More Aphorisms and Observations for Daily Living

One of my religious beliefs is that I should regularly revise, update, and add to a special blog of mine I share with others that contains suggested principles for living or aphorisms for living, based on what I have observed in my own life:

---Many Americans say that they prefer not to pursue athletics or exercise, since that physical activity would increase their risk of sustaining a medical injury.
But the alternative, a sedentary lifestyle, is even more injurious in the long run. A sedentary lifestyle harms a person through the internal "injury" to the body resulting from the hardening of the arteries and resulting heart disease.

---If I were a woman and I encountered a handsome and medically healthy, youthful adult gentleman who appealed to me, I would immediately ask myself, "What would my reaction be if I had an unwanted pregnancy from having mutual-consent sex with this gentleman in which the contraception failed?" If my reaction would be one of considerable indignation and dismay and anger, I might choose not to even consider agreeing to have a romantic date with that gentleman. I might instead choose a strictly-platonic personal relationship with him, provided that he is receptive to it; and then, several months down the road, I might be able to better determine whether romantic receptiveness to him would be appropriate at that future date.

---Always remember that in your own life, regardless of your age, you are the most important person. This is true regardless of what media companies tell you, regardless of what the President of the United States tells you, and regardless of what your relatives or housemates or professional associates tell you. Your awareness about being the most important person in your own life should not in any way undermine your ability to be fully empathetic, fully generous, and fully appreciative of others, or your ability to respect and honor the legal rights of others.

---Freedom of speech and Freedom of Association and Freedom of Religion, freedoms that the U.S. Constitution assures you of having, help explain why you enjoy full freedom of self-determination in your own life. You can set your own priorities, and live a very good and happy life accordingly.

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Urgent Need for Heart-Healthy Mexican Restaurants

One of my own "pet causes" in Texas is the urgent need for a new Mexican restaurant chain throughout our entire state that exclusively serves trans-fat-free and heart-healthy, vitamin-rich, mineral-rich, cuisine.

It would be the type of Mexican-style restaurant chain in which no customer could ever make a "wrong choice" from any item on the menu. The entire menu would be "foolproof," from a medical-health standpoint.

Each and every one of the menu options would have been certified in advance by a panel of cardiologists and other medical physicians as being either good or very good or excellent for the medical health and creative lifespan of Texan diners.
It would be a Mexican-style restaurant chain so conscientious that it would even publicize the name and credentials of each of the cardiologists who had been appointed to serve on that restaurant chain's panel of expert consultants.

I've been told by other Texans for decades that they enjoy dining in Mexican restaurants in our state. However, many of those same Texans have also confided to me that the menu items they consumed in those Mexican restaurants were probably harmful to their own medical health.

