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as anything sensible.

Emotions are superfluous to the task.

Your feelings in the future, all emotions,

will be translated to an action pattern.

You'll do medical research on how to develop...

for bones that are getting weaker,

how to strengthen them,

how to improve the health of people...;

when emotions are translated to deeds,

rather than this [praying].

LOVE:

Now, another thing that really confuses people;

The word "Love".

What would happen if you lived

with a replica of yourself?

How long do you think you'd be together?

How soon would you crash?

Do you love yourself all the time?

Of course not!

How can you love another person?

You only love certain things about people

and certain things about yourself.

The word "love" will disappear in the future,

and be replaced by a newer definition

called "extensionality",

meaning to enhance one another's lives.

"I love you" are just

empty words that manifest nothing.

It's how people behave

toward one another that indicates love.

CONSCIOUSNESS:

There's another thing that's very dangerous;

Claiming to be 'aware', or 'conscious'.

You hear that all the time:

"At least I'm conscious."

I usually meet with those people

and I say "Where is your liver?"

- "Hmm, well, I'm not sure."

How fast is the blood moving

through your veins and arteries?

What area of the brain controls creativity?

What area is responsible for emotions?

What do you mean by consciousness?

A human being, on top of the Empire State

building, can see a 3 ft. ball.

But a chicken hawk can see a dime,

and see whether it's heads or tails.

The term used - consciousness, or awareness -

is limited to your senses.

So we can never be 'conscious'.

We can grow, in degrees,

and understand, perhaps,

a little more about many more things.

But we never can achieve 'consciousness',

because we don't see gamma rays, cosmic rays...

We don't see all of those things

without instrumentation.

RELIGION:

Religion has an old book,

with a lot of myths.

Packed with myths. And it doesn't

change every year. Consider this.

A scientist has a book on astronomy.

Every year, that book undergoes change.

If you have a book on electronics

that's two years old, it's obsolete.

So, they undergo change.

Here's a minister,

with that one book under his arm;

a real simplistic interpretation of the Earth.

And it caters to what people fear:

what happens after death.

(Lawrence) What happens now is that

myths and superstitions are pervasive,

not because we don't have

better ways of understanding things,

but because people want to believe things

that make them feel better.

PURPOSE:

(Jacque) Then they tell you in school that

everything in nature has a purpose;

like "What's the purpose of life?", and all that.

They say "The purpose of the eyebrows

is to deflect sweat off to the side."

That means, there's a designer.

And what's the purpose

of coughing and sneezing?

To infect other people?

They say the purpose of horns

on an animal is to protect itself.

I said "What's the purpose of those horns?"

They said that's for ramming other animals.

I said "What if the horns go off to the side?"

Well, that's for keeping them off of the side?

What if they go back? Does that

keep them off their back? No!

Animals are born with 'every which way' horns,

and they learn how to use them.

(Lawrence) People hope that there's

some cosmic purpose to their life.

But, in fact, science,

as far as we can tell,

tells us there's no evidence

that there's purpose to the universe.

Does that mean

there's no purpose to the universe?

No. We can't prove it.

It's just that there's no evidence

of a universe with purpose,

and the universe effectively acts

like it has no purpose.

Now, should this depress us?

In my opinion, no, because,

what it means is that the purpose

in our lives is the purpose we make.

LOYALTY TO METHODOLOGY

(Jacque) We don't want people to have

loyalty to corporations, or a country.

We want them to have

loyalty to methodology,

and loyalty to invention, meaning

to improve everything that exists.

Make them better, smarter, faster...

And make them available to all people.

That's the kind of loyalty that's needed.

If China comes up with

a new way of producing automations;

Congratulations!

If Africans come up with

a great idea; Congratulations!

No more loyalty to corporations; to country.

Loyalty to the Earth,

and to all of the people on it.

And to make the Earth

a far better place than it is.

This is the kind of loyalty

I'm talking about.

This is the kind of pledge of allegiance

that I'm talking about.

To pledge allegiance to methodology.

(Narrator) If we manage

to arrive at a saner future,

the tasks will be about

solving problems common to all people.

(Jacque) We have to anticipate

that the Earth is our salvation.

If we don't take care of it,

no matter how many churches you build,

we will starve to death and kill each other.

(Narrator) The real challenges

are producing abundance,

reclaiming damaged environments,

sharing and creating

innovative technologies,

and improving communications between people.

(Jacque) I know that we can build

a far better world, without war,

without most crimes,

without the need for prisons,

and without the need for money.

We can surpass that.

We have the technical ability

to make things available to everyone.

All the wonders of technology

have no meaning at all

unless it enhances the lives of everyone.

(Narrator) The vision of applied science

can serve the common good.

And though this goal has eluded

human civilization for centuries,

the possibility of a better life for all

will depend, ultimately,

on the choices we make today.

"If you think we can't change the world,

it just means you're not one of those that will."

~Jacque Fresco

Join those who are working toward

making The Venus Project a reality.

Translations by Linguistic Team International

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