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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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Tuesday, May 22
‘Typhoid Mary ': The desire to keep God in equilibrium Part III of IV
by
Daniel J. Shepard
on Tue 22 May 2007 12:00 AM EDT
‘Typhoid Mary'
The desire to keep God in equilibrium
Part III of IV
...This is but a small compensation when one considers that not only are we giving them technological and social advances way over and beyond what they could possibly develop within their lifetimes, but they are reaping benefits well beyond anything they could ever expect to develop on their own within the next thousand years.
What is even more beneficial to them is the fact that we are teaching them the way to gain eternal life. We are giving them the means to gain life everlasting if only they will accept “evil” for what it is and live by the rules of “good.” The fight against the Devil, against Satan, against Evil must never be forgotten, must never be relinquished to any degree. Praise God Almighty, praise our Lord, we, your humble servants, worship you and give you thanks. We will carry your word to the farthest reaches of the heavens.
“Blasphemy, blasphemy,” you say. It is not blasphemy. It is what occurred in the explorations of the Americas and it is what will occur in the explorations of the heavens, for we have nothing else with which to replace it. We will still be viewing ourselves as servants of God. We will still be seeing God in the light of theism, God as separate from our reality. God has no need for you, for me, other than using us to sing Its praises. Singing praises to a God that is all knowing and thus, by definition, already knows It is the most omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent being in the universe. We sing praises to a being that has no need of praise. We have an existence for the sole purpose of singing praises that are simply redundant to the being we are praising.
We have no meaning. We are going through motions that have no significance in eternity. We cling to our mortality and fear that our most terrifying nightmare might indeed be true, that we have no significance in the greater picture. And so, to prove otherwise, we continue to protect our concept of status that if some have more significance than others on this earth, in reality, then it is only logical that some would have more significance than others in eternity. Thus, status in eternity becomes part of our reality.
We carry the virus, the disease, of status into the heavens. Typhoid Mary once again rears her head in the annals of humanity, but this time Typhoid Mary is not a person. Typhoid Mary is a species, the species of humankind. Just as we carried smallpox into the Americas, so we now carry a new virus into the near reaches of space. We introduce the concept of status into the heavens, status built upon a foundation of judgmental actions, judgmental perceptions of good and bad, good and evil, God and Satan.
We are such glorious creations of God. We refuse to accept, to choose, the new philosophical perception that we act in a symbiotic state with God. We, in our humility and loyalty to a God have defined, have opted to refuse to choose to raise our status, raise the status of all around us to a higher plane. This new perception would reduce violence and conflict to a very, very minimal level. This new perception would have reduced violence and conflict to a level so low that to choose it would be irrational.
We could have made the choice to perceive ourselves as a part of our Creator, a perception we could carry with us into the heavens, a perception we could have brought to the planet of Alpha Century.
To be continued: Part IV of IV: We could have made our first contact with intelligent life as a healthy entity. Instead, ...
Monday, May 21
‘Typhoid Mary ': The desire to keep God in equilibrium Part II of IV
by
Daniel J. Shepard
on Mon 21 May 2007 12:00 AM EDT
‘Typhoid Mary '
The desire to keep God in equilibrium
Part II of IV
...This is not a problem, however, for the life forms we have found are sub-intellectuals. They are only animals intended for our exploitation. Traditional and classical theism tell us that these sub-intellectuals were placed in our region of dominance for the purpose of propelling us into a more glorious status amongst the stars, towards our purpose in reality. And just what is that purpose? It is the process of populating the universe itself.
We move into the sphere of the new planet with the enthusiasm and self righteousness that accompanied us into the New World back in the 1500’s. We enter a period in history which will be known as the beginning of humanity approaching completion of its dreams to step into space, to tame the solar system, to establish itself as “the” dominant organism in near space. This point in time will likewise be recognized as one of the great points of history, showering glory and status upon us. We bring with us the understanding, the indisputable facts and logic, that if we are a servant of God, then the inhabitants of this planet, with their lower intelligence, are surely intended to be servants of ours, for we are the superior being.
We will be humane about our superiority, though, for we will show them the “way.” We will educate and teach them the ways of “right and wrong.” We will raise their level of thinking, technology, social structures, social interactions, and morals. We will teach them so they understand and respect the concepts of “good and evil.” But that is not all, for we will not only raise them from their depths of ignorance, we will teach them how to enter the gates of heaven and eternity itself. We will give them the secrets to saving their soul and avoiding the pain of eternal hell.
For those who accept the knowledge, we will give them the rewards they deserve while they carry out their lives within reality. We will raise these individuals to the status they have earned. We will make them the leaders of others. They will be granted positions of hierarchy over nonbelievers. Power will be delegated to those who are willing to accept the truth in order to protect the nonbelievers from themselves.
