hype about same sex marriage or similar. Now people want to know more! So one joins a newsgroup and there is ALF!
The 1st thing the reader sees is ALF’s massive number of posts. At 1st, the slogans and ½ truth the ALF uses might sound appealing to the reader. Maybe the reader joined the group on nudism because he is sure nudism is equal to child molestation. Or he joins a homosexual discussion group because he wants to “show those faggots how wrong they are”, etc. ALF naturally feed them their appetite and reassures them in their fears and phobias. However the longer they read, the more they see the counterarguments from the regular posters. The regular and active poster refrains from profanity and argues with consistency and well-researched material. The informed poster also knows his history and knows what caused things to be as they are today. He is aware what each word means and does not use “one size fits all” slogan to paint everything with the same wide brush.
I usually consider the general reader of a news group as a “fence sitter”. Someone who is not sure as to what is true or what is false on a given issue or topic. These fence sitters are however the people that do mark the X on the petitions, referendums and what have you. It does not matter if it is on a municipal level or on provincial or national levels. What matter is that this reader will place his X in either a NO or a YES circle on a given day on a given issue.
So to ignore the ALF, as many argue is of no use. On the contrary! The ALF demonstrates to the informed person the “stupidity” of the informed RRR or the dangerous agendas some organization have. An ALF who posts constantly KKK slogans and supremacist BS has to be opposed. He is our teaching tool. He is similar to an apprentice ship class in automotive mechanics. He is the “loose battery cable” that is the cause why the car does not start; he is the badly aligned wheel that pulls the car to the side and so on. He is the “Mistake” that is the cause of the problems and controversies. And by proving the ALF wrong, the fence sitter learns and decides.
So the ALF helps us to ensure that the masses get the proper information, not the ½ truth slogans.
The ALF is the maggot that dines on the rotten flesh and thus ensures that no disease will spread to the healthy body. So no matter how repulsive an ALF is, - (no one wants a maggot or a vulture as a pet) – he does provide the community at large with the utmost essential services, - True Information.

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The P-word & Alf

2008-11-16T09:18:00.000-05:00

The infamous “P”-word and ALF:

On our site, HTTP//tinyeden.org, we have listed a statement that reads: “This Site is Boy-LOVE, not Boy-SEX certified.” – Needless to say within moments the “Anti-Love-Fanatics” – (ALF) from the Radical Religious Right – (RRR) have attacked us and claimed that we are promoting “Pedophilia”.
Now ALF – Anti-Love-Fanatic or (Anonymous Lying Fu**) has a serious comprehension problem. Alf and his RRR friends have since over a good decade or longer managed to twist the definitions of “Love” words around. Pedophilia means actually the “Love for/of children”. It means in no ways in its original meaning the sexual abuse of children.
Anyone who knows the book “Tiny Eden” also knows that in no way does it condone or even remotely encourage the sexual abuse of children. This is right clearly underlined with the excerpt “Boy-Love” on the website. However Alf does not read the content of a website. S/He simply goes for “Slogans”. He hears Boy-love” and he imagines right away the rape of an 8-year-old boy. All control freaks appeal to our basic fears, - the endangerment of our children.
Children are our future and as living beings we have this instinct of survival manifested in our reproductive activities so that our human species shall continue. Each time the control freaks run out of arguments, they then yell: “But what about the children!”
Now for starters I have to explain, that the original Tiny Eden has been read by many “females and mothers”. That gender of our species that is even more protective of their offspring’s than the male gender is. Just look in nature and find out what happens if you get too close to any “mother animal” with young ones. This underlined that Mothers are even more protective than fathers towards their children, the book “Tiny Eden” had always been praised by “Mothers” as incredibly “nurturing”. This is quite strange for a book that Alf says is promoting child sex abuse.
Now Alf and his RRR ilk begin to twist words around. Since many people with an expanded intellectual horizon try to point out that sexual abuse, be it on a child or an adult is simply called RAPE, and these more enlightened people of society then underline that the issue is “Love” not abuse, Alf and the RRR coin new phrases.
Suddenly the term “Boy-Love” becomes a “code-word” for a homosexual child abuser focused on boys. “Pedophilia” is now a “Code-word” for child-sex-abuse. So we call it simply the “P”-word.
The P-word has already been turned around about a century ago or longer and is part and parcel of the criminal terminology for child-sexual-abuse. However laws are very precise. The legal profession has the P-word well defined as to what acts are required to deserve the use of the P-word. Alf and the RRR however have no idea what the legal requirements are in order that one has the right and justification to use the P-word as a definition on a person. They now use the P-word with the same liberty as people used the C-word – “Communism” under the McCarthy times.
“A village rears a child” is an old Chinese saying! Humans are social animals/species. This means we cannot live alone or in a family only and develop all our potentials. The spectrum of talents and skills is too large as that one person alone can educate a child in all skills and knowledge all on his own. This is the reason for universities and other places of higher learning. Just because a child has the parents genes does not mean it shares the parent’s talents, skill and interests. The conflict between child and parent often stems from the different interests and talents the child displays. The feuds begin because the boy does not want to become a Doctor “as daddy is” but rather wants to be a pianist or a mechanic. This is one of the reasons why other people begin to play an important role in a child’s life; especially around the age of puberty and into the formidable teen years.
Dictators love nothing else but a society cowed in fear. Nothing more makes a society cowed than the fear for their children! If the family is afraid enough that every “stranger” out there is a potential danger to the child, then the parents will be very happy surrender the raising of their children to the institutions that manipulate these children into the “sheep” the dictatorship wants.
Dictatorship and slavery do not always have to take the visual shapes of a Nazi regime or that of the old colonial days with people in shackles sold on the slave markets. Today’s slavery and enslavement is resting on solid foundations of financial dependence. As well as a dependence on a consumer cult that placed incredible psychological pressure on a person. The need to fit into a society with artificial values is ever increasing! One also can hardly call the USA with a 2 party system a “democracy”.
Now why are Alf and the RRR so powerful? Or where do they get their resourced to continue being even taken serious? In a capitalistic system, someone is always making money on whatever trend is “In” right now.
In many circles one now hears the term “The child-sex-abuse Industry”. It began some decades ago with the “Recovered Memory Syndrome” – now often also called the “FALSE Memory Syndrome”. Suddenly every screw up in one’s own life could now be blamed on some sexual abuse endured as a child that had been suppressed in our memory. New “Shrinks” had their field days! New clinics sprang up and recovery centers. Also as I had pointed out in my article on nudism, it is not to the liking of the textile industry if nudism becomes an acceptable lifestyle.
Churches are powerful institutions. And most of their power comes from the amount of money they are able to collect. Now why would someone surrender money to a power that enslaves his mind? People always talk about the Catholic Church or Vatican when they talk about wealth and religion. Sure the Catholic Church might be the prime example of such power and wealth. However the present Vatican is also a reminder of how much its wings had been clipped. The once mighty eagle of a Vatican has been reduced to a small chicken. Well so it appears at least. Even if it’s wings have been clipped and this eagle can no longer fly as before, it is not a chicken, it still is an eagle. And this eagle is out for revenge because of its clipped wings. One seems to forget that most of what is total the country and state of Italy was once the Vatican as a state!
So each time a church looses some of its powers and influences, they turn to big business. OK. The digital mini cameras of today are marvels of technology. One can hide them in almost any places. What looks like the head of a nail can be in reality the lens of such camera. And this brings us back to the P-word.
Let us stick with the camera example. This device is for sure ideal for clandestine surveillance. It helps police and others as like banks to enforce better security. However if your company is in the spy-camera business, you do realize that there are not too many banks and police stations around on this planet, compared to the remaining number of houses, and people in general. However since now the “Child-sex-abuse industrial complex” has you believe that even your maid and babysitter could be a predator and according to their “cooked statistics” 99,99999% of all non family members are, then you “have to have” such cameras in your house. Then you add the fear of teen sex and a camera is hidden in each of your kid’s bedroom so that you can be sure the boyfriend is not going to “mess with your daughter”. Are you, the owner of this camera company, not happy? Instead of 200,000 units sold to banks and police stations you now have sold 20,000,000 units to frightened parents! Now in order to maintain this network of cameras you create security agencies that monitor these cameras. This now makes for a monthly plan. Oh the economy is booming now! And all this because “we need to protect the children”.
Now if you mouth off and call it what it is, an industry based on unfounded fear, then the 1st thing you hear is the P-word attached to your name as a title. Now when it comes to issues as same sex marriage and Alf and his RRR can’t manage with legal arguments, then the next thing is to cry: “But what about the children?”
Now if one argues that children do not care about who loves them, but that they feel loved is all what matters to them, then Alf fires back that the Homosexuals and Lesbians are out to “groom” our children to ensure the supply of a good future generation of new Homosexuals and Lesbians.
Has anyone ever stopped and looked at the following:
Take a little child of let us now say in the 4 –12 year range. This child loves his grandfather or grandmother, or uncle or neighbor. Has one ever stopped and looked carefully at “how these loved people” look? I mean in their physical appearance in terms of attractiveness? Grandparents are mostly old people. Not the least anymore the flashy 25 year old sexual knockouts. Yet the child loves those people! The child loves them not for their looks and appearance, but for the attention, love, caring and understanding they tote on the child. They don’t even care about the smell of the “old fashioned” perfume these people use. So “Looks” have nothing to do with love for a child. Even less so does the child care if these people he or she loves are gay or lesbian or what ever else. Nor does the child care if these people are Communists or Atheists or what ever else. It only begins at puberty where the child’s sexual orientation, likes and attractions begin to manifest themselves. Only at that age begin looks and compatibility in other aspects of life begin to matter for the “child”.
Children and teens today are living in an isolated world. Amidst an over populated planet they live lives akin to solitary confinement. The access to guns in the USA had always been an easy one for children and with the pioneer history of the USA; teens were well versed in the use of weapons. However these teens didn’t shoot up schools. Today, and one can say since the last 30 some years, the incidents of school shootings is increasing. More and more teens “flip”. The national suicide rate records that approximately 80% of all suicides are committed by teens! 80% of all suicides are concentrated in an age group from 14-19 or about. More so the highest number of the teen suicides are because of sexual orientation identity problems. This is quite a frightening number. Running away had usually been a teen’s way out from an abusive home, but suicide had never had such a strong showing before in teens.
What do those incidents tell us? When we say that this is the result of the absence of “Love”, then Alf and the RRR will use the P-word. And like good citizens way back during the McCarthy times, we blush and hide and hope no one has heard Alf calling me with the P-word. Well I have news for you:
I love it when Alf uses the P-word on me! See there are two kinds of people. The ones that run and hide by this word and the ones who stand up and fight when hearing this word. These are people who insist on the proper use of words. Don’t call a submarine an airliner and don’t use the P-word when we talk about true mentor-ship and love.
Once at a PTA meeting one father was debating aloud if the school and staff are not lacking a bit of compassion in their work. Right away one person attacked the father with the words: “The way you talk you sound like a boy-lover!” – The father replied: “I am a boy-lover! I LOVE my son and do not beat the crap out of him and leave him unattended and uncared for.”
Children want to be loved and they do not care if this love comes from a mother and father, two fathers or two mothers, an uncle, aunt, the guy next door or the teacher. After all; - a village rears a child!

