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CHAPTER ONE:  THY KINGDOM COME -- LOVE CHRISTIANS

We are an important group among those who claim the leadership of Jesus.  We are filled with a compassionate spirit.  We believe this spirit was transmitted faithfully through 2000 years by people who received and understood in the truest sense the message of Jesus.  We are not a new group; we are descendants of one of the original groups of followers and our deepest roots are discovered in the Gospel of John.  We believe the only work Jesus gave us was to create among humans a Kingdom ruled by The Love Principle.  In that Kingdom, people are kind, fair, share, help, forgive and give mercy.  We are Love Christians.

The Kingdom already exists but not enough of us have joined.  The Kingdom is realized by people making loving decisions.  The Kingdom begins inside us and exists around us-we do not see it, we experience it.  You join when you adopt The Love Principle as the foundation for your behavior choices.  It is the only dependable source for the spirituality sought by so many.

Our work is accomplished through thoughts expressed in words that flow from human to human.  Jesus gave us the first three words:  Love One Another.  We must assemble and share additional words that will spread the values of the Kingdom to include all humans.  We have a really great gift to share.  It is good news.  It is an especially wonderful gift for the young as The Love Principle will provide an understanding that will reliably guide them all their lives.

Love Christians are not the only group of people that want a world where people are kind, fair, share, help, forgive and give mercy.  The desire for that behavior among people of the world is essentially universal and workers seeking to create that type of world can be discovered among Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, agnostics, atheists and many other groups.  We can only succeed when all people of good will work together.  We must find each other and become seekers of the World of Peace.  Love Christians have a critical contribution to make within this historic movement.

Love Christians have a determination that comes from our confidence that Jesus knew the pathway to hope for survival of the human family and for our personal happiness.  Having failed for so long to create the Kingdom and the World of Peace, we must refocus our efforts by examining every element of our processes and by reviewing the history of humanity's relationships with each other.  We need an honest conversation.  This may be the most important evaluation ever undertaken by members of the human family.

How can Love Christians make the contribution that is needed to create the Kingdom-the World of Peace that is desperately sought by so many?  This essay is an investment in discovering those processes.

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CHAPTER TWO:  DELIVER US FROM EVIL -- THE HUMAN SITUATION

Love Christians must begin their work by understanding their fellow humans.  Every human has the same problem.
    
The essence of being alive is to have thoughts.  We are born and, at some point, we have a moment of awakening.  We realize, "I Exist."  Our thoughts focus around an awareness of "me."  We have consciousness.
    
To continue to exist and for our thoughts to continue a lifetime of developing, we must have a body.  Humans, as well as every life organism, need two things to keep their bodies alive.  First, we need a dependable supply of certain atoms to maintain and provide energy to our bodies (secured by humans through breathing "air", drinking water and consuming "food").  The second thing we need is to avoid the dangers of the universe.
    
To be human is to be at risk of the dangers of an attack by the forces and elements of the universe during every moment we live.  Indeed, in some individual cases, the processes that will attack an individual were set in motion hundreds, thousands, millions, maybe even billions of years before that person is born.  It's a case of accidently being in the wrong place.
    
That begins a list of the dangers caused by the physical forces of earth.  The one beginning before our birth, and not known to most people, occurs when cosmic rays from the activities of distant stars strike atoms in our upper atmosphere.  Upon impact, some atoms disintegrate into sub-atomic particles and a common particle is a muon.  We have muons pass through our bodies every second, but for a very few people, one strikes a DNA molecule-and a cancer growth begins. That cosmic ray may have traveled in space for a billion or more years.
    
Among the really common physical forces that we're all familiar with are storms, like hurricanes or tornadoes. There's lightening, too.  There's also the water cycle; if we get too much rain, we have floods; too little, we have droughts and our food plants die or we have wild fires.  And, there's dynamics deep in the earth that cause earthquakes and volcano eruptions.
    
Too few are aware that we have some volcanoes that are great giants, called super volcanoes (it appears there are at least nine of them and Yellowstone National Park is one).  We haven't had one erupt in modern times, but they are guaranteed to occur at some point.  When one does, the atmosphere is filled with debris and we will have massive deaths among the plants we need for food.  We'll have long periods of droughts, then periods of excessive rain.  Rainfalls can turn black and acidic.  There are huge dust storms and intensely severe forest fires.  The refugee groups would fight for food while cholera, measles, typhus and dysentery epidemics would occur.
    
 A different kind of attack comes from other species of life.  We have defeated the big predators (lions, bears, etc.) but we are involved in a long struggle with some others, especially disease microbes and parasites.  They cause hundreds of types of illnesses.  Sometimes the damage they do is not done to us directly but is an attack on the plants we depend upon for food.  A huge majority of the food that keeps us alive comes from three types of plants:  rice, wheat and corn.  We're also vulnerable to more than 1,000 kinds of poisons in plants, marine organisms and insects.
    
Beyond the attacks caused by the earth's dynamics and those from other species, we have threats that originate elsewhere.  Many of us are aware of the risks of a collision with an asteroid or a comet.  A small one could destroy a city, while a large one would create the same horrors mentioned above when a super volcano erupts.
    
Our sun regularly has solar flares and they often disrupt our systems, such as electricity distribution or communications.  While normally associated with stars younger than our sun, our sun is capable of creating a solar superflare.  One of these could deplete earth's protective ozone layer and cause mass extinctions.
    
A final threat that should be mentioned is the effect of a gamma ray burst, which might occur somewhere among the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy.  It's the most powerful phenomenon ever observed in space.  One in the wrong place and aimed at the earth (they are directional) could cause extinction of all life on earth.
    
