THE DAY THE WORLD STOOD STILL

Recently I was privileged to watch the most recent version of the movie “The Day the World Stood Still” and realized that this was not only a prime example of art resembling life but that this movie was a metaphor for my life, for the three decades of my life during which I have been engaged in the exercise in complete futility of attempting to make members of the human species aware to the impact, the awesome, ubiquitous, pernicious impact that relying on coercion to motivate the other has had on human affairs.
That not only has this been the major factor determining the intrinsic nature of human culture but it has become the single major obstacle to social development; as well as the reason why humanity might never realize the innate potential for civilized, prosperous and peaceful existence created by our intelligence; and, why it is becoming more and likely each passing day that humanity will destroy the civilizations it has arduously and painstakingly built with the weapons of mass destruction it has devised.
The movie promoted the view that the species could only change, would only be capable of the requisite change that would avoid this catastrophic future if it perceived that it was on the brink of a precipice, if it realized that its imminent destruction was a clear and present danger; as I watched the movie I realized that the quixotic, wholly unrealistic enterprise which has become my magnificent obsession during these past thirty years has been to communicate that this precipice exists that only two dismal, wholly destructive alternatives loom in our future; either the slow and lingering death of the species precipitated by the fact that our mindless, selfish, irrational activities has eventually succeeded in poisoning the atmosphere of this planet and destroying its delicate ecological balance; or, the sudden demise of human civilizations the consequence of a nuclear holocaust.
To avoid and prevent the destruction and nihilism implicit in both these alternatives I must endlessly and fruitlessly continue to attempt to communicate against all the odds that I will be believed the impact, the continuing and perennial impact of the world view that the newly emergent species Homo sapiens the latest evolutionary component of the genus hominid, was forced to embrace for survival; I have to debunk and erase from a bare majority of human beings in every social system the impact of the notion that over the years humanity has managed to divest itself of the world view ‘might is right’ that it practiced, successfully practiced during the One Hundred Thousand years it languished in the ‘state of nature.’
I have to overcome the self centered, survival minded, blinkered perspective of human animals habituated and inured to a world in which there is instant coffee, instant communication and in which exists supersonic aircraft capable of spanning the Atlantic ocean in less than three hours; I have the invidious task of attempting to develop the capacity to perceive social reality realistically and accurately in a world of men and women who have been deliberately and systematically conditioned by coercion to be talking and never thinking animals over the past Twelve Thousand years; so that they would continue to support and perpetuate the status quo based on the world view ‘might is right.’
The fact is, the unavoidable and irreducible fact is, that some human needs, wants and desires can only be satisfied in conjunction with another human being, with active participation of another human being, the goading of sex is one such drive; and, the most facile, efficient and functional means of ensuring that drive reduction occurs is if a situation can be created and sustained in which the other who participates in social interaction MUST do whatever is required, even if this requires paying the ultimate cost, to facilitate the drive reduction of the dominant participant.
I have used the satisfaction of the innate sex drive to attempt to expose the dynamics, the inner working of a model of social interaction whose intrinsic nature was determined by reliance on force to motivate the other, a pattern which produced among other powerful institutions what is popularly accepted to be the oldest social institution, prostitution, since this provides the best illustration of the inevitably tragic and replete and redolent with pain and suffering drama I am trying to communicate; which must be the ultimate consequence of interaction in which the stronger actor utilizes the power at his disposal, the means which he is habituated to utilizing, which may be physical strength, economic power or social status to satisfy his need; and, the weaker participant endures this imposition and the destruction of personal autonomy to facilitate drive reduction in the other.
I am constrained to declaim at this juncture, that the development, the intellectual, moral and philosophical development I am promoting is that overt or covert forms of coercion should never be used to motivate the other, even though this is admittedly and incontrovertibly the best and most efficient means of motivating the other, even though human beings have become habituated to utilizing this means over a period that has thus spanned One Hundred and Twelve Thousand years - because in this model of social interaction the personal autonomy of the other is trampled upon, it reduces that other to the status of PREY; and, is the major dynamo generating social conflict.
