I believe all churches and houses of worship, regardless of denomination or variant of other religions, should work together on positive, most beneficial messages from God. Therefore, I do not believe in continuing to create separate segmented religions. On the other hand, we must all work together towards transitioning our planet Earth to a more sustainable planet Earth. I believe we all should be able to attend any house of God (maybe “home” sounds better because it includes the love from people who are part of God and the church). Therefore, I recommend that those more knowledgeable about religion and differences begin to focus on similarities that all faiths have while striving to understand the differences so we can spend more time learning about them. Once we become more knowledgeable about what causes divisiveness and differences, maybe we can overcome them and create an Earth church, removing the extreme anthropocentric philosophy while integrating nature concepts and knowledge. Spiritual ecology should also be a part of every church because it incorporates concepts about nature, which I believe is divine. Wouldn’t it be great if we could go to any church, whether it be the closest (least environmentally impacting and more integral community forming) or any other church we would like to attend anywhere on Earth, so we can all feel more comfortable knowing that our extended families are everyone on Earth? Likewise, there is a comfort in knowing that any house of God will be lovingly similar to every other church on Earth.

Imagine the comfort, joy, love, and hope associated with that concept. It is a more unifying concept than exists today. Doesn’t it also get rid of the division, divisiveness, complexity, and confusion as well? It also gets us moving towards a sustainable striving planet Earth by working together in a more unified functioning that brings our hearts and minds together towards a more suitable purpose and functioning. Freedom of religion really should be about knowledge transference and education. Understandably, each individual may believe something different, and it is healthy to worship or pray in their own way. These differences that people may believe ought to be discussed, and quite possibly, the churches may continually learn and adapt through time as we know more. Every individual can contribute to learning about God and Nature together. If we integrate this continual learning concept, the church will not get stagnant with solely out-of-context and often outdated philosophy, especially when the context may have been when the Romans were fighting the Israelites. Much suffering was occurring during that period. The temporal notion of changing times is an important one, and the way I look at it, we will begin continuously making the world a better place all the time in a continually improving way. The less we focus on the negative, the less chance that religion will contribute to extreme perspectives that may harm our society and planet directly or indirectly. Any spirituality should be an entirely positive impacting experience. We must focus and learn more about these positive, broader context things God tried to communicate with us and know as much about nature and knowledge of everything. We will be better off if we transform into a continual improvement sustainable striving context. Imagine a world without end.

Organizations of today often exist by themselves for themselves without sensible or rational connectivity to other proximate beneficial organizations. It seems that business itself has become a self-promulgating machine in many cases and is out to survive at any cost to society or our natural environment. In essence, they often use the characteristics of our current world today as an opportunistic, self-promoting, and self-advancing means to survive in a financial world context. It appears that most organizations’ functioning is out of context with higher planning that integrates the contextual, rational, reasonable, and sensible with the solely opportunistic functioning of today. I think this would change if we eliminated the money/finance striving piece as the primary motivator of people and organizations. We must stop the opportunistic and often exploitive tendencies of those organizations that think little of taking what they need for survival. Unplanned resource extraction and consumption in this out-of-context survival at-any-cost mentality unnecessarily create more reactionary behavior, which tends to make more of the same. The result is more reactionary complexity and extreme tactics when resources become limited because of a lack of planning. I am also concerned with externalities and pollution associated with a solely industrial-era mindset to produce as much as they can for as much profit as they can so they can make investors happy.

Meanwhile, our regulatory structure cannot regulate much out-of-control survival at any-cost organizations when many look for legal loopholes or make mistakes without telling anyone. It is another example where the law is entirely inadequate as business is ever-changing, and the law cannot match the pace. Likewise, keeping up with business and industry dynamics would take a never-ending paperwork trail. I believe that, over many decades, businesses, lobbyists, pro-business legislators, and pro-business political groups have opportunistically and effectually taken over the functioning of the government of the people and for the people. The government has become more of a courtship with business and finance. It is primarily concerned with communicating with lawyers, managers, and executives rather than the most important “we the people” and our people working with our natural environment. We are on a dangerous road because we need to move beyond being masters of nature, as it says in the bible, to working together with nature. Maybe the translation in the bible may have meant master in terms of knowledge instead of master in terms of domination, control, and supreme authority. The only way forward is to work together with nature by putting ecological value, energy, benefit creation, and well-intentioned behavior above any profit derivation from public resources meant for all of us, not the corporations. From now on, I believe that God meant “masters” to mean masters in knowledge about nature and working together with nature instead of dominating nature for self-serving profit creation above all else. Therefore, we must change course and transform our functioning to something that is more compatible and works together with nature and our life support systems. We must strive to look after our Earth and everything in an integrated way as best as possible and become masters in knowledge about human beings and their interaction with the rest of nature.

Perception of perfection is an extremist ultra-competitive tool of subversion.  It is a learned ultra-competitive reactive defense mechanism meant to keep certain people above others in society.  Consequently, many downward spiral feedback loops are created as those that are perceptively perfect fail and do the unthinkable to others.  Tools of subversion include keeping education, knowledge, and information from the rest of us while the powers that be are sole beneficiaries of created complexity, controversy, and conflict in the form of excessive law, regulations, and rules.  I believe people want a more simplified closer to nature knowledge-based society where many incentives exist for everyone to want to learn about everything including living, loving, and striving to make the world a better place instead of an idealized anthropocentric notion based on out-of-context policy and laws that were created out of context with everything else.  In essence, today we favor those who know more about the procedure, policy, law, regulations, and how to manage to get people in trouble and at the same time profit the other way by getting them out of trouble in an out-of-context way rather than helping them in the first place.  I favor allocating resources in a holistic-minded way that includes education and knowledge acquisition and dissemination prior to the need to react when it is too late.  Wouldn’t it be great to live in a world based on knowledge and education where everyone was involved in a holistically well-planned system that mimics more natural ways to strive to make the world a better place in an upward spiral feedback sort of way?  Wouldn’t it be great if we could do such a thing while at the same time keeping people living in the comfort of their homes while each human miracle transitions to a more holistic ecological niche role in society (job) that strives to add value, energy, and benefits to a well planned holistic system?

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