This too brief listing of the dangers imposed upon us by the realities of the universe reveals the original and basic human situation.  The true problems for humans are caused by our daily need for certain atoms for our bodies and the threats in our universe.  Our survival as individuals depends upon solving or avoiding these problems.
    
Our past failures to correctly organize human behaviors for these realities guarantee so much human misery ahead.  And in the short term, so much of it cannot or will not be prevented.  It's possible to get a sense of the dimensions of these coming tragedies.  
    
In normal times, the most stunning damage to humans is inflicted by other species of life.  Our worst enemies are found in microscopic life.
    
Every year probably two-thirds of all humans alive, more than 4 billion, will be attacked by a disease microbe.  The most common attacks are from colds or influenzas (flu) and most people will experience mild illness, but each attack presents the possibility of premature death.  Typically, millions will be hospitalized and at least 100,000 will die.  If a really virulent strain develops, many millions will die (as in 1918).
    
A short list of some of these disease microbes, and their impact each year, includes malaria, which infects 500 million with at least 1 million deaths; dengue fever with 50 million infected and 12,000 deaths; typhoid with 16 million cases and 600,000 deaths and hepatitis B kills 1 million. There are so many more microbial diseases and the misery and deaths are staggering. Some may not kill but leave terrible impacts on humans; strains of the bacteria family of Chlamydia have infected 600 million people, leaving 7 to 9 million blind and causing more than 10,000 cases of female infertility annually in the U.S.

A billion humans are attacked each year by parasites (some really bad ones are worms). They cause for so many a lifelong disability as well as stunting the growth and development of millions of children.

The universe has imperfect processes for creating humans. For hundreds of millions of us, the imperfections in our bodies are the problem. The results are heart attacks, strokes, diabetes and so many more failures in our bodies-all can kill us or create lifelong disabilities that render us dependent upon the help of others. And so many more will be born with disabilities, such as being blind, deaf, having deformed bodies or mental illnesses, and they will endure such limited lives. Sometimes the imperfection is something you don't expect. At least 400,000 women die each year because the child they are birthing has a head too big for the birth canal or is coming out sideways.  There is no trained help available.

Another imperfection is humans are born with insufficient information and reasoning (and too many lack compassion). We currently have the absurd situation where we have enough food but can't figure out how to distribute it. Accordingly, a reasonable estimate is that 20,000 children under age 5 die daily for lack of food and clean water (7 million annually). Or we are talented at making useful products but have not developed processes to reinsert trash into earth's systems. We're poisoning our air, water and food.

Depending on the year, more than a hundred thousand, and sometimes millions, experience injuries, death or a fierce struggle for necessities because of the natural events on earth (violent storms, earthquakes, etc.).  And finally, if the universe unleashes its really big powers (super volcanoes, superflares, asteroid/comet impact or, the worst, a fatally placed gamma ray burst), billions of us or all of us could die.  Some of these major tragedies may be coming and others are guaranteed to happen; we just don't know when.  We will encounter, together, some very terrible times in the future.  Maybe soon.

Rational behavior for humans becomes obvious.  We exist on a planet where the current human population exceeds 6.5 billion and, nearly inevitably, will exceed 9 billion about 2050.  We must continue to grow in our knowledge and develop systems to avoid the injury and death the universe is always trying to impose upon us.  Our work must be divided into two parts.

The first part is the work needed to keep all members of the human family alive and this requires the vast majority of our workforce.  It must be effectively organized to provide all the basic support services.  Some people are involved in providing our food;  some build and maintain our structures, transportation systems and utilities (including ensuring safe water and air);  some provide medical care while others gather and pass on knowledge needed by individuals for everyday survival decisions (reading, writing, math, health rules, survival skills like swimming and so much more).  Providing what is needed for the survival of billions is a critical and massive undertaking.  
    
For the second part of a rationally designed human work force, all labor not needed to provide basic services are available for the work of securing additional knowledge.  It is knowledge that increases our hope.  We must expand our knowledge of the processes of our bodies, the lives of the species that attack us and the larger processes of the universe.  We must also continually seek improvements in the systems we use to provide basic services.  This work of knowledge growth requires more than researchers, we need people to build their buildings, construct and maintain their equipment and provide elementary help such as janitorial services.
    
Repeating the summary of the realities humans are confronted with, it's that we need certain atoms for our bodies and we must avoid the dangers of the universe.  There's billions of us, so we should divide the work, make our contribution and the time that's left, is ours!  We can explore what we are personally interested in.  And that's the basic situation we should experience, if we only had to deal with the set of problems created by the realities of the universe.
    
What causes great despair is that humans have created a second and paralyzing set of problems for themselves.  These problems come from the fact that some humans are intentionally inflicting injury and death on other humans.  The errors in human history have caused us, and have committed us in the future, to wasting so much of the labor and resources we need to protect us from the universe. Instead, we must protect ourselves from our fellow humans.  Most of us fear each other more than we fear the dangers of the universe.
    
It is probably impossible to discover a day on earth when some of us are not being killed in wars.  And if a conflict ever escalates to the level of nuclear weapons, the casualties will grow to millions, if not billions (it's not just the effects of the weapons; the entire climate of earth can be disrupted, killing plants needed for food).  Then, there's the casualties caused by random acts of violence between individuals as well, as during acts of stealing-these are caused by people we failed to develop into humans with self-control.  Or, there are the casualties of willful negligence.  The destructive behaviors of our fellow humans cause a massive toll in injuries, deaths and property damage.  And the paralyzing fear.
    
