Total liquidation. It’s what Jesus would do.

It is nice that Pope Francis is a nice man. It is nice that he spends time making personal phone calls to sad people. It would be much nicer if he would fully leverage the power of his huge and powerful global institution to maximize the amount of good it could do for the world’s neediest people (all of whom will be waltzing into heaven as the Vatican’s accountants struggle to thread themselves through the eye of that needle). If the Catholic church wants to be the most Jesus-like institution it can be, it needs to first stop advocating hateful, divisive, and backwards political positions. Then, it needs to spend its wealth properly.

Pope Francis doesn’t need to build any more churches. He needs to start selling churches. Let’s imagine that, by liquidating some holdings of the Catholic church, he could cobble together $600 billion. (That seems like a number that is well below the church’s total wealth.) What could be done with that money? Well, about a fifth of that cash could be used to fully eradicate malaria, a disease that kills almost a million people every year. Then, hell, you could take the rest of it and give a thousand bucks each to every single person in the bottom half of the wealth distribution in Africa, the world’s poorest continent. Or, you could fully eradicate world hunger for a dozen years. Take your pick of causes, really You could do a lot of things, for the world’s poorest people.

And if you sold off all of the Catholic church’s holdings, you could do even more for the world’s poorest people. This would also stop all the lobbying and proselytizing against them having access to birth control and abortion. Everyone wins. Poor people would see their lives materially improved. Denizens of the Catholic church, a wealthy institution, would greatly improve their chances of getting into heaven. Pope Francis could smile on his good works. And the faithful could spend their Sundays outside helping people, rather than sitting inside a stuffy old church. Because the church has been sold.

Total liquidation. It’s what Jesus would want.

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Top 10 znakova koji ukazuju da si fundamentalni Hriscanin

1. Negiras postojanje hiljada bogova koje druge religije/ljudi slave, ali se nadjes uvrijedjen kad neko kaze da tvoj bog ne postoji.

2. Osjecas se uvrijedjeno kada naucnici kazu da je covjek evolvirao od drugih zivotinjskih vrsta, ali nemas problema sa Biblijskom pricom koja kaze da smo nastali od blata.

3. Smijes se politeistima, ali nemas problema sa svetim trojstvom.

4. Poludis kad neko sa ljubavlju prica o Alahu i Islamu kao religiji mira, ali i ne trepnes kad cujes pricu u kojoj je Bog/Isus poklao svu dijecu (Exodus) i naredio da se cijela jedna etnicka grupa izbrise sa lica zemlje (Jevandjelju po Jovanu) naravno ukljucujici zene, dijecu i drvece.

5. Smijes se Hindusima koji se potcinjavaju zivotinjama i Grcima koji su tvrdili da bogovi spavaju sa zenama, ali nemas problem vjerujuci da je Sveti Duh oplodio Mariju, koja je onda rodila covijeka boga koji je ubijen, pa je uskrsnuo i odletio nazad na nebo.

6. Spreman si, da provedes cijeli zivot trazeci rupe u naucnim dokazima, npr. u tacanu starost zemlje koja za sada varira za nekoliko milijardi godina, ali ne vidis nista pogresno u zapisima iz bronzanog doba koja su nastala zahvaljujuci plemenima koja su sjedala u satorima i mislila da je zemlja svega par stotina godina stara.

7. Vjerujes da ce cijela svijetska populacija, (naravno iskljucujuci one koji vjeruju u istog boga kao ti) provesti vijecnost goreci i muceci se u paklu i jos uvijek smatras da je tvoja vjera, vjera mira.

8. Posto moderna nauka, istorija, biologija i fizika nisu uspijeli da te ubijede da grijesis, neka budala koja se valja po podu i mumla budalastine je sve sto je potrebno da ti dokaze postojanje boga.

9. 0.001% uslisenih molitvi smatras kao veoma veliki uspijeh, to je smatras dovoljno da zakljucimo da molitve "rade". Ostalih 99.999% ne uslisenih molitvi su jednostavno zelja bozija

10. Ustvari, ti znas mnogo manje o Hriscanstvu, religiji i crkvi nego bilo koji Ateista, Agnostik ili Skeptik, ali ipak sebe nazivas Hriscaninom.

