Cogito Ergo Sum

I think, therefore I am. Among the piles of horse punky Humanists have thrown at our collective brains this saying must surely top the charts. Logic would state that if this is true then so is the opposite. Or, I don't think, therefore, I'm not.

HA! I wish this was true! All the times the kids do something stupid the first thing they mumble (well after a half dozen lame excuses) is "I didn't think."

DUH.

If only they ceased to exist temporarily while their brains went on hiatus, how much happier would the world be? Once reason returned they could pop back into place and think, "YEAH! I don't look like a moron with half my hair cut off because I didn't exist long enough, so I didn't cut off my hair with mom's sewing scissors."

But as any quick examination of current politics will tell you, lack of thinking CLEARLY doesn't delete you from Washington, anyway. Hundreds of people exist there with no trouble at all despite not having a collective thought among them.

Rather we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights: life, liberty, and the ability to act with no thought whatsoever. This is an actual quote from the original document. Luckily, having received an education better than a typical one from a public school, I can correctly identify this as coming straight off the Magna Carta signed by President George Washington and the King of England at the time, John the XXXXXI. (The history lesson is provided at no additional charge. For an investing lesson send $10 to me and I will mail you the complete program.)

In our on going Latin quest I am going to look up how to say, "I think therefore I have all my hair and my mother didn't contemplate murdering me and leaving my bones to compost in the back yard."

Anybody who can help with the translation will receive the investing course free.

You're welcome.