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June 23, 2009 by
With its big city looks and sweet southern style, you will be happy you decided to visit Atlanta Georgia. The greatest thing about Atlanta is that there are many Atlanta hotels to choose from when you begin to plan your lodging. From the Omni complex to the Wyndham in the city, you will find hotels for every personality and budget. If a 5 star luxury hotel is more your speed, you can choose from the Intercontinental Buckhead, The Ritz Carlton Buckhead or the Four Seasons Atlanta.
From deluxe to budget, Atlanta Georgia hotels can be found everywhere. You can certainly find what you need on the internet and reserve online. When you reserve online, you will be getting the best deals in the city. Atlanta hotels do tend to get full fast, with so many travelers visiting each year. So booking online will not only save you money, but also ensure that you will be staying in an appropriate hotel while you are there. It would be a shame to arrive to Atlanta, only to find out that there were no nice hotels with any rooms available.
Parking in Atlanta can be a problem, so any hotel you choose to use should have their own parking spots for you to use. Many of the Atlanta Five Star Hotels only have valet parking, which can be quite expensive (up to $30 a day). If you can find a hotel with free parking or on-site self parking, you should consider yourself lucky and book right away.
So start researching the best deals and best places to stay today. You will feel great arriving in Atlanta when you know you are staying in a safe and secure hotel. You can walk the city by day, checking out all of the history and shopping options. You will rest easy at night in the comfort of a secure and appropriate hotel room.
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Hello Paul,
I’m sorry that you’ve lost some money into the bargain too. Good post. The police in this country are ludicrously bad. Speaking as the son of a lawyer, if people knew how often the Police break the rules and (admittedly rarely) plant evidence then they would cease to allow themselves to be cattle herded by these execrable characters. I’m interested to know: were they younger ones? Normally a few of the older ones have got some tact and don’t need to throw their weight around as much the recent intake – but that’s only a slight rule of thumb. Anyway, rant aside, good on you for remonstrating with them. I know I would have looked at my feet and shuffled past. They were next to useless at the Griffin/Irving debate too and just as pig-headedly impassive.
Where do you stand on the thorny question of giving money? The homeless are not a homogenous group. Personally, I make a distinction between the relatively recent and the hardened veterans (it’s no difficult matter to say which is which usually). I make a point of not giving to the latter because – by action of a selection effect – I figure they are the ones who need it least (within the group of those I class as destitute). Let me explain.
Certain behaviours are signals. The ones who are asking, cajoling, and pleading are probably the ones who need it least (we are of course here talking relatively). These people have the ‘survival’ instinct. Their ability to overcome what to most people is extremely difficult, namely, the discomfort felt at hassling a stranger signals their inherent ability to fend for themselves at the level of survival and to achieve enough to keep themselves going. Some of the people on the streets are not even at this level. I remember a girl who sat (sits?) at the corner of Turl and Broad Street whose pimply complexion was as pale as death. Often as not she was sleeping gently against the wall. She wasn’t even asking for money. I found it quite distressing, more so when she was quite clearly out of it on drugs. I feel guilty for not giving her money (remarkable how Finals seem less important after the fact) because she really struck me as one of the borderline cases (between those who ultimately will and those who ultimately won’t make it). These borderline cases look like they are close to giving up, perhaps have already done so. Most of these cases are not the ones you see. The ones you see are the veterans, the active ones. They will be fine (barring a return of their mental health problems) whether you personally give money to them or not. Not so, the latter.
As it happens, I think the case for a basic human safety net is quite strong, though I’ve always failed to see how it could be done without entrenching a perverse incentives structure. Our current welfare system magnified might serve as an illustration. Perhaps that would be the price of total coverage. I’d be interested to hear your thoughts.
It was a big shock for me reaching young adulthood to realise that people less fortunate then me were not necessarily better people. I had the same epiphany when I realised that, contrary to Hollywood, not all fat girls are compensated with a good personality; some are as ugly on the inside as they are on the visible surface. I was suffering from what Russell called the Fallacy of assuming ‘the superior moral virtue of the oppressed and dispossessed’.