The difficulty I face in communicating this message in precept, so that it produces the requisite cultural development, is the fact that in effect what I am doing is attempting to break a habit that has been practiced, exceedingly successfully practiced for a period spanning One Hundred and Twelve Thousand years, more accurately, a habit that has been exceedingly successfully practiced for as long as members of the species Homo sapiens have existed on Planet Earth.
I am engaged in, consciously and deliberately engaged in, attempting to communicate and so overcome the ultimate paradox and consummate irony of sentient existence; the fact that the adaptation that results in sentience, the rare and exceedingly intrinsically valuable adaptation that results in intelligence, is only likely to occur prompted by the very sere and extreme conditions that obtain as a new planet strives to attain ecological balance; yet to preserve this transcendent and most valuable capacity those who are the recipients of this unique on Planet Earth boon must eventually engage in the most difficult and transcendent enterprise any sentient being could contemplate, conceive or embark upon, the fundamental change of renouncing and rejecting coercion as the means relied on to motivate the other; and, becoming adept at utilizing positive reinforcements for that purpose.
A little more than a year ago the first African American was elected to the highest office, the most responsible and powerful executive position that exists in the United States of America, he was elected, for the most part, because he promoted positive changes - though he carefully declined to specify what changes he was in favor of, what changes would be required to be required to create a government of the people, by the people, for the people; thus, the notion of positive change was degraded and demoted to being a slogan, another wholly opportunistic and corrupt political device which will never again have the power to galvanize the deservedly cynical and systematically deluded body politic in this nation - though this notion will forever be the harbinger, the only possible harbinger of a peaceful and prosperous future.
It will be perceived by future generations of Americans, as long as there are future generations of Americans, as no more valuable, or accurate, or meaningful than the protestation of the first President Bush that there would be “No New Taxes;” but it is my dearest hope that at the end of this essay on freedom even a single reader will comprehend that what has been the greatest obstacle to creating a functioning democracy in North America has been the fact that all elected Presidents have perforce been agents of coercion determined culture; that whether they have been idiots like the second President Bush or have excellent academic qualifications and a high intelligent quotient like President Obama they are totally incapable of creating enduring positive changes because they all are agents of the same culture; moreover, I hope that my accurate description of genesis of human culture will galvanize individuals to embark upon the journey of discovery that will transform any individual with the will, courage and stamina to complete it from being caterpillars of coercion determined culture into beautiful butterflies that have attained the state of moral, civilized human being.
What I am going to attempt to do is create the accurate description of the origins and development of human culture that will be the necessary prerequisite to finding solutions for the urgent, gargantuan social problems that the human species currently confronts by exposing the sere reality that practice of coercion determined culture inevitably produces an incapacity to solve social problems, to apply intelligence to social issues; and, so create the possibility of happiness for human beings who are willing to do what is necessary to overcome this inevitable laming of their intellects and become thinking animals and moral beings.
Those of my readers who are unchangeably habituated to instant gratifications, those dependent personalities who will only support prescriptions that require little or no effort, e.g. “vote for me and I will set you free,” “no new taxes,” “change we can believe in,” etc. who cannot divest themselves of the conditioning that enjoins them to perceive the existing human condition from the limited, blinkered perspective of their lifetimes, those opportunists who shed tears of joy or experienced ecstasy when President Obama was elected, or those of an extremely conservative persuasion whether of the Right or Left, those who are culturally incapable to taking responsibility for their actions have my permission to stop reading at this juncture - because these ideas are probably beyond your ken they can only evoke intense disquiet and discomfort in talking animals; this is not in any sense an attempt to create what Karl Rove was so adept at manipulating circumstances and events to accumulating, a plurality, a majority of voters to win an election; it is an attempt to discover if enough members of the species Homo sapiens have progressed intellectually, morally, philosophically and culturally to the point where they can confront and overcome the ultimate paradox and consummate irony of sentient existence and so avoid self destruction and self annihilation.