Benny Hinn aka. Prevarant

Popularni Televangelist i "FAITH HEALER" Benny Hinn zavrsio u bolnici zbog problema sa srcem.
Mozda zvuci "nevjerovatno" ali Benny je odlucio da ovaj put ipak potrazi strucnu pomoc a boga stavi po strani...
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Vjestice i Hriscanstvo

Vijekovima postojase vjestice.
Sveto pismo tako kaze.
Sveto pismo zapovjeda da se njima ne dozvoli da zive. Zbog toga je Crkva, nakon sto je 800 godina lijeno i nemarno obavljala ovu duznost, sakupila konopce, klinove i baklje i uistinu prionula na sveti zadatak. Radila je naporno, nocu i danju, i tokom 9 vijekova zatocila, mucila i spalila citave armije vjestica i njihovom necistom krvlju umila hriscanski svijet. A onda je otkriveno da tako nesto, vjestice, ne postoji i da nikada nije ni postojalo.
Covek ne zna da li da se smije ili da place.

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Brace yourself!

Blijedo Plava Tacka

Sa ovog udaljenog mijesta, Zemlja mozda izgleda beznacajna, ali za nas je drugacije. Pogledajte ponovo tu tacku. To je ovde. To je dom. To smo mi. Na njoj, svi koje volite, svi koje poznajete, svi za koje ste ikad culi, svako ljudsko bice koje je ikad postojalo zivjelo je tu. Skup svih nasih radosti i patnji, hiljade samouvjerenih religija, ideologija i ekonomskih doktrina, svaki lovac i svaki skupljac, svaki heroj i svaki plasljivac, svaki stvaralac i razarac civilizacije, svaki kralj i seljak, svaki mladi zaljubljeni par, svaka majka i svaki otac, dijete puno nade, pronalazac i istrazivac, svaki ucitelj morala, svaki korumpirani politicar, svaka superzvjezda, svaki vrhunski vodja, svaki svetac i gresnik u istoriji nase vrste svi smo zivjeli tamo, na cestici prasine zaklonjenoj zrakom Sunca.
Zemlja je veoma mala scena u nepreglednoj kosmickoj areni. Sjetite se rijeka krvi koju su prolili svi oni generali i vladari, da bi u slavi i trijumfu postali momentalni vladari dijelica tacke. Sijetite se beskrajnih okrutnosti pocinjenih od strane stanovnika jednog piksela prema jedva prepoznatljivim stanovnicima nekog drugog coska, njihovih toliko cestih nesporazuma, tolike njihove zelje da ubiju jedni druge, njihove zarke mrznje.

Nase zablude, nase umisljeno samouvazavanje, obmana da imamo neki privilegovani polozaj u svemiru su suocene sa ovom blijedom tackom. Nasa planeta je usamljena mrlja prekrivena velikom kosmickom tamom. U nasoj bezizrazajnosti u svom tom prostranstvu, ne postoji nikakav znak da ce pomoc doci s nekog drugog mijesta da nas spasi od nas samih.
Zemlja je jedino mijesto za koje znamo da sadrzi zivot. Ne postoji ni jedno drugo mijesto, bar ne u skoroj buducnosti, dje bi nasa vrsta mogla migrirati. Posjetiti, da. Naseliti, ne jos. Svidjalo vam se ili ne, Zemlja je mijesto dje se trenutno nalazimo.
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Grow Up Or Die

The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses, the world could actually come to an end. The plain fact is, religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having in key decisions made by religious people. By irrationalists, by those who would steer the ship of state not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken. George Bush prayed a lot about Iraq, but he didn't learn a lot about it. Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it are intellectual slaveholders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction. Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do. Most people would think it's wonderful when someone says, "I'm willing, Lord! I'll do whatever you want me to do!" Except that since there are no gods actually talking to us, that void is filled in by people with their own corruptions and limitations and agendas. And anyone who tells you they know, they just know what happens when you die, I promise you, you don't. How can I be so sure? Because I don't know, and you do not possess mental powers that I do not. The only appropriate attitude for man to have about the big questions is not the arrogant certitude that is the hallmark of religion, but doubt. Doubt is humble, and that's what man needs to be, considering that human history is just a litany of getting shit dead wrong. This is why rational people, anti-religionists, must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves. And those who consider themselves only moderately religious really need to look in the mirror and realize that the solace and comfort that religion brings you actually comes at a terrible price. If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. To do otherwise is to be an enabler, a mafia wife, for the true devils of extremism that draw their legitimacy from the billions of their fellow travelers. If the world does come to an end here, or wherever, or if it limps into the future, decimated by the effects of religion-inspired nuclear terrorism, let's remember what the real problem was that we learned how to precipitate mass death before we got past the neurological disorder of wishing for it. That's it. Grow up or die.