This leads to my main point: of course not all the homeless ‘deserve’ it but some are, frankly, nothing but crooks who would play on your sympathy and good nature to extract money from you. This is not copied and pasted from a Mail editorial – just a personal conclusion. I once saw an Oxford beggar pull out an expensive mobile phone; far, far better then mine I might add. What am I to make of this? Perhaps nothing. Anyone can afford something expensive if they spend a high enough percentage of their income on it, right? There are still people who ruin themselves to buy that Ferrari. Maybe. But it hardly spoke for the utter state of his destitution did it? If he had one surely he must be running it too. Who was he calling? Was he really on the streets or did he have a roof over his head (maybe he was a squatter)? These are uncomfortable questions but we must face them because they are highly pertinent.
Now I’m not suggesting anything as foolish as that some of the people on the street are living lives of luxury in 5 star hotels, but remember: the normal equations regarding cost of living go out the window if you’re not paying tax. I suggest many may not be as destitute as they seek to appear. I think you might be surprised how much some beggars make a year. If you cannot condone the resentment that some feel towards them, perhaps such a fact might give you some perspective on their point of view.
Another example: I once saw a beggar outside a London tube station. I’d seen him there often. He was gifted with an extraordinary expressive face. He looked as if he had been forced to carry all the world’s woes on his shoulders. I noticed that a higher than normal percentage of commuters stopped to give him change, such was the remarkable power of his hang-dog expression. It so happened that I was passing one night when he was deciding to leave – to go no doubt wherever it was he went when he was finished. I was amazed: his expression changed as he stood up, gone was mask of sadness and world-weariness, replaced by a full smile. I was stunned. If the commuters who’d given him money could have seen it they’d have felt they’d been taken for suckers.
The more interesting question is surely this: out of the ones we see, what percentage are shysters? If it is even a large minority are those who condemn the homeless practising a form of statistical discrimination which, whilst unjust to many, is technically rationally?
I once met an interesting chap who worked at a night shelter who had all sorts of interesting nuggets on the homeless ‘subculture’ (as he put it). Since then I’ve always been meaning to look at the subject in more depth – do you know any good books? There’s so much to their lives that we don’t see. There are turf wars over profitable patches (the same battle for busking pitches in Oxford actually turned violent on one occasion – that Cornmarket bagpiper is an exceptionally nasty piece of work). There are little etiquettes among them unknown to more general society. So thanks Paul for reminding me of my curiosity around the issue.
Lastly, your thought experiment regarding an alternative life history is sobering. Most of us have shuddered at counterfactuals at some point. Many of them have had very different life histories from us. The unlucky, the wretched, the girl with the pimply face and the seemingly weak attachment to life – they deserve our sympathy; those who would take that human sympathy to get money, at what point are they are appropriate objects of moral judgement?
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Dress:
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Hello Paul,
I’m sorry that you’ve lost some money into the bargain too. Good post. The police in this country are ludicrously bad. Speaking as the son of a lawyer, if people knew how often the Police break the rules and (admittedly rarely) plant evidence then they would cease to allow themselves to be cattle herded by these execrable characters. I’m interested to know: were they younger ones? Normally a few of the older ones have got some tact and don’t need to throw their weight around as much the recent intake – but that’s only a slight rule of thumb. Anyway, rant aside, good on you for remonstrating with them. I know I would have looked at my feet and shuffled past. They were next to useless at the Griffin/Irving debate too and just as pig-headedly impassive.
Where do you stand on the thorny question of giving money? The homeless are not a homogenous group. Personally, I make a distinction between the relatively recent and the hardened veterans (it’s no difficult matter to say which is which usually). I make a point of not giving to the latter because – by action of a selection effect – I figure they are the ones who need it least (within the group of those I class as destitute). Let me explain.