Activism under the Magnifying Glass

2008-11-15T06:07:00.001-05:00

Activism under the magnifying glass:

The recent fuss concerning the Proposition 8 vote in California that defines marriage as an issue between a man and a woman has me wonder why people never learn from history?
Right now “Gay activists” are challenging the Prop. 8 results. However how many are Gay activists? Among the gays the actual marching forces of activists are a small % of an already small group of people. And this is the problem in my opinion.

It seems people forget the words of Rev. Martin Niemoeller

” In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. They then came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.”

ã - Rev. Martin Niemoeller

What Rev. Niemoeller is talking about is the Nazi dictatorship and the persecution of many. Unfortunately when we talk about the Nazi period, we simply think “Jews + Holocaust”. We tend to forget that besides the Jews, a lot of other people got persecuted. Niemoeller in his quote did not even mention the Gypsies and the Homosexuals who got to face the same “final solution”, - and the mentally & physically disabled.
Today people debate the numbers of Jews killed during this time. Revisionists doubt the 6 million claims. What ever the final number will be is of little matter, but for this issue I stick with the 6 million Jews killed. However I might add and underline that besides these 6 million Jews, 5 million of the “Others” were also killed. And here is the problem with our collective memory on history!
Of 100 or so documentaries on the 3rd Reich only 1 or 3 out of these 100 documentaries report on the fact that besides the Jews, other minorities were persecuted as well. 5,000,000 “Others” versus 6,000,000 Jews looks close to a 50/50 balance! Yet the holocaust is today seen as a “Jewish Only tragedy”. And there is the problem!
Now why is everyone talking about the 6 million Jews but not about the almost same number of these “Others”? Simply because those “other” 5 million consisted of people who in their convictions, lifestyles and believes often opposed each other! Parts of the 5 million were for example Jehovah witnesses! They got the invitation to the gas chambers because of their refusal to serve in the Wehrmacht. They were simply “Draft dodgers”. It is obvious that these lovely Jehovah’s were and still are totally opposed to homosexuality. The others, as the trade unionists, Socialists, Communists and so forth were made up of people from all walks of life; some might have been gay, most were not.
“Divide and conquer” is an old military as well political strategy! And it is unfortunate that the “Left” or the liberal and enlightened people forget their history! The right on the other hand has a cunning way of uniting when convenient! It is very strange that during the presidential campaign the Mormon candidate was clobbered by the RRR and just a few month later the same Mormons and other Christian forces who where at each other’s throats before became united against the gays. Strangely enough the same happened in the 1990 during an UN conference on World population control. The Catholic Church and the Muslims are at each other’s throats since their existence. However when the more “worldly UN” proposed the expansion of family planning and birth control, these two major bastions of faith banded together and voted the proposal down! The “rightwing” seems to be able to unite seemingly opposing forces at the snap of a finger, and the left wing is unable to do so?
Again back to the numbers! The debate who is gay and who is not varies between 3% to 10% of the population, depending on the source. Those who use the 3% number seem to count absolutely only those who are in an open gay lifestyle, while the 10% numbers is quotes as inclusive to those who are not out in the open. But where is the Bi-Sexual % of the population, and why would it even matter? It matters a lot! Here is why!
I personally stick with the understanding that most people, close to 80% are bi-sexual. However past a few “gay-experiments” during puberty in the forms of a few showing one’s development and maybe a mutual jerk off with a friend, most people then turn to a complete heterosexual lifestyle. This heterosexual lifestyle is driven by the natural instinct to procreate and ensure the continuation of our species. However past the procreative period, people then again begin to discover their true likings. In one talk show some years back I have heard that 40% or so of all American divorces are because of a same sex encounter of one of the partners. Now I can’t vouch for this number nor do I have statistics to back this up. However I do remember this number being used in the talk show.
Most people understand under bi-sexual a person that is “Equally drawn” to both genders. And yet there is the problem! When we debate the 3% or the 10% number accuracy on gays then these different figures come also from different interpretations. The low 3% number is derived from a census that discounts all puberty related gay sexual encounters. (Some do last quite a considerable time till into the late teens and early 20’s) The 10% census takes exactly those numbers into account.
I personally consider the 10% number as the number of those who are so predominately attracted to the same sex, that they see no reason, have no desire nor even the least attraction towards the opposite sex. However the silent majority of Bi-sexual I do blame for their silence and inactivity. I consider also many heterosexuals people who have either never experimented with the same sex, not even during the puberty times or who have been under such social/church/community pressure that the thought of any other sex but the missionary position is foreign to them. I think that the (silent) bi-sexual and unaware that he is bi-sexual heterosexual person is who he is simply because of social conditioning. Because if a person is let us say to 80% Heterosexual but would be able, if encouraged or exposed without guilt to a same sex encounter, enjoy the other 20% of his sexuality in this fashion, then the 20% “gayness” in him is not that predominant as to pose a serious “urge” to him. For this reason, he then accepts very easily and adapts very easily to social conditioning! So even if he is 20% gay, he would not “miss” this lifestyle, since the other 80% of his sexual likes are met.
Most gay haters however are well known for being the “closet gays”. And those are exactly these people who discover their likes for the same sex way after the exploratory puberty phase. These people have envy! People who have recovered from their life long confinement to superstition (Religion) often are raging with anger inside. Their rage is not against the religion as such; it is for their “Lost time” within this religion. For not having enjoyed life as the rest of people had, for having not had a drink, a smoke, a enjoyment of the arts and so forth because of the restrictive social conditions within their religion. Closet gays stand out in this that they insist that if they had lost out on all the fun, then no one else should have fun that had been denied to them.
Now to the major point of this argument:
We do know that in many Islamic countries, homosexuality is severely punished. Now why does the bi-sexual matter in this debate? There comes the issue that Niemoeller raises. As long as it is not right in our own back yard it is not our business. However let us examine the issue of a brutal anti gay legislation. Suppose the USA would now adopt some very draconian laws akin to the Islamic states on homosexuality. Would those laws then differentiate between a 100% gay person and his lifestyle and let us say 2 swinging heterosexual couples who also have on occasion a bit of gay and lesbian sex? Would then not this “bisexual” man face the same brutal legal persecution also he is most of the time “heterosexual”? Is homosexuality defined as a lifestyle or a sex-act? Is one gay sex act among consenting couples engaged in swinging enough to consider this man gay? If we look at the many restrictions and prohibitions on anal sex in some states, it tends to support the reason that the “Act” alone is what defines the anti gay agenda.
