DEISM: CITIZEN 2012- 10 Commandments of a Deist

The ten commandments I'm writing on this post are not really commandments or laws, they are just some common sense affirmations I have laid down within myself in order to always remember what I stand for personally.  All Deists should do the same, copy mine if you like them and agree with them or come up with your own. It's your life to live after all not mine and you should be the one to set your own rules that will  provide you the most optimum survival in this world.

Most of the 10 commandments will easily fall under the simple, but yet perfect  golden rule.

"Treat others the way you would like to be treated"

1. Do not commit murder ( Unless someone is trying to kill me, then I don't have a problem  defending my own life)
2. Do not betray the trust of your significant other ( In short I wont cheat on my wife, Just as I wouldn't want her to betray my trust and be with another man)
3. Respect the time you have on this Earth and use it wisely ( This is difficult to do, as we all live in a society of bread and games)
4. Improve and expand your intellect in all areas of study and knowledge ( Also difficult to do but not impossible, I have to find within myself the thirst for learning I had when I was a child)
5. Always tell the truth as you see it ( This will upset many in my circle of friends and family but it will set my soul free)
6. Fight everyday the urges of materialism ( We are all breed consumers and I was no different growing up, but I recognize this foe and will fight it to my dying end)
7. Do not give words or images power over your emotions ( Words and pictures will only have power over you if you let them, but in the end they are just words or images and nothing else)
8. Use your God given gift of Reason and Creativity everyday ( My ability to think and create is what separates me from the animals, I respect that and will use it to my advantage in this life)
9. Be grateful of everything you have in this life ( The good or the bad I have suffered in my life is makes me who I am today, I have no regrets and only a bright future ahead of me)
10. Eat, Drink, Love and most importantly be happy ( I'm not going take the bullshit that life throws at me too seriously. One day I will die and so will the people I love, when you have this simple fact embedded in your mind you will see that there are very few things you should be angry about and hold long grudges.)

CITIZEN 2012

DEISM: Citizen 2012- Rebuilding The Tower of Babel

This is the first post  I write and share my thoughts on Deism and what is means to Me. 
I have  embarked in a personal journey that may be called a crusade for the pursuit of truth. Deism for me was the catalytic component to jump start my life in a different direction. The term Deist  was well defined for Me at Wikipedia along with other websites I surfed through online.

"God created the Universe, Man created Religion" 

These words have enlightened me to the view that the only way I may find God in my life is to walk the path alone, perhaps this is the way He truly intended for it to done. Which is to say the hardest path and the one that would require the most devotion to truly be closer to him, and if I die and face His judgement for simply seeking the truth of My place in his universe, so be it.

If God is to Condemn me for not believing in the fantasy  books that people peddle for money in his name...So be it, challenge accepted!

With that being said, the beauty of Deism is that no Deist should ever have the same philosophy in life and share the exact same views on God and the after life. We as Deists are on our own, but We can and should hold intellectual discourse not only of subject of God but on basically EVERYTHING.

The Tower of a Babel as described by the ultimate Oracle of the World Wide Web.

According to the biblical account, a united humanity of the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, came to the land ofShinar, where they resolved to build a city with a tower 


"with its top in the heavens...lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the Earth." 


God came down to see what they did and said: "They are one people and have one language, and nothing will be withholden from them which they purpose to do." So God said, 


"Come, let us go down and confound their speech." And so God scattered them upon the face of the Earth, and confused their languages, and they left off building the city, which was called Babel "


because God there confounded the language of all the Earth."(Genesis 11:5-8).

If the Writings of the Abraham Religions were real, because they are NOT. This single passage  tells me that our God given intellect and creativity should never be used to it's fullest. The passage also tells Me that God doesn't want to see a United Humanity that can communicate with each other in one common language. I call bullshit!

I am rebuilding the Tower of Babel within myself and take my ability to Reason, Think, Learn and Create to it's fullest. I hope to inspire others to do this as well to their own lives. 

My common language to mankind is the Internet. The path of the Polymath that I seek was walked by others in history, so it's not impossible to learn and increase our knowledge in various subject matters. All one needs to do is decide to do it and never accept some else words on what your life should be about. 

The new Tower of Babel that I intend to rebuild will not be visible in an open space or be observed by anyone. This Tower will be build within the global Consciousness of people that I network with and communicate with on the web and my every day life. One person at a time I hope to come with a common agreement that Our time here on Earth is too  precious to waste on falsehoods.

