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    Live or die?—the ancients say we will ALL die, unless …
    Hamid Rafizadeh

    Live or die?—the ancients say we will ALL die, unless …

    If I told you to choose between two options, one bringing starvation and death and the other liberty and dignity, which one would you choose? I am sure you would choose liberty and dignity over starvation and death. Now what if I told you that the starvation and death come from not knowing about Earth 2.0 and not learning to prepare to face it and that liberty and dignity come from knowing about Earth 2.0 and learning to prepare to face it? Would that make you ask, “What is E
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    Message in an ancient bottle … should anyone listen?
    Hamid Rafizadeh

    Message in an ancient bottle … should anyone listen?

    I am always amazed at how good humans are at NOT LISTENING to ancient wisdom. We are superb at ignoring the past. The distant past is often declared irrelevant and not informing the present. Consider a thought experiment. Assume you’re on holiday at the ocean shore, watching a beautiful sunrise, and suddenly you spot a bottle floating up and down the waves. You swim to get it, bring it to the shore, and open it. Your heart pounds with excitement as you see a small roll of par
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    BALANCE or mutual destruction: LEARNING from Mr. Stein and not doing what he says
    Hamid Rafizadeh

    BALANCE or mutual destruction: LEARNING from Mr. Stein and not doing what he says

    I had an opportunity to listen to Mr. Mark Stein, an eloquent and entertaining speaker. He said today’s society educates too many people for too long and as complementary evidence offered the fact that most of the audience was born into an America made by humans who at best were eighth graders. Then he warned of the danger of software and automation that in near future will make millions jobless. He added that the immigration of millions currently seeking to enter the country
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    Are You Ignorant of Earth’s Two Versions? The Scientists Are!
    Hamid Rafizadeh

    Are You Ignorant of Earth’s Two Versions? The Scientists Are!

    It is not that scientists do not have any idea about the earth’s two versions. They do and in fact have named them glacial and interglacial. Where scientists are ignorant and have amplified their ignorance immensely is in dismissing the accounts of the ancient people that experienced both versions and reported on glacial earth’s features and the transition between the two. OK. So what? So scientists have missed on proper modeling of earth’s two versions. Moreover, YOU have li
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    What Do Pencils and Global Trade Have in Common?
    Hamid Rafizadeh

    What Do Pencils and Global Trade Have in Common?

    In my first grade the classroom was a small room, no more than 12 by 15 feet on the second floor of a caravanserai. The dictionary says that in the desert regions caravanserai (also spelled caravansary) is an inn with a central courtyard. That was all that my small city could afford as “school,” a few rooms at the city’s caravanserai. The caravanserai was on a dirt alley at the end of the city’s bazar. It had a main gate that opened into a square courtyard. The yard was dug o
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    Who’s eating my pastries?
    Hamid Rafizadeh

    Who’s eating my pastries?

    The place I lived when I was ten years old I remember most. I call it my “village.” I learned much about life there. There I learned that if I lie, I turn into an enemy of God. That would be a really big deal. As my parents put it, the last thing anyone would want is to become an enemy of God. I paid close attention to that. Kept that in mind as long and as intensely as I could. Then … there were the pastries. My dad had the habit of every so often visiting the bakery and get
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    Seeing Hannity in the mirror of the Sermon on the Mount
    Hamid Rafizadeh

    Seeing Hannity in the mirror of the Sermon on the Mount

    Why do I focus on Sean Hannity? Because he talks to millions every day. Why do I want to see him in the mirror of the Sermon on the Mount? That requires a bit more explanation. When you read The Choice Maker and learn about the Sermon on the Mount, the first thing you learn is “knowledge deficiencies.” The first thing the Sermon on the Mount asks is: can you see knowledge deficiencies? And implicit in that question is the obvious follow-up. If you can see the knowledge defici
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    Killing students at schools is OK
    Hamid Rafizadeh

