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		<description><![CDATA[Because history and nature tell us with absolute certainty &#8211; without a qualm of a doubt &#8211; that there is no &#8220;God&#8221;&#8230; but that&#8230; Existence originates&#8230; in the breath of this instant. * To read further, see: &#8220;A God or Nature&#8221; above. *** Amazon.com ***]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Because history and nature tell us with absolute certainty &#8211; without a qualm of a doubt &#8211; that there is no &#8220;God&#8221;&#8230; but that&#8230;</p>
<p>Existence originates&#8230; in the breath of this instant.</p>
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<p>To read further, see: &#8220;A God or Nature&#8221; above.</p>
<p>***</p>
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		<title>Being an atheist and death.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;God&#8221; of antiquity no longer lives on earth&#8230; and Heaven is the physical sky above our heads. No matter who is doing the underwriting, the selling, the giving, the asserting, the promising, the threatening&#8230; if you have bought a ticket for your next life&#8230; THE TICKET&#8230; IS INVALID. After you last breath on this earth&#8230; what [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The &#8220;God&#8221; of antiquity no longer lives on earth&#8230; and Heaven is the physical sky above our heads.</p>
<p>No matter who is doing the underwriting, the selling, the giving, the asserting, the promising, the threatening&#8230; if you have bought a ticket for your next life&#8230;</p>
<h2>THE TICKET&#8230; IS INVALID.</h2>
<p>After you last breath on this earth&#8230; what will happen to you, your energy, your memory? No one&#8230; absolutely no human being&#8230; knows what happens when she/he dies. Period!</p>
<p>The only valid ticket you have&#8230; is for this life.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is morality good or bad for you? (The bottom line, it is not good.) Morality is said to be the greatest achievement of mankind. Morality gives human beings &#8220;laws&#8221; to live by. Laws given by a &#8220;God&#8221;. Without these laws, it is advanced, we would quickly become derelicts incapable of sustaining a viable &#8220;self&#8221; or society. As individuals, we would [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is morality good or bad for you? (The bottom line, it is not good.)</p>
<p>Morality is said to be the greatest achievement of mankind. Morality gives human beings &#8220;laws&#8221; to live by. Laws given by a &#8220;God&#8221;. Without these laws, it is advanced, we would quickly become derelicts incapable of sustaining a viable &#8220;self&#8221; or society. As individuals, we would fall into depravity and as a society we would be at each others throats. It would be the end of civilization.</p>
<p>But there is a problem:</p>
<p>At the moment of conception, nature inscribes in each and every human being its own laws. (Laws: patterns formed by the &#8220;raison d&#8217;etre&#8221; of nature). No matter what is said&#8230; no one&#8230; has the power to change these patterns.) They are incorporated into the very fabric of your existence&#8230; moment by moment, day by day, dream by dream, though by thought, and action action. And they are inscribes in every external occurrences you encounter during your entire life.</p>
<p>They are the same through out infinite space. And their duration spans eternity.</p>
<p>But religious ideologies teach that these natural laws make human beings wicked, corrupted, and defective&#8230; and that they go in opposite direction to the will of the &#8220;God&#8221;. Human natural laws are to be eradicated and replaced by divine laws: morality. But as everything in you is genetically stamped, you continuously fail in your obedience to &#8220;change&#8221; and follow the will of the deity&#8230; thus&#8230; you are proclaimed a sinner.</p>
<p>To moralists, what is&#8230; &#8220;good&#8221; and &#8220;bad&#8221;&#8230;. &#8220;right&#8221; and &#8220;wrong&#8221;&#8230; and how you should think, want, act (react), and be is set in &#8220;absolutes&#8221;; to nature &#8220;judgement&#8221; is relative. Morality&#8217;s rules come from &#8220;outside&#8221;; they are implanted in people&#8217;s minds after birth. Most human beings and societies on earth are under the domination (in one form or another) of an artificial &#8220;moralistic&#8221; implant.</p>