I am seeking to discover whether there exists in any social system a bare majority that can confront and overcome the ultimate paradox and consummate irony of sentient existence that I have described and so join peace loving species that have split the atom and avoided destroying their civilizations with the awesome energies they have unleashed; and become space faring peoples.
There, I have provided the means for the unimaginative to consign me to the garbage can which contains insane, romantic dreamers; and, provided a justification for not taking my decidedly iconoclastic notions seriously.
Is anybody left, is there anyone who was not covered in the foregoing? I really hope there is for on these few depends the survival of the human species.
What I am going to discuss in great detail is how the culture, the ‘conscious and unconscious premises for thinking and action,’ developed the means to interminably perpetuate itself and perpetuate a status quo that was formulated by the need to embrace the world view that ‘might is right,’ that was instrumental in shaping, perhaps immutably, the design for human existence whose ethos was competition, which relied on coercion to motivate the other, whose dominant roles were territorial predator and hapless prey.
Another major aim and thrust of this analysis is to expose how human beings became prone to a near unlimited capacity for self delusion, how they were conditioned to believe notions as fantastic and incredible as the notion that equality and equity can actually exist in social systems in which ninety per cent of the wealth is controlled by five per cent of the population, which is the situation that exists in the vast majority of economies on Planet Earth, rich or poor, ostensibly democratic or authoritarian, with the ideological window dressing capitalist or communist, whether in concept Christian, Muslim or Atheist.
I am going to suggest that the human race is being hoist on the petard of the attributes that resulted in their becoming the dominant species on Planet Earth, the fact that not only was it possible for them to transmit their culture because they had a capacity for spoken and written language but because they had the capacity for learning and innovation because they were not limited to behavior driven by instincts.
A bee must build a hive with the same design every time it is prompted to construct such; a human being is capable of innovation of building structures that are significantly different from each other.
A dog and the members of many other species can learn but none of these animals can teach another member of its species except by example, so members of these species cannot transmit attitudes and aptitudes to succeeding generations.
Why am I emphasizing these basic building blocks of learning?
Because I am building a logical, rational structure that will support the fact that the cultural imperatives that have resulted in forty three million Americans being illiterate or semi illiterate or the Stimulus Package had their genesis in the period during which the human race languished in a ‘state of nature,’ that the ‘conscious and unconscious premises for thinking and action’ that were embraced then by the newly emergent species, Homo sapiens has undergone very little change in the vast period of time that has elapsed since that momentous development.
This fact is obscured by the fact that have been very significant change in our capacity to manipulate the physical environment so a species that fearfully huddled in caves with simple tools warmed by small fires has developed a sophisticated technology created by a burgeoning scientific establishment; but what I am focusing is on the degree to which we have changed; or indeed, have not changed culturally, socially and politically.
What I am suggesting is that we have learned to manipulate the physical environment to the degree where we can send a man to the moon because our approach to this milieu has been rational, logical and empirical; and we have been irrational, illogical and have ignored the facts that together constitute the existing social reality in our approach to the social milieu; our approach to the physical environment has allowed us to create the accurate description of problems that is the necessary prerequisite to solving problems in that milieu; while our mental approach has been dominated by the attitude ‘beliefs are opportune they conceal interest,’ a mindset which has made us palpably and perennially incapable of solving problems in the social milieu, creating the invidious and pernicious predicament in which we find ourselves; of having devised weapons of mass destruction without the social and political development required to harness these awesome energies for peaceful purposes.
At this point I might as well grasp the bothersome, exceedingly contentious nettle of religion because the religious dogma, Christianity that is currently popular among Western civilizations holds that human beings were created that they did not evolve; and, this system of beliefs constitutes the most powerful engine generating the irrationality that lames the intellects of contemporary human beings.