    Killing students at schools is OK

    Are we ever surprised at trash cans we fill every day at our homes? We’re not. It is a normal part of our daily life. The way humans produce goods and services always ends in trash and we have accepted it as the normal way of living. As it turns out and I will explain the foundational reasons for its existence, killing students at schools with guns is also a “societal trash” we create and need to get used to its presence. So let me turn to foundations of human life to explain
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    Destroyer or Not—
Making Sense of Mr. Trump
    Hamid Rafizadeh

    Destroyer or Not— Making Sense of Mr. Trump

    Here are my thoughts. How can I make you understand Mr. Trump if you have not read any of my books and lack an understanding of life’s foundations? Read my books, especially The Sucker Punch of Sharing and you’ll quickly see that every society comes into existence from “shared capabilities” that produce goods and services for the needs of all. Do you know what I mean by “shared capabilities”? I doubt it, but I continue. The sharing of capabilities takes shape within a legal n
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    Mr. Trump and Lying
    Hamid Rafizadeh

    Mr. Trump and Lying

    When it comes to lying, based on millennia of experience, humans have developed two prominent norms. The first: Don’t lie because lying destroys relationships and thus destroys life. The second: Do lie because it gains things and prevents loss and exposure to wrath of others. This simple foundational picture draws the paths we may take in life. In a sense, at every moment, everyone vacillates between these two norms. On one hand everyone lies. One time or other we all lie in
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    The existential reality of “wealth”
    Hamid Rafizadeh

    The existential reality of “wealth”

    In so many places we are told that “wealth” is bad and not to be trusted to provide the human with a good life. It is such a big ignorant lie. Here is the truth of wealth. “Wealth” is an outcome of capability sharing among humans in order to provide for the needs of all. In human life wealth defines the success of the societal capability sharing in three foundational ways: First, wealth is a measure of “efficiency” in capability sharing. It relates the inputs and outputs of c
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    Trade deficit in Mr. Trump’s world of the ignorant
    Hamid Rafizadeh

    Trade deficit in Mr. Trump’s world of the ignorant

    I am writing about the human ignorance of “trade deficit,” the stupidity that humans exhibit when thinking about how humans share capabilities with one another to produce goods and services everyone needs in daily life. Just in case you’re wondering, by ignorant I mean someone that does not know a fact of life. By stupid I mean someone that faces ignorance and demonstrates no sense of learning and gaining knowledge to address the ignorance. When a human takes ignorance as all
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    Teaching Everyone, Especially Mr. Trump, About Tariffs
    Hamid Rafizadeh

    Teaching Everyone, Especially Mr. Trump, About Tariffs

    I bet you would be surprised to hear that “tariff” is a device for managing the point of balance between producers of goods and services and consumers of goods and services. Let me explain. Consider a simple picture of a product’s supply and demand. In my simple example a country’s supply and demand for a product has achieved balance at five units produced and five units consumed at a price of 5. All this happens in the country isolated from the rest of the world. It seems li
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    Why Do North Korea and Iran Want Nuclear Weapons?
    Hamid Rafizadeh

    Why Do North Korea and Iran Want Nuclear Weapons?

    To understand what they do and why they are doing it you have to understand “brute force” as foundation of human life—in fact as foundation of universe. Every aspect of human life, every aspect of universe comes into existence through managing brute force. Read The Sucker Punch of Sharing and Here Comes the Watchman for detailed understanding but for now let me draw a simple picture. The North Korea and Iran behave as they do because they are exposed to the brute force of oth
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    Which Book Do I Read First? Asked a Friend.
    Hamid Rafizadeh

    Which Book Do I Read First? Asked a Friend.

    I have just published five books about foundations of human life. Four are already on Amazon and the fifth would be there in a week or two. Since they are about foundations of human life, all should be read, but still the question remains: which one to read first? This problem is my creation and I need your help as reader to resolve it. I have done forty years of intense research on foundations of human life and only now I have started to publish the research results as book
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