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Thursday, June 21
The Concept of It Always Was: Part IV of IV
by
Daniel J. Shepard
on Thu 21 Jun 2007 12:00 AM EDT
The Concept of It Always Was:
Part IV of IV
...Why must our philosophy, regarding what reality is, and our logical function, the reason for our existence within reality, remain stagnant? Why do we have to protect the sacredness of all the principles of theism or pantheism? Why can’t we modify the concept that we are servants of God and become a piece of God instead? Why can’t we modify the concept that God is a separate entity of reality and allow our reality to become a small piece of God?
Two changes are needed in our perception that would expand our purpose. The first change requires us to accept that although God is all-knowing, all-present, and all-powerful, It can become even more so. The second change requires us to accept that we are a part of God sent to reality to help God, ourselves, grow. These changes would alter the perception of reality itself and would generate other changes for the better, for they would cause us to act more like God. After all, isn’t this what we have always been trying to accomplish?
This is not a discussion in futility. We do have an option regarding our philosophical perception of ourselves and of our function within reality. Whatever the potential trauma may require, panentheistic perception would allow us to rationalize, accept or confront any potentially traumatic physical events in a positive manner. There are many potential future incidents that may occur which would rock the very confidence of all humankind in terms of our significance within reality. These potential traumas can be faced confidently and proudly with the right perception. Theism, pantheism or panentheism is a choice, our choice, your choice. The fork in the road is not made up of scientific discoveries. The fork in the road has not changed. The fork in the road is a choice between philosophical perceptions.
But our journey is still not done. We are only halfway through the new millennium and we have much to discover within the heavens as well as within the mind. Our journey continues under the old philosophy of subservience to God, inferiority to God.
It is only 2500 A.D. and the fun has just begun.
End
Wednesday, June 20
The Concept of It Always Was: Part III of IV
by
Daniel J. Shepard
on Wed 20 Jun 2007 12:00 AM EDT
The Concept of It Always Was:
Part III of IV
... Oh the glory of it all; onward to the heavens! The glory of eternity awaits you. Push for the development of the mines on our beautiful silvery moon, the heavenly object that has comforted us in the dark of the night for the last ten thousand years. Push for the development of the first signs of our presence on a planetary body to he seen from earth. Push for the creation of a new mountain on the moon built from the lunar mine extractions representing our advancement into the heavens. Exploit the tundra, deserts, mountains, rivers, streams of earth. Oh they are already stripped of their cleanliness and substance? They already have had their beauty and form desecrated? No matter, it was for a good cause. Let’s not look back: let’s move on. There is plenty more of the same in other places of the heavens. Let’s move on to the planets and other stars in our near vicinity. Forward, God awaits, glory awaits. And what of the future children to come? They will do as we did. They will provide for themselves for we will teach them well the ways of independence.
It is the way it has always been, and it is the way it will always be, for we have no options, no alternatives. History dictates that it shall be so. History dictates. What of the present? Can we, who live in the present, not change the direction of history?
The universe was predestined to come into existence and predestined to terminate, but other than that, the universe is not in a predestined state. The universe can evolve in a unique manner directed by traveling souls within the confines of the Klein bottle the universe occupies. We exist within the universe as much a free agent of predestination as the inner state of the universe itself. We, in the present, are the ones to set the direction for the future. The past does not set the direction of the future. The past is gone. We, you and I, set the direction of the future. But in order to change this direction, we have to stop acting as others did in the past. We have to stop thinking of ourselves in the same way others in the past thought of themselves.
Presently, we perceive ourselves to exist for the purpose of glorifying the Creator. There is, however, another option: panentheism. We could just as well perceive ourselves as entities existing not as subservients of the Creator but as equals with It. Our purpose is to help God, ourselves, grow through the process of traveling reality. Some are to add to God’s growth directly; others are to support, build, maintain, groom, and elevate a growing society that will allow new growth for God. All of us will become fully aware of how we helped God, ourselves, grow through our actions in reality after our re-infusion back into God, after we once again become a part of our Creator when our journey through reality is completed.
But who is to say that the perceptions presently developed by human sources are correct? If one perception may be correct, why not another? And if the present day perception of theism is inadequate to explain observed and inferred events within our present reality, if the present day perception is inadequate and lacks the scope to guide us as we confront new problems regarding our role within the universe, then why not modify our perceptions of ourselves to fit the expanded knowledge and adventures that continually confront us?
To be continued: Part IV of IV: Why must our philosophy,...
Tuesday, June 19
The Concedpt of It Always Was: Part II of IV
by
Daniel J. Shepard
on Tue 19 Jun 2007 12:00 AM EDT
The Concept of It Always Was:
Part II of IV
...Philosophy and religions have their work cut out for them. We know now that we developed in a universe which was not always in existence. We also know the date of origination of the universe. With this knowledge we realize we were predated by “something”” else. We now realize we are neither unique nor essential to what existed before. It logically follows that whatever preceded us will follow us. Humans cannot be the ultimate of beings. Religions and philosophy come to the same conclusion: we are not essential to the existence of the universe we occupy. We are expendable; we are an insignificant being in the vastness of the universe and what lies beyond.
Coming to terms with the realization our reality had a beginning was predated by something else, is not easy. Understanding and accepting that our reality is accompanied by a second, parallel universe composed of antimatter makes things even worse. Now we realize all material substance, including ourselves, can be reduced to pure energy. We hang tight and cling even tighter to the concept that we must have been created to glorify our Creator. Why else? Theistic religions are strengthened. Our faith in our subservience, our lower status, is intensified and with it comes the further entrenchment of the conviction that we were created by something greater. We clutch tightly to our old concept that a Creator has created status levels of significance for all things in the universe: rocks, grass, trees, insects, snakes, fish, birds, dogs, biomes, planetary bodies, humans. We are at the top of it all. We are only one step below the magnificence of God. We are willing to fight to maintain our status. We become even more united as a species and agree we will join in a united front to secure that status against any intelligent life form we may encounter. We are on a quest to spread our influence, the influence of God, throughout the heavens.