So why then do the Bi-sexual people not stand up and defend the gays? Are they so delusional to believe that this is not affecting them? On a personal level, I cannot remotely imagine ever to be enjoying the BD/Sm scene. However I did more then once sign petitions against police harassment of local BD/Sm clubs. The reason is exactly based on the statement of Niemoeller. Sure it does not affect me in person if the authorities close down that club or not. I have never shown interests in this scene, I have never even fantasized about it and I have no inclination to ever explore it. However I am a nudist. I want my beaches. I want nudism to become more and more acceptable. And it has to do exactly with this issue. Because if they close me down the BD/Sm club, then they have taken one contingent of the sexual variety army out of action. 1 down, 99 more to go. Then what or who is next? The gay nude dancers? The lesbian dance show? The nude show with one female and 2 men or the one with 2 females and one man? The transvestites? Who is next? There might be 100 other entities, interests and so forth that are on the priority agenda of the RRR before they even look at my nude lifestyle! But if they chip away one after the next, eventually my nude beach is next! And all this because I didn’t say a word when they came and closed down the BD/Sm club …

Nudism

2008-11-09T04:12:00.003-05:00

Now this is going to be a bit long ...
It will also be visible on Tiny Eden's Forum. This is from my not yet "ready web-site"

Nudism - explained:

Introduction
Part II - Capitalism everywhere & the burden on the environment.
Part III - Shame, Sex & Nudity

"If God meant us to be nude, we would have been born that way ..." is a common slogan heard in nudist circles. We have a problem with a few definitions concerning "Nudism". Namely the very part of the "... ISM" ending of the word. "... ISM" is found in many definitions. As for example in Social-ISM, Commun-ISM, Capital-ISM etc.
Definitions have one problem however. Definitions are suited for technical and scientific issues, but are not suited for human interaction. Definitions restrict us. Just the difference between the demands of being a good practicing Socialist versus a practicing Capitalist dictates the conduct and choices a person has to make. If it comes to election day, for example, the Socialist will cast his vote for a candidate who supports universal health care, while the Capitalist will not vote for such a candidate. An "ISM" defines our actions!
For this reason, we at Network FIO oppose the term "Nudism" since it would restrain us from natural freedom. The Grand Barn in turn has always used the term "At EASE with Nudity" and defining it as a "non-issue" to begin with.
FIO does insist to be atheistic or at least agnostic. We do understand that we cannot "Disprove" the existence of a God or higher power, however we CAN prove, that the God(s) and higher powers of the great religions are "Man-made". Therefore to call God by a name, defined by a specific dogma and doctrine as in "Catholicism, Protestantism" etc. is again a restriction to our personal freedoms. However the entry quote invokes the existence of a God. For this reason we do continue to explain the nude lifestyle with an eye on this "God".
Now let us begin!
So God created the universe and all living beings, including us humans. Now please note that God Created things, he did not Invent things! The diaper was invented by man, so was the gun, the atom bomb and Anthrax. So God created man, - as it is so often said - In HIS IMAGE! With common sense we shall then understand that God is NUDE too! When God created us, we were then pretty much "perfectly designed" for life in the jungle. Like our monkey cousins are. We started life as a species in a region that permitted a 24/7/365 nude lifestyle. So if the baby "craps" onto the jungle grounds, it just did as all animals do. It was no big problem. However the invention of the carpet and the modern dwellings forced man to invent the diaper! I mean be real! You cannot let it happen that an ignorant baby is going to pee and crap on your 20,000$ Persian (Fake?) carpet and one shall find that normal? So we invented the diaper. The forerunner of the diaper was the swaddling cloth or any form of rags placed at the strategic end of the baby.
Ever since man had been kicked out from the garden of Eden, - (we found the same under TINY EDEN) - man was kind of forced to venture into regions that were a bit colder. In order to counter this problem, man discovered and invented the use of fire. Now frying bacon in the nude is not the best idea! So we as human progressed with this "Ahhh! or EUREKA!" sensation and continued to wear diapers. Gradually the sizes of those diapers increased and began to cover the entire body of ours.
Well covered, we found out we could fry bacon without getting splattered and burned by hot grease. We learned that we could venture into colder regions. We could protect ourselves against other dangers, as like the claws of some animal that we were about to snuff for supper, and so forth. I mean come on! Can you imagine to weld or work near a steel furnace in the nude?
The more we invented, the more different protective diapers, - (clothes) - we needed. In the middle ages we had iron clad knights to bash each others skulls in, today we have Kevlar clad SWAT teams.
So when has our modern age man even time to be nude? Well foremost for the times when he has some serious vital bodily needs as going to the toilette. The for the few minutes in the shower or bath tub. Then forcefully at times at the doctor's or during a strip search at customs.
Then there are however those few people who refuse to like clothes and make good money with it, - Porn-Stars, Prostitutes and nude dancers.
Now we have a problem! There are also a "minority of people" that call themselves "NUDISTS". Some people in the diaper business, - (Textile Industry) - don't like that at all. So the Nudists begin to claim that nudism is natural and make this above famous quote. Then the diaper people right away charge that the only other "professionals" that stay nude are in the sex-industry. Then they charge that the nudists are "grooming" their innocent children to the joys of staying nude and these then will flock in masses as future employees to the sex industry! If an mass migration to the sex industry begins to happen then the Tax department will be understaffed and the diaper-people will loose a large amount on sales. Their reason is that the less clothing one has the more he has to pay for the exposed skin! I believe they do so by the Square Inch measurements. This explains that a full cover 3-piece suit cost a mere 150$ but a string bikini costs similar amounts if not more. Their reasoning is even more underlined by the fact that only a small percentage of people do require a business suite for their work. However ALL people enjoy the beach. Thus the need to be covered on a hot day at the beach is essential business for the diaper-people.
So now the diaper-people then use this argument of "sexual child-abuse" to ensure that people stay dressed at the beach. The Nudists charge back that SEX is never on their mind. - I only wonder who gave them their kids - Stork-FedEx? So then the Nudists begin to think! Finally they come up with a definition called NUDISM. With this defined, the diaper-people are happy! Nudism now has rules and regulations!