If human beings, if two human beings were created in the image of an all knowing and omnipotent God, and soon developed the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong, then this negates and destroys the logic of this essay.
This description of the genesis of the species is also diametrically opposed to the genesis of all organisms in nature, where it is universally observable that acorns produce mighty oak trees, where a chicken was once an egg, where a human infant over a period of years matures into an adult human being; in short where every organism is subject to growth and development, only in the Bible is there contravention of this basic principle of nature on Planet Earth.
The logic of this essay depends on the perception that a theory of evolution is the most credible, logical and rational explanation of the genesis of human species based on the facts and evidence currently available, that for a period that spanned approximately One Hundred Thousand years the newly emergent species Homo sapiens languished in a ‘state of nature’ and engaged in hunting and gathering for survival and were little different from other groups of predators except that these predators were physically better adapted to competing for existing energy resources; attributes which were negated by the fact that the human species were mentally better adapted being able to harness fire, make and use simple tools, communicate and cooperate with each other.
What I am suggesting is that these human beings had not yet learned the difference between right and wrong, nor had they the slightest conception or awareness of the existence of ethics or any moral value, a situation facilitated by the adaptation which wholly opportunistically is not given the weight and significance that should be afforded it, the fact that the human mind was divided into two compartments, the conscious and subconscious which allowed the human animal to simultaneously have a capacity for intelligence; and, to demonstrate the savagery and ferocity required for survival in the ‘state of nature,’ they were capable of being talking animals or civilized human beings; but the latter condition was an unrealized potential for the entire period that human beings existed in a ‘state of nature’ that would only become realistically a possibility after many millennia of learning and experience.
I am suggesting that to survive these primitive members of the human species had no alternative but to become adept at utilizing force and became habituated to using force for a period of that spanned One Hundred Thousand years; and, this habit, thus far immutably, has determined the intrinsic nature of human culture.
During that period, a span of time currently unimaginable to human animals whose average life span is sixty five years, like other groups of predators, they killed interlopers who trespassed on to their hunting grounds, the land area required to support the hunting and gathering activities of the tribe; they raided other tribes to kidnap females so that the group would not be burdened with too many defectives the result of inbreeding; they satisfied their innate sex drives with available females who were always capable of having sex by coercing them unless they were mated with a strong male who could protect them; the strong had the power of life and death over the weak; and, concepts like equity, justice, freedom, murder and rape were completely inconceivable and entirely foreign to them.
One of the irrational attitudes I am contending with, buttressed as always by the Creationist view of the genesis of the species, is the tendency to opportunistically believe that our primitive ancestors were civilized which they were not or they could never have survived to become the dominant species on Planet Earth.
What they could do because their minds were divided into two compartments, was act impulsively, mindlessly and rationally; or, rationally, intelligently and intelligently a capacity which the strong have deliberately, systematically and endlessly exploited to perpetuate the status quo that ‘might is right,’ but I am getting ahead of myself.
From the approximately One Hundred Thousand years that humanity languished in the ‘state of nature’ a design for human existence emerged, it was not rational or the result of intelligent deliberation because no human being was at that time capable of rationality, of intelligent deliberation; it was composed of responses to prevailing conditions and circumstances, to extreme conditions and circumstances that together created a powerful crucible for learning.
When humanity became capable of domesticating certain animals and grasses and so escaped the limitations on the size of bands of predators created by existing energy resources; and, began to construct villages, towns and cities mostly on the fertile deltas of large rivers and some individuals began to be released from activities required for survival and had the time to learn other skills, e.g. metalworking, mathematics and astronomy; these individuals had powerful habits which had been successfully practiced for an extended period of time in one area that of culture - that shaped and determined the nature of interaction not only with other human beings but with all other organisms.