 

 

SAMO JE OVCAMA POTREBAN PASTIR

Komunizam, fasizam i nacizam su priblizno isti, kada je rijec o ubistvima, zlocinima i licemjerstvu tj. komunizam je i dalje broj 1 kada su u pitanju ubistva. Ljudi cesto poistovjecuju komunizam sa ateizmom, sto je potpuno pogresno. Komunizam, fasizam, nacizam i svi drugi totalitarni rezimi mozda ne praktikuju religiju itd. Medjutim, tu postoji jedan drugi fenomen, a to je da u takvim rezimima covjek postaje tkz. bog i onda je on nesto sveto, posebno i samo ispravno. Fenomen koji je poznat kao: kult vodje!

Kada je rijec o Hitleru, postoje razlicita misljenja da li je bio vjernik ili ne. Medjutim, cinjenica je da je on bio vjernik, on je vjerovao da je on taj koji je izabran od boga, on je vjerovao da je sve sto on radi ustvari zelja bozija i da ga je bog licno poslao da pobije sto je vise moguce ljudi.

Ateizam, rijec koju ljudi potpuno pogresno tumace, mnogi ljudi se sada izjasnjavaju kao "secular humanist" jer velika vecina identifikuje ateizam sa komunizmom, fasizmom itd. sto naravno nema nikakvog smisla. Kao sto je Sam Harris rekao u svojoj knjizi "Pismo upuceno hriscanima" "Ateizam nije filozofija, to nije cak ni pogled na svijet, jednostavno, to je prihvatanje cinjenicnog stanja. U stvari Ateista kao termin nije nikad trebao ni da postoji".

Cesto me pitaju: "Zasto mene krivis za stvari koje drugi vjernici rade, nisam uradio nista lose"?!

Da, krivim tebe i sve ostale vjernike zato sto slijepo vjerujete u stvari koje su napisane u neku zastarelu knjigu i u stvari koje vam popovi pricaju, pri tom ne shvatate koliko je sve to besmisleno i glupo! Niko od nas nije rodjen kao vjernik, religija nam je nametnuta od strane roditelja! Njihovi roditelji su je nametnuli njima i tako sve par stotina, hiljada godina unazad...

Jednostavno mi je ne-shvatljivo da ljudi uprkos svim informacija koje su im dostupne danas i dalje odbijaju da sagledaju cinjenice, i dalje odbijaju da vide istinu, i dalje odbijaju da vide koliko stete i razora religija izaziva sirom svijeta.

Tradicija, rijec koju obicno koriste ljudi koji o religiji znaju, NISTA.

Da, lijepo je da postujemo nase roditelje i porodicu, ali ako ikada shvatis da nesto nije u redu i da nema smisla, ne bi trebalo da nastavis da slijepo radis to sto ti tradicija kaze (namece). Pocnite da razmisljate svojom glavom, pitajte kada vam nesto nije jasno, ako ikada dodjete do tacke kada mislite da sve znate, to znaci da ste u stvari mrtvi, mrtvi u intelektualnom smislu, sto se u sustini ne razlikuje mnogo od smrti kao smrti… Ljudi bez maste, ljudi koji nemaju vise nijedno pitanje da postave su ustvari NISTA (nemam pravu rijec za njih, ali su uglavnom, NISTA)

Kao sto je dobro poznato, hriscanstvo ima dosta primjesa drugih religija, vjerovanja koja datiraju stotinama, hiljadama godina prije hriscanstva, ustvari cinjenica je da hriscanstvo nije nista vise od remiksovanog paganizama. Da li neko stvarno misli da prica o postojanju ima ikakvog smisla? Da li neko misli da je biblija koja sadrzi na hiljade kontradiknosti, biblija koja je puna nasilja, ubistava, silovanja, pjancenja stvarno rijec bozija?

 Ako to mislite, onda mi vas je zaista zao. AMEN ;)

Only Sheep Need Shepherd

Communism, fascism and nazism are roughly the same, when it comes to murders, crimes and hypocrisy ie. communism is still no.1 on leader board when it comes to murder. People often equated communism with atheism, which is completely wrong. communism, fascism, nazism and all other totalitarian regimes may not practice religion, etc.. but there is another phenomenon happens and that is: they put human being in place of so called god and then he is something sacred, special and only right. that phenomenom is commonly known as: cult of the leader!

When it comes to Hitler, there are different opinion whether he was а believer or not. However the fact is, he was a believer, he believed that he was the one who was chosen by god, he believed everything that he does in fact is desire of god.

Atheism, as the word was completely misinterpreted, many people are now declared themselves as "secular humanist" because for the vast majority of people identify atheism with, communism, fascism, etc. which is completly wrong, and as Sam Harris said in his book "Letter To a Christian Nation" "Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, 'atheist' is a term that should not ever exist".