So much of this human-caused damage is due to faulty logic passed from generation-to-generation.  Humans continue to pass on too many mental errors acquired in the past.  Since human thoughts spread like viruses and develop a momentum that requires staggering efforts to change, the effects of these errors will continue until we figure out a solution to the human-caused violence.  If we can solve these problems, then we can concentrate our efforts on the source of our true problems:  those that originate in the realities of the universe.
    
Truth exists in our lives and so many of the most important truths are found in the principles of the universe.  Our experiences and growing knowledge are making clear this important and absolute principle of the universe:  effective cooperation among humans is required for any hope of human survival.  And cooperation requires peace.
    
It is from our consciousness of "me" that our individual thought processes begin and it is our thought processes that form and guide our behavior choices.  To eliminate the second set of problems, those that humans have brought upon themselves, we must expand the consciousness of all humans to provide a better range of behavior choices.  We must shift our consciousness from the foundation of "I exist" to "we exist".  This happens when humans acquire a "Transcendent Consciousness."  This must be the next phase of human history.
    
A Transcendent Consciousness includes these elements of thought:

1)    All humans have the same problem.  We want to survive.  Survival requires that we have a dependable supply of the atoms needed by our bodies and we must avoid or survive the dangers of the universe.

2)    Cooperation among members of a species is a mandatory operating principle of the universe, proven by the fact it provides the best hope for survival.  All humans are members of one world family whose fundamental relationships must be formed for the purpose of cooperation in order to survive.

3)    There are many species of life on earth.  Human survival is directly dependent on or may be aided by many of these species.  Humans and some other species (maybe all) are parts and combine to form one life organism on earth.  Human survival depends on the health of the "Earth Life Organism" and the environment of earth, including air, water and land.

4)    Humans have become the dominant species and we increasingly control the future of many other species as well as earth's environment.  Accordingly, we control the future of the earth life organism. Humans are now the "brain" of the earth life organism and we must organize our labor force to manage and protect life on earth.

5)    Humans have missed a turning point in history for changing their behaviors.  The mental errors already made have inevitably doomed many millions, possibly billions, to injury and premature death from the dangers of the universe or from humans intentionally inflicting injury and death on other humans.  There's no effort we can make that will save them.  There are other humans approaching the "doomed" status and the sooner we commit to saving those that we can, the more that will survive.  Their fellow humans are their only hope.

6)    The problem all humans share is survival.  Mentally healthy humans seek to avoid pain, injury and premature death.  We must stop humans from intentionally inflicting injury and death on other humans.  The cooperative human behaviors we need to survive are only possible with peace.

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CHAPTER THREE:  MAKE STRAIGHT THE WAY OF THE LORD – SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT RELIGION

The work of Love Christians is creating people who are kind, fair, share, help, forgive and give mercy-people that live by The Love Principle.  That's our contribution to the World of Peace.  We must ensure we only use tools that prove effective.
    
Initially, most Love Christians will be emerging from the existing religious denominations of Christianity.  A critical question is what role, if any, religion will have or should have in our work.  Can religion help?
   
Understanding the concept of religion must begin with the fact that survival logic is the first and fundamental level of thinking every human develops.  Survival logic is developed by discovering and using information about the realities of our universe.  We do this through processes that have come to be known as science-the accumulation of practical knowledge.  (What can we eat as food?  How do we avoid or survive storms, volcano eruptions and earthquakes?  How do we avoid or survive diseases?  What do we do if we discover an asteroid about to strike earth?  And so much more.)  
    
It's the limits of practical knowledge that cause us to explore the possibility that there's something beyond the inevitable physical realities of the universe.  There are questions that science currently cannot and may never be able to provide answers to.  Most of us ask some of the really big questions about the life experience.
    
The big questions include why does the universe exist?  Indeed, why is there something rather than nothing?  What is the purpose of humans?  Why do bad events happen to us?  Beyond the guidance of practical knowledge and help from our fellow humans, is there any way to get additional help in our daily struggle to survive?  Why do our fellow humans attack us?  What happens when we die is that the end or is there something to come?  What is the future for earth life?
    
The field of knowledge pursuit called philosophy includes searches for truth to these questions.  Whenever thoughts develop about the possibility that there is something beyond the physical realities of the universe, an area of study within philosophy, called theology, is created.  It's the search for truth about the supernatural.
    
Religion is different from theology.  Theology simply searches for the truth about any realities beyond the physical qualities of the universe.  There's nothing inherent in the search for knowledge about the supernatural that creates a religion.  The dominant feature of religion is that it is not involved in inquiring and searching for truth; it has come to conclusions.
    
The current religions of the human family have concluded there is something beyond the physical realities we experience with the matter and forces of the universe-and that information they possess is critical and must become part of the reasoning of humans.  This information usually includes what the nature of this supernatural reality is and some thoughts and behavior rules beyond those obvious from the physical realities of our experiences.
        
There's another feature within the foundation of any of the current religions.  In order to sustain their conclusions about the nature of and any rules regarding the supernatural, these religions always require accepting some "facts" by faith.  A requirement of faith is the second feature always present in our current religions.
    
The conclusions and the facts that religions say must be accepted by faith vary greatly.  Examples begin with those that assert there's one intelligent creative force that caused everything to exist (called by such terms as The Creator, God, Allah, Dios and many more words.  This is known as monotheism).  This force is invisible.  At least half the people of earth are living in cultures where this belief dominates.

There's a difference of opinions as to whether this force simply created everything and let it continue to work by itself or that this force becomes involved in our everyday experiences.
    
