Bang! You're Alive

PhD PhD Anonymous

Description

Reading this book is a wild ride though the nature of sex, the history of god and religion, stellar physics, hypnotism, genetics, Roman history, theology, biology, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, heaven, hell, gambling, galaxies and Santa delivering toys. It will take you back to the Big Bang and forward into your best possible future. Here is the sudden understanding of how things really are all around you and inside you. Here is the way to save the world and how to have the best life. It's ten books in one small one, and maybe the best thing you will ever read.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Développement personnel
• développement personnel
• Success
• Self-help
• Personal Growth

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 21 février 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780615436951
• Langue: English

Extrait

Bang! You're Alive
How to understand things, save the world & have the best life
 
by
Anonymous
 
 
Published in eBook format by eBookIt.com
http://www.eBookIt.com
 
 
ISBN-13: 978-0-6154-3695-1
 
 
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.
 
 
First ebook release, January 2011
Copyright © Elegant Press, LLC, 2011
All Rights Reserved
 
 

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REGISTERED TRADEMARK――MARCA REGISTRADA
 
 

* “Anonymity is the spiritual foundation...ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.” (from NA)
 
Introduction
 
 
It's an awesome book.
 
—S. Christenson
 
You
 
I appreciate you.
It doesn’t matter who you are, what you do or where you live. The evidence presented in this book will show that you count; that your future, the future of your friends, your family members, and even the future of the human race, depend on what you know. These pages will also show that everything finally makes sense after you find out the truth.
The truth?
 
The truth means the way things really are in nature
 
Many claims have been made about how things really are. They were tested and some were proven correct. Many others were proven incorrect, yet groups of people still believe them and spread them anyway. The evidence will show that this is the reason that the world is in so much turmoil today.
Dangerous conditions in the world inspired this book. Some of my friends also inspired it. They each had different issues. Their answers are here. You may find that their questions are similar or identical to yours.
It takes a lot of courage to read what you're about to read. Why? Because this book will take you on a humorous and sometimes scary trip from the far side of the supernatural to the near side of the way things really are. It will take you on a wild adventure through deep time, ancient and modern cultures, through what you believe, and into newer, bigger, personal possibilities. It will offer you rational, honest answers to life’s biggest questions: Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are you going?
 
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Note: You may have some powerful Ah-ha! moments reading this book (some immediately, some weeks later). If you find anything hard to understand, just re-read it. You will get it. The more you read something, the better you process it.
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Here we go.
Section 1: Starting Points
1. The Supernatural
 
 
…I am that I am…
 
—God (according to Moses )
 
 

God (in paint) by Michelangelo - Wikimedia
 
Stayin’ alive
 
Many people think that financial collapse, computer attacks taking down the electrical grid, global warming or even deadly epidemics are our biggest survival threats. They are not.
People survived The Great Depression. Millions of people still live without electricity. If the planet warmed so rapidly that Greenland’s and Antarctica’s ice melted, the sea level would rise, drowning coastal cities worldwide, but millions of people would still be living inland. A few with stronger immune systems always survive epidemics to rebuild the population.
Nuclear war is our biggest survival threat still, many times over. If dozens of thermo-nuclear weapons were exploded, there would be no safe places on Earth. The fires would cause the skies worldwide to darken for years, which, along with the toxic air, the loss of our crops, and the radioactivity, could kill us all, to the last person. (See http://www.answers.com/topic/nuclear-winter )
The Union of Concerned Scientists puts the total number of nuclear weapons held by the nine nuclear-armed countries at 25,486.
We must not go extinct. Our existence is precious. We are nature's best.
There is a big threat from fanatics, motivated or justified by their religious ideology. They want to bomb others. Even many in the American government, especially religious military leaders, anticipate a final, biblical, nuclear war. But nuclear weapons work against hard targets, not against religious ideas. Religious ideologies are just groups of ideas in people’s brains. There should be a way to stop a dangerous ideology without burning up some people's brains and leaving all the rest of us to die a poisoned, cold, dark death in the aftermath. Right?
Compassion for the world and the people around us is needed. We humans have nearly unlimited potential and a shot at unlimited expansion into the heavens. Not annihilating ourselves is worth a big effort! To ensure that we don’t all die, we have to fix our programming errors―the bugs that make us and others irrational. We need to run the fix on ourselves first and then spread the fix.
These bugs are faulty assumptions embedded in our heads as beliefs. We wrongly assume major things that make no sense when analyzed rationally. The result is that we operate with beliefs built on errors. This obscures from us the view of how things really are in nature. Evidence of how things really are gets overruled, and wrongly labeled as threatening. We need to find these mental errors, delete them and then reprogram ourselves for accuracy.
Of course, no one thinks they are operating with errors until something makes it obvious. But even then, some people don’t want to confront their incorrect assumptions. It's humiliating to realize one has been incorrect. Some cover it up with an idealized notion of how things should be . Even some of the best minds in the past had some big “should be” errors in their thinking.
 