OK! Enough of the joking around! The reasons why being nude is so disliked has its roots back to some 10,000 years ago. In order to understand things, one has to understand a bit of how we humans evolved from the furry monkeys to the Naked Ape who we are now. We dislike another word very much, and this word is very inter-locked with the issue of nudity. - CIVILIZATION.
Civilization began some 10,000 years ago with the invention/adaptation/transition to agriculture. Many of us see this as the real progress. It was in a sense but also was the cause of much sorrow. Prior to agriculture, people lived in tribes! With a tribe we have to understand a group of families with various complimenting skills and talents living together and supporting each other. It is said that problems arise in group settings, once the group is so large in numbers that one no longer can remember all the group members names. A Natural-Group is usually a group of friends and families that all share common interests. It is completely different from an Un-natural-Group as a work-team, a class in a school, a platoon in the Army, etc.
Note that today we spend a lot of time "training" people to "fit in" a group, work-team and to forth! We have to understand mankind's original groups to be of the Natural-Group kind! To understand what really happened back then we have to take a look at some essentials:

We often call the time before agriculture the hunting and gathering existence. The real term should be: Hunting, Gathering and Gardening!
We "ass-ume" - (FIO Spelling = (_!_)-ume) - that the work load of our ancestors was a hard one. To the contrary. In today's few remaining indigenous tribes, the actual work in hours spent per individual for the personal needs of survival as well the well-being of his tribe is less than 20hrs/week!
We think that the death rate among such tribes is quite high! To the contrary! The tribes are only affected when exposed to "imported diseases" and alteration in their environment that threatens their sustainability. If we use the term "child-mortality" then we use it to mean dying at birth or succumbing to a disease before the age of 5. What we seem not to take into account is our civilized child mortality due to road accidents, drive-by shootings and other death causing incidents. If we would look at the term child mortality in the way as to how many of 1,000 kids born actually make it to become productive adults, then the statistics look a bit different.
If we use the term life expectancy, then we also do a dishonor to the facts. Most people hate history! Especially during their days in school. So this is maybe that not many paid attention to the fact, that also the life expectancy in the middle ages was a mere 30-35 years, checking the birth and death dates of noblemen, emperors and other wealthy people, the life expectancy was pretty close to 60-70 years for them! Lesson! The rich guys had the proper food, housing and sanitary conditions to live healthy and long, the poor guys did not! However the poor masses of the middle ages were not poor because they wanted to be poor, but because of political & social injustice!
Tribal societies stand out in one issue! They either are poor and hungry together or they are wealthy and well fed together. If a drought strikes, if natural disasters cause shortages of food, then the entire tribe goes hungry. If all is well then the entire tribe is well.