In every other area they were ignorant, naïve and innocent since their skills, tools and knowledge about building shelter were almost non existent, all the mental equipment they could lay claim was the beliefs, attitudes and ways of thinking which had been determined by conditions and circumstances to which they had been subjected in the ‘state of nature,’ all that they were habituated to was the design for existence which they had successfully practiced for that currently inconceivable period of time; which was based on the world view ‘might is right,’ whose ethos was completion, which had produced the dominant roles territorial predator and hapless prey, which relied on coercion to motivate the other.
From this perspective the ease with which human beings developed and embraced innovations in the physical environment is completely logical and understandable; as is the fact that the design for existence which they had successfully practiced in that crucible has endured down the ages with only cosmetic changes.
Absolutist regimes in which an absolute ruler had the power of life and death over his subjects, whose social institutions were serfdom and slavery, in which the weak were often required to surrender their all, including their lives to satisfy the needs, wants and desires of the powerful, were a logical, inevitable development in the fertile soil of the conflict between city dwellers and the mobile hordes of pillagers that was spawned by human populations, that continued to hew to a nomadic existence depending on large herds of sheep and cattle, with the domestication of the horse.
A few human populations, notably the Greeks, briefly engaged in flirtations with less autocratic and tyrannical forms of government; but these, I suggest, reinforce this logic of this analysis of human cultural development because these more gentle forms of social interaction were prompted by opportunism, by the need for all adult Greek males to participate in a form of military organization, the phalanx, that required a great degree of cohesion and cooperation; and, moreover the strength on the strength of the phalanx depended the security of the Greek polis.
It was not prompted by any human being doing what I have done, renouncing and rejecting coercion determined culture; but was initiated by and spread by members of the elite which the majority of Greeks continued to be talking animals, acting mindlessly and impulsively out of the subconscious compartments of their minds.
This flirtation with more democratic forma of government lasted for more than two centuries among Greek cities, a period significantly longer than period beginning in the Third Decade of the Twentieth Century when prompted by the real threat of the Nazi/Nippon Axis and later by World Communism elites in Western civilizations have been attempting to do more than pay lip service to democratic principles and actually create functioning governments of the people, by the people, and for the people.
The points needs to be made and emphasized that this ancient flirtation was not prompted by renunciation or rejection of the world view that determined the nature of coercion determined culture; nor was the modern breaths of freedom in Western civilizations prompted by conscious appreciation and rejection of the notion that ‘might is right’ but was an opportunistic response to existing circumstances and conditions, the habits inculcated in the human species during the time it spent in the ‘state of nature’ have never been broken, have never been erased from the collective consciousness of human beings because of the delusion that made us, and makes us unaware of all issues that pertain to our reliance on coercion to motivate the other.
These habits that were precipitated by relying on coercion were adopted and reinforced during the One Hundred Thousand years that the human species languished in the ‘state of nature,’ they became the basis for and determined the nature of Absolutist regimes, but during the Ten Thousand years of the Ancient Era when human beings created alphabets and learned to record experience they were also learning more civilized philosophies which included creating ideas e.g. the notion of man’s equality before God, that became the basis for moral values and ethics.
After One Hundred and Twelve Thousand years these streams of thought came together to produce the experience, the life of the man called Jesus which became the basis for the Christian dogma, a mere two thousand years ago a civilized ideology began to have a significant impact on human affairs; after a period fifty two times longer which was dominated by the world view ‘might is right’ and the design for human existence that was precipitated and determined by this ideology.
Two thousand years the confluence of the ancient design for human existence that held that ‘might was right’ and the diametrically opposed ideas that held that ‘right is might,’ which was to become the basis for the Christian dogma, produced an accommodation in which in concept human beings embraced the new, exceedingly innovative ideology but remained in precept agents of coercion determined culture.