Certain behaviours are signals. The ones who are asking, cajoling, and pleading are probably the ones who need it least (we are of course here talking relatively). These people have the ‘survival’ instinct. Their ability to overcome what to most people is extremely difficult, namely, the discomfort felt at hassling a stranger signals their inherent ability to fend for themselves at the level of survival and to achieve enough to keep themselves going. Some of the people on the streets are not even at this level. I remember a girl who sat (sits?) at the corner of Turl and Broad Street whose pimply complexion was as pale as death. Often as not she was sleeping gently against the wall. She wasn’t even asking for money. I found it quite distressing, more so when she was quite clearly out of it on drugs. I feel guilty for not giving her money (remarkable how Finals seem less important after the fact) because she really struck me as one of the borderline cases (between those who ultimately will and those who ultimately won’t make it). These borderline cases look like they are close to giving up, perhaps have already done so. Most of these cases are not the ones you see. The ones you see are the veterans, the active ones. They will be fine (barring a return of their mental health problems) whether you personally give money to them or not. Not so, the latter.
As it happens, I think the case for a basic human safety net is quite strong, though I’ve always failed to see how it could be done without entrenching a perverse incentives structure. Our current welfare system magnified might serve as an illustration. Perhaps that would be the price of total coverage. I’d be interested to hear your thoughts.
It was a big shock for me reaching young adulthood to realise that people less fortunate then me were not necessarily better people. I had the same epiphany when I realised that, contrary to Hollywood, not all fat girls are compensated with a good personality; some are as ugly on the inside as they are on the visible surface. I was suffering from what Russell called the Fallacy of assuming ‘the superior moral virtue of the oppressed and dispossessed’.
This leads to my main point: of course not all the homeless ‘deserve’ it but some are, frankly, nothing but crooks who would play on your sympathy and good nature to extract money from you. This is not copied and pasted from a Mail editorial – just a personal conclusion. I once saw an Oxford beggar pull out an expensive mobile phone; far, far better then mine I might add. What am I to make of this? Perhaps nothing. Anyone can afford something expensive if they spend a high enough percentage of their income on it, right? There are still people who ruin themselves to buy that Ferrari. Maybe. But it hardly spoke for the utter state of his destitution did it? If he had one surely he must be running it too. Who was he calling? Was he really on the streets or did he have a roof over his head (maybe he was a squatter)? These are uncomfortable questions but we must face them because they are highly pertinent.
Now I’m not suggesting anything as foolish as that some of the people on the street are living lives of luxury in 5 star hotels, but remember: the normal equations regarding cost of living go out the window if you’re not paying tax. I suggest many may not be as destitute as they seek to appear. I think you might be surprised how much some beggars make a year. If you cannot condone the resentment that some feel towards them, perhaps such a fact might give you some perspective on their point of view.
Another example: I once saw a beggar outside a London tube station. I’d seen him there often. He was gifted with an extraordinary expressive face. He looked as if he had been forced to carry all the world’s woes on his shoulders. I noticed that a higher than normal percentage of commuters stopped to give him change, such was the remarkable power of his hang-dog expression. It so happened that I was passing one night when he was deciding to leave – to go no doubt wherever it was he went when he was finished. I was amazed: his expression changed as he stood up, gone was mask of sadness and world-weariness, replaced by a full smile. I was stunned. If the commuters who’d given him money could have seen it they’d have felt they’d been taken for suckers.
The more interesting question is surely this: out of the ones we see, what percentage are shysters? If it is even a large minority are those who condemn the homeless practising a form of statistical discrimination which, whilst unjust to many, is technically rationally?
I once met an interesting chap who worked at a night shelter who had all sorts of interesting nuggets on the homeless ‘subculture’ (as he put it). Since then I’ve always been meaning to look at the subject in more depth – do you know any good books? There’s so much to their lives that we don’t see. There are turf wars over profitable patches (the same battle for busking pitches in Oxford actually turned violent on one occasion – that Cornmarket bagpiper is an exceptionally nasty piece of work). There are little etiquettes among them unknown to more general society. So thanks Paul for reminding me of my curiosity around the issue.
Lastly, your thought experiment regarding an alternative life history is sobering. Most of us have shuddered at counterfactuals at some point. Many of them have had very different life histories from us. The unlucky, the wretched, the girl with the pimply face and the seemingly weak attachment to life – they deserve our sympathy; those who would take that human sympathy to get money, at what point are they are appropriate objects of moral judgement?