Among these monotheistic religions, the largest number of humans belongs to ones that assert that they have received messages from this creative force.  These messages are recorded in texts, have been translated into many languages and have been their controlling tool for many centuries.  They usually contain statements of beliefs that are mandatory and behavior rules that may be other that what is required by the realities discovered by practical knowledge.  The study of these messages creates a sector of theology called "Revealed Theology."
    
Another type of religion asserts there's a variety of gods or spirits and that these entities may be individually involved in our lives actively.  A different type asserts that some humans that once lived are available, if called upon or shown devotion, to help and guide us in this life or to help us to a good situation after our death.  And there are many more assertions among the world's religions.
    
As to the way the supernatural becomes involved in our lives, again, there's a wide variety of assertions.  Those with beliefs in revealed theology nearly always assert that there are consequences for failure to obey the received rules or for failure to think the mandatory thoughts in the messages.  The most common consequence is an eternity of torture after our death or, conversely, if we obey, we will have a wonderful life to come.
    
Other assertions include, for those religions that believe that after death humans are reborn repeatedly (reincarnation), there's help that can be obtained to break the rebirth cycle.  Then, in some other religions, there are assertions that we can get help with obtaining power over people, wealth and good health if a proper relationship with supernatural entities is formed.
    
And, at least three important religions assert that a special person will come in the future, usually to express rage and punish bad people but to reward good people.  This thought is usually accompanied with a belief that this day of judgment will bring an end to the existence of human life on earth or the end of the universe as we know it.  A new reality will be created.
    
The behaviors of religious adherents vary.  Some engage in altruistic behaviors, contributing help and comfort to their fellow humans.  On the other hand, those that believe they've received messages from the supernatural realm may believe they are able to engage other humans with authority superior to that which the human family has developed for cooperation and survival.  Others seek to hasten the day of judgment.
    
Immense amounts of money may be spent on a large bureaucracy, on materials and programs to attract new members or the erection of buildings (some huge) and shrines.  The duties of adherents may require large amounts of time for ritual behaviors.
    
Some of the religions are competing to become the ultimate answer that will be adopted by the human family. Some use the tools of reasoned persuasion and the examples of the outcomes of their behaviors.  Some seek to reinforce their persuasiveness with stories that enhance their credibility.  Another level of competition is through population growth-they try to produce more children (future believers) than the others.  And, as history reveals, sometimes adherents believe they are empowered by a supernatural authority to impose beliefs or behaviors and are a factor in the violence that occurs in the human family.

It's important to recognize that there's complexity within the existing large religions.  Four dominate the cultures of two-thirds of the human family.  Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism are divided into many sub-groups that are so different as to constitute different religions – although using the same name.  They may use the same text and the same stories, but emphasize different portions of them or interpret their meaning differently.  And to this variety in the big four, we must add at least a hundred other religions with smaller numbers of adherents.  Humans are offered a large number of religions for adoption by faith.
    
After considering the variety of choices humans has, it's also important to understand that there will be significant changes in the religions because human thoughts are changing within all cultures.  Changes in reasoning are being caused by rapidly expanding knowledge and our abilities to communicate between cultures.  What will ultimately emerge for choices is not clear.  What we were is not what we are becoming.
    
It is rare for humans to become members of a religion by rational processes-that is, by personally exploring thoughts about the supernatural and coming to individual conclusions.  Instead, most become members by accident:  we're raised by adults or born in a culture where a particular religion dominates.  We're taught and believe the thoughts about the supernatural from those around us and very few make a major change in their lifetime.
    
Accordingly, one of the modern problems with religion is that our communities are not prepared to provide individual humans with information about choices for developing personal thoughts about the supernatural.  For most of the past several thousand years, and in some cultures it remains true, religious thought was mandated and controlled by governments-not in a search for the truth but to control behaviors though rules prefaced with phrases such as "God says...".  It was only a few hundred years ago that, along with the development of constitutional and voting governments, the principle emerged of separating the institution of government from thoughts of the supernatural ("separation of church and state").  As this freedom spreads, each human must make individual choices now.  What will you choose to believe by faith?
    
Our human situation presents this reality:  the only reason for people to approach our religious institutions is to receive the truth about the supernatural.  Most are very busy in roles necessary to the survival of the human family and they need truthful answers to guide their daily choices of behaviors and to help in their personal search for answers to the big questions that most of us ask.
    
There is a mandatory development on the pathway we will follow to create in the human family the unity caused by the thinking of the coming transcendent consciousness.  We are unable to ignore the powerful and deadly realities of the universe and must make major changes in human behaviors-we desperately need cooperation and peace.  It is impossible for the human family to take the next step without confronting this fact:  there can only be one truth about the supernatural.
    
And there's a serious problem because we're seeking truth about what is currently unknowable.  How do we discover the truth about the supernatural when the facts we need are beyond what we can experience with our senses or can be reasoned dependably from our accumulated practical knowledge?
    
If we do not have the absolute truth, our search together requires sharing insights and visions from those searching in the field of theology.  And, since full knowledge of the truth appears, at best, as something that will occur in the future, there's a question the human family must address.  What should our religious thought and behaviors be as we search together for the truth?
    
It's hard to find a responsibility greater than that of those seeking truth about the supernatural that can be accepted by faith.  A received faith, if true, saves time.  If false, it contributes to the misery and dangers we currently experience.   Too many do not understand the results caused by the tyranny of false authority as to knowledge of what might be the will of the supernatural.  Until the absolute truth is discovered, there's no role in religion for authority.
    
Finally, to return to the original question of will religion help in the creation of the World of Peace that we must have?  The answer is no. Or maybe.
    
The answer of no is because, with the spreading of freedom for individuals to use modern knowledge and choose conclusions about the supernatural, nearly all established religions are experiencing assaults on their legitimacy.
    