<p>Yet, morality&#8217;s attempts at your de-naturalization is a futile endeavor. All you get is confusion, guilt, and the destruction of your self-esteem.</p>
<p>As you divest yourself of your birthright &#8211; your in-born nature &#8211; you forget that you are a natural being living in a natural universe. You become a &#8220;fake&#8221; being. You walk your life in a daze. In a dream-trance. Unable to make heads or tails of who you are.</p>
<p>Many say that without morality, you would fall. Actually, you would rise. You would feel a sense of belonging, a sense of oneness with the cosmos, with the earth, with the forms of nature, and with people. You would learn about your true nature.</p>
<p>You would become real.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Revised July 2011) Let no one diminish you. Because the universe is infinite and limitless&#8230; everywhere is the center of the universe. Thus, at conception, your form took residence&#8230;  at the center&#8230; of the universe. You are a center/form at the center of the universe. That is your position, your cosmic space. And by decree [...]]]></description>
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<p>Let no one diminish you.</p>
<p>Because the universe is infinite and limitless&#8230; everywhere is the center of the universe.</p>
<p>Thus, at conception, your form took residence&#8230;  at the center&#8230; of the universe. You are a center/form at the center of the universe. That is your position, your cosmic space. And by decree of this central &#8220;placement&#8221;, no one is above, or greater, or higher &#8211; or below, or smaller, or lower than you.</p>
<p>But you are not alone.</p>
<p>And, as the universe feeds from the universe, forms from forms, all centers are in constant &#8220;battles&#8221; for survival. To accomplish this feat, they battle, attack, subjugate your center (body, mind and &#8220;soul&#8221;).</p>
<p>Enter religions&#8230; looking to attach you to their space. To place you at their service. To feed from your energy. At the head: A demanding &#8220;God&#8221;. The &#8220;God&#8221; is above. You are below. Far, far below. And then, a whole hierarchy of people take precedence over you. And everyone reminds you of your infinitesimal &#8221;place&#8221;. You learn to exist below the feet of &#8220;God&#8221;&#8230; below the feet of humanity. It is the abdication of your value. Of your self. Your worth becomes the worth of others. You bow. You submit. You obey. You serve.</p>
<p>And, for your self-denial, the promised of a better life&#8230; in a Heaven.<br />
But&#8230; once dead!</p>
<p>*</p>
<p>Yet, it is now that you are given form and breath.</p>
<p>It is now that &#8211; life &#8211; is available to you. It is now that you are alive. This is your moment of &#8220;beingness&#8221;.</p>
<p>If (when) you have been rejected, devalued, diminished&#8230; regain the consciousness of your original space.</p>
<p>You have the power to rebuild your self-worth through knowledge. The path of self-recovery begins in the acknowledgement that you exist. That you are alive. That you are &#8220;life&#8221;. All of the universe&#8217;s energy flows &#8211; in/ out/ through your space. You are the beholder of all the laws, the forces, and the powers of the universe. You are, as well as millions of other centers, the space that creates the moment, that keeps the time/space in existence.</p>
<p>You are the reason the universe exists.</p>
<p>***</p>
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		<title>What is sin ? Or – in nature, there is – no such thing – as sin or sinners.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8212;&#8212;- (Revised June 2011) Sin (the idea that you can sin) is the single most destructive force implanted into the human mind. It assumes that you were born defective. Nothing can be further from the truth. * There are two reasons why there is no such thing as sin: 1).  There is no “God”. (For more [...]]]></description>
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<p>(Revised June 2011)</p>
<p>Sin (the idea that you can sin) is the single most destructive force implanted into the human mind. It assumes that you were born defective. Nothing can be further from the truth.</p>
<p>*</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;">There are two reasons why there is no such thing as sin:</span></p>