My Idea of What A Religion Should Be Like

I love the idea of a new and modern religion that has stringent eligibility requirements that reward the honorable.
The type of religion for the honorable that I would like to call my own might be limited to:
---persons who strive for tactful honesty as much as possible, and obedience of the law, on a year-round basis;
---persons who are permanently alcohol-free and tobacco-free and illiict-drug-free at all times;
---persons who have no prior addiction to alcohol, tobacco, or illicit drugs;
---persons who support the overall eventual societal goal of a world without human consumption of drinking alcohol or tobacco or any illicit drug, with the obvious exception of alcohol used in cooking that enhances the flavor of food without any alcohol actually being present in the food or ingested by a human being after the cooking process;
---persons who are dismayed by legalized as well as illegal forms of gambling involving the expenditure of money, and who support a nationwide prohibition on any and all forms of gambling in this nation.
---persons with no criminal-conviction record, or, as a possible alternative membership requirement, persons with no felony-conviction criminal record;
---persons opposed to sado-masochism who themselves lead non-sadomasochistic lifestyles (they don't physically beat or whip their mutual-consent romantic partner or sex partner, for instance, and they don't permit their mutual-consent romantic partner or sex partner to physically beat or physically whip themselves.)
---persons politely dismayed by the lack of facial cleanshavenness on the part of many men and male youths (while of course fully acknowledging that the law generally protects a man's right to grow facial hair on his own body), it being clear to members of this honorable and empathetic modern religion that facial hair not only spreads germs and bacteria, but also undermines the facially hairy male person's ability to present an open and honest and fully friendly face and facial expression to others;
---persons who are dismayed by anonymous communications and fraudulent communications and pranksterism, and who refuse to participate in anonymous communications or fraud of any type or pranksterism;
---persons who are dismayed by the use of "noise pollution" as a weapon on behalf of political or religious persecution or "punishment" or harassment of an individual, regardless of the political or religious beliefs of the individual being victimized and medically and emotionally harmed by unwanted noise pollution in his life;
---persons who are dismayed by the over-emphasis on piano music and electric guitar music in post-Baroque Era music, and who seek to promote and help highlight music that is less intrusive and not as shrill or strident or abusive of the eardrum, the clarinet, the saxophone, the trombone, the trumpet, the flute, the bassoon, the classical guitar, the harp, and the harpsichord being among the gentler or more pleasant-sounding musical instruments that members of this new religion will seek to promote instead;
---persons who generally honor the privacy rights of others, and who do not spy on others or stalk others and subject others to anonymous communications;
---persons who are conscientiously vigilant, and who in a noble manner report evidence of possible illegal conduct they directly observe to a law-enforcement agency, this as an admirable religious lifestyle tradition of theirs.
--persons who support court-ordered capital punishment of legal-status-adult male persons or legal-status-adult female persons who were convicted in a court of law of the heinous and barbarous crime of either homicide or attempted homicide, with a possible proposed requirement that compelling DNA evidence must be obtained before court-ordered capital punishment per se could be justifiable, with help from a possible revision of the state penal code on that;
---individuals who assign highest priority in their religious life to helping to befriend children and many other young persons under age 30, including through educational workshops or exhibits such as wholesome Hobby Fairs and Lifelong
Sports Festivals that might help to introduce young persons to a wide array of law-abiding, creative, and enjoyable pastimes and hobbies and lifelong sports (among those being paddle-boating, croquet, badminton, shuffleboard, journal-writing or diary-writing, photography, developing a pen friendship with a young person in another country, theme-related stamp collecting (collecting postage stamps relating to nature and environmental protection, for instance), rowing, table tennis, racquetball, tennis, collecting picture postcards from throughout one's state or region of the country, etc.)
---individuals with a commendable devotion to helping to protect the global environment, and helping to conserve natural resources in a comprehensive manner, including through participation in natural-resource recycling.
---individuals who emphatically reject the outlook of many that human identity is primarily sexual in nature, or that human identity is primarily gender-related in nature, it being very clear that 99 to 100 percent of all human relationships, including personal relationships as well as career-related relationships, in life are, in fact, platonic in nature, and that it's crucial for each human being to strive to achieve platonic inter-personal credibility with other people, including members of the opposite sex;
---individuals who are kind-hearted and generous, and who exhibit a very kind empathy and generosity and strong support for Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Assembly and Freedom of Association toward law-abiding individuals of a wide variety of religious backgrounds and ideologies;
---individuals who are generously devoted to helping to reward law-abiding persons who are "whistle-blowers" reporting wrong-doing and corruption to a law-enforcement agency;
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Bathroom-generated Recyclables Overlooked

