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LOOKING FOR A VISION...
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When you were little, some boring relative probably asked you the question,
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"What do you want to be when you grow up?" Well, here you are grown up and
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STILL don't know who or what you want to be. Maybe you don't even know where
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you are heading in life. Join the club. One thing is sure however, Man is
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trying to survive, individually, and as a species in all realms -- physically
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and spiritually. When we imagine a "heaven" we usually think of it in human
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terms, such as places populated with people, angels, cherubs, and saints, etc.
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We never think of heaven as a place that is controlled by alien intelligences
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that have 7 eyeballs, and who are governed by a being that came from the
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Andromedia galaxy! So even mankinds "thought-projections" into a "here-after"
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are based on human-based constructs of reality and not something entirely
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"different." The same goes in the justifications of our actions. "Because God
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says so" is a great excuse, and so it serves to calm ourselves from being
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unsure of our actions. If there is ever to be a a shared vision, it will be
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based on our vision of God and our place in "Gods plan" - (even if there is no
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God or God's plan.) A evil person sees the world as a evil place, a clown sees
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the world as a circus, and a person in bliss sees the world as a place of
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beauty. It's no wonder that Mohammed said that God wanted him to kill the
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unbelievers. Thats because Mohammed himself wanted to kill the unbelievers who
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would thereby interfere with his "reform."
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So it can be argued that in general man sees the world in a way that he expects
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his God(s) to see the world. All too often men have killed due to their "God's
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will." So the fact that the "Kamikazee's" of WWII were blessed as they were
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arc-welded into their death-trap airplanes -- they "knew" that God was "on
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their side." The same is true of the middle-east terrorist. He "knows" that God
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agrees with his views and actions, and so will therefore go to a heaven when he
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dies. All of these kinds of actions call for a reform in mankinds vision of
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himself and his spiritual/physical reality. This view also explains the "New
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Age" movement and all of the diverse sub-cultures springing up in the USA
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because of this. Cults, Fringe Science, etc, are all a search for a better
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vision or reality-contruct.
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REALITY TUNNELS:
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Why do we do such things? Why does God resemble a human? Why does everything
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man imagines have to be a relative of the "here-now" reality? What would happen
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if a new religion came along and told everyone that heaven was populated with
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"nano-machines" that do everything in subservience to the will of the
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"master-intelligence," ala TRON, instead of angels obeying God? Instead of
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using the now "old" heaven-contruct, lets design a new construct so we can move
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forward as a species without war and hate or discrimination. Lets make it
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impossible for somebody to justify their actions because of a God(s). Lets make
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the old-testament view of a wrathfull Jehovah God an invalid and useless model
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for behavior. If such a new model for behavior were made, what would such a
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model require? Since death and mayhem have been a "operating procedure" for the
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last 10,000 years in mans history, what is required is a shift in our
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fundamental view of the universe, God, and mankind. No easy task! One way to do
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this is to eliminate God and the spirit from the picture completely. Another
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tactic is to introduce new "archetypes" that can raise our expectations and
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desires as a species. Another tactic is to completely dehumanize everything and
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look at the universe as a "trap" -- ala Buddhism, Krishna, or Scientology. None
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of those work. What else is there? Well, you have the subject of technology to
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deal with. What about a vision of the universe as a Hologram, or Computer
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Program. Would such a view serve to enhance the unity of mind and man or
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destroy it? Science Fiction deals with such other realities and technologies by
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anticipating their end-result on humanity. As our society becomes more
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technological, does that mean our theology and beliefs will become more
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technologically oriented also? Probably. God is dead, or hasn't anybody told
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you? Thats seems to be the answer to such questions at present. If God is dead,
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something else has to arrive to take his place. Does that mean we adopt "alien
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invaders" and UFO's to take the place of Gods or the Devils minions? I dont
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know the answer, but it seems that we may be headed in that direction. For
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example, the ancient prophets used to commune with the Gods on Olympus, and now
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of course, the secular-human prophets are "cummuning" with extra-terrestrial
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intellegences! What comes after that? Probably something like "communing" with
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a silcon chip of an A.I. computer!
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The fact is our reality-constructs are changing, but there seems to be no
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control over WHAT constructs we adopt for our new viewpoints. How long will it
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be before aliens intelligences are being attributed for giving Moses the 10
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Commandments? Or Ezekiel and the Chariots of Fire? Such things are so flexible
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in truth and interpretation that anybody can come along and assign a new
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"significance" or "truth" to such events with equal validity since there is no
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"standard" or capital "T" truth to judge them by. You are the new
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techno-shaman of the world. You are the Cyber-men/women of the future. You are
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shaping reality every day by your actions. By your writings, actions,
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conversations, arguments and opinions you are giving shape to a new
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world-model. Remember this and keep close to your heart that todays vision's
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become tommorrows reality. Lets explore the boundaries of our perceptions and
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beliefs to come up with something workable before another all-too-real
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cult-leader dictates what is real and what is not! Remember the famous
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quotation: "Think for yourself, smuck!" Any vision(s) of the future should be
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based on increasing human intelligence, ability, and life. There are NO other
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goals to reach for. These three goals will be worthy of pursuit for
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generations, because they coincide with our drives as a species. Lets try to
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have control over what new models are used in shaping our views of the
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universe. Lets get rid of the "justification trap" that has led all too many
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"true believers" to their early graves. Lets get rid of the Jim Jones's, Ron
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Hubbards, Reverend Moon's and Charles Manson's of the reality-contruct business
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and develop a construct that makes nobody rich, hated or discriminated against.
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Remember, if we dont take the initiative to direct and develop new contructs,
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somebody else will develop them, and they may not be for the best future.
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