User:Taxcraft

I am a semi-retired accountant who has an interest in the relationship between thinking and human behavior. I am a CPA and a member of Mensa and have spent years recording my thoughts on taxation, accounting, and other subjects. I have degrees in Electrical Engineering and Business. One of my past occupations was teaching in which I discovered the joy and benefits of applying my mind to the ideas I taught rather than just regurgitationg the presentation found in textbooks. Thought has benefits.

The mind is not easy to study. The best way, I find, is to examine its performance after the fact. You get farther by studying observations.

I don't have future projects in the works other than continue to note my ideas as they come.

Richard L kempe taxcraft@yahoo.com

* Anyone in the habit of deceiving the public is, you can be sure, deceiving his close associates.

* Any area visible to the public can be converted to a stage hosting exaggerated behaviors promoting an agenda.

* Awareness precedes anger.

* Background information is necessary to uncover the true sincerity of deeds.

* Because intelligent behavior is consistent and purposeful, it always has a reference point.

* A solution, to be a solution, must share some of the characteristics of the problem.

* Because we all exist in a network of dependencies, we are threatened by anything foreign.

* Because, in the short term, we cannot conjure up solutions out of thin air, our minds are preoccupied with accessible things to cut or fasten.

* Consistency leads to certainty.

* Decisions are reproductions of our thoughts and the quality of both determines our success.

* Evil people commit their crimes in areas that are "spectator friendly" to them.

* Extreme partisanship is not patriotism.

* Favoritism is the only use of power.

* Get long-term contracts on services providing perishables as stoppages hurt.

* Gifts on a tether can be yanked away.

* In a democracy, if you can't use physical means to control a fanatic, you can't subdue him.

* In the real physical world an important thinking concept is "necessary" as in what is "necessary" for this to happen

* It is easier to demonstrate you are good than it is to demonstrate another is bad.

* John Wilkes Booth, a conservative, shot Abraham Lincoln, a liberal,for extending rights to blacks.

* Knowledge of what gives power is power.

* Logic is the art of the necessary consequence, and, as such, is very dependent on initial conditions.

* Most people can't be reached with intellectual arguments.

* Multiple and consistant public observations formulate reputations.

* Normal relationships involve exchanges and trades, my turn then your turn, abnormal relationships are skewed to one side.

* Only the sane can give someone the benefit of the doubt.

* Pay attention to the inquiries and wishes of your adversaries.

* Poetry is putting a highly elaborate frame around an ordinary picture.

* Politics is the art of creating relationships that involve the threat of loss.

* Publicity can suppress clan loyalty in favor of morally correct behavior.

* Perturbations in human behavior are usually caused by the proximity of enimies. * Rapid progress is more indicative of corruption than talent.

* Reality is agreement with human experience.

* Rely on incidents to support your decisions, not words, especially summary words.

* Socrates is a man(from reason):So far, all men have died(from experience): Socrates will probably die(reason and experience coming together to produce a conclusion).

* The best way to ready the populace for "the harness" is to stupify them.

* The difference between the world of thought and the physical world is that in the real world we can go around the corner to see what is there.

* The environment suffers when corruption is rampant.

* The first time a deed occurs is always prophetic.

* The higher the level of abstraction the more views that can be supported.

* The mind is at its best when studying the results of observations.

* The more fertile the environment the more success is due to the intellect.

* The only thing we control about our minds is what we focus upon.

* The prosecution argues similarity and the defence argues difference.

* The arrogant criminal thinks he is so clever concealment is not necessary and only conceals at a later date when suddenly faced with a major threat.

* Those who do their own research own the world.

* Truth has depth, but fiction is shallow.

* We are witnessing Capitalisms migration to Communism so as to amputate a "justice system, a free press and union problems", a byproduct of which will be the strangulation of democracy and ideas.

* We have to classify because it speaks of promise.

* We lie because of the position in which we find ourselves.

* When we can't conceal a dirty deed we lie about the reasons.

* Without discipline there is nothing to be proud of.

* Without freewill, religious commandments have no meaning. Without freewill, the form of government is irrelevant. Without freewill, courage produces more satisfaction than intellect.

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