The primary purpose of most religions has never been creating among humans the behaviors that enable us to cooperate in an environment of peace.  Their fundamental purpose is advocacy of conclusions about the supernatural.  The situation of those working in these religions has now evolved into a spirited defense of the "facts" that must be accepted by faith because such facts are necessary to support their conclusions about the supernatural-conclusions that were formed many, many centuries ago.
    
Accordingly, the workers in the world's religions do not focus directly on the peace needed in the human family.  Their inherent problem is they have not resolved the relationship between the purposes of whatever exists in the supernatural and the desperate struggle of humans to survive.
    
The labor force of the religions has many millions of humans and includes the clerical (monks, imams, priests, pastors, specialists in revealed theology or the history of the religion, etc.), other communication and education specialists, workers in industries that produce religious tools (publishing, musical instruments, robes, altar adornments, etc.) and scores of other professions and vocations.  And these workers need what we all need:  food, housing and other basics.  Changes seem to threaten their very survival.
    
And these people will resist for decades, maybe centuries, examining the thoughts and resulting behaviors required by their conclusions.  They control accumulated assets of hundreds of billions of dollars and will continue to receive income donations from hundreds of millions of adherents.  The guiding behaviors of the workforce of the religions will be for survival and they believe their survival depends on defense of their inherited conclusions about the supernatural.  The hearts of many of these people do seek truth, but their survival interests will make changes difficult-for some, impossible. 
    
The "maybe" element of the answer comes from, largely, understanding the visions of some religious leaders and a significant portion of the adherents.  They became aware of the limits inherent in the thinking of their religion but, in order to pursue the peace and comforting they knew was desperately needed by the human family, chose to work for changes primarily through their religion rather than through other institutions, such as government.
    
Truth will be possessed only by religions that evolve to conclude that survival of earth life is the highest priority of any conceivable demands from the supernatural.  The insights for behaviors that will emerge from a transcendent consciousness will make it obvious that knowledge of the supernatural will enforce peaceful behaviors or we may truly experience the feared wrath-the extinction of the human family or tragedies that approach that dimension.  Ultimately, the religions must provide the human family with the option of peace through voluntary behaviors.
    
The religions have millions of adherents that, when the concept of transcendent consciousness is integrated into their thinking, will seek to create voluntary behaviors that yield cooperation through peace and will understand this thinking as obvious from the pursuit of truthful knowledge of the supernatural.  They are the workforce that could enable religion to change and make a valuable contribution to peace in the human family.  Unless a religion produces such people, it cannot help.

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CHAPTER FOUR:  AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE -- SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT PEACE

Many millions, and maybe billions of us are already doomed to lives of Injury and Premature death - and more join the doomed group everyday.  Each of these humans, during their final moments, is saying, “someone, somewhere, please help me!”  We must feel a sense of urgency as we seek, together, the truth that will enable us to create the world of cooperation and peace that gives them, and all of us, hope for survival.

There’s enough food.  There’s easily available technology for clean water, there’s many medicines and treatments available (often cheap).  There are people available with knowledge to teach humans how to survive in the land they live in.  And, there’s plenty of labor left over to continue our search for knowledge about how our bodies work, how the forces of earth work, and what’s going on in the universe that might be dangerous.  The resources for the survival of so many are available.  Yet, we cannot help each other because we prevent the development of an effective system of help.

 Why do we make errors in our choices of survival behaviors?  The answer is that since each human is trying to survive, our errors are a result of an individual’s faulty survival logic.  And when those with faulty logic are rewarded, the errors continue. 

We will not validly find that we have enemies among our fellow humans.  We’re simply a human family with too many members that have faulty survival logic.  It’s thought errors that are our enemy.  We engage in behaviors that fail us because we think it’s the right thing to do for our individual survival.  In short, “we” are the problem.

 Correct human survival logic should develop from the important truth that we desperately need each other.  A single human, against the threats of the universe, is, for the foreseeable future, guaranteed to fail.  Who can possess, by themselves, the skills and knowledge to secure the endlessly needed supply of atoms to sustain our bodies (from food, water and air), to correct or control the weaknesses and defects of the bodies we are born in, to survive the devastation of the monstrous number of microbes that endlessly attack us, to avoid or survive the calamities of the natural events of our planet as well as seek and find a way to avoid or survive the really big terrible events the universe might or is guaranteed, at some point, to unleash upon all of us?

Humans discovered that they exist within a universe.  The universe, other than some life organisms, is a huge mindless machine with forces so strong they defy description using words.  The universe is indifferent to human life and will let us die.  It is heartless and does not love us.

 We are like a child awakening to its consciousness.  Humans are discovering that they are the brain of the earth life organism (ELO) and must organize their workforce to manage and protect life on earth.  The only valid and rational survival logic for every human is that we need each other and our fundamental relationships must be formed for the purpose of cooperation for all to survive.  We fail to properly organize our workforce because too many humans do not develop the correct valid survival logic.  Those who do not live cooperatively and peacefully are aberrant.  They engage in anti-life (negative) behaviors.

 The negative behaviors of humans include the negligent and intentional inflicting of injury and death to humans by humans; neglecting to provide desperately needed aid to our fellow humans; failure to contribute appropriate and needed labor to the workforce of the human family and improper disposal of “used” atoms (trash and body wastes).  The outcome is damage to ELO, all of those negative behaviors are a result of humans using faulty survival logic and the erroneous thinking is passed from generation to generation.