<p>1).  There is no “God”. (For more info, see: “A God or Nature” above).</p>
<p>2).  Your natural nature responds 100 %  to the way the whole of nature is everywhere designed. You are not defective in any way shape or form.</p>
<p>*</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;">The problem: Religious indoctrination has replaced the laws of nature with the laws of a “God”.</span></p>
<p>The root: in a paradise where they had been placed by a “God”… the first human beings created, after being tempted by “Satan”, disobeyed a commandment of the “God”. This caused a split (a fault line) in the human psyche. Human nature became defective. Your mind, your life, became the battle ground between “God” and “Satan”. This original sin of disobedience  is the backdrop to heart wrenching, if not catastrophic, human battles</p>
<p>“God” defines what is “good” and what is “right”.<br />
“Satan” defines what is “bad/evil” and what is “wrong”.</p>
<p>When you follow the will of the “God”… you are good and righteous. When you fall into the ways of  “Satan” you are bad. You sin. Satan tricks  (you) in wanting forbidden “fruits”… forbidden knowledge… forbidden thoughts… forbidden acts… forbidden sensations… forbidden desires. And you fight. And you struggle; always fearful to displease the “God”, constantly fearful of succumbing to “Satan”. Even though you try your best to be good, righteous, God like&#8230; thus  your natural nature deceives and overruns your will. You sin. Fall. Repent. Fall again. The game never ends.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">You are caught in a nightmarish illusion. The nightmare, consumes your existence.</span></strong></p>
<p>Till death, the battle goes on.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p>But it is a false battle.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p>Your natural nature cannot be undone. It follows its own rules. No matter what other rules the mind of man can conceive.</p>
<h4>Instead of sensing (being aware of) the real life /death heartbeat of of the real universe being created or crashing within and around us&#8230; we play hide and seek with &#8220;God&#8221; and &#8220;Satan&#8221;.</h4>
<p>But, of the real game we are told nothing.</p>
<p>***</p>
<p>Sin twists the mind. Sin makes us hate our own &#8220;self&#8221; as well as the world around us. Sin blocks our intelligence from perceiving our true nature. Yet nature demands that we walk our existence awake, aware, and conscious.<br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>Who we think we are ( a creation of a &#8220;God&#8221;)&#8230;this we are not.<br />
Who we are ( a creation of nature)&#8230; we are told to fight, to separate ourselves from nature.</p>
<p>***</p>
<p>Again, see  &#8221;A God or nature&#8221; for more info&#8230;<br />
Or go to:</p>
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		<title>How you can you free yourself from religion.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Revised June 2011) HOW CAN YOU FREE YOURSELF FROM RELIGION. There is only one way. But there is a way. By knowing. By knowing who the &#8220;God&#8221; asked to be believed in, worshiped, served is (was). To understand this, you need to go back to the origin of the God story on earth. There is a &#8220;God&#8221; story. It [...]]]></description>
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<h3>HOW CAN YOU FREE YOURSELF FROM RELIGION.</h3>
<p>There is only one way. But there is a way.</p>
<p>By knowing. By knowing who the &#8220;God&#8221; asked to be believed in, worshiped, served is (was). To understand this, you need to go back to the origin of the God story on earth.</p>
<h4>There is a &#8220;God&#8221; story. It has an origin. It has a root. It has a time. It has a place. And there are traces leading back to that &#8220;event&#8221;.  You need to know what was this event. Without this understanding, you will fumble in the dark. Your life through. Never certain. Never sure.</h4>
<p>That door is not easy to open.</p>
<p>After millennia of control over humanity, religion has mastered the skill of hiding the door behind massive walls of indoctrination, dogmas, doctrines, and&#8230;. fear.</p>
<p>Every inquiry, every question, every hole, every opening, every glimpse of enlightenment&#8230; is quickly plugged&#8230; with words and with swords.</p>
