The past is what is done and nothing more then what my memories suggest it was. A series of events that I had no control over how they came about, how I would react in them or what lasting impact any and all instances would have on myself and my environment. I cannot claim responsibility for anything as it were I did not create the environment in which I was nutured, nor did I pick the value system inherant in that environment, nor did I pick the genetic traits my body was more apt to exploiting. I did not pick my mother and father or brothers and sisters. I could list many more things I did not have control over in my past but I think the point is made. And even if I think I made choices in my past, I only made choices based on what I was aware of at the time. Had I been given the tools for understanding all of what I just mentioned at a very younger the world and I would be very very different right now. But ultimately all of us are without control of even less the the least of what we think we have control over. We are all products of something forced upon our persons without our prior consent. So ultimately we are all truly innocent even those we think are most abborated.

Martin Luther King Jr. once said "An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. " That is why I support the Venus Project because that is the future and can be the only future if anyone hopes to have a future.