This said, we now have to pay a bit more attention to the difference between Garden-culture & Agriculture! The Garden culture is based on small plots of land and many of them! Gardens survive much easier natural disasters than large fields! The multitude of small plots does ensure that one problem does not cause the destruction of the entire gardens but might take out a few only. So there is never a 100% loss. A hail-storm hitting a field can kill 100% of the entire crop. A hailstorm hitting a region with 100 gardens might take out 50 or 80% of them but will leave a certain % untouched!
Another thing is the attraction of animals! Gardens, because they are widely dispersed are never found out by all grazing animals or root digging animals! A field as a whole is for animals akin as a beer-truck that broke down before an alcoholic's house! Both would be a bit stupid NOT to use that opportunity and feast on the bounty!
Fields for certain produce a much larger mass of crops! However they now need also a lot more work! And now the 1st change happens! Since animals are now attracted to this concentration of crops, man is forced to chase them away. The tribe that used to live in harmony and not in rivalry with nature, now sees in everything non-human or non domesticated, an "enemy". Nature needs to be tamed. For the tribal hunter it is natural that the wolf takes down a moose as much as it is natural for the hunter to hunt a moose. The natural person sees in the wolf, the lion, tiger and so forth a competition for food sources. The farmer sees however in every rabbit, deer or antelope a "destroyer" of his crop! Before agriculture, natural tribe children never heard the "big bad wolf stories" at bed time.
Additionally, the domestication of animals began now as well. This saved the people a lot of hunting tasks. However it now again caused additional problems. As much as the deer loved the idea of a full field with oats, so did now the wolves like the idea of a whole pen full of sheep! So for man suddenly everything in nature was turning against him! All of nature became an enemy!
Then another tiny little and almost forgotten thing was added to all this! Some animals did not like to spend all their day inside a pen or a stable! In order to stop this idea that the animal should be free, man began to tame it at a very young age! Taming it often with beatings and other brutality. A fierce bull could be turned into a docile but powerful draft animal if it got castrated.
With this happening, the "logic" began to formulate in man, that if that works on animals with twice or 10 times the strength of a human, then it might work very well on humans. Mind you with man having to exchange his lifestyle from 15-20hrs/week work to a 60hrs 24/7/365 work week, the comments of not "liking" this too much grew proportionally. - (this were the times when the famous phrase - "An you WILL like it!" was coined).
Agriculture now began to create a lot of new jobs! Not just in the sense of needing more people to work the fields. One now needed "foremen" - (speak Cops) - who made sure everyone was actually working. Thus the transformation from a democratic tribe began towards an autocratic society.
It was agriculture that cased the emergence of "state religion". The admiration of nature and the universe gave way to a defined submission towards a specific deity. The emergence of a creation myth and cult. The tribes-elders were now replaced by kings and priests! Very rapidly the uniform behavior model was copied from the animal husbandry towards our societies in general.
Since the nude body does not tell more than age and gender, the new order of who is who was defined by clothes! A civilized society had broken the basic rule of group dynamics, namely the expansion in numbers beyond what one could memorize on actual names. Plus another even more vital event took place! The notion of "Personal Property". The territory was no longer "ours", it was now parceled off into "yours, mine & theirs". Therefore it became important to know who will take care of the property after the original owner had died. So the understanding that this person really was "your son/daughter" became important. Was it really your own son or was it just a boy that your wife had conceived while having fun with the neighbor? - This then resulted in the 1st invention of sexual morals!
Prior to this, sexual conduct was a "Natural" one. With this we understand that humans had sex according to the "instincts" of its respective species. This means our sex was human sex in the same way as the sexual conduct of lions was appropriate for how lions have sex. The more intelligent a species is, the more it advances sex as a form of recreation, not just the periodical reproductive cycle. For this such benign things as grooming become part of the species social interaction. Dolphins are known to have fun stimulating each other with their fins for non reproductive reasons, and monkeys and apes, well no need to explain that, especially our BONOBO cousin!
With the invention of sexual morals, man - (from the ruling class) - realized that the more he can control this "breeding cycle", the more hours were available to get his subjects to do such insane jobs as building temples and other things. We define civilization as the assessment of totally useless objects, projects and foremost buildings & infrastructures. An irrigation canal is not useless, a temple or pyramid however is a total waste of resources, man-power and time.
Today, 10,000 years later, just a handful of these so-called "nudists" even can imagine a life without clothes! And these are again under attack for many reasons, but foremost because of money.
The curse of money was started with the need for accounting. In a tribal setting the amounts needed to feed a tribe and so forth are simply sized up with ones eyes. A civilization needs to invent other means to keep track of what is and what is not here. From measurements and units the addition and multiplication of the same evolved. So maybe someone used in the beginning sticks or shells as "symbols" to account for a given unit of grain. This was akin as today accounting in numbers. However to use these symbols as "tokens" for ones actual possessions became rapidly self evident! The use of GOLD is such a step.
Gold has no value in terms of survival. Gold is a metal that only today is vital for our electronics and in medical applications because of its conductivity as well its sterility in medical use. However gold is NOT a metal I would want to depend on on a deserted island for survival. I would prefer iron or to be turned into steel implements as shovels, axes, nails and so forth. However the earliest civilizations stand out already for their use and addiction to gold. We believe that Gold was used for becoming a "token" exactly because it was otherwise "useless" - just that it looked pretty! Today, this useless token has transformed itself into the monetary system as we know it.

Part II - Capitalism Everywhere & the burden on the environment.

Today we are so far removed from being a natural species that most natural functions are controlled. This includes child birth and the instant donning of diapers onto our new-born. Nudism is now seen as some form of recreation that is practiced by a few.
Today however the environment is the key concern of our people. We hear all the Green-thinking experts talk about the different solutions. We see the artist-sketches of impressive new solutions, new cities of the future, but always "clothes people"! Why is it that even the so called "Greens" cannot understand that Nudity is part of the "solution to the problem"?

The simplest issue concerning nudity and the benefits for the environment are these:

Air condition & Heating.
Detergents & their uses
Crime & terrorist prevention!
Reduction of manufacturing

A/C & Heating

The industrialized world depends strongly on A/C. Much more so even than on heating. - A lot less Canadians & Russians live in the cold northern climates and then only do they need heating during the winter months. A much larger segment of the world's population lives in the hot regions and depends heavily on A/C. The "Green" guys always talk about a "self-sustainable economy". With this they mean that we have to transition from a constantly chasing after "new things" to something that lasts for a while. The most important issue is naturally housing. American homes - (We use the term AMERICA to imply the industrialized North American Continent, - Not the USA alone) - are well known to be badly designed. They are by no means "Green" and even worse by no means disaster-proof. Air conditioning & heating these homes is a round the clock task.
Now to understand a bit what we are about to point out we need to go a bit medically.
Life for us "mammals" depends strongly on the Proper body temperature, 36.8 C or some 96F. The best temperature a person feels comfortable in, - (dressed in a single layer pajamas) - is set at 22C at 60% humidity. Now the temperature that we will list next might shock a few people.
IF one would take a bath in a bathtub inside a room with no lights on and especially no sunlight. S/he could DIE! The conditions for this are these:

A: - Bath water temperature set at 29C
B: - Absolute Darkness
C: - Submerged in the bath with just the head out to breathe for about 6 hours.

The reason is this. It assumes that death will happen via hypothermia within 6 some hours. Hypothermia is the temperature below 36C of the normal body temperature! Now if we are on some southern beach we complain that the ocean is "hot" because its temperature is listed at 27C. Now 27 is a bit less than 29C! So why do we complain about the "hot ocean" at 27C if we would die in this above mentioned bath scenario? The reason is "Sun-Light". Our body reacts to sunlight. This is one of the reasons we use blankets at night during sleep! All sleeping patterns and room temperatures are geared for the sensation of a dressed body and a covered one! PJ & blanket. Try to sleep nude without clothes and blanket and you will notch the thermostat up a few degrees!
When anthropologists pinpoint the origin of man to the tropical Africa, then this origin is located in the best regions of 24/7/365 nude conditions! The reason why nudists hardly ever have sunburns and textile people do is also based on this sun-light reaction. The wet bathing suite covers part of a body. This part of the body is in the dark. Thus it signals to us "Cold", while the other parts of our bodies are exposed to sunlight and thus signal to the body "Hot". However the conflicting Cold/Hot message does cause our bodies not to send out warning signals that we are already sunburning!
If we only would look a bit closer to why our healthy body temperature is between 36-37C and all out living conditions are in the 20-30C range, then we should see the light! Since we are a social animal, original man used not blankets but each other to sustain body heat during night! The invention of clothing and the general discovery and use of fire was it that in essence made man migrate to climates that were not suitable for a "nude-lifestyle". However to use this fact that we now live on almost any place on earth does not mean to be understood that we as a human species are naturally "meant" to live in those regions.
Any animal adopting a new environment is usually not trashing the same to such an extend that it becomes un-inhabitable. We humans however do so.
In architecture, there are many ways to increase the insulation of our buildings to either keep them cool or in keeping them warm. However a nude lifestyle would contribute to a need to cool the houses less. Since our sweat, - (and we do sweat, even if less invocable) - is keeping us cool via evaporation, a nude body would require a less cooler environment in general. If we would live more to the rules of "If cold add clothing, - if hot remove them ..." then the AC and heating costs would be reduced dramatically! Shorts and T-shirt do NOT have the same effect as a totally Nude body! See the issue concerning temperature and light.