Way to often I'm asked: "Why do you blame me, for the things I didn't done"
Yes, I blame you and all other believers for blindly believing what some out-dated book and religious leaders told them! None of us is born as believer, religion was forced upon us by our parents! Their parents forced it upon them, and all the way back like that a couple of thousand years ...

It is simply not conceivable that people, despite all the information available to them today still refuse to look at the facts, still refusing to see the truth, still refusing to see how much harm realigion causing around the world.

Tradition, word commonly used by the people which know nothing about religion.
Yes, it is nice to respect our parents and family, but if you ever realize that something is not right and that does not make sense, you should not continue to follow it blindly! Start asking question, question everything, because once you stop asking question, once you reach a point where you think that you know everything, that means that you are dead, you are just walking death. Human beings without imagination, without any question left to be asked is nothing but, dead weight.

As is well know, christianity has a lot of impurities of other religions, and beliefs, dating back hundreds and thousands of years ago, before christianity. The matter of fact is that, christianity is nothing more that remixed paganism. Does anyone think that the whole story about the existence have any sense? Does anyone think that bible with its thousands of contradiction, violence, murders, rapes is the word of god?

If you do, then I'm sorry indeed.

It Is All One

I think I spent 30 years of my life, the first 30 trying to become something. I wanted to become good at things, I wanted to become good at tennis and school and grades. And everything I kinda viewed in that perspective I’m not okay the way I am, but if I got good at things… I realized that I had the game wrong, because the game was to find out what I already was. 

Now, in our culture we have been trained for individual differences to stand out, so you look at each person and the immediate hit is… brighter, dumber, older, younger, richer poorer… and we make all these dimensional distinctions, put them in categories and treat them that way. And get so we only see others as separate from ourselves in the ways in which they are separate. And one of the dramatic characteristics of experience is being with another person and suddenly seeing the ways in which they are like you not different from you. And experiencing the fact that that which is essence in you; which is essence in me is indeed, one. The understanding that there is no other…it is all one. I wasn’t born Richard Albert, I was just born as a human being and then I learn this whole business of who I am, whether I’m good or bad, achieving or not… all that’s learned along the way.

The old appeals of racial, sexual and religious shovanism to rabid nationalistic fervor… are beginning not to work. A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism… and recognizes: an organism at war with itself is doomed.

Letter to a Christian Nation

"Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary and appalling suffering on innocent human beings. This explains why Christians like yourself expend more "moral" energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide. It explains why you are more concerned about human embryos than about the lifesaving promise of stem-cell research. And it explains why you can preach against condom use in sub-Saharan Africa while millions die from AIDS there each year."

“A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst. There are, for the sake of comparison, more than 100,000 cells in the brain of a fly. If our concern is about suffering in this universe, it is rather obvious that we should be more concerned about killing flies than about killing three-day-old human embryos… Many people will argue that the difference between a fly and a three-day-old human embryo is that a three-day-old human embryo is a potential human being. Every cell in your body, given the right manipulations, every cell with a nucleus is now a potential human being. Every time you scratch your nose, you’ve committed a holocaust of potential human beings… Let’s say we grant it that every three-day-old human embryo has a soul worthy of our moral concern. First of all, embryos at this stage can split into identical twins. Is this a case of one soul splitting into two souls? Embryos at this stage can fuse into a chimera. What has happened to the extra human soul in such a case? This is intellectually indefensible, but it’s morally indefensible given that these notions really are prolonging scarcely endurable misery of tens of millions of human beings, and because of the respect we accord religious faith, we can’t have this dialogue in the way that we should. I submit to you that if you think the interests of a three-day-old blastocyst trump the interests of a little girl with spinal cord injuries or a person with full-body burns, your moral intuitions have been obscured by religious metaphysics.” 

#WarOnChristmas

Interesting phenomenon that occurs around December 25th, or the winter solstice. From the summer solstice to the winter solstice, the days become shorter and colder. From the perspective of the northern hemisphere, the sun appears to move south and get smaller and more scarce. The shortening of the days and the expiration of the crops when approaching the winter solstice symbolized the process of death to the ancients. It was the death of the Sun. By December 22nd, the Sun's demise was fully realized, for the Sun, having moved south continually for 6 months, makes it to it's lowest point in the sky. Here a curious thing occurs: the Sun stops moving south, at least perceivably, for 3 days. During this 3 day pause, the Sun resides in the vicinity of the Southern Cross, or Crux, constellation. And after this time on December 25th, the Sun moves 1 degree, this time north, foreshadowing longer days, warmth, and Spring. And thus it was said: the Sun died on the cross, was dead for 3 days, only to be resurrected or born again. This is why Jesus and numerous other Sun Gods share the crucifixion, 3-day death, and resurrection concept. It is the Sun's transition period before it shifts its direction back into the Northern Hemisphere, bringing Spring, and thus salvation. 