I realized recently inside my private residence that my own level of participation in natural-resource recycling varies dramatically depending on the room of my residence where a trash item is generated.
In my bathroom, unfortunately, I have yet to install a recyclables bin separate from my trash can in that room of my residence.
My only recyclables bin that I'm currently using is a 13-gallon recycles bin that I have placed inside a closet in my kitchen. I strive to empty that bin twice per week by placing recyclables at public outdoor recyclables bins that are situated nearby.
I plan to purchase a small recyclables-collection bin in my bathroom, and then toss into that bin for future recycling such items as:
----an empty plastic container of alcohol-free mouthwash;
----an empty plastic bottle of contact lens solution;
----an empty plastic bottle of bath oil;
----the plastic lid to my can of shaving cream;
----the plastic cap to a tub of toothpaste;
----the plastic cap to the disposable razors I purchase;
----possibly the plastic disposable razors I purchase (though they are an item with some metal that possibly could be recyled separately);
-----possibly the plastic deoderent dispenser I purchase.
One reason why many of the bathroom items tend to get overlooked as recyclable items is that the manufacturers of those bathroom products often fail to clearly state on the packaging for those products that "this is a recycable PLASTIC ITEM, PLEASE RECYCLE!," OR WORDS TO THAT EFFECT.

Legal Precedents Needed Against Those Harboring Stalkers

I hope that some opponent of the crime of stalking will soon establish a new website on the Internet.

That proposed new Internet website would exclusively contain factual information about the most recent legal precedents that have been achieved on behalf of punishing institutions or businesses (media companies, for instance) or individuals who or that are officially determined to have harbored or aided and abetted a law-breaking stalker.

The harboring of a stalker by a governnment-owned institution or by a business entity or non-profit group or individual, for that matter, should be denounced as flagrantly illegal complicity in crime.

It also seems obvious to me, as the widespread current incidence of stalking in American society underscores, that major nationwide progress at deterrence of stalking will require numerous legal victories in a court of law against cited businesses and government-owned institutions and cited employers that or who are each accused, in each such case, of having habored or aided and abetted a law-breaking stalker.

Stalking is a form of terrorism all too often occurring in American society on a daily basis. And business entities or non-profit groups or government-owned institutions (public universities or public school districts, for instance) that harbor or employ stalkers should be held fully accountable in a court of law for their truly outrageous complicity in and legal liability for that deplorable form of terrorism.

Recycling Recommendation for U.S. Government

I would like to see the United States Congress approve a new federal law as soon as possible that requires the manufacturer of any product to clearly state on that product the category of recyclable item of that manufactured good.
For instance: "PLEASE RECYCLE THIS: RECYCLABLE CATEGORY (RC) IS 'MIXED PAPER'."
Or: "PLEASE RECYCLE THIS: RECYCLABLE CATEGORIES ARE PLASTIC AND MIXED PAPER."
At present, millions of Americans under-participate in natural-resource recycling partly because they are uncertain as to whether the packaging for any given product they've purchased (a Twining's tea bag wrapper, for instance) would be easily processed as a "mixed-paper" recyclable item.
I and many other Americans get confused about whether the texture or color of the paper, for instance, should have any bearing upon whether it can be recycled successfully.
Also, if one has used a paper towel and it has been wadded up a bit, can that item still be recycled successfully?
This reminds me that the U.S. Government should assign top priority to sponsoring or cosponsoring a nationwide educational television program, to be televised at least once per month, that would help to educate all American citizens on how they can particpate fully and comprehensively in natural-resource recycling.
And that observation reminds me that if this has been Great Britain, by contrast, the British Broadcasting Company would no doubt have already presented an educational program of that type, answering and addressing each of the questions arising from participation in natural-resource recycling by individual Britons, and by British business owners, that the British Government regarded as being pertinent or helpful.

In Defense of a Pro-Masculine-Male Heterophilia

Among the questions I get asked the most often in Austin, Texas, Travis County, Texas, and Williamson County, Texas, throughout each year of my 21st Century life can be paraphrased as follows:

"Why is it that you, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, identify with, favor, and are more humanly receptive toward, a higher percentage of all of the heterosexual adult men of Austin, of Texas, and of the United States as being prospective or actual friends or friendly acquaintances or professional associates or roommates or housemates or coreligionists of yours, than of all other comparable male adult subpopulations?"