<p>Every second of the day, society &#8220;normalizes&#8221; in your body, mind, and soul an imaginary realm. What you are taught about nature, the world, and yourself reflects this fictitious &#8221;empire of the unreal&#8221;.</p>
<p>To free yourself from religion is not easy. But it can be accomplished.</p>
<p><strong>(To move forward, to know, you will need much courage, perseverance, and determination.  The uneasiness, the skepticism, the fear, the reluctance that you feel &#8211; to even look at the information &#8211; attest to the power of the conditioning which all human beings are under.)</strong></p>
<p>Those who don&#8217;t want to know&#8230; also don&#8217;t want you to know.</p>
<p>They have a last line of defense: &#8220;No one can know <span style="text-decoration: underline;">for certain</span> that there is no &#8220;God&#8221;". But it is a fallacy:</p>
<h4>- You can know for certain -.</h4>
<p>To find the exit door: Click on: <span style="text-decoration: underline;">&#8220;A God or Nature?&#8221;</span> at the top of this page&#8230;</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Revised July 2011) &#8220;We are not meant to be happy on earth&#8221;. (This statement is erroneous.) How do we get to accept such a consequential statement? How do we get to internalize that we are not worthy of feeling pleasure and happiness? How do we get to feel so ill-at-ease with the &#8220;life&#8221; side of existence? Because [...]]]></description>
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<p>&#8220;We are not meant to be happy on earth&#8221;.</p>
<p>(This statement is erroneous.)</p>
<p>How do we get to accept such a consequential statement? How do we get to internalize that we are not worthy of feeling pleasure and happiness? How do we get to feel so ill-at-ease with the &#8220;life&#8221; side of existence?</p>
<p>Because we are soaked at birth in a &#8220;disfunctional&#8221; bath.</p>
<p>That we admit it or not, we are, from birth on, taught, educated, indoctrinated &#8211; brainwashed - that we are lowly beings created by a powerful but insatiable &#8220;God&#8221;. A &#8220;God&#8221; that we cannot please. Our imperfections, sins, impurities, offends Him to no ends. Thus we accept to live in &#8211; suspended animation &#8211; till death.</p>
<p>(And somehow misery &#8220;Blessed be the poor, the meek&#8230;&#8221; is a virtue.)</p>
<p>But, at roots, we are natural beings.</p>
<p>Happiness is one of the ingredients that is included in the natural act of being human. Happiness awaits in us to be triggered, to be received, to be felt. Happiness is a natural essence. But over and over, we are told to rid ourselves of our natural essence. &#8211; As we do not and cannot succed in disconnecting ourselves from our natural &#8220;nature&#8221; &#8211; we feel guilty. We, trying to please ourselves and not &#8220;God&#8221;, sin. Then we fear the wrath of &#8220;God&#8221;.</p>
<p>We have constructed around ourselves and around our minds a bubble so thick, so opaque, that we cannot see the real world. From our bubble we keep the world at a safe distance&#8230;  We make it the purpose of our existence to denaturalize the &#8220;Source&#8221; out of our soul. And, we are absolutely convinced that that has no concequences.</p>
<p>We pound (or have it pounded) in our head a book of instructions (morality) that has nothing to do with the real nature of our lives and find it &#8220;scary&#8221; to open nature&#8217;s real book of instructions.</p>
<p>The trap is well laid.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br />
Happiness comes from an act of consciousness. And thinking. And, the courage to un-brainwash ourselves. It is awesomely worth it.</p>
<p>***</p>
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		<title>What is the purpose of life – in the absence of a God?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Revised July 2011) You exist in a self-creating nature-universe-source. The &#8220;Source&#8221; is infinite. As it is everywhere, everywhere &#8211; is its center. All form that exists within it, exists at its center. You are a center at the center of the &#8220;Source&#8221;. Like all centers, your center holds within its core all of the forces of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(Revised July 2011)</p>
<p>You exist in a self-creating nature-universe-source.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Source&#8221; is infinite.</p>
<p>As it is everywhere, everywhere &#8211; is its center. All form that exists within it, exists at its center. You are a center at the center of the &#8220;Source&#8221;.</p>
