Final Statement to the Court

I'm here today because I burnt down the Sheepskin Factory in Glendale, CO, a business that sells pelts, furs and other dead animal skins. I know many people think I should feel remorse for what I've done. I guess this is the customary time where I'm suppose to grovel and beg for mercy. I assure you if that's how I felt I would. But, I am not sorry for anything I have done. Nor am I frightened by this court's authority. Because any system of law that values the rights of the oppressor over the down trodden is an unjust system. And though this court has real and actual power, I question its morality. I doubt the court is interested in the precautions that I took to not harm any person or by-stander and even less concerned with the miserable lives that sheep, cows and mink had to endure, unto death, so that a Colorado business could profit from their confinement, enslavement, and murder.

Obviously, the owners and employees of the sheepskin factory do not care either or they would not be involved in such a sinister and macabre blood trade. So I will not waste my breath where it will only fall on deaf ears. That's why I turned to illegal direct action to begin with, because you do not care. No matter how much we animal rights activists talk or reason with you, you do not care. Well, Mr. Livaditis (owner of the Sheepskin Factory), I don't care about you. There is no common ground between people like you and me. I want you to know that no matter what this court sentences me to today, you have won nothing! Prison is no great hardship to me. In a society that values money over life, I consider it an honor to be a prisoner of war, the war against inter-species slavery and objectification! I also want you to know that I will never willingly pay you one dollar, not one! I hope your business fails and you choke to death on every penny you profit from animal murder! I hope you choke on it and burn in hell!

To my supporters, I wish to say thank you for standing behind me and showing this court and these animal exploiters that we support our own and that we as a movement are not going to apologize for having a sense of urgency. We are not going to put the interests of commerce over sentience! And we will never stop educating, agitating and confronting those responsible for the death of our Mother Earth and her Animal Nations. My vegan sisters and brothers our lives are not our own. Selfishness is the way of gluttons, perverts and purveyors of injustice. It has been said all it takes for evil to conquer is for good people to do nothing. Conversely, all it takes to stop the enslavement, use, abuse and murder of other than human animals is the resolve to fight on their behalf!

Do what you can, do what you must, be vegan warriors and true animal defenders and never compromise with their murderers and profiteers. The Animal Liberation Front is the answer. Seldom has there been such a personally powerful and internationally effective movement in human history. You cannot join the A.L.F. but you can become the A.L.F. And it was the proudest and most powerful thing I have ever done. When you leave this courtroom today don't be dismayed by my incarceration. All the ferocity and love in my heart still lives on. Every time someone liberates an animal and smashes their cage, it lives on! Every time an activist refuses to bow down to laws that protect murder, it lives on! And it lives on every time the night sky lights up ablaze with the ruins of another animal exploiters' business!

That's all Your Honor, I am ready to go to prison.


One day I hope to stand like that and be that brave.
My hat's off to you Walter Bond.

The Many Universes Objection

The Fine Tuning Argument
The fact that the universe is perfectly suited for human life is proof that is was designed by an ultimate Creator just for us.
This is a pretty cool idea. I mean, there are millions of "dials" that control millions of "settings" like gravity and weak nuclear force and stuff. If one dial moved an infinitely small amount one way or another, atoms wouldn't be able to form or life bigger than a deer couldn't exist.
That's pretty cool if you ask me. I mean, it's a flawed but elegantly and beautifully flawed universe that we live in. Not just our galaxy, but the entire universe is legit.
Your gut reaction when thinking about this is "Man, God is a genius."

The Many Universes Objection
Now there are people who say that's ridiculous. And then you say, "Why is that so ridiculous?" Then they'll say, "Because there are an infinite number of universes with every single possible "dial setting" in motion. This is not a linear thought either. There are an infinite number of universes right now that have every combination of settings and who knows what goes on there? We can't reach them, or they'd be part of our universe. We can't even guess what goes on in those universes. Not even Ray Bradbury has that good of an imagination. Life could appear at any one of them in ways we don't understand. And if there are an infinite number of universes all experimenting with natural forces and laws, it's extremely likely that you'll get one that supports life. Ours, for example. We're just another experiment gone right.

In the words of philosophybro:
'Of course, we can't get to these worlds, otherwise they'd be part of our world; they're completely isolated from our world in every way. "But surely our world is the real world?'' Fuck you. They're all real. You're not special and neither is your world - I have no clue what it would be like for them to be 'imaginary.' The only world I have any experience of is this one, and it's as real and concrete as can be. I bet they are too.'

What I Think
I'll be frank. It's going to take just as much faith to believe in these other universes that we can't see or touch or experience as it's going to take to believe in a Creator. It's Buridan's ass all over again. Both are super legit. And you know what? Both are really freaking cool. I love the idea of an uncountable number of universes with all sorts of crazy stuff going on with physics and stuff just as much as I love the idea of a God engaged in a way cool science experiment. And you know what? If he's omnipotent, screw it, he could be making all of these universes. If anybody can do that, it's Him. And I bet He's having a blast doing it.

Multiple universes? Bring it on, that sounds awesome. Divine, all knowing, all loving God? Hell yeah.

(Expect more of this. I am loving philosophy and philosophybro.)

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I don't know what to write about anymore.

So many things are happening and falling into place and jumping around and getting confused, I am so enraptured by this movement, I can't ease myself into a seat and think. I haven't had to come up with something to think about in a very long time. Things to think about have been racing around for months.
It's kind of cool, actually. One day, the dust will settle and my vision will focus and I will have had so many experience about which to think and write about.
But for now, that means that I will neglect my writing and meditations. Why pause life to write when your writing will be so much richer after you've lived?

I can write when I retire. Life beckons.