Homogenizing Religion

Herbert Siegel

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The violence among 4,200 earth-borne religions finally upsets the galactic order, resulting in a threat to annihilate the human species. Can it be solved by people alone, even if helped by Artificial Intelligence, or does adjudication require cosmic intervention? And what are the unintended consequences to planet Earth of permanently eradicating war?

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Religión
• Philosophy
• Spirituality
• Religion

Informations

• Publié par: Trafford Publishing
• Date de parution: 31 août 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781698712550
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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HOMOGENIZING RELIGION
 
 
A Metaphilosophy for 1,000 years!
 
 
 
Herbert Siegel
 
Cover art by Harriet Slaughter
Early manuscript scan by Steven Pinderb Schmidt
Manuscript editing by Fredda Gordon
Interior Design by Josh Laluna
 
Author’s website: www.herbsiegel.org
 
© Copyright 2022 Herbert Siegel. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2022914491
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“The voice in my dreams may not be real, but it has good i deas.”
 
 
 
 
 
Dedicated to:
Harriet Frances Slaughter of Texas, BA, MFA
A direct descendant of Martha Washington
“Tell me a story about the B ronx!”
CONTENTS
Introduction
A Cosmic Horology
Glossary
Part I: IT’S HAPPENING NOW
The Ambassadors
Religionists
The Media
Academia
Peer Conferences
An Episode
The Next Morning
The Galactic Dream
Dreams
Cosmic Telepathy
Religious Debates That Ensue
Catholicism
Earth Cables
Islamism
A Dream Coda for Islamists
Judaic Kabbalists
The Fabulist
Dream Coda for Kabbalists
Christianity
Dream Coda for Christians
Buddhism
Dream Coda for Buddhists
Coptic Christians
Dream Coda for Coptic Christians
Confucianism
Hindi
A Bibliophilic Didactus For Scholars
The Debate
Dream Coda for Biblical Scholars
A Philosophia Moralis
Forum for Philosophers
A Dream for Philosophers
Where Do Prayers Go?
Scientia Technique
A Forum of Scientists
Dream Coda for Scientists
The United Nations
The Organization
Dream Coda for Diplomats
Fractured Prisms of Humanity
The Vote
Economics for Harmonizing Religion
The Economic Challenges for Clerics
Dream Coda for Economists
Conclusion of the Synod
The Supreme Military Alliance
The Poetry of Monuments
Dream Coda for the Military
A Council on Longevity
The Toll of Religious War
Dream Coda for the Council on Longevity
Conclusion of the Council
Syncretism and the Second Universal Dream
Syncretism
A Second Universal Dream
Existential Challenges to Homogenized Religion
Preamble
Part II: A CENTURY L ATER
Living the Dream
The Socioeconomic Impact on Society
Unintended Consequences
The Moses Commission
Member Proposals
Dream Coda for the Moses Commission
The Commission’s Final Recommendations
The Centennial Celebrants
Dome of the Rock
United Nations of the Future
The United Nations
The World Council on Futurity
The Feasibility Study
Codifying Human Rights Forever
A Feasibility Report on Long-Term Human Survival
A Dream Coda for the Feasibility Report
Conclusion of the Moses Commission
The Only Solution from Moses Commission
Treaty for Human Survival
The Mother of All Debates
The First Time Humans and Not Nature Decided the Fate of a Planet
The Debate
Debate Introduction
Five Years Later
The Debate Commences
An Attempt at Insurrection
The Delegate’s Dream
The United Nations Reconvenes
The Vote
Proposition 2
Voting on Proposition 2
Amendments
Amendments to the Manifesto for Homogenizing Religion
Part III: FIVE HUNDRED YEARS L ATER
What the World Looks Like
Turning Points
The World Order
The Unknown Unknowns
A Word about Aliennus
The Most Compelling Dream in Five Hundred Years
The Next Morning
A Proclamation Humanus for AD 2649
For People of the Earth
Part IV: ONE THOUSAND YEARS L ATER
The New Millennium
Mission Accomplished
Dreamcast 1—Looking Back
Questions and Answers
Terra Incognito
A Novel Society for the Third Millenmium
Everyday Life in AD 3014
The Loss of Certainty
Magic Economics
The New Apotheosis: Are We Trapped by History, or Is History Trapped by Us?
Omnicide
The Surprise
Characters of the Millen nium
INTRODUCTION