The clock for everyone's impeding Death never stops ticking, what we all do with the time we have is priceless, but yet we waste it away. Watching TV, Playing Games, listening to corrupted Political ideologies, Worshiping and following the rituals of equally corrupted religions. 

My generation and others have for centuries wasted their time with these things. Many have died in stupid wars or sacrificed their time working for a measly pay and listening to some else telling you what to think and how to live.

Ask yourself this: Is the money I earn every week for the hours I  put in, 40, 50, 60, 70 etc... define what my life is worth? What would I do different right now if I knew I was going to die this week?

The hour is now for me to embrace every minute I have alive. I could die right now from a blood vessel bursting in my brain as I write this, I could come down with a terminal disease in the next weeks. You could be having a heart attack from reading my post and yelling BLASPHEMY..... All the way to the great beyond...

My point is for you to stop looking up to other people for a meaning in your life and letting words have power over you. When you die, you will be the one that dies not me. We all share two things in common, we are all Humans and in the end we ALL DIE ALONE.

Join me on rebuilding your own Tower of Babel or go back to the bread and games.

Citizen 2012

DEISM: Gospels of a Deist- "Christianity Defined"

CONSCIOUSNESS: Scientific Approaches- What Is Consciousness?

Uploaded by vsauce on Jan 6, 2012

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Philosophical ZOMBIES: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/

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"What is consciousness" conscious "what is identity" identity vsauce "Michael Stevens" brain neuroscience "other minds"

PHILOSOPHY: Major Traditions- What is Philosophy?

Uploaded by MassimoPigliucci on Oct 10, 2009

A five-minute introduction to what philosophy is all about, how it is different from science, religion and mysticism, and why it matters to all of us.

CONSCIOUSNESS: Quantum Theory- Nick Herbert "Consciousness & Quantum Reality"

Uploaded by ThinkingAllowedTV on Jan 5, 2011

NOTE: This is an excerpt from a 30-minute DVD.
http://www.thinkingallowed.com/2nherbert.html

The mysteries of sub-atomic physics offer us startling new perspectives on the human mind. Physicist Nick Herbert, Ph.D., author of Quantum Reality, points out that no matter how one interprets the equations of quantum physics the results lead to amazing and paradoxical concepts. Perhaps that time runs backwards as well as forward. Perhaps multiple independent universes are created each second.

Herbert studied Engineering Physics at the Ohio State University, graduating in 1959. He received a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University in 1967 for work on nuclear scattering experiments. After a one year teaching job at Monmouth College in Illinois, Herbert held a number of posts in industry. 

The most illustrious of these was senior physicist at Memorex Corporation in Santa Clara, California, where he developed new magnetic materials, as well as magnetic, electrostatic and optical measuring devices, and carried out theoretical work on Lorentz microscopy. He was also senior physicist at Smith-Corona Marchant Corporation in Palo Alto, California where he developed a new theory of xerographic process and worked on early developments in ink jet printing.

While employed in industry, Herbert was part of the Fundamental Fysiks Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, founded in May 1975 by Elizabeth Rauscher and George Weissmann. The group's initial interest was in the interpretation of quantum mechanics, the EPR paradox, and Bell's inequality, but members pursued diverse interests that lay outside of mainstream physics, exploring psychedelic drugs, psi phenomena, the nature of consciousness, and speculative connections of these areas with quantum physics. 

During the 1970s and 1980s, Herbert and Saul-Paul Sirag organized a yearly Esalen Seminar on the Nature of Reality, bringing together participants to discuss the interpretation of quantum mechanics. With Richard Shoup of Xerox PARC, Herbert constructed a "Metaphase Typewriter", a "quantum operated" device whose purpose was "to communicate with disembodied spirits".

 Despite many tests, including an attempt to contact the spirit of Harry Houdini on the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the group reported no success with the device.

Herbert supports a holistic interpretation of quantum physics. He has argued for "quantum animism" in which mind permeates the world at every level. Werner Krieglstein wrote regarding his quantum animism:

"Herbert's quantum animism differs from traditional animism in that it avoids assuming a dualistic model of mind and matter. Traditional dualism assumes that some kind of spirit inhabitats a body and makes it move, a ghost in the machine. Herbert's quantum animism presents the idea that every natural system has an inner life, a conscious center, from which it directs and observes its action."

In 1981, Herbert proposed FLASH, a scheme for sending signals faster than the speed of light using quantum entanglement. 

Of this proposal, quantum computing pioneer Asher Peres wrote:

"I was the referee who approved the publication of Nick Herbert’s FLASH paper, knowing perfectly well that it was wrong. I explain why my decision was the correct one, and I briefly review the progress to which it led." 