If there is no god, why be good?

As Einstein said, "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are sorry indeed." Michael Sherman, in The Sicence of Good and Evil, calls it a debate stopper. If you agree that, in absence of god, you would commit robbery, rape and murder, you reveal yourself as an immoral person and we would be well advised to steer a wide course around you. If, on the other hand you admit that you would continue to be a good person even when not under divine surveillance, you have fatally undermined your claim that god is necessary for us to be good. I suspect that quite a lot of religious people do think religion is what motivates them to be good, especially if they belong to one of those faiths that systematically exploits personal quilt.
It seems to me to require quite a low self-regard to think that, should belief in god suddenly vanish from the world, we would all become callous and selfish hedonist with no kindness, no charity, no generosity, nothing that would deserve the name of goodness.

Evolution: It's a thing - crash course biology

The God Delusion

 

Civilization

“Patriotism, weapons, armies, navies, all that is a sign that we’re not civilized yet. Kids will ask their parents… ‘Didn’t you see the necessity of machines? Dad, couldn’t you see that war was inevitable when you produce scarcity? Isn’t it obvious?’ Of course the kid will understand that you were pinheads raised merely to serve the established institutions.


We’re such an abominable, sick society that we won’t make the history books. They’ll just say that large nations took land from smaller nations, used force and violence. You’ll get history talked about as corrupt behavior all the way along until the beginning of the civilized world. That’s when all the nations work together.


World unification, working toward common good for all human beings and without anyone being subservient to anyone else. Without social stratification whether it be technical elitism or any other kind of elitism, eradicated from the face of the earth. The ‘state’ does nothing because there is no ‘state’.


The system I advocate, a resource based global economy is not perfect, it’s just a lot better than what we have. We can never achieve perfection.”

The social values of our society, which has manifested in perpetual warfare, corruption, oppressive laws, social stratification, irrelevant superstitions, environmental destruction, and a despotic socially indifferent profit oriented ruling class; is fundamentally the result of a collective ignorance of two of the most basic insights humans can have about reality. The emergent and symbiotic aspects of natural law.


The emergent nature of reality is that all systems; whether it is knowledge, society, technology, philosophy, or any other creation; will, when uninhibited, undergo fluid perpetual change.


What we consider commonplace today such as modern communication and transportation, would have been unimaginable in ancient times. Likewise, the future will contain technologies, realizations, and social structures that we cannot even fathom in the present.


We have gone from alchemy to chemistry, from a geocentric universe to a heliocentric, from believing that demons were the cause of illness to modern medicine. This development shows no sign of ending, and it is this awareness that aligns us and leads us on a continuous path to growth and progress.


Static empirical knowledge does not exist, rather it is the insight of the emergence of all systems we must recognize. This means we must be open to new information at all times, even if it threatens our current belief system, and hence, identities. Sadly society today has failed to recognize this, and the established institutions continue to paralyze growth by preserving outdated social structures.


Simultaneously, the population suffers from a fear of change. For their conditioning assumes a static identity and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension. For being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact to be proven wrong should be celebrated. It is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness. The fact is, there is no such thing as a smart human being, for it is merely a matter of time before their ideas are updated, changed, or irradiated.


And this tendency to blindly hold on to a belief system, sheltering it from new possibly transforming information is nothing less than a form of intelectual materialism. The monetary system perpetuates this materialism not only by it’s self-preserving structures, but also throught the countless number of people who have been conditioned into blindly and thoughtlessly upholding these structures, therefore becoming self-appointed guardians of the status quo. Sheep which no longer need a sheep-dog to control them. For they control each other by ostracizing those who step out of the norm.


This tendency to resist change and uphold existing institutions for the sake of identity, comfort, power and profit is completely unsustainable; and will only produce further imbalance, fragmentation, distortion, and very invariably destruction.


It’s time to change.


From hunters and gatherers, to the agricultural revolution, to the industrial revolution, the pattern is clear. It is time for a new social system which reflects the understandings we have today.


The monetary system is a product of a period of time when scarcity was a reality. Now with the age of technology it is no longer relevant to society. Gone with the aberrant behavior it manifests.


Likewise, dominant world views such as theistic religion operate with the same social irrelevancy. Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and all of the others exist as barriers to personal and social growth. For each group perpetuates a closed world view. And this finite understanding that they acknowledge is simply not possible in an emergent universe.


