Plans for a religion

Religions are basically tribal units created to appease our tribal instincts and need for fellowship.

Do you think your methods will serve those needs?

Another quick question. Will you have a god that is based on logos or on mythos? On the supernatural or on reality and the natural?

Will you put man above god or god above man?

Regards
DL

How can we realize what is best?
Some christians would cut strait to the source: God is the best, biggest, smartest, etc.
Without God what comes up second-place?
Life on earth, i would say.
Life is more frightening when God is gone.
Death can be accepted. Pain can be accepted.
But these things are not desirable.
If all life on earth suffered greatly, life would be a hell-like experience.
Death would be preferable in that case.
Pleasant life calls to us to embrace what we have.
Happy life is the preference over death and pain.

I’m not sure i know where i am going with this.
I posted it anyway.

Jesus saw heaven when he looked at life on earth. So do I. Jesus does say that there are few of us who will see it.

It is demonstrable that we live in the only possible world. It thus must be the best of all possible worlds, given our history.

Sure we all have a wish list to improve things but that does not refute the premise I put.

Look around and see how well off we all are. To the point where only the minority will have any real problems in life.

Things have been really improving for the last 50 to 70 years but we have been on an upwards swing for 200 years. Poverty is almost a thing of the past, for instance, as we have pulled a billion over the poverty line in the last 20 years and they estimate we will do the same in the next 20 years.

Things are great and the trends will continue.

Regards
DL

Where do you get your information about progress and poverty?

I have many sources. Here is a sampling that should satisfy. The violence reduction stats are at the end of the last link and if you need more, that scholar has ton’s in the net as well.

For finance.

economist.com/leaders/2013/ … of-poverty

Here is how that looks visually.

youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo

The stats from Pinker are near the end.

youtube.com/watch?v=aLulcfyqrc0

Regards
DL

Does this progress from poverty include American Natives? These references do not seem to speak for indigenous people.

I believe that the stats are all inclusive but you would have to check the parameters the statisticians used.

Both of the links were made for international consumption and I trust that both had decent survey methods.

Regards
DL

youtu.be/SjvhDVWfrFU
I made a youtube video for this subject.

Dude! Dan!

That was awesome!

Aw, thank you so much.

youtu.be/qBbH2EOK39I

It seems that the plan is now:
Make a booth for electricity, shower, sink, etc.
Then park around the booth, used campers.
The kind that are insulated for winter.
I’m guessing ill have around 3 campers,
so 2 people can move in, and that will be it for that time.
They can worry less about money when living in that situation.
So they can focus more on meditation, study, spirituality, etc.
Also during the warm months tents can be set up besides the campers.

This will be many years from now.

Dan: if You could extend this personal quest/project to a social policy, ; If 1/3 rd of the population - the middle third, and the rest of the 1/3 rd could fit into this formula, & the final privileged 1/3 rd should not have to worry about social discord , then :

It could become a great plan. Further , if You’d be willing to run this November, I’d write You in, and You would not have to wait for years in the future.

However, and no kidding aside, it does sound great nevertheless, and I’d be one of the first ones to apply.

Thank you.
Do you live in Canada also?
I live in Edmonton Alberta.

Donations could help bring more into the system by providing more housing and utilities.
I’m not sure about the legalities, but I could easily phone a house building company, and they would know a lot of the technical details.

If I had it my way, id bring in a lot of people, and they could use this as a way to live with more ease and finesse.

I’ve tried to entertain the theory of God.
It comes down to the idea that God is fragmented and not all-powerful,
but he is very strong and very good.
It took me a long time to come to this conclusion.
Pagan gods are valid because they are also
not all-powerful but some are quite good and strong.

God didn’t prevent extinction events because he cant.
When you pray, and you get some kind of answer,
it is not very direct. it is strange and subtle.
God wont cure your disease when you are sick.
Because he can’t. Nobody can within your psychic range.

Jesus could heal the sick.
So you are saying he was more powerful than God!

Let us pray and make it so. That way, he might be able to break his genocidal ways and not do Armageddon as foretold.

Nice that it is only a myth, and shows Jesus retiring Yahweh when Jesus ascended. Let’s hope the hand of god can choke out the genocidal Yahweh side.

Regards
DL

When your soul/consciousness is eternal, what would an extinction event even mean in regards to the eternal? God’s energy never dies, your energy never dies. Adam and Eve never needed to eat from the tree of life for they were designed to continue on forever. I think in the Old Testament Bible, the first earth bound humans lived around 1000 years or so in a human body, not even taking into account the immortality of their souls. What does extinction mean to an immortality that cannot truly die?

You don’t really believe any of that stuff you just said, do ya? That stuff is just dumb all over, wendy. You can’t be serious.