You will receive many messages in life. Some of them will be entirely true, some of them will be partially true, and some of them will contain no truth at all. You will receive some messages accompanied by an assessment of the truth of the message. Some messages will be of uncertain authorship. We see then that both the source of a message and any existing assessment of the truth of a message have no bearing at all on whatever truth is contained in the message. At the end of the day, you will have to examine the content of the message and if truth is found, it will be authenticated and proclaimed as truth by you.
Sometimes, you proclaim what you think is truth, only to discover a mistake. You make your corrections, proclaim your new understandings of the truth, and go on in life. The longer you live, the more time you have to discover and correct any mistakes you might have made. We all die however and so any corrections to the truth of the messages you left will be made by those that follow. They cannot do their job if they think they must honor you without question. They must examine the things you said and if indeed they wish to honor you, they must make the corrections that you will no longer be alive to make. The same holds true for the things that have been written in the past. If truth was their intent, and if honor is ours, we must examine what was written and make the corrections where necessary. And you must afford my writings the same respect, correct the things I might have misunderstood and proclaim as truth the things that remain.
You have a job to do. You have been given messages. Some of them have been proclaimed as truth. Some of them have been given to you in a sociopolitical climate that would act to restrain your right to examine and correct the messages. Some of these messages are considered to be sacred writings of your forebears, be they religious or political documents. You might have to be judicious in the timing and methodology you use to ensure that the truth is published.
For centuries, nations and cultures have enforced noncritical belief by eliminating, ostracizing or imprisoning those that objected. Such practice can have a physical evolutionary effect. By the removal of minds prone to rational objection from the gene pool, slight gene mutations resulting in physical brain structures conducive to noncritical belief can be selected and become more numerous in the population. The relative quantity of those with structures conducive to critical reasoning will decrease. Today more and more people spend their time mindlessly repeating what has been written, refusing to accept any assessment other than that the writings are infallible truth, without examination. They are not evil people: they are ill, they are lost, and some of them are trapped. They are unable to engage in rational methodologies conducive to discernment of truth.
There is a cure for this condition. It is education. If you believe you are prone to this form of thinking you have only to find and read as many books of science that you can find. There are many like you in this world. Some of them are very young however, and such books are denied to them. Some of them are very old and as such well comforted against the fears of doubt. They might be unable to change. Some of them are between,some of them leaders on the sociopolitical scene, mindlessly determined to increase the population of noncritical believers with whatever violence may be required. Some of them, and the generations younger than them, are capable of recognizing their mistake, and they do so, internally, only to then understand that they are trapped. Having previously committed with their group of leaders towards violent repression, they find themselves surrounded by these very same people who have proven their readiness to cut down quickly any source of objection.
Sadly, all of them might be ready to change, but none of them dare to raise their voice for fear that the others are not ready and so without regard to the number of them that are ready to change, they are all well and truly trapped into reproducing brains suited towards mindless belief and conscienceless violence. The mindless beliefs, possibly supported by physical brain structures, operate like beaver dams, sealing off the flow of reason in the brain, creating a stagnant pool of fear. The end result, the most prominently visible phenotype of mindless belief, is a world where millions of children are denied rational, uncensored education in the accumulated knowledge of man.
There is a clear path to follow to escape the trap. It will take courage and time. It begins with the education of children and that begins with the recognition of the human rights of children.
Those of you who are leaders, whether or not you find yourself trapped, you can make gradual inroads in ensuring the secular education of the children of your culture. You must teach your children to love knowledge, to become brilliant. You can declare that your cultural and religious beliefs, and the documents on which they rest, are strong enough to withstand secular examination and that to prove this you encourage the fullness of secular education for every member of your culture, male and female. You must be willing to send them abroad for education when young. You must free your children.
The rest of the world can assist. We can recognize and declare the human rights of all children born into our world and that among these rights is the right to a complete education in the collected knowledge of man. And then we have but to create the schools and staff them with dedicated professionals who wish to change the world to one of global peace and prosperity.
If the whole earth had fallen under ancient Egyptian rule and stagnated, perhaps the great lot of us would be bonded together in the relatively useless enterprises of building pyramids, there being no greater work envisioned by our leaders. But we ourselves are the leaders today, it is not pyramids we build, we build cities and schools, we clean the earth, we educate the children of man and we populate the cosmos with our art and beauty. We have a planet of plenty, we can control our population, we can share resources, and we can return trees to the emptied forests.
Buried in mans ancient writings is the idea of a hideous god that burns people forever in hell, an entity that orders the slaughter of men, women and children, an angry hateful being that commands solitary abject worship for eternity. This idea, this ancient fable hardly worthy of a comic book, has become entrenched, replicating from generation to generation, crouched beneath the surface of the stagnant pool in our minds, rising like leviathan to roar out fear should any doubt be entertained. Its nemesis is truth; it is helplessly vulnerable to our courage and our reason. It shall be remembered as yet another mythical god in the ancient myths of man.
That raging god of the bible and the Quran has never existed. The scriptures are wrong. They have always been wrong. Our ancestors meant well but they were mistaken and they are no longer alive to lead us to the truth. We will have to crawl out of the abyss ourselves, in courage with one another, into the light of reason. We shall dissolve the damming structures in our minds, knowledge and truth shall flow freely. We will know each other as the great family of man we have always been, bringing art and science to one another. We shall be welcoming each child into the world, acting as repositories of trust for truth. We shall educate them with love and care and they will usher us to our peace in their responsive beauty.
Some of you will be troubled by these writings. You will have spent a good deal of time believing in God, wishfully ignoring the unpleasant passages in the bible and the Quran that suggest such hideous qualities of the God you would rather learn to love. For those of you I can say that you do not have to give up your concept of a benevolent God, you have only to consider that the scriptures were sadly mistaken as to the character of God and then observe the universe, the creation if you will, to use your own mind to try to learn the nature of the one who you believe created you.
For after all, she might very well exist, and if she does then you can learn to love her by loving the things she loves. And you have never needed a book of scripture. You can see with your eyes the decisions of God. She has today created thousands of newborn babies and entrusted them to us, she has never stopped her creative ways. She is expressing faith and hope in us, waiting patiently for us to accept the beauty of the creation, to accept the beauty of each other, the same beauty she saw with cornered diamonds in her eyes when she last kissed us and placed us sleeping in the womb. We can love each other as we have been so dearly loved by our beloved God.
And if she does not exist at all, it is natural human expression to sometimes wish she did, if only to have somebody to thank for the beauty of the beckoning cosmos, the ecstasy of the evolving life we see, surrounded as we are by each other, mischievous, twinkling, singing, sharing Venus above the moon.
That will be you someday, there in the future. You shall be reborn as one who travels, you shall be alive on an orbiting moon, and there in your lover’s eyes you shall see the rings of Saturn.
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