Yet religion has succeeded in shutting down the awareness of this emergence by instilling the psychological distortion of faith upon it’s followers. Where logic and new information is rejected in favor of traditionalized outdated beliefs.


“The concept of god, is really a method of accounting for the nature of things. In the early days people didn’t know enough about how things formed, how nature worked. So they invented their own little stories, and the made god in their own image.


A guy that get’s angry when people don’t behave right. He creates floods, and earthquakes, and they say it’s and act of god.”


A cursory glance at the suppressed history of religion reveals that even the foundational myths themselves are emergent culminations developed through influence over time. For example a cardinal doctrine of the Christian faith is the death and resurrection of Christ. This notion is so important that the Bible itself states ‘And if Christ be not risen then is our preaching vain and your faith is also vain’ Yet it is very difficult to take this account literally, for not only is there no primary source denoting this supernatural event in secular history, awareness of the enormous number of pre-Christian saviors who also died and were resurrected immediately puts this story in mythological territory by association.


Early church figures such as Tortullian went to great lengths to break these associations, even claiming that the devil caused the similarities to occur. Stating in the second century ‘The devil, whose business is to pervert the truth, mimics the exact circumstances of the Divine Sacraments. He baptizes his believers and promises forgiveness of sins… he celebrates the oblation of bread, and brings in the symbol of the resurrection. Let us therefore acknowledge the craftiness of the devil, who copied certain things of those that be Divine.’


What is truly sad however, is that when we cease the idea that the stories from Christianity, Judaism, Islam and all the others are literal history, and accept them for what they really are, which are purely allegorical expressions derived from many faiths, we see that all religions share a common thread. And it is this unifying imperative that needs to be recognized and appreciated.


Religious belief has caused more fragmentation and conflict than any other ideology. Christianity alone has over 34,000 different subgroups.[/Peter Joseph]


“The Bible is subject to interpretation. When you read it, you say ‘I think Jesus meant this. I think Job meant that. Oh No! He meant this.’ So you have the Lutheran, the Seventh-day Adventist, the Catholic, and a church divided is no church at all.”[/Jacque Fresco]


[Peter Joseph]And this point on division, which is a trademark on all theistic religions brings us to our second failure of awareness. The false assumption of separation through the rejection of the symbiotic relationship of life.


Apart from the understanding that all natural systems are emergent, where all notions of reality will be constantly developed, altered, and even eradicated; we must also understand that all systems are in fact invented fragments merely for sake of conversation. For there is no such thing as independence in nature. The whole of nature is a unified system of interdependent variables, each a cause and a reaction, existing only as a concentrated whole.


“You don’t see the plug to connect to the environment, so it looks like we’re free… wandering around. Take the oxygen away, we all die immediately. Take plant life away, we die. And without the sun, all the plants die. So we are connected.”


“We really must take into account the totality. This isn’t just a human experience on this planet, this is a total experience. And we know we can’t survive without plants and animals. We know we can’t survive without the four elements, ya know? And so, when are we really going to start taking that into account? That’s what it is to be successful. Success depends on how well we relate to everything around us.


I’m very aware of the fact that my grandson cannot possible hope to inherit a sustainable, peaceful, stable, socially just world unless every child today growing up today in Ethiopia, in Indonesia, in Bolivia, in Palestine, in Israel also has that same expectation.


You gotta take care of the whole community or you’re gonna have serious problems. And now we have to see that the whole world is the community. And we must all take care of each other that way. And it’s not just a community of human beings, it’s a community of plants and animals and elements. And we really need to understand that. That’s what’s gonna bring us joy too, and pleasure. That’s what’s missing in our lives right now.


We can call it spirituality, but the fact of the matter is joy comes from that bliss of connectedness. That’s our god spirit. That’s that side of ourselves that really feels it, and you can feel it deep inside you. It’s this amazing wonderful feeling, and you know it when you get it. You don’t get it from money, you get it from connection.”


“Now if that isn’t a hazard to this country. How are we gonna keep building nuclear weapons, you know what I mean? What’s gonna happen to the arms industry, when we realize we’re all one? It’s gonna fuck up the economy. The economy that’s fake anyway. Which would be a real bummer. You can see why the government’s crackin’ down… on the idea of experiencing unconditional love.” – Bill Hicks


“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, 1929-1968


Once we understand that the integrity of our personal existences are completely dependent on the integrity of everything else in our world, we have truly understood the meaning of unconditional love.


For love is extensionality and seeing everything as you and you as everything can have no conditionalities, for in fact, we are all everything at once


“If it’s true that we’re all from the center of a star, every atom on each of us from the center of a star, then we’re all the same thing. Even a Coke machine or a cigarette butt in the street in buffalo is made out of atoms that came from a star. They’ve all been recycled thousands of times, as have you and I. And therefore, it’s only me out there. So what is there to be afraid of? What is there that needs solace seeking? Nothing. There’s nothing to be afraid of because it’s all us.