 The underlying and seemingly eternal struggle of the human family has always been the struggle for human freedom - the survival need of humans to be free from the effects of other humans engaging in negative behaviors.  These negative behaviors create a second and paralyzing set of problems beyond the set created by the realities of the universe.

It’s an error with fear that traps us in a destructive cycle and causes too many of us to possess a faulty survival logic.  Fear makes us vulnerable to irrational choices through panic - the abandonment of rational logic.  It’s an addictive cycle: fear causes negative behaviors and negative behaviors cause fear.  That’s the process that generates and sustains the failures of the human family

A fear of the realities of the universe creates healthy survival logic because it causes us to realize we need each other.  Its fear of each other that creates conditions for us to develop a faulty survival logic and the result is nearly all of us engage in or support the negative behaviors that are our problem

In the history of the human family, only knowledge has ever enabled us to overcome fear and act rationally.  Knowledge enables us to choose the right behavior because it’s based on truth about the universe.  Knowledge of our behaviors now reveals that our situation is not good people versus evil people, its knowledge versus ignorance.  To rid ourselves of ignorance, we must analyze our fears to gain the knowledge we need.

What we fear from each other is violence.  What we originally feared was random violence from individuals in our community and violence from other communities (nations).  In seeking to address these fears, we made an error in organizing our thoughts (panic) and created an additional fear: we must fear violence administered by “leaders” through their control of paid armed staff or their denial to us of help in the form of needed food and safety services.

While nearly all of us are using faulty survival logic, most of us have biologically healthy brains that could process truth when we know it.  We’re not inherently flawed as with knowledge, we can change.

A key piece of knowledge we need to use is that, sometimes due to physiological errors but mostly nurturing errors, we have within the human family tow types of people with stunningly flawed logic systems and it’s these humans that create the violence we fear.  Until we focus on these humans, we’ll never break the behavior cycle of fear that has created and sustains the faulty survival logic possessed by most of us.

The first type, those due to physiological errors (often called mentally ill), are probably never capable of dependably being cooperative and peaceful at all times.  They were either born with defective brain processes or acquired damage through physical injuries to their brains (such as accidents, strokes, etc.).  They may exhibit random irrational thoughts, irrational and unfounded fears, self-hating, inappropriate revulsion and other out-of-touch-with-reality aspects.

Often, they inflict injury on themselves more than other humans, but some cause serious injury to other humans.  Their negative behaviors have no connection whatsoever to any developed survival logic.  They cannot develop a dependable logic.  Our appropriate responses with these people are to identify them as early as possible.  Sometimes medical drugs help; otherwise, they require life-long assistance and, at times, intervention.

The important distinction is that their negative behavior originates from their flawed physiological reasoning processes and is not a result of nurturing errors by the human family.  Nurturing’s purpose is to infuse and sustain in humans the valid survival logic so they can and will make cooperative and peaceful behavior choices in every situation in life.

It’s the second type of humans with flawed logic systems that are the dominant source that sustains our problems; we must recognize that we create them ourselves.  The origin of their negative behaviors is found in our errors in the processes for developing (nurturing) cooperative and peaceful humans from child hood.  They fall into two categories: those that engage in “provoked” attacks on humans those that engage in “unprovoked” attacks.

Those in the “provoked negative behavior” category injure us due to the activation of “triggers” by perceived threats or transgressions.  The most common triggers are irritation, frustration, desperation, stress, jealousy and perceived unfairness (real or not; too often it creates dangerous anger).

Their negative behaviors have no long-term goals; their goals are limited to, as soon as possible, inflicting injury on those perceived to be responsible for the “problem”.  We fail them early in their lives by not developing their self-control.  If they have succeeded with negative behaviors, they continue them.  We sometimes even encourage it (like saying it’s alright to attack those that insult you).

We could eliminate nearly all of these actions if our nurturing system was designed correctly.  That means to stop creating these people and ensure that when they lose control, the “peacekeeping sector” of our nurturing system functions properly.  (Peacekeeping must be understood as a “medical” intervention and a part of the nurturing process).

It is in the second category of our nurturing errors that we discover the true source of what has sustained thousands of years of human misery and keeps the human family on a suicidal path-it’s those that engage in unprovoked attacks.  The negative behavior in this category is aggression.  Our chosen interaction with these people interferes with the needed development and use of valid survival logic in nearly all of us and prevents us from developing the critical system of help we all need.  It’s how “we” become the problem.

The key identifying characteristic of those with aggression is discovered in the fact that their use of violence has a long-term goal.  They are different from those engaging in provoked attacks, whose goal is only the immediate inflicting of injury or death due to a perceived provocation.  The goal of those using aggression is, ultimately, the total control of their environment and, unfortunately, that includes control of their fellow humans.  They pursue and engage in accumulation this control all their lives and, too often, we reward it.

There seems to be two different and separate driving motives among those possessed with the error of aggression.  Those with the first motive do not require major discussion; we’re all too familiar with the problem: their behaviors are selfish.  They steal the labors and possessions of their fellow humans to ensure their own safety and comfort.

Those with the second motive are those that seek to control the ultimate logic that will be chosen by humans for our survival.  Unfortunately, the logic they want us to adopt may be in conflict with the survival logic the universe requires.  Nonetheless, they have a compulsive need to impose their will on their fellow humans

Ideology is an inflexible system of thought and differs from survival logic in that it cannot adapt to the realities of danger humans experience.  Any ideology offered by humans that varies from the fundamentals of survival logic (we need each other and we must cooperate) is inherently flawed.  The merits of an ideology must be evaluated by truths of the universe.

