Zeitgeist: Addendum Page #13

and accept them for what they really are,

which are purely allegorical

expressions derived from many faiths,

we see that all religions share a common thread.

And it is this unifying imperative that

needs to be recognized and appreciated.

Religious belief has caused more fragmentation

and conflict than any other ideology.

Christianity alone has over 34,000 different subgroups.

The Bible is subject to interpretation.

When you read it, you say I think

Jesus meant this. I think Job meant that.

Oh No! He meant this. So you have the Lutheran,

the Seventh-day Adventist, the Catholic,

and a church divided is no church at all.

And this point on division, which is a trademark on all theistic

religions brings us to our second failure of awareness.

The false assumption of separation through

the rejection of the symbiotic relationship of life.

Apart from the understanding that

all natural systems are emergent,

where all notions of reality will be constantly

developed, altered, and even eradicated;

we must also understand that all systems are in fact

invented fragments merely for sake of conversation.

For there is no such thing

as independence in nature.

The whole of nature is a unified

system of interdependent variables,

each a cause and a reaction,

existing only as a concentrated whole.

You dont see the plug to connect to the environment,

so it looks like were free wandering around.

Take the oxygen away,

we all die immediately.

Take plant life away, we die. And without the sun,

all the plants die. So we are connected.

We really must take into account the totality.

This isnt just a human experience on this planet,

this is a total experience. And we know we

cant survive without plants and animals.

We know we cant survive

without the four elements, you know?

And so, when are we really going to start taking that into account?

Thats what it is to be successful.

Success depends on how well

we relate to everything around us.

Im very aware of the fact that my grandson

cannot possible hope to inherit a sustainable,

peaceful, stable, socially just world unless

every child today growing up today in Ethiopia,

in Indonesia, in Bolivia, in Palestine, in

Israel also has that same expectation.

You gotta take care of the whole community

or youre gonna have serious problems.

And now we have to see that

the whole world is the community.

And we must all take care of each other that way.

And its not just a community of human beings,

a community of plants and animals and elements.

And we really need to understand that. Thats

whats gonna bring us joy too, and pleasure.

Thats whats missing in our lives right now.

We can call it spirituality, but the fact of the

matter is joy comes from that bliss of connectedness.

Thats our god spirit. Thats that side of ourselves that

really feels it, and you can feel it deep inside you.

Its this amazing wonderful feeling,

and you know it when you get it.

You dont get it from money, you get it from connection.

"Now if that isnt a hazard to this country.

How are we gonna keep building

nuclear weapons, you know what I mean?

Whats gonna happen to the arms

industry, when we realize were all one?

Its gonna f*** up the economy.

The economy thats fake anyway.

Which would be a real bummer. You

can see why the governments crackin down

on the idea of experiencing unconditional love.

Bill Hicks

I believe that unarmed truth and

unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, 1929-1968

Once we understand that the

integrity of our personal existences

are completely dependent on the

integrity of everything else in our world,

we have truly understood

the meaning of unconditional love.

For love is extensionality and seeing everything as you

and you as everything can have no conditionalities,

for in fact, we are all everything at once.

If its true that were all from the center of a star,

every atom on each of us from the center of a star,

then were all the same thing.

Even a Coke machine or a cigarette butt in the street

in buffalo is made out of atoms that came from a star.

Theyve all been recycled thousands of times, as

have you and I. And therefore, its only me out there.

So what is there to be afraid of?

What is there that needs solace seeking?

Nothing. Theres nothing to

be afraid of because its all us.

The trouble is we have been separated by being born

and given a name and an identity and being individuated.

Weve been separated from the

oneness, and thats what religion exploits.

That people have this yearning to

be part of the overall one again.

So they exploit that.

They call it god, they say he has rules, and I think its cruel.

I think you can do it absent religion. - George Carlin, 1937-2008

an extraterrestrial visitor examining

the differences among human societies

would find those differences

trivial compared to the similarities

Our lives, our past and our future are

tied to the sun, the moon and the stars

We humans have seen the atoms which constitute

all of nature and the forces that sculpted this work

And we, we who embody the local eyes and

ears and thoughts and feelings of the cosmos,

we have begun at least to wonder about our origins

star stuff contemplating the stars,

organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms,

contemplating the evolution of nature,

tracing that long path by which it arrived

at consciousness here on the planet earth

Our loyalties are to the species and to the planet.

We speak for earth.

Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves

but also to that cosmos ancient and vast from which we spring!

We are one species. We are star stuff harvesting star light.

Who Speaks for Earth? - Carl Sagan, 1934-1996

Its time to claim the unity our outmoded

social systems have broken apart,

and work together to create a sustainable global society

where everyone is taken care of and everyone is truly free.

Your personal beliefs, whatever they may be are

meaningless when it comes to the necessities of life.

Every human being was born naked,

needing warmth, food, water, shelter.

Everything else is auxiliary.

Therefore, the most important issue at hand is

the intelligent management of the Earths resources.

This can never be accomplished in a monetary system,

for the pursuit of profit is the persuit of self

interest and therefore imbalance is inherent.

Simultaneously, politicians are useless. For our

true problems in life are technical not political.

Furthermore, ideologies that separate humanity such as religion

need strong reflection in the community in regards to its value,

purpose and social relevancy. Hopefully

through time religion will loose its materialism

and basis in superstition and

move into the useful field of philosophy.

The fact is, society today is backwards,

with politicians constantly talking about

protection and security rather than creation,

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