The trouble is we have been separated by being born and given a name and an identity and being individuated. We’ve been separated from the oneness, and that’s what religion exploits. That people have this yearning to be part of the overall one again. So they exploit that. They call it god, they say he has rules, and I think it’s cruel. I think you can do it absent religion.” – George Carlin, 1937-2008


“…an extraterrestrial visitor examining the differences among human societies would find those differences trivial compared to the similarities…Our lives, our past and our future are tied to the sun, the moon and the stars…We humans have seen the atoms which constitute all of nature and the forces that sculpted this work…And we, we who embody the local eyes and ears and thoughts and feelings of the cosmos, we have begun at least to wonder about our origins — star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms, contemplating the evolution of nature, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet earth…Our loyalties are to the species and to the planet. We speak for earth. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos ancient and vast from which we spring!We are one species. We are star stuff harvesting star light.” – “Who Speaks for Earth?” Carl Sagan, 1934-1996


It’s time to claim the unity our outmoded social systems have broken apart, and work together to create a sustainable global society where everyone is taken care of and everyone is truly free.


Your personal beliefs, whatever they may be are meaningless when it comes to the necessities of life. Every human being was born naked, needing warmth, food, water, shelter. Everything else is auxiliary. Therefore, the most important issue at hand is the intelligent management of the Earth’s resources. This can never be accomplished in a monetary system, for the pursuit of profit is the persuit of self interest and therefore imbalance is inherent.


Simultaneously, politicians are useless. For our true problems in life are technical not political. Furthermore, ideologies that separate humanity such as religion need strong reflection in the community in regards to it’s value, purpose and social relevancy. Hopefully through time religion will loose it’s materialism and basis in superstition and move into the useful field of philosophy.


The fact is, society today is backwards, with politicians constantly talking about protection and security rather than creation, unity and progress. The US alone now spends about $500 billions dollars anually on defense. That is enough to send every high school senior in America to a four year college.


In the 1940's the Manhattan Project produced the first true weapon of mass destruction. This program employed 130,000 people, at an extreme financial cost. Imagine what our life would be like today if that group of scientists, instead of working on a way of killing people, worked on a way to create a self-sustaining abundant world. Life today would be very very different if that was their goal.


Instead of weapons of mass destruction, it is time to unleash something much more powerful. Weapons of Mass Creation (WMCs).


Our true divinity is in our ability to create. And armed with the understanding of the symbiotic connections of life, while being guided by the emergent nature of reality, there is nothing we cannot do or accomplish. Of course, we face strong barriers in the form of established power structures that refuse to change.


At the heart of these structures is the monetary system. As explained earlier, the fractional reserve system is a form of slavery through debt, where it is literally impossible for society to be free. In turn, free market capitalism in the form of free trade, uses debt to imprison the world and manipulate countries into subservience to a handful of large business and political powers. Apart from these obvious amoralities, the system itself is based on competition, which immediately destroys the possibility of large scale collaborations for the common good. Hence paralyzing any attempt at true global sustainability.


These financial and corporate structures are now obsolete, and they must be outgrown. Of course, we can not be naive enough to think that the business and financial elite are going to subscribe to this idea for they will lose power and control. Therefore, peaceful and highly strategic action must be taken. The most powerful course of action is simple. We have to alter our behavior to force the power structure to the will of the people.


WE MUST STOP SUPPORTING THE SYSTEM.


The only way the establishment will change is by our refusal to participate while continuously acknowledging it’s endless flaws and corruptions.