In response to that all-too-frequent question that I get asked all too often in Austin, I would point out that I identify with, and I of course also prefer to associate with, adult men who are:

---very opposed to anonymous communications, fraudulent communications; criminal mischief, and pranksterism, many of the anonymous communications and pranks perpetrated on American citizens being very unwanted by them or injurious to them, and tantamount to acts of terroristic violence against them in that way;
---consistently law-abiding and privacy-rights-respectful (non-stalking, for instance) and consistently civil, and who keep their hands to themselves in involvements with others that are regarded as being platonic (non-sexual, in other words) involvements for themselves and the other persons;
---admirably vigilant, so much so that they have the courage and integrity to contact a law-enforcement agency and report instances of posssible illegal conduct that they have observed, even if they themselves are not directly victimized by any such illegal conduct, since they honorably refuse to be guilty of COMPLICITY IN CRIME;
---morally and aesthetically straight (consistently honest and conscientious and empathetic, for instance) in human identity;
---at least as good-looking and youthful and medically healthy and disease-free and psychologically healthy and philosophically-minded and polite as myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin;
---believers in the human capacity for the platonically sublime, including through smiles that are sincerely warm and people-friendly, and that are refreshingly lacking in the predatory rapacity toward other human beings that is often associated with what is sometimes identified as "cruising."
---refusing to directly participate in physical beating or physical whipping of any romantic or sex partner of themselves, or to permit any romantic or sex partner of themselves (or anyone else) to physically beat or physically whip themselves;
---dismayed by sadomasochism or S&M, the honorable gentlemen I agree to myself be asociated with being englightened gentlemen noted for a straightforward, people-friendly and humane style, by contrast;
---dismayed by the so-called "Sugar Daddies," or notorious older persons of financial wealth who ruthlessly attempt to exploit the financial vulnerability of adult younger persons (or youths, even) by subjecting the latter individuals to bribery or extortionism aimed at compelling them to have a "romantic" or sexual relationship of some type, or a compelled-speech relationship of "compelled-career" or defacto indentured servantship of some type, with that sadistic older person.
---protective of the personal medical health of other individuals, regardless of whether those individuals are complete strangers to such gentlemen, through a variety of logical actions pursued by such gentlemen that underscore the conscientious style of such gentlemen;
---dismayed by "lifestyles" that on a year-round basis are centered on a series of one-night or one-hour stands featuring frequent anonymous sexual involvements or indiscriminate sex with complete strangers or first-time acquaintances.
---dismayed by any and all houses of prostitution and commercial sex parlors or "bathhouses" featuring sex in a public place between and among strangers, and also dismayed by the nefarious and injurious activities of paid sexual prostitutes, regardless of the gender or sexual identity of the prostitute or house of prostitution.
---dismayed by any form of sexual activity occurring in a public place, regardless of whether that public place is a public restroom or a public municipal park or some other public place.
---exhibiting a high level of empathy toward persons of a wide variety of backgrounds;
---fully supportive of the Constitutional rights of Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, and Freedom of Strictly-Mutual-Consent Association, and privacy rights, that should be enjoyed by any and all American citizens;
---dismayed and appalled by the repressive conduct of "subcultures" or "communities" or "civic groups" or "political groups" that or who attempt to censor the stated beliefs and opinions of individuals whose beliefs happen to be different from or incompatible with their own;
---fully supportive of the legal and Constitutional right of any American citizen to in a civil and law-abiding manner criticize or deplore a cited gay media company; a cited gay group; a cited gay activist; a cited adult person who happens to be gay, homosexual, bisexual, lesbian, transvestite, effeminate adult male or transsexual, for that matter, in sexual or gender identity per se; the gay subculture; the gay community; the lesbian subculture; the transsexual subculture; the bisexual subculture, etc., in any context, it being the case that any and all such civilly-worded and law-abiding speech by any such critic of any such individual or entity is Constitutionally and legally protected in full in a democratic nation such as the United States of America;