Hidden within this system, hierarchies of significance are subsets of status. We have status subsets of our own of color, gender, sexuality, intelligence, religious affiliations, physique, ad infinitum. We know our place in society. We unite on the surface, but quietly below the surface, we individually compete to move whatever minority group we belong to a higher level of status.
We use the resources God provided us to expand our influence throughout the universe. We roll in turmoil beneath the surface of tranquility. We feel the urgency of time. We drive for the heavens in search of other intelligent life forms, which must be shown “the truth and the light.” What a glorious a purpose we humans have. We are on a mission of establishing a choir of multiple life forms to sing the praises of a Creator that has infused the universe with the precious gift of life and, in return, expect nothing other than appreciation. We are on a mission to create a choir that will raise its voice as one until heaven resonates from one end of its boundaries to the other.
We stand at the right hand of God. We are undoubtedly God’s most loyal servant and the religious, political, legal, corporate, academic leaders, who have lead humankind to this level of glory for God, will surely reap the benefits as they enter God’s Kingdom. The leaders of humankind expect to have others follow them through those gates, looking up to them in appreciation for their influence in having the gates of heaven flung open for all the loyal servants. The leaders believe they will reap the fruits of their labor in eternity to follow. They believe they are to be held in high esteem, placed upon pillars of adoration, as the masses group beneath them singing their praises in addition to God’s throughout eternity to follow.
To be continued: Part III of IV: Oh the glory of...
Monday, June 18
The Concept of It Always Was: Part I of IV
by
Daniel J. Shepard
on Mon 18 Jun 2007 12:00 AM EDT
Contact
The Concept Of “It Always Was”: A Second Klein Bottle
Date of the Buddhist Om, “universal noise”, is established
Twins
Part I of IV
Speculation 2500 A.D.: Science has long acknowledged the existence of the universal sound known as “Om.” Now at the turn of the half millennium, science has established the cause of this sound and when it originated.
Science has undoubtedly determined that the universal sound, the energy emission located everywhere in our universe, has as its source the explosion of the “primordial atom.” The “big bang” theory now appears to be correct. Science, through the use of new bio-molecular computers, has also determined that the universal noise, acting as a faint background of all deep space energy emissions received on the earth, comes from not one, but two energy sources. The near uniformity of energy dispersal has provided computer scientists, using much improved artificial intelligence of bio-molecular computers, to establish and run a mock-up model of the historic explosion of our primordial atom.
With this final proof came the establishment of when the explosion occurred. Science now knows for certain that our universe is not only expanding but when and where the event of expansion began.
The second energy factor, which is mixed in with the background noise caused by the explosion that created our universe, is energy being emitted from the only turbulent region located on the universe’s boundary. Upon analysis, this second energy factor theoretically provides the proper magnitude of energy to account for the anomalies within the universal noise, “Om.” This energy release matches the theoretical physicists’ projections of what would be produced if our universe, which is composed of matter, came into contact with a universe composed of antimatter.
The pattern of emission matches the mathematical models of two Klein bottle universes in contact. It appears that our universe has a twin of antimatter. It appears that not only does our universe have an exterior but, through the symmetry of matter and its opposite, antimatter, could theoretically be tied to a parallel universe.
It now appears we are tied to a universe which, upon being merged with our own, would reduce everything of substance, all matter and antimatter, into pure energy. It appears the substance of our universe has only temporary substance.
Two new astounding characteristics of our universe have emerged from these studies. One, our universe has a starting date and two; our universe is most probably attached to a second Klein bottle, a second universe separate from ours but tied to ours.
Now not only have we become trapped within a temporary bottle, but now we find the bottle within which we exist is not unique. We have not only lost our perception of being unique, we have lost the perception that our universe is unique. These are very troubling discoveries indeed for our ego, our yearning to be unique and essential within the concept of eternity.
To be continued: Part II of IV: Philosophy and religions have...
Wednesday, May 23
‘Typhoid Mary ': The desire to keep God in equilibrium Part IV of IV
by
Daniel J. Shepard
on Wed 23 May 2007 12:00 AM EDT
‘Typhoid Mary '
The desire to keep God in equilibrium
Part IV of IV
...We could have made our first contact with intelligent life as a healthy entity. Instead, we come crippled and dying with the disease of status, the disease of violence, the disease of subservience. We are sick and carrying disease because we choose not to change one simple thing, our perception of reality and our place within it. We choose to remain subservient to a Creator that needs us, to a God that, as an entity within this reality, yearns for an understanding of a significant purpose to give Its own daily struggles meaning.
There is sadness in our lack of action to change our perception of ourselves. The sadness lies not in our pathetic nature nor in what we do to ourselves, for we choose to do so. The sadness lies in the fact that we will carry our inferiority complex into the heavens and spread it like a raging disease to life forms we will encounter just as we introduced new diseases to the Americas. This is the sad part of our journey into the heavens, for these life forms have no choice in the matter. We will not be consulting them before we make contact; we will inevitably make contact that will unavoidably spread our disease, our contaminant of status and subservience.
When will we be ready to change our perception? When will we be ready to accept panentheism? Perhaps we will understand why we need to change when we discover intelligence comparable or superior to our own, and that will surely occur in the not too distant future.
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