Projects are never finished, we just meet deadlines and I'm out of time. Little rough, but what else is new, still I want to get it out there, it’s an ongoing project and part of it is trying to convey some ideas that I believe are important and that deserve more attention.
Fundamental to my perspective is the appreciation that there is a profound difference between Personal Truths and Universal Truths.
Personal Truths govern matters of the human heart and soul.
Keep in mind that unless you believe in the notion that Earth was created in six days, six thousand years ago, you must realize that humanity’s presence on this Earth is but a minuscule flash in the history of our miraculous planet, which will continue long after we have extinguished ourselves.
Holy Books are shadow plays. They are tribal stories professing personal truths that concern the human condition and our own personal journeys as we proceed through our numbered years while grappling with our inescapable ultimate fate.
Holy books with their colorful imaginations and big expectations are measured in centuries. How can they possibly represent the God of Light and Time, Creation and Love, an entity who’s awareness spans thousands of millions of years and hundreds of thousands of generations of life on this planet?
Human religions speak to the Human Condition. They are real, they are valid, but they are also narcissistic and blind to the greater reality of the natural world that surrounds* us. In fact, the world that created us. (*Guess, not so much anymore, given the population explosion and mega-megalopolis where people are herded together into pens, far removed from the natural world that sustains all of us. That is the biosphere that we are devouring at an unfathomable rate.)
That is the realm of Personal Truths.
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Universal Truths
have to do with physical reality.
have to do with physical reality.
God’s stage so to speak.
Universal Truths govern the geophysics and biology that made Earth the boundless cornucopia that humanity was born into not all that many generations ago.
Science is the self-critical system intelligent humans with a thirst for understanding the world around them established in order to keep themselves honest. They have achieved incredible insights because Earth is no trickster, unlike so many of the gods humans obsess over.
The scientific community is composed of intelligent, all around skeptical, (that would include self-skepticism), critical-thinking, informed, competitive individuals spanning the globe and generations.
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Mr. Smith in contrast is the man with the following financial statement and a faith that maximizing profits and earnings is about all he’s concerned with.
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