One form of ideology involves those that have come to conclusions about the right answers to the problems of the human family and, rather than reasoning and persuading their fellow humans, they seek power to impose their conclusions on us.  Rational humans are looking for what aids our survival; ideologists embrace and get lost in terminology that precludes evaluation.  (Some terminology examples include capitalism, liberalism, democracy, conservatism, socialism, free enterprise, Marxism, market forces, constitutionalism, libertarian and many more).  For the ideologist, any behavior labeled becomes automatically valid or invalid and they’re incapable of permitting community evaluation for a concept’s value to help us survive.  They may be triggered by and violently attack any variation of thought.

Another variation of ideology is found in those with religious thoughts-that is, those that have come to conclusions about the truth concerning or demands from the supernatural.  These people seek to modify our survival logic with rules utilizing a source for authority beyond the discovered realities of the universe or the needs of the human family for cooperation and peace.  The relationship they believe they’ve formed with the supernatural compels them to impose those thoughts on the entire human family. 

While those with both motives seek power over us relentlessly, a consideration of history seems to reveal that those with selfish motives prevail and always subsume the energies of those with ideological concepts.  Then, their energies combine and create a momentum the human family has been unable to reverse.  They always dominate us.

They eventually figure out that to secure their goals, they must control the thoughts of humans.  First, they threaten those with different thoughts with the raw power of violence.  They are compulsively involved with paid armed staff and the pursuit of weapons more powerful than anyone else possesses to threaten those with thoughts that might interfere with their goals.

Next, their power is enhanced by developing techniques and equipment to discover those that might possess differing thoughts (spying).  They’re searching for any possible resistance.

They also use their power to control the information that’s available to us, as information forms our survival thoughts and those thoughts might lead to conclusions that interfere with their goals.  (Information for humans is passed through early-life education and, later in life, through continuing education and public media).

Exercise of their power requires a growing body of humans to perform the labors needed for control of the human family.  They secure the needed laborers by using various techniques, including sharing some “spoils” with as many as needed or promoting fear of human violence to justify acquiring more staff that we pay for. 

Finally, they are always willing to be deceptive.  There’s secrecy, they’re so deeply committed to their motives, and it is immaterial to them as to how they get us to conform because they believe conformity must be secured.  They will always cloak their use of the power of violence in “good” goals.  That’s easy for them to do because they honestly think they are doing the right thing because we’ve given them the power they use.

Fundamentally, those that engage in aggression are deeply insecure (even if they are physically strong, very attractive or have life’s basics).  They fear reasoning with us.  Instead, they seek power to make as many humans as possible submit.  When they acquire power, they are always dangerous.  Their goal is not peace.  Worse, they are unable to think about the consequences for the human family.

It’s that error that reveals that their behavior is a result of our nurturing them.  They do not see the consequences of their behaviors and, accordingly, are incapable of embracing primarily the behaviors needed for the human family.  They do not use violence from a lack of control of their emotions or in self-defense. They have faulty survival logic.

While their attacks are unprovoked by loss of emotional control, a misperception or a genuine threat requiring self-defense, there is a trigger and it’s any perceived resistance.  When they perceive resistance, their reaction is as automatic as those that lose control of their emotions, they want to inflict injury or death until submission is obtained.  They control a paid armed staff, they have methods and equipment for discovering those with resisting thoughts and finally, they have control of our systems and they’ve designed them for their goals-the economy, the fairness system (justice) and the sector of our nurturing process that involves peacekeeping intervention. They always prevail.

The broader community of humans permits and encourages aggressive behavior.  We are looking for someone to “save” us from the violence we fear from our fellow humans, but we overlook that what is developing is greater control of us. Those we ask to save us become an additional source of the violence we fear, we’re using faulty logic. 

They use our fears to secure from us power, and authority to use that power, under the guise of protecting us from what we fear-but primarily use that power to eliminate any and all resistance to their goal of total control.  They are determined to impose their will on us.  And with the faulty logic (panic) most of us use, we give the power that guarantees their success. 

Humans using power on humans is our problem.  Power combined with aggression only causes more problems as the use of power for organizing the human family is irrational and it gets out of control fast.  The more fear that exists in us, with the resulting power and control of us we give them, the more secure they feel.  They feed on these emotions and ask us for more and more power to address them.  And the “unbeatable” element of that is that that gift of power seems to be a rational choice for us.  (However, it simply feeds the cycle that fear causes negative behavior and negative behaviors cause fear).

Those with aggression become our leaders and we live with the results of their actions.  They use power secured from us and embed it in “systems” they design-said to have community goals but those systems sustain their power and fail us.  The systems are improperly designed and administered.  Our ignorance is the key factor because we permit the designs and do not recognize why they fail us.

To escape our ignorance, we must remember we need each other and must cooperate and that’s the knowledge piece that will free us from violence from each other.  Our systems must be created from that logic.  Nearly all humans can and will be stable and will peacefully contribute helpful labor if they have a dependable supply of food and our help with the dangers of the universe.

People in both categories of nurturing errors are mentally aberrant, that is they reason from faulty survival logic.  These people were never stable and cannot be defended upon to pursue true community needs, whether they have a dependable supply of life’s basics or not.  We did not develop a valid survival logic in them and the worst problems come from the aberrant ones we choose as our leaders.

Ultimately, our ability to create the cooperative communities we need is negated by the aggressive individuals we ask to help us.  We give them terrifying power and even those that start with good motives become corrupted as, inherent in aggression, using the to control everything is too tempting for their survival instincts.  They no longer focus on the group’s needs.  The corrupting factor enables them to lead us to repeated failures.  A critical logic error made by most of us is that we ask the wrong people to help us.