Just as we are placed on a status level as inferior beings below God, just as we place others on status levels of varying degrees of inferiority on earth, we will teach these new life forms the benefits of status, subservience, and superiority. What is good enough for God, a superior being, is good enough for us, and thus we accept our position of subservience. What is good enough for us is only rightly good enough for these new life forms. What is good enough for us? Subservience is good enough for us. Why should anyone or any other life form be different? They must accept the concept of God’s superiority. They must learn to accept the concept of status. They must learn that humans are God’s chosen ones.
At the same time we are enlightening these intellectually inferior life forms into the ways of good and evil, we will show them benevolence by introducing our advanced health care system, our governmental systems, crude forms of technology, and ways to defend themselves from their neighbors. We have so much to teach them, so many better ways for them to live. In return, all we want is some of their resources. We only want some of their metals, minerals, elements, and oh, by the way, some of the potential energy source their planet has in overabundance. That is not asking much in return for all the things we will be giving them.
To be continued: Part III of IV: This is but a small compensation when one considers that not only are we giving them...
Sunday, May 20
‘Typhoid Mary ': The desire to keep God in equilibrium Part I of IV
by
Daniel J. Shepard
on Sun 20 May 2007 12:00 AM EDT
‘Typhoid Mary '
Speculation: 2450AD:
Religions’ Desire To Overrule Reality
The desire to keep God in equilibrium
Part I of IV
Speculation 2450 A.D.: We have not been able to change our viewpoint regarding our status in relationship to our Creator. We still think we are subservient. Our viewpoint is not to be taken lightly, for we carry it wherever we go, even into the far reaches of space. Unfortunately, when we leave, we do not clean up after ourselves.
Hygiene is not one of our strong points. The environment lacks it. Social interactions lack it. And even our mind, our perception of ourselves, lacks it. Our self-perception is riddled with belittlement, subjugation, violence, feelings of inferiority, perceptions of superiority, judgmental viewpoints, and desire for power and control.
We try, but we just cannot leave violence behind. It follows us wherever we go. We leave it even in places we don’t physically go. We contaminate places we visit not only with robotic capsules but with TV, radio, and microwave messages. Everywhere we go, we leave our viewpoints regarding subservience, ambition for status, and rationalizing violence as a means of advancing one’s status. By 2450, we manage to physically travel within much of near space and are able to send our message into the far reaches of space. We begin to bloom as a flower in the planted in the soil of technology, science and knowledge. But as much as we may flowering in the realm of technology, science, and knowledge, we stagnate in our concepts of reality, in our concept of who we are, and in our concept of what our purpose is in reality. Our philosophies begin to wither away as religious institutions become bastions of dogma. Our philosophies begin to wither away as science continues to expand upon the laws of nature governing equilibrium.
And thus we enter our new realm and take our first significant step into the dream we have held since we first gazed into the heavens. It is 2450 A.D. and we have stepped over our first significant threshold since we laststepped on the moon almost five hundred years ago. We are now exploring the planets of our nearest star neighbor, Alpha Century, and have found intelligent life! Granted, this life form is not as technologically advanced as ours, and not as intellectually capable as us, but we have found life! Now we know, somewhere out there, we will almost certainly find a life form equal to us, as deserving as us, a life form to which we can relate.
Intellectually, the life forms on the planet orbiting Alpha Century are not anywhere near that of ours, but they do approach what we consider to be an intelligence exceeding the intellectual level of apes. Our curiosity, excitement, and enthusiasm is unbounded. As an extra bonus, we find a rare and bountiful source of energy within the planet, never found in abundance anywhere else. Our physicists tell us this source could theoretically provide the means for us to travel the galaxy unfettered by the chains that confine us to our nearest star.
We are caught in a dilemma. We feel the need, the compulsion, to advance into the stars, to explore the near regions of space, but we need the energy source that may make this possible. We need a means of mining this resource but we do not have the means to do so in an unobtrusive fashion.
To be continued: Part II of IV: This is not a problem, however, ...
Saturday, May 19
What significance does Buddhism have to offer other life forms in the universe? Part II of II
by
Daniel J. Shepard
on Sat 19 May 2007 12:00 AM EDT
What significance does Buddhism have to offer other life forms in the universe?
Part II of II
...This idea of being a portion of the Causative Force, which panentheism implies, would have no other possibility but to apply to other intelligent life forms throughout the universe.
If the Causative Force is truly omnipresent, all present, there would be nowhere else for other life forms to exist but within the Causative Force.
They also would be a part of, a portion of, the Causative Force.
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But what of hostile life forms that may wish to dominate or subjugate us?
We would have no other choice but to stand firm in our perception that we, as a portion of the Causative Force, have the responsibility, the obligation, to preserve our journey for it is unique and has much to offer the Causative Force.
As souls journeying, we would have an obligation, a responsibility, to the Causative Force to protect our journeys, to protect the potential we have as a species.
Under panentheism, the Buddhist concept of eliminating suffering becomes significant to the Causative Force.
Now, the concept belongs not only to our species, but to all life forms in the universe.
Panentheism would obligate us to be just as committed to protecting the rights of other life forms to journey as protecting the right of our own species to journey.
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