Chief among the results that Peres claimed stemmed from a refutation of Herbert's proposal was the no-cloning theorem, proved by Wootters, Zurek, and Dieks

DEISM: Quotes- Albert Einstein "Free Ourselves"

DEISM: MEMES- GOD "Creates the Universe from Nothing"

DEISM: Books & Literature- GOD VERSUS THE BIBLE

GOD VERSUS THE BIBLE

Most people in western culture are brought up to believe the Bible is either the word of God or positively and closely associated with Him.


If we hold the idea of God in a very meaningful way, we should honestly and closely examine sources that claim to represent Him/Her. 


It shows respect to God and to ourselves. After all, if someone was writing and saying things about you that were derogatory towards your character, and a good friend of yours was aware of it, wouldn't you hope your friend would take a stand on your behalf?


Because the Bible repeatedly portrays God as a crazed killer, a liar, and a jealous fool, it is only just and logical that people who believe in God take His/Her side against the Bible and revealed religion.


One of the best known genocidal acts blamed on God by the Bible is found in Genesis chapters 6-8. In these Biblical chapters God is said to have killed every living thing on earth except Noah and the inhabitants of the ark! 

THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A MOMENT! 

He killed everyone by drowning!  Even the babies and the unborn! What sin could they have committed??? 

Thank God the Bible is not true!

In the famous Passover story we see God through the depraved minds of the Bible writers personally murdering the first born of everyone in Egypt, even of the animals, to punish Pharaoh for not doing what God himself made impossible for Pharaoh to do. 


Exodus 11:10 says God “hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go out of his land.” 


Then Exodus 12:29 has God killing the first-born of everyone and everything throughout Egypt at midnight. Deceptiveness is not a trait any sane person would welcome in either themselves or in another. Yet the Bible portrays God as a liar and a deceiver. 


In Ezekiel 14:9 God allegedly said that if someone turns to idols and then,“comes to a prophet to inquire for himself of me, I the Lord will answer him myself; . . . And if the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, the Lord, have deceived that prophet . . .”
It then goes on to say in 14:10 that God will kill both the prophet and the person who inquired of God.

In Second Thessalonians 2:11 we read of God deceiving man-kind when they need Him the most - at the end of the age when Jesus makes his come-back. It reads: “Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false.” What kind of loving father is this Judeo-Christian god???

The unbelievably ignorant story of the Tower of Babel is found in Genesis Chapter 11. In it we see the Bible portraying God as a very limited jealous god who confounds the language of the people because the god is afraid they will build a tower that reaches up to heaven and they will have nothing that is unattainable to them. 


As one of the supporters of the World Union of Deists asked, I wonder how this god feels about the world’s skyscrapers, not to mention NASA?


The true good news is that the Bible is not the word of God! 


How could a Creator who is responsible for the beautiful design we see in the Universe and Creation be anything similar to the god of the Bible? 


If you want to learn about God don’t look in books written by mankind, but instead look to the Creation which only the Creator could have made.

DEISM: Deist Media- "Deism by Clay Link"

Uploaded by opensourcebuddhism on Jan 15, 2011

by Clay Link instructed by Professor Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Powell II

Super professional narration, fantastic visuals, love the Mandelbrot sets and the superimpositions and skillfull transitions, intro is superb. We find that "author" and "architect" are the key terms. The Clockwork universe of Newton comes into play with excellent imagery. Wow! Does any religion have the right answers? These are the questions the Deists asks, as well as being sick of warfare over religion. Copernicus, Kepler, Brahe, Galileo destroyed Christianity's earth-centered view. The Bible was in for a drubbing with Lord Cherbury and friends. Locke comes into play opposing innateness arguments for this Deist God, and the tabula rasa or blank slate notion of mind comes into play. Deists then had to turn to arguments from experience and nature. Extensive, skillfull panning and cropping. Both the French and American revolutions were influenced by this movement. The Cult of the Supreme Being was a national cult in France for a time. Many founding fathers saw the value of reason, but especially Jefferson was a propounder of Deism. Franklin found anti-Deist tracts drew him to Deism and Thomas Paine made it popular. We see a god without revelation. Nice definition of all of it: a creative power greater than human... the growth is the fastest growing religion or .02 of the population. Hans Hegge narrated wonderfully, the credits are clear and extensive. Loved it! Persuasive....

DEISM: MEMES- GOD "Has a Plan"