<p>Like all centers, your center holds within its core all of the forces of the universe. Using these forces, your primary function is to sustain yourself in existence. (To take a deep breaths &#8211; and to think)</p>
<p>Your - being/center/form  - is composed of a mind (a data processing unit) made of senses which expand into a body (substance) and a consciousness/ soul (essence).</p>
<p>With the senses of the body, you see, hear, smell, taste, and touch the universe around you. Then with your senses of consciousnesses/ soul, you are conscious of  - and learn the ways &#8211; of your inner &#8220;self&#8221;. With body and &#8220;soul&#8221;, you map your own space, the world around you, and the vast universe;  you make plans, you formulate desires, you act.</p>
<p>Using your senses of body and of soul, you walk among the many forms of the world. This is existence.</p>
<p>As a center you are &#8220;potentiality&#8221;&#8230; in a human form. Your function is not only to survive but to bring into form (to create) other centers. You are a form performing a cosmic dance. A dance of the self. A dance of the many. A step at a time. A thought at a time. A dream at a time.</p>
<p>In you is written the way to access the &#8220;Source&#8217;s&#8221; potentiality. You can, within nature-universe-source, be a follower, a leader, an originator of forms and of ideas.</p>
<p>Every moment you design your accomplishments &#8211; from small to large. From doing very little to accomplishing a lot. From taking care of your cat to saving the planet.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>As you reflect&#8230;  as you absorb&#8230; as you define&#8230; as you plan&#8230; as you participate&#8230; as you dream&#8230; as you do&#8230; you receive meaning.</p>
<p>Natural consciousness, once awaken, is limitless.</p>
<p>***</p>
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		<title>Can you be “spiritual” without a God?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Revised June 2011) The believer claims: But without &#8220;God&#8221;&#8230; there is no spirituality. Spirituality brings to the human mind a higher sense (feeling) of purpose and meaning. And only through spirituality can you reach this higher human &#8220;value&#8221;. This is deceptive. * All that exists &#8211; including human beings  - are formed by (and within) [...]]]></description>
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<p>The believer claims:</p>
<p>But without &#8220;God&#8221;&#8230; there is no spirituality.</p>
<p>Spirituality brings to the human mind a higher sense (feeling) of purpose and meaning. And only through spirituality can you reach this higher human &#8220;value&#8221;. This is deceptive.</p>
<p>*</p>
<p>All that exists &#8211; including human beings  - are formed by (and within) nature. Therefore all senses, all feelings, are of a natural construct. And the feeling of being &#8220;more&#8221;, of touching &#8220;higher&#8221; is &#8211; by natural formation &#8211; included and available to all&#8230; (without the belief in a &#8220;God&#8221;).</p>
<p>What is the feeling of spirituality? It is as if, beyond the five (substance) senses of the body, the mind expands itself into an (essence) sense, a sixth sense, as it often referred. This sense expand our mind&#8217;s consciousness into the unseen.  It becomes a super or hyper sense. <span style="color: #003366;">It allows our thoughts not only to sense the Eternal and the Infinite but to also affect the not yet created</span>.</p>
<p>It gives us that sensation of being &#8220;more&#8221;.<br />
Of creating ourselves beyond our present condition. And of affecting our tomorrow.</p>
<p><strong>The sixth sense presents itself as a &#8220;frame of mind&#8221;, a &#8220;state of consciousness&#8221;. The consciousness that all in the universe touches, is part, has contact, with all&#8230; <span style="color: #003366;">that all is One</span>. All forms are part of that &#8211; all/ One &#8211; consciousness. And by thought, we are in contact with all forms. </strong></p>
<p>(The universe is not made of &#8220;inert&#8221; matter.)</p>
<p>*</p>
<p>The sixth sense - is accessible at all time&#8230; to all.</p>
<p>*</p>
<p>Can you be &#8220;spiritual&#8221; without a &#8220;God&#8221;?</p>
<p>Naturally,<br />
Yes.</p>
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