This accommodation was facilitated and made possible by the fact that the minds of human beings were divided into two compartments, the conscious and subconscious; which allowed human beings to base their self esteem and notions of self worth on their adherence to Christian rites and rituals, which they engaged in for brief period on Saturday or Sunday mornings and paid to lip service to for the rest of the week during which period they engaged in behavior consistent with the imperatives of coercion determined culture which experiences they accurately justified as impelled by being necessary for survival and which experiences were consigned to the subconscious compartments of their minds.
This difference between concept and precept has widened over time into a chasm which threatens to engulf the all human aspirations for a future replete with civility, prosperity and peace; and threatens the very existence of the human species; it is the precipice that if ever a bare majority of human beings in the various and variegated social systems can become aware of it will prompt them to change, to embark upon the journey of discovery that will transform them being caterpillars agents of coercion determined culture into beautiful butterflies of civilized human beings.
This chasm has become the Grand Canyon of culture because this adaptation has been utilized in respect of the approach to all liberal, ethical ideologies that have been produced by conditions and circumstances; it has been utilized with respect of moralist notions, socialism, democracy, communism, social welfare liberalism, existentialism, and all the others romantic notions conceived to succor humanity from the treadmill of suffering and despair that coercion determined culture has proved to be, from the unalterably malignant, inordinately vile, and completely corrupt design for human existence determined by existence in the ‘state of nature.’
The main component of this treadmill being the vicious circle composed of embracing ethics and moral values in concept in the conscious compartment of the mind, while practicing patterns of behavior consistent with coercion determined culture awareness of which is consigned to the subconscious compartment of the mind; guilt a inevitable byproduct being reduced by rituals, e.g. the marriage ceremony or by giving alms to the poor; or, by watching theater or by watching television the modern form of guilt reduction which can be accessed by everyone.
The engine driving this treadmill of the despair is the fact, the irreducible fact that coercion continues to be the most efficient means to satisfying innate or learned drives for the powerful, the model of social interaction based on the drama of predation in which need of the predator for energy resources is satisfied by the hapless prey as it surrenders its life remains inviolate and immutable in social affairs; because a deluded humanity is blissfully oblivious and unaware that this is happening, as Jesus said they always deserve forgiveness for they know not what they do.
What I am promoting is the means, the only means, to overcome the delusion which is the inevitable consequence of the practice of coercion determined culture.
Any and every species that develops intelligence, an adaptation that is only likely to occur as a planet endures the extreme and intense stresses, strains and upheavals as it strives for and eventually achieves ecological equilibrium, will only survive if it becomes adept at using force; and, if it escapes the limitations created by naturally existing energy resources, must eventually become aware of the existence of ethics and other moral values; and thereafter it is just a matter of time before that species confronts the ultimate paradox and consummate irony of sentient existence, it will only be a matter of time before the competition which is the ethos of coercion determined culture creates the abyss of self destruction that has opened before human race.
I have been leading arguments which will cause me to be considered the ultimate iconoclast and destroyer of human illusions and delusions, I am doing my best to destroy the most cherished, sacred beliefs of Western civilizations and feel constrained, at this juncture, to create justifications and rationalize actions which I am certain will ignite animus in the vast majority of human beings.
First and foremost I feel constrained to state that I came upon the means to rid myself of the delusion that I am now aware is the inevitable consequence of being an agent of coercion determined culture by accident.
I made the decision to tell the truth as much as was humanly possible while drowning in the deep pit of depression created by my imminent divorce, a situation made exceedingly more painful by the fact that I was myself the product of a broken home, who had sworn during the period that I was experiencing the most painful and debilitating components of this experience that I would do everything in his power to ensure that my children would never experience this trauma; yet I had engaged in numerous affairs and infidelities made possible by innumerable lies and deceits and emotionally and sexually neglected by spouse, this I guilty contemplated was my contribution to this sad state of affairs.
Hence my decision to practice the discipline of truth, this was a hair shirt that my guilt prompted me to don, it was an attempt to atone for my many indiscretions, it did not arise out of some lofty motive.