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An omni-complex found in theontological argument
When we anthropomorphize God with independent zenith-tic attributes, were
ironically left with an interesting imperative. Before we begin anything, we need to
define what each of these omni driven attributes mean. There in lies the context needed
in order to understand the contradiction we create, when we simultaneously apply these
omni attributes to a single being of highest perfection. Let us start by defining 2 particular
omni attributes attached to God. Individually defining these attributes is a first, in many
steps to help us understand how there co-existence (when placed in an eternal infinite
value) create contradiction with each other.
What do we mean when we state that God is omniscient? When we place this
attribute to God in perfect value, we have in fact stated this being to be “having infinite
awareness, understanding, and insight possessed of universal or complete knowledge.”
As we have come to know from reading ST. Anselm ontological argument, to completely
deny the possibility of Gods existence is to contradict ourselves. However when another
adjective is added to S.T. Anselm’s interpretation, a contradiction submerges.
When we go on to state that God is also omni-benevolent, a conflict of perfection
occurs. This occurs because justifying pain and suffering clashes with the though of
perfect goodwill. Being omni-benevolent implies to be marked as having the highest
most perfect ability of doing good or having perfect goodwill. If we apply both attributes
simultaneously to a perfect being with nothing less than perfect potential, contradiction
occurs.
We live in a world infected with sadness and suffering. A simple question that
mainly everyone when they were children would ask to his/her parent when
told God is all knowing and sees everything is, then why did he make us like this if he
knew this would happen? (Sorry for the masculine personification of God. This is to
indicate that it comes from a more patriarchal dominated Judeo-Christian culture. I hold
no belief, in thinking a higher life force as male or female like. Although if I were to pick,
I would probably give God a feminine persona simply because women give birth.)
Children naturally have a sincerely innocent curiosity. Asking questions such as why if
God knows everything before it happens make us, knowing we would fail? If he/she was
in a Christian religion like I was, would probably have been told the popular story of
Adam and Eve to explain why things are so bad.
He/she would hear that at first God made everything good, that it was perfect. God
was so loving that he gave us freewill, so that we may have a choice to do either good or
bad. They would tell their children that Adam and Eve were created perfect in the image
of God. That they were commanded by God not to eat from the tree of knowledge of
good and evil, if they would take fruit from this tree they would surely die. Later on,
we learn that Adam and Eve disobeyed God because of an angel turned evil named
Satan. This evil angle tricked the woman Eve to disobey God, and eat from the tree of
knowledge of good and evil. That is how we lost everything because Adam and Eve
disobeyed God, and that is why things are so bad now and days. Notice misogynistic
values so early on given to children.
Why give us freewill if your infinite awareness knows before hand, what outcomes
precede it. Another important question would be, what exactly is freewill and what
exactly is choice by that matter? Is it the freedom to doom our selves? What exactly is
freewill, if not your choice to destroy yourself. According to many books in the bible but
particularly in Genesis, we find many cases illustrating freewill outcomes. It is quite
simple, obey God and do what you are told to do. Those that choose to disobey God
could have life and death consequences awaiting them. A classic example is found in the
Adam and Eve story. This is usually how Christian parents answer their child’s questions
about why things are so spoiled here on Earth.
Again, I look for the benevolent choice in this scenario. I view this choice as, choose
my rules or choose death. If God as always had foreknowledge of the outcome of Eden,
and a rebellious angel we would come to know as Satan. Then why bother with giving us
freewill? To me this is just a pretext to justify human condition. When we think about
terms like salvation comes from God. It could also be said that by obeying Gods rules
salvation comes. But, not obeying Gods rules means that we could end up experiencing
pain possibly even meeting death. Then it is possible to note that God saves us from
himself. Where is omni-benevolence found in that exchange?
Omniscient and Omnipotent is an attribute that to me doesn’t contradict an eternal
force. However, Omni-benevolent does contradict this balance of God. This void found
in Gods anthropomorphized perfect being leaves us to ask nicely of one of these
adjectives to leave peacefully, in order to keep perfection logical.
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Dude get a life its not as good as you make it sound sure it beats livin on the streets but the prisoners are locked up for a reason (almost always)if you think its that good then go kill someone and see how you like it