Detergents:

As humans we do remain a very clean species in general, - (grooming, bathing etc.) It is common sense that the soap and shampoo that we use for body hygiene are much less of an environmental burden than the detergents that we use to keep the clothes and house cleaned. We do not bathe in laundry detergent and those who do at times hand wash some clothes do know how their hands look after just a few minutes of activity. A nude lifestyle would drastically reduce the amount of clothing that needs to go into the laundry! This does not just reflect in the reduction in the utility bills, but also in the reduction of the chemicals to be treated in the water treatment plants! Since most of our water that is used for things other than bathing and drinking, as like flushing the toilette and doing laundry and washing the floors, is also drinking water, this is a vital issue. In many new green projects, architects use a "Grey-water" system. This means a 2nd water supply that is "clean" but not unrecommended for drinking. Such Grey water is used for flushing the toilette, washing the floor and car and also for doing the laundry.
A reminder! It is estimated that Only 1-5% of all available water on this planet is drinking water! To such reduce the waste of drinking water for such actions as laundry and so forth, would be another incentive to remain nude.
A nude body is also less in need to be constantly showered and bathed. Sweat evaporates and does not stick to the skin and causes irritation and uncomfortable sensations compared to remaining clothed! So our hygiene needs would be reduced to natural hygiene needs, not artificially created ones. It is obvious that a steel worker will need a good shower after his shift, while a nude school kid would just to need to wash his hands after class.
Nude people love to carry around their "security blanket" - (Speak towel) - which they use to sit down on wherever they are. Laundry would be reduced to pretty much thats and protective working clothes. A business suite is NOT a protective working attire, a fire fighter's or steel worker's clothes ARE.
It is after all that protective clothing and protective gear enabled us to settle all corners of this planet and even outer space and the deep sea. We are not asking now that firefighters go to douse a blaze in the nude! We are asking to be nude when there is no practical reason to be dressed!

Crime and terrorist prevention

"You can't steal money out from a nude man's pockets ..." is often a joke to hint that the person is financially pretty much broke. As hard as it is to pick-pocket from a nude person, it is even harder to hide a 12 gauge shotgun on a nude body. Clothing was invented and adapted to be protective mostly. Not just to protect us from the cold, but mostly also to protect us from injury. The loincloth in primitive cultures is not there for modesty. The loincloth is worn to deflect branches and the likes to slap on our more "sensitive" genitals.
Note that most primitive cultures do live in jungle regions and one cannot call those regions as "Park-like landscapes". It is this very need to protect that in such cultures most children remain nude till to such an age in which they do reach a level of maturity in which they participate in the up-keep of the tribe "outside" the village. So the "rite of passage" is not just the kid has now a loin-cloth, but the loincloth is an indicator that the child had reached a level of maturity to be an active participant and supporter of the tribe. The loin-cloth becomes his "uniform" to signal his status within the tribe.
It is a no-brainer to realize that the more clothes one wears, the more places one has to conceal weapons and explosives. Very hard to do when nude! Or would then a a terrorist with a stick of dynamite up his butt explain it to customs as a "Muslim butt-plug"? Clothes are also integrated carrying devices. Just look at the combat uniform of a soldier! This one is dotted with pockets, since many essential items have to be on the soldiers body. The more one needs to have on the body, the more the clothes in size, the more pockets and so forth. If one has "nothing to hide" then why the need for clothes beyond the needs to keep warm? The nude body is also a lot more vulnerable! Criminal gangs, besides deadly weapons as knifes and guns, use also such devices as steel-edged shoe-soles, knuckle rings and the likes to inflict utmost pain and damage to their victims. Nude bodies cannot inflict more pain and damage than natural possible. The worst case scenario would be a frail old person matched against a black belt karate champ. But this mismatch in strength is a natural one. Crime and violence are noted for their use of non natural means and implements to inflict damage or more.
This will not prevent crime all together, but it will reduce it a lot. Criminal groups feel mostly safe in numbers. Additionally they do wear their "work clothes". Mainly heavy protective leather jackets, shoes or boots and mostly even protective jock straps under their pants to avoid injury to their more sensitive body parts. Alone in the choice of clothes, the criminal has the edge over the regular person. While the regular person is dressed for weather, appearance and the likes, the criminal is dressed for his "job" and this includes being relative shielded from physical pain. We doubt that a gang of nude criminals, - unless they are all black belts - would have the same effect as their dressed counterparts on us average citizens. Foremost, their "sensitive parts" are as openly "exposed" as ours, and one quick kick into those would reduce the menace rapidly.
Nudity is also a part of a "To be able to see what is coming..." preventive situation. Very hard to explain to a cop at 32C HOT why you are walking in a neighborhood with baggy-pants and a crowbar concealed under them and say "Well I am just going for a walk ..."
A threat would be again returned to a natural level. For certain a 90 year old frail person will have no chance against a prime muscle-pack of 25 years. However then again, - you can't steal out from a naked man's pocket ...

Reduction of manufacturing: - end of capitalism

Capitalism is after all the reason for today's many problems. With capitalism we do not mean money per say. We do not condemn the so called "Token or Symbol" representing value. A title to one's land is not the land in itself. It is simply a record that you own this said piece of land. In a sales contract of the same land the value of the land might be indicated. This value might fluctuate with the general property values. So from the original value of $10,000 the actual value might be just $100 now or $1,000,000 in the meanwhile.
There is a difference between "Good Accounting" and what we call today the "Market economy". Accounting is done even on a personal level. To manage our resources wisely. A good economy is one that is well managed. But this management must not actually be reflected in the value of the stock market. A primitive tribe is not listed on the stock exchange, but its economy, the well-being of all its members is sound! So the tribe can then post a "Positive Economy", good standards of living and so forth.
Today we fawn over antiques! We collect them! Yet what we hardly admit so, is the fact that why and that we collect them is because these items were made to "Last". Only since the industrial revolution did a market economy develop! Since this time, we are running after ever more improved items on an almost daily basis.
We do not advocate a "Back into the cave ..." scenario. What we advocate is a basic and Sustainable economy. Sustainable means that the needs for our daily lives are well taken care of. Also the needs for our children future!

These needs are basic: - FOOD, SHELTER, SAFETY & DIGNITY - (Love). All other needs are artificial!