The first insight that proceeded from the practice of the discipline of truth was the realization of how stupid I had been to not perceive what would be the inevitable consequences of sexually neglecting a young healthy woman would be; moreover, I understood the reason why I had neglected her because I had to justify my infidelities by emphasizing her faults, and every human being who is an agent of coercion determined culture has faults.
If I had understood that what was motivating me was the sex, with the added attraction of engaging in sex with new partners I could have the cake of my family, as well as my outside affairs; but I had to justify my wrongdoing by emphasizing the character flaws of my spouse; and, over time and as my guilt accumulated as I engaged in more and more affairs, this open an abyss into which slipped all my hopes and aspirations for a permanent, well adjusted family life which was what I really wanted.
I discovered, after practicing the discipline of truth for less than a year that the way I acted was diametrically opposed to what was the deepest and most passionate need and desire, to protect my children from the pain and dislocation that were precipitated by the divorce of their parents.
The Stimulus Package is certain to have the same impact on the American economy, one that is diametrically opposed to what is the stated objective of every American, the revitalization of this economy but no one perceives this to the degree that would required to avert this calamity.
The impact the Stimulus package has had is to ensure that there were no massive layoffs in national and state government that the political hacks that form an ever increasing percentage of the bureaucracy after six decades of pork barrel government would retain their high salaries and benefit packages that they would continue to administer an increasingly corrupt and woefully inefficient system that grew out of elected politicians rewarding their supporters, those who did what was required to win an election, those who made donations, manned phones, distributed fliers, canvassed voters etc. by giving them preferential access to government jobs and contracts.
With these individuals the emphasis is not serving the needs of the public by completing the contract on time and under budget, or, performing their jobs competently and productively, but winning elections; this is what will decide their destinies, something they have already accomplished that got them the cushy government job or contract; and, something they will be required to do again in four years or so.
What its impact is on the economy is to contribute to creating the Nine Trillion dollar projected national debt which is a massive disincentive to investment, increased production and revitalization of the American economy, that members of the Obama Administration cannot perceive this is incontrovertible evidence that they are as blind as I was before I began to practice the discipline of truth; and, one more item of evidence that a massive delusion is the inevitable consequence of the practice of coercion determined culture.
The issue that has consumed my existence for all the years since early 1976, is how much truth I must tell to continue to know what I am doing, so that my mental acuity and problem solving capabilities will continue to increase as I struggle and strive to satisfy my need for food, shelter and clothing in social systems which in precept embrace coercion determined culture.
This is, for me, an insoluble dilemma which I have been unsuccessfully struggling with for more than thirty years – if I were to do what is necessary to make a living and attain a good quality of life I would soon lose the capacity to understand the consequences of my actions; but if I tell the truth and do the right thing it is inevitable that I will experience bouts of poverty and homelessness.
Attacking the sacred, completely irrational religious beliefs of agents of Western civilization can only worsen a bad situation and I am totally seized with the enormity of what I am attempting to do, I have always being seized with the magnitude of my dilemma but it is something which must be done.
The benchmark of belief and credibility established by the Christian dogma is that human beings must accept based solely on the report of one authority that winged creatures of light formed a heavenly choir to announce the coming of a Messiah, an event that is not recorded in the reports of any other historian of the period.
Even the religious event reportedly experienced by Constantine, he is reported to seeing a heavenly vision that instructed him that under the cross he would conquer approximately a century and one half later is more credible because this event is mentioned in more than one history of the period.
And then there is the matter of casual treatment of creation of sixty billion suns and their attendant planets in the Bible, all this rated was half a line:
18. And God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also. (Genesis Chap 1, Verse 16)
The sixty billion suns were an afterthought in this description, from a rational perspective if the creation of the world required six days and each sun had five attendant planets, just five mind you, that would mean three hundred billion planets to create and if each required six days what we are talking about is something of a much greater magnitude than the afterthought, “he made the stars also.” (TO BE CONTINUED)