---fully honorable about acknowledging the legal right of another person to reject oneself without ever again being contacted by oneself at any time, unless in the case of a civilly-worded legal follow-up letter clarifying that the rejection and terms of that rejection were of course mutually applicable in nature;
---consistently friendly and cheerful and polite and good-humored and consistently genial or congenial toward a wide range of people;
---permanently and year-round illicit-drug-free at all times, in the absence of any previous addiction to any illicit drug;
---gentlemen who, like oneself in that very important way, have no prior or current addiction to either alcohol or tobacco products;
---permanently tobacco-free at all times, it being the case that adult men who completely abstain from tobacco products exhibit a self-love and self-esteem and devotion to hygiene and personal medical health in themselves that is much appreciated, and that adult men who refrain from smoking also have more pleasant voices as a result, the contrast their melodious voices present to smokers' scratchy and raspy voices being quite dramatic in nature;
---facially cleanshaven, and presenting an open and honest facial expression in which they are not hiding behind facial hair in any way;
---understandably repulsed by facial hair, facial hair on adult men being among the leading sources of unsightliness in human beings and an unhygienic source of germ-spreading and disease-spreading that's a public-health issue as well;
---wearing no jewelry on their own body, and particularly no nose rings or tongue rings or gaudy jewelry;
---wearing no tattoos or virtually no tattoos on their own body, and thereby exhibiting pride in the natural appearance of the body they were born with;
---politely aggressive (as distinct from passive, passive-aggressive, militant, or abrasive);
---medically youthful and as good-looking or handsome, and having a personal appearance that is naturally smile-inducing and felicitous;
---either permanently alcohol-free on a year-round basis or, at least, show consistent restraint with any consumption of drinking alcohol that they might ever pursue;
---hygienic and medically healthy, they being gentlemen exhibiting a devotion to taking good care of themselves throughout their lives;
---so conscientious that they either are not a member of any high-risk group for the HIV virus or for AIDS, or, alternatively, they are admirably conscientious gentlemen who diligently get tested every six months for the HIV virus, using their reliable legal name and birhtdate, with those admirable gentlemen insisting on being provided with a reliable, certified, medical-test result on each such testing that he can then present to any prospective dating partner or to any employer of that conscientious gentleman of valor;
---fully supportive of criminal-law prosecution of, and lawsuits being filed against, any person who infects another person with the often-fatal HIV virus, or who who infects another person with a permanently injurious medical problem (such as herpes, for instance).
---talented in a wide variety of sports, and supportive of the ideal of the "Scholar Athlete";
---consistently clean-talking and gentlemanly;
---possessive of a philanthropic and clean (as distinct from cynical and X-rated) sense of humor;
---noteworthy for their absence of malice toward others, and for their strong disagreement with the viciously vindictive style exhibited by all too many Americans of today;
---capable of congenial platonic relationships with persons of a wide variety of backgrounds;
---fully appreciative of the philosophy and outlook and worldview that human identity is NOT primarily sexual in nature, and that 99 percent of all human relationships in life are, in fact, non-sexual or platonic in nature;
---exhibiting a nice and felicitous voice modulation and vocal depth, a voice modulation that does underscore a Freedom of Speech-related choice they made to eschew monotonicism or faked shrill-voicedness;
----interested in helping to comprehensively and generously address the needs of youths and adult younger persons, both in this generation and in all future generations, and exhibiting a fatherly or avuncular or brotherly devotion to all children and the vast majority of all persons significantly younger than oneself in age, without any "quid pro quo" being established or conveyed through that generosity toward younger persons;
----interested in helping to comprehensively address the needs of as many biological women and biological girls as possible;
----appreciative in a philanthropic manner toward a wide variety of biological women and girls;
---interested in helping to address the broader needs of their own city or town or rural area or county or state or nation or world.