Send spaceships into the cosmos with return-address nameplates to search for extraterrestrial life and perhaps find cabbages growing somewhere or a planet full of Einsteins—these are astronomical crapshoots. They are mankind’s dream of communing with another species. We tried for millennia but still lack dialogue with other earthbound animals, microorganisms, or any of the 4,200 religious deities we imagined. There are only one-way discourses. What is it we are up against? This is a story of what happened before, during, and after we experienced omnicide.
By mathematically modeling an individual’s chance of existence and finding the odds are 300,000,000:1 3 against it, going back only three generations, does humanity result from a grand plan or an accident? Are we just metaphors in a hologram of the string theory, and if so, for what or whom? And how would we recognize the answer if there was one? The obtuse side of reality is fantasy. We possess an imagination enhanced by a proclivity for simultaneous insights into quantum physics and gigantism. We can imagine penetrating these spectrums and all degrees in between with equations to prove a hypothesis that satisfies us or pays homage to a belief we can’t cogently explain—all to prove human domination over all things living and innate. Of course, our cognition shifts back and forth as we strive to become legends in our own minds.
Despite archiving a millennium of futile efforts for use by our descendants, what remains unknown to us far exceeds the sum of the knowledge we possess at any given time. The black holes of the unknowable are perceived either as a complexity of the big bang, a limitation on mankind’s ability to think, or a religious mystique of the supernatural, depending on our individual psychological profile. Ever since Copernicus discovered that Earth was not the center of the universe, and Darwin found that mankind was another evolution of an animal uniquely ruled by unconscious desires and furies, any attempt to define the great disparity between galactic knowledge and mankind is foredoomed.
A COSMIC HOROLOGY
Perceived encounters between foreign life-forms and people formed the basis for every anomaly experienced on Earth during the first and second millennium. Ancient hypotheses were founded on patterns of art, engineering, and periods of greater cognition, prophesies and cave drawings, pyramids of Egypt, Stonehenge, the theory of relativity, World War I and II, and nuclear tests. Numerous motives were imagined for human abduction for purposes of genital examinations, altering the human genome, survival of an alien race, and destruction of Earth, yet no scientific evidence was ever discovered to justify these hysterics, eyewitness accounts notwithstanding. Proving the axiom that little knowledge is a dangerous thing, the theory of quantum entanglement, also known as the entropy of entanglement, arose during the second millennium. It posited our universe as two-dimensional although we see it as three-dimensional, much like a hologram. This mind-twisting notion proposed that gravity evident in the space-time quadrant comports with quantum fields as small as an atom designed (by aliens) to deliberately distort our view of the cosmos! This was soon followed by the blue skies theory, a.k.a. research without a clear goal, which entertained proposals to radically change the way people think about anything and everything.
Then there were those whose mindsets changed when facts conflicted with their beliefs, and they acted upon what they concluded was righteous. They were motivated by piety and reverence to the exclusion of scientifically proven facts. It was cases of cognition altered by how they thought the world should function, as though sacred values in the supernatural were immune to facts of life. Magnificently constructed temples were often thought of as portals to heaven though built by mankind for meditating. These were not dumb people who strained reasoning to enhance morality rather than face facts. Others pursued a passion for mysticism to corral the universe down to a singular belief. Almost everything inexplicable became a gateway to panocracy. The sea of anomalies flowed like waves of electromagnetic energy, and the planet glowed with as many extraterrestrial thoughts as light, radio, and microwaves. It was as though the earth itself was thinking!
One such theory came from a Jesuit priest trained as a scientist and a religious mystic—oxymora were not rare. He viewed the world as evolving from a dead planet to one of mindless biological life, ever certain vegetation would lead to a universal consciousness that was housed in a thinking sphere, or knowledg