René rocks Europe
 
Let’s have some fun with Frenchman René Descartes. He was an influential idea maker in his time. He was intelligent and added to humanity's mathematical knowledge. He figured out the basics of analytic geometry, the use of algebra to solve problems in geometry. In fact, early analytic geometry was called Cartesian geometry in his honor. (His name was Renatus Cartesius in Latin.) His discoveries in mathematics led to the development of calculus by Isaac Newton. Using calculus we can now navigate spacecraft to any other moving body in space and return them to any spot on the moving Earth.
Descartes thought and wrote for days at a time. As a Catholic, he was interested in figuring out the intentions of the creator god in the Book of Genesis in the Bible, and Michelangelo's painting. But Descartes needed to verify his assumption first.
He needed to ask, “Is there any proof of such a supernatural being other than just our religious tradition?” Instead, he just assumed that nature “should be” as it is described in the Bible’s creation story.
On top of this first assumption, Descartes next assumed that a good god would not allow humans to believe in the god's existence unless the god actually existed. Oops.
Descartes' assumptions are still made today by millions of religious believers. Their assumptions are based on belief in the supernatural, the idea that the “real reality” is something other than where we are. Heaven must be mysteriously hidden from us, they assume.
Descartes’ ideas spread in Europe. Other people started guessing about the intentions of the mysterious, biblical god in other directions. It got crazy! In 1667 the Roman Catholic Church banned Descartes' writings trying to put an end to all the threatening speculation and pop theology. But it was too late. The contagion could not be contained or stopped. It became a time of great freedom to think outside of official church doctrine. New ideas in philosophy, science and mathematics sprang up quickly. Descartes absorbed a lot of this new information from other philosophers and mathematicians. They often met over drinks at a pub at night.
 
The brain on autopilot
 
We’ve come a long way in almost 400 years since Descartes. Today there is a huge glut of information competing for our attention, like the latest news about politics, crimes, disasters, diseases, economics, technology, science, religion, terrorism and who’s hot in fashion, religion, music and sports.
Many people seek shelter from the growing pressure of so much new or emotionally overwhelming information. They escape into what they already know, into what is simple and entertaining, like novels, TV, video games and movies. Other people escape into their favorite religious music, and re-read their Bibles or Qurans again and again. They love the simple, ancient stories offered by old scriptures with tales about things supernatural and mystifying. Reading them repeatedly becomes hypnotic entertainment. It puts the brain on autopilot. It also becomes a holy assumption that every idea in them is correct; that every supernatural event happened; that predictions of destruction will all occur no matter what. Worse, some believers want to make those predictions happen as soon as possible, so that biblical prophesy is fulfilled before they die waiting.
 
Believing in fate
 
The future is undetermined. We can design it. We can give it propulsion and steer it. The opposite is fate. It has no propulsion, so it has no steering. Planning our future sets a course to steer. Taking action gives us propulsion. Fate is what we get if we have no plan of action, merely wondering what will happen and what fate will bring us. This is like playing the lottery. Almost no one wins lotteries, and no one wins again and again. But planning and then taking action allow us to accumulate many wins in life. Still, hoards of people live their entire lives waiting and praying for fate’s fat payoff.
 
Too busy to do anything better
 
Many people prefer entertainment to studying and learning. After all, who comes home from work, opens a soda or a beer, kicks back on the sofa and starts reading a t