If death is the only certainty, is there then meaning to life

THINK
Sartre was a great novelist but I found his attempt at phenomenology too dry for comfort.
Camus on the other hand, is equally comfortable in both domains. Camus began his thesis by proclaiming that there is one question in life, and that is whether to commit suicide. If life has no meaning, then what is the point of living?
His title is apt. Sisyphus is that tragic figure in Greek mythology who was condemned to eternal toil in Hell.
He was tasked with pushing a huge rock up the slope, and as he reached the peak, the rock would roll down back to its position. Then the same toil repeats itself, for eternity. If you think about it, Sisyphus fate is a little like our daily life.
We were born, protesting and crying, without the right to be consulted. Then we will all die, crying again at leaving our loved ones. In between, there is just a huge blank for us to fill in.
Everyday, we go though the motion of living a life, a routine of going to work, eat, sleep...
We are bound by layers and layers of social norms and obligations that thwart our puny will to be ourselves.
We mortgage our freedom to our business, our family, our nation, and our tribe. We live through an entire life, without knowing who we are as individuals.
You know how modernity is.
It celebrates life, hope for tomorrow, and the greatness of the human spirit, those elements that make Hollywood movies so popular. Rambo and Rocky immediately come to mind. Nobody wants to talk about death and dying.
Yet, death is the only ultimate certainty in life. You can never get out of this life alive. The more you celebrate the human spirit, the joy of life, and the hope for tomorrow, the greater disappointment it will be when you face certain death.
This is the ultimate absurdity of human existence. This is the most fundamental alienation of our being!
The sick feeling in the realisation of this contraction has been variously described as angst or ennui, festering beneath the surface of every person’s facade of a normal life, coming back in the dark depth of night, when he is confronted with himself alone, or when he has just suffered a personal catastrophe.
Sartre used to say that we are all amateurs in this business of feeling lonely, and every man lives in quiet desperation.
For Camus, he provides the answer to his question of suicide in his book The Rebel. Life may or may not have meaning, but it is up to us to create our own meaning.
That is how existentialism got its slogan: existence before essence. For him, the act of rebellion against the absurdity of existence itself, especially through art, is the path for the absurd man to live.
“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being,” he wrote.
I just wonder: how many people today are closet existentialists, especially among the younger generations. People do not like to discuss such deeply sensitive subjects as the meaning of life with our friends. We do not want to be seen like freaks.
Camus’ question does not bother me any more. Do not ask me my formula, because I have lived a relatively long life to find my own answer, and my answer may not be suitable for you. You have to find your own answer.
So, what is the meaning of your life? Or is it not a relevant question for you?

Historical Facts

   58. Man was created after the other animals
Gen 1:25,26,27
Man was created before the other animals
Gen 2:18,19
59. Seed time and harvest were never to cease
Gen 8:22
Seed time and harvest did cease for seven years
Gen 41:54,56/ Gen 45:6
60. God hardened Pharaoh's heart
Ex 4:21/ Ed 9:12
Pharaoh hardened his own heart
Ex 8:15
61. All the cattle and horses in Egypt died
Ex 9:3,6/ 14:9
All the horses of Egypt did not die
Ex 14:9
62. Moses feared Pharaoh
Ex 2:14,15,23; 4:19
Moses did not fear Pharaoh
Heb 11:27
63. There died of the plague twenty-four thousand
Num 25:9
There died of the plague but twenty-three thousand
1 Cor 10:8
64. John the Baptist was Elias
Matt 11:14
John the Baptist was not Elias
John 1:21
65. The father of Joseph, Mary's husband was Jacob
Matt 1:16
The father of Mary's husband was Heli
Luke 3:23
66. The father of Salah was Arphaxad
Gen 11:12
The father of Salah was Cainan
Luke 3:35,36
67. There were fourteen generations from Abraham to David
Matt 1:17
There were but thirteen generations from Abraham to David
Matt 1:2-6
68. There were fourteen generations from the Babylonian captivity
to Christ.
Matt 1:17
There were but thirteen generations from the Babylonian
captivity to Christ
Matt 1:12-16
69. The infant Christ was taken into Egypt
Matt 2:14,15,19,21,23
The infant Christ was not taken into Egypt
Luke 2:22, 39
70. Christ was tempted in the wilderness
Mark 1:12,13
Christ was not tempted in the wilderness
John 2:1,2
71. Christ preached his first sermon on the mount
Matt 5:1,2
Christ preached his first sermon on the plain
Luke 6:17,20
72. John was in prison when Jesus went into Galilee
Mark 1:14
John was not in prison when Jesus went into Galilee
John 1:43/ John 3:22-24
73. Christ's disciples were commanded to go forth with a staff
and sandals
Mark 6:8,9
Christ's disciples were commanded to go forth with neither
staffs nor sandals.
Matt 10:9,10
74. A woman of Canaan besought Jesus
Matt 15:22
It was a Greek woman who besought Him
Mark 7:26
75. Two blind men besought Jesus
Matt 20:30
Only one blind man besought Him
Luke 18:35,38
76. Christ was crucified at the third hour
Mark 15:25
Christ was not crucified until the sixth hour
John 19:14,15
77. The two thieves reviled Christ.
Matt 27:44/ Mark 15:32
Only one of the thieves reviled Christ
Luke 23:39,40
78. Satan entered into Judas while at supper
John 13:27
Satan entered into him before the supper
Luke 22:3,4,7
79. Judas committed suicide by hanging
Matt 27:5
Judas did not hang himself, but died another way
Acts 1:18