A tribe does not keep tally of the hours worked. The tribe functions with meeting the needs. Once these needs are satisfied, then the tribe rests and recreates. Tribes that depend on strong migratory events as specific animals migrating through their territory on seasonal intervals can be observed to be working at times 24/7 to harvest this plentiful event. Then the same tribe is seen doing "nothing" for weeks and months to come. Add all the hours over a year and the average work-week hardly exceeds 20hr. Then a lot of "work" is not considered "work" by those tribes. One can explain it this way. We understand under work something that we get paid for and /or the work we do in our household as cooking and cleaning. However, were one to be a hobby gardener and now has his harvest of specific vegetables to be peeled or otherwise processed, and this activity can be done by the entire family, peeling and cleaning the things and yet chatting away, would such a family consider this "Work"? Tribal communities, and even such communities as the Amish, do not consider such activity as "work". Since the main communal activity is the communication and interaction among themselves. That ones hands happen to be peeling apples at the same time, is not considered work. Or one would say, work is combined with pleasure. However had a fire destroyed a dwelling, then the rebuilding of the same is considered work.
The industrial revolution as well the consequent market economy has forced us to not just invent things due to evolutionary needs, but invent things to function in this artificial world. On the issue of transportation alone, the need to commute has affected our infrastructure! Just this issue alone gives us today a headache! Public transport infringes on our needs for individuality and the desire to go to places "Now". Private transport however creates traffic jams. Additionally the 9-5 business hours cause rush hour and more traffic delays and pollution. In order to fix one problem we now need to invent new devices. It is a never ending spiral of development and needs to adapt. Many of today's health problems are not based on natural illnesses but on environmental causes. Cancer rates are rising due to more and more pollution! Viruses and natural illnesses are "normal". A virus is as much part of "Life" as is an elephant or a whale. However these illnesses are now supplemented by an ever increasing pollution and stress related array of illnesses that have nothing to do with natural causes. Chemical reactions cause mutations in viruses! And the list goes on and on!
In the same time we are gobbling up our non renewable resources at a pace unprecedented in all our existence! Pollutants enter our food and water supplies! This again causes more problems! So now people ask, "when will it stop?"
The answer is two-fold. It will either stop because nature will force us, or it will stop when we smarten up. Nature does not care if this planet is inhabited by bacteria, elephants or humans. The dinosaurs died out long time ago! We and other mammals replaced them, Who comes after us? We don't know!
What makes man however unique is that unlike the dinosaurs being killed off by climate change and other events, we as a species are doing it! Unlike no other species on earth, we are causing the alterations and conditions on this planet!
So in order to stop or better even reverse this trend, we need to change the very economic model with which we operate. This model of endless progress and growth has to stop. A back to basics, - not a back to the cave - model has to be implemented. Nothing is better for this than to reconnect man with nature! The most natural means of doing so is to become again a practicing "Naked Human".

Shame, Sex & Nudity

Nudity or more so the bad-mouthing of the same, is based on the Capitalist system. Since our centuries of enlightenment, the arguments for nudity has been a large one. However the market economy principles dictate that one has to be an absolute idiot to endorse a lifestyle that would remove the need for clothes, reduce the needs for detergents, personal hygiene articles and even such things as sunscreen-lotions. So naturally the largest weapon in the anti nudity arsenal is the CHILD SEX ABUSE MISSILE OF MASS-DESTRUCTION. No one would in his right mind deliberately try to endanger the well-being of our children, now would we?

The 1st weapon in their arsenal is SHAME.

Shame is used in may ways, not just in nudity. To be "In" is a constant battle for our children and teens and it even applies to us adults! Shame can be produced even on making fun out of your pink socks! We can make "Anything" shameful, if we so wish. We set the trend by propaganda and actions. We set the trend by defining what is right or wrong or what is "Normal". There is a profound difference between what is "Right" versus what we define as "Normal". Nudity is normal and natural. Being protected against the elements as well specific work based dangers is also natural or common sense. However to remain dressed at all times for no reason or due to a moral code, is not normal.
Critics of the nude lifestyle always tend to point out that children of nudists do refrain from being nude once they reach puberty. This is a common reaction observed among families with children who do enjoy a nude lifestyle. This leaving the nude scene at puberty is however not an issue of shame, but rather an issue of peer pressure. Puberty entering children as well teens do manifest this age mainly by their desire to be more among their peers then with their parents. Puberty is the beginning of the "fleeing the nest" scenario. Kids begin to assert their independence at that age. Naturally if all their classmates and peers do not participate in a nude lifestyle, then the nude child will thus see no choice but to abandon this lifestyle for the sake of being with his friends and peers. Therefor the "exit" of kids at puberty age and beyond from the nude lifestyle is an out-side peer pressure result rather than an aversion towards the lifestyle in general.
Another rather "dumb" argument about remaining covered is that even animals never take off their fur. This is a dumb argument, since animals are naked! Just their hair is more visible than our own! Some of us humans do have strong body hair. Others are almost naturally smooth and hairless. Even our naked skin has plenty of "fur". It is just such a fine and almost invisible hair that we as such think of ourselves of being "more naked" than our cat.
Another argument is the so often observed reflex reaction of people covering up when someone inadvertently walks in on them in the bathroom. This reflex reaction is not so much a reflex of shame, it is a protective reflex that is natural due to the vulnerable position one is in. One has to understand that we humans are still strongly linked in instincts to times long gone bye! being on the toilette is for us the most vulnerable position. One has to understand that not too long ago prior to the introduction of fire into our villages, we humans were not so much the "hunters and gatherers" as the "being hunted and gathered" ones. It was the use of fire that slowly removed us from the menu of most carnivorous predators! The scent of smoke on us hinted to them the existence of forest or grass fires. Additionally the use of burials for our dead also removed the sensation to associate the human scent with "food" form most predators.
People who do live a nude lifestyle and even go so far as to not mind if one person uses the shower while the other uses the toilette, do not have this reflex reaction when walked in on. The reflex reaction of covering up lasts only for so long till to the moment the "intruder" has been identified. After so many shower murder scenes on TV and in the movies, the cover up and defend reflex has been re-enforced.
So shame is again an artificial emotion. Shame as a real emotion is or should only be present when one is made aware of a serious mistake. Shame in that sense is closely associated with guilt. Guilt can be a positive sensation if it is part of a realizing ones mistakes event. However shame or guilt for being nude is artificial. Shame during a full body search at customs and police is a different thing! There ones private orifices are examined for hidden contraband. This is rather an act of intrusion that is usually limited to actual sex play. This done to someone by a stranger due to "authority or for security concerns" - is shameful and embarrassing.

The 2nd weapon they will use is the "one size fits all" argument of sex and children.

Hardly any word after the 1950's communist scare and witch hunt is today more hurting than the word Pedophile or child-molester! Some people today fear this word, label or title to such an extend, they would sell their grandmother to the devil if it would help them not to be called this word. The child molester label is a one slap kills all word. This comes from the false assumption that children are not sexual. That they have no sexual sensations till to this awkward day sometime during puberty when they suddenly turn into raging hormones on feet.
Nothing can be further from the truth. Children are very sexual, just that their sex-play and enjoyments are far removed from what we adults understand under sex and fun. Now the critics of the nude lifestyle claim that nudism will cause the children of nude parents to become sexually active much earlier. In reality, just the contrary is the norm. Nudist children in general delay their sexual activity by a good 2 years of the national average for teens of the respective countries. Unwanted teen pregnancies are also a lot lower if almost non existent among nudist kids.
The reason for this is simple. They have no curiosity to find out how a boy or girl looks under their clothes since they have "seen it ALL". From new-born baby to the 90 year old grandmother with wrinkled skin and sagging breasts. Nude kids might not be able to define what they see. However they do have a keen understanding as to how a body looks at different ages and that all those looks are natural. Therefore since the urge to "explore" is much less predominant, their focus in a teen relation ship is based on the "personality" of the friend, not on the sexual performance of the same. The 1st sex desire among their textile peers is that these peers have never seen a human body nude, short of porn pictures and maybe their younger siblings in the bath tub. Naturally the desire to "finally see a girl nude" becomes so overwhelming that "Sex" takes on the primary drive in a relationship. For the nudist kid, this is just not the fact. S/he knows all aspects of body images. Those kids know all stages of developments and also at what age they will mostly take place.
Then the opponents of nude life will argue naturally the pedophile argument. There as well they are wrong. Now we begin to thread on thin ice, but it has to be said. Most North American boys have their 1st "UNPLEASANT" sexual touching experienced few days after birth when they are routinely circumcised! The boy has not asked for this painful experience. He had not signed any papers of consent and yet a total stranger touches his most private parts and removes one of the most sensual tissues from his penis, namely the foreskin. Now this is "OK" they argue and blabber on about cleanliness, STD prevention and all other "Crap". However if an adult would be caught caressing the genitals of a child and giving pleasure to the child, then he is an evil child molester!
As like in the movie about Larry Flint! He is portrayed in one scene giving a speech and presenting slides showing the beauty of nude bodies versus the daily pictures of maimed and wounded people, of living skeletons in zones of hunger and drought. The "Ugly" sides of life are daily and minute by minute broadcast across our news prints, TV and computer feeds. The "Beauty" of the nude body, be it adult or child is however covered up and in the worst cases called "Child Porn". Nowadays the definitions of child porn begin to even embrace images of children who due to tight fitting clothes the outlines of their genitals are visible. The "Phobia" about nudity becomes evident. Since nudity is natural and yet all legal and other resources are mobilized to make it appear to be "bad", then the only conclusion to this is the fact that the society is Bad, NOT the nude lifestyle!

The 3rd weapon in their arsenal is to Mix it up!

The opponents 3rd weapon is weapon #1 & #2 and re arranged so as to make it sound different. Naturally then comes the argument of religion! The many rules that God gave us and so forth! We repeat to recount an incident in Germany in the late 1960's.
A horrible crime was happening. Young boys in the 5-8 year range began disappearing in a town in West Germany. We do not recall the name of the sick killer nor the town. We do recall however what caused this man and the incidences to become a celebrity in "legal terms". Just as the police were hunting for an elusive child killer, the legislature was debating about the legalization of adult pornography. Just in the middle of this debate, the police finally got this sick bastard. The case was very revolting! The man not just killed the boys, HE ATE them! - (This was before Jeffry Damer!)
Naturally as those details became public, the opposition of the porn legalization used this sick bastard as their scape goat, claiming that pornography must have caused this man to become so sick and evil. However a bit of a smart thinking cop from the homicide department that had handled the case of this boy killer opted to speak at the legislative hearings. The Porn opponents smelling victory, were just too glad to grant the man his time before the comity. To the utmost shock of the Anti Porn brigade the testimony of the cop was the contrary to what they had expected.
The cop testified that in the personal possessions of this cannibalistic child-murderer was not one single nude picture, not to mention no pornographic material. He had not even the then so common and legal nudist magazines with plenty of nude kids in them among his literature. What he had however in his possession was the shopping catalog of the German department-store chain that sold from food to clothing to furniture about everything. And in this catalog was also an underwear section, showing children posing in various underwear. He had drawn circles around 3 specific boy models in underwear. Comparing the boy models in the catalog and the faces of the murdered boys, the look-alike were striking! So the man who committed one of the most heinous serial child killings in Germany had not had a single nude picture of an adult nor of a child in his possession! His drive to kill, his attraction to a specific look and color was triggered by the catalog of a department store. - Germany legalized Adult pron after that, it did however not criminalize the possession of underwear catalog.
In every pro and con arguments of any kind we have to realize one thing. We can never eradicate the sick mind of a few individuals. These types will always be among us. However their drive to kill or rape or worse will not be triggered nor subdued by the permission to see nudity nor by the denial of nude images. However in many cases of sex-serial killers and serial rapists, a rather prohibitive and censored childhood was found to be more dominant than a permissive and sexually free childhood. So it is more likely that an oppressed and repressed person will flip and go for relieve via sexual crimes than a liberal person. Murders and sensational crimes do captivate us. They do so for a reason. They are rare! However they are also standing out due to their freakishness. Either in the number of victims, or the ceremonial way of murdering, their fixation on a specific body type or race and so forth. In the terrorist handbooks it is often written as a guide line: Kill One! Scare a 1,000! Our sensationalism naturally does exactly that. Have the story of a nut case killer on the loose be told often enough and the gun sales go through the roof, single women sing up for self defense courses, alarm companies have booming businesses, dog breeders cant get enough new guard dogs bred, and so forth.
So our suggestion to any hype is this:
"When in doubt, always ask: Now who is making a $ on that?"

© - Copyright 09/11/2008 Network FIO

What the Tiny Eden Blog is all about ... Part II

2008-11-08T19:12:00.006-05:00

Tiny Eden is a fictional story that has plenty of topics embedded in the general story. Some of the most important ones are:

Atheism
Boy-Love as understood in MENTOR-SHIP, not as in Male-Child Sex-Abuse
Conspiracy
Economy
Environment
History
Natural Morality
Nudism
Love: - Inter generational, Bi-Sexuality, Gay & Lesbian
Individualism & community
Politics & their effects on people
War & its effect on children

All these items will be discussed in the coming days, weeks & months. In the meanwhile people are invited to participate in the forum on the Tiny Eden Web-site.

So be patient ... I am writing as fast as I can ...

Guenter

What the Tiny Eden Blog is all about ...

2008-11-07T02:00:00.000-05:00

Hi!

I am Guenter Heyes and the Author of "Tiny Eden"
I published the book at 1st in 1999. However as always with a 1st-time, the book had a few "editing holes". So it was re-edited and is now again out on the market.
I write fiction stories that however embed real events. I figured that people find "Real Events" too boring or complicated to actually discuss them. So if a lot of issues are embedded in a more palatable story, then people do like them more.

So now I hope that people will find some interests in the topics and begin to participate a lot more on the actual website of "Tiny Eden"

After all, we do have a discussion forum and no hidden costs or fees. The only "costs" are the purchase of the book. Tiny Eden has helped a few people in their personal crisis.

One such person is a teen who had been through not so easy a life. Here is what he had to say:

<< Hi,
I read Tiny Eden when I was sick. It kept me very much involved with reading it. With the urging of the editor and the book I was able to push myself into doing more and getting better. The book reads as if real in every way hits many emotions. It makes sense in so many ways I agree it takes a village to raise children. This shows how many people involved can give a child security, love an openness that's needed . Read THE whole story see what all it tells! >>

Another comment was:

<< With Tiny Eden... it's an absolute defiance to the more constricting system at large. This book explores many facets of life that are either taboo or rabidly condemned, yet, the poetry, the prose and the imagination of the author is superb and he's technically also very versed in many mechanical subjects. Aviation comes to mind among others.
Human interactions are also explored in a way that the Big Brother picture is presented with all the humanity that one needs to feel to make it understanding and respectable.
The author has written and is still writing many of those well documented marvels and it's regrettable that although this surpasses the likes of Harry Potter and others of the kind, yet it is still denied its full recognition. Worth having as part of a cerebral library. >>

Tiny Eden touches a lot of topics! Some border on the "taboo". However it is not encouraging illegal behavior nor does it promote violence or hatred. All it does is to cause people to step back, reflect and think.

I do argue against the habit of painting issues with too broad a brush. So with time I shall add more and more posts. Most will be direct copies from the forum of the homepage.

Hope to see a receptive audience ...

Guenter