The insanity here (anti-life) is we keep giving power that comes from us to people who use it to attack us for control of us.  Those that engage in the negative behaviors of provoked attacks through loss of self-control are not rewarded by us; those that engage in the negative behavior of aggression are rewarded.  And we create these aggressive people through errors in our nurturing system.  We are, somewhat subconsciously but erroneously, purposely developing them because we think such people can protect us from the violence we fear.

What was the historical pathway that got us into this situation?  We failed to recognize a turning point as we were growing beyond the realities of our very early history-a period when severe violence was needed most of the moments of our lives.  Aggressive behaviors were more helpful then.  Since then, we continued to nurture these people and they took over human civilization.  Their goal is always total control of everyone and that’s what we reward them for doing.  We didn’t correctly perceive the situation and, now, we are unable to effectively use the human tool of “community.”

Accordingly, there’s no more hope of ensuring we’re members of cooperative communities that we can choose to join voluntarily because we benefit.  From birth, we are now forced to be members of a coercive community (CC) with its structured rules that are created and enforced by the aggression of chosen members of the group.  True community membership is impossible now and too many of us, perhaps most, have become some type of slave or prisoner.  Worse, many of us help create these conditions because we have faulty survival logic.

The situation we experience is that all people now participate in community either because they’re bribed by receiving more than others and agree to help suppress the remainder or because they’re forced at gunpoint (it used to be the sword, the club, a rock or a fist).  These CC’s have a destructive structure that benefits some of the members and the benefitting members are “served” by coerced work from the others.  A CC doesn’t have to prove it serves the individual’s survival needs-its processes can continue if it has a benefitting minority with sufficient power.  The entire lives of many are simply stolen.  The near mindless mechanism of the CC is operated by aggressive humans with the power we give them because we think they’ll save us.

CC’s are easy to recognize.  Food is not effectively shared, adequate housing is not available, needed medical care is not provided to many and females are violently controlled and brutalized in less developed countries or their roles are subtly but unfairly limited in more developed countries.  Many children are not valued and correctly nurtured.  There’s little progress in stopping wars, physical assaults, stealing and negligent behaviors while there’s neglect of those excluded from the community’s help systems.  And, because of the aberrant aggressive individuals, there’s the ever increasing control of thoughts and peaceful behaviors by paid armed staff.

A revealing example of the endless pursuit of total control by aggressive individuals in CC’s and the resulting distortions that arise from giving community power to them is displayed in the school system.  In the 1800's school attendance became mandatory for all youth, said to be to teach the valuable skills of reading, writing and helpful everyday math.  Since then, the schools have become a giant consumer of their lives and the time is filled with required learning far beyond the basic survival skills (often justified by “the country’s needs”).  What must be learned by each student is mandated by legislatures and committees.  The children became enslaved in a controlled intellectual environment with a curriculum containing “approved” knowledge and viewpoints.  Of course, these approved viewpoints reinforce the system created by the aberrant and out-of-control aggressive individuals.

Every system developed within CC’s grows toward total control (like the schools).  The result from our thousands of years of experience with CC’s is that “community” has become, instead of a good tool for survival, another “bad event” of the universe-like a tornado, an erupting volcano or an earthquake.  Humans have to learn how “to survive it,” like the other dangers we encounter.  Too many of us do not succeed and are barely able to secure a near meaning less experience in life or worse, have injury and death inflicted as a result of the CC.

Those with aggressive behaviors create CC’s and must offer a false vision to retain power.  They have dominated the history of the human family and continue to control our future.  Our trap is they think they are doing the right thing because we chose them and gave them immense power.

The false logic we use to justify choosing and empowering aggressors as leaders is that we believe we can create the community we need through violence and threats of violence rather than benefits.  Such thinking will always result in the creation of increasingly powerful CC’s and continue to produce the sad experience of the accumulating number of doomed people we observe all over the world.  CC’s will ensure, ultimately, control of all thoughts and behaviors of humans by those with the nurturing error of aggression.               

And this behavior continues among humans despite our growing recognition that the greatest successes in any species have been accomplished through cooperation.  Largely, the violence inherent in aggression has outlived its usefulness for humans, but we’ve missed the turning point.  Instead, we are progressing to use our knowledge to produce more and more weapons to kill each other and for techniques to empower aggressive people to control our thoughts and behaviors.  We’re not creating helpful communities and we’re doing it to ourselves.

The critical process that will sustain the effective communities we need is the sharing of food and help and that’s the definition of an economy.  Instead, in our human communities we have government emerge as the dominant institution, the inevitable outcome of our system of CC’s.  Government is a process that distorts the “peacekeeping services” we need and takes the “limited goal” power we give to peacekeepers and falsely justifies the accumulation of massive power to control all our thoughts and behaviors.

The power we falsely think belongs in government did not develop and evolve in history from rational processes.  It began with brutal humans inflicting injury on other humans within the group to ensure the brutal ones had food and the services of others.  They, of course, enforced rules that created a supply line of food and services for them.  While the “style” of government changed, at its core, government has always involved ensuring the provision for some within the group with food and the services of others.  That’s still how CC’s use government.

The original problem was the transfer of government power within these CC’s.  In the beginning, it was determined by many fights -- raw violence and turmoil was the result. The “benefitting minorities” then tried monarchies (Kings and Emperors) or some communities tried theocracies (leadership by people claiming authority from the supernatural).  They all failed the human family and the reason is revealed in the term “government.”  It comes from the phrase “to govern,” that means some people imposing their will on others. 

Government has evolved to be a promise of creating the community we need through humans using power not sharing.  It’s the logical outcome of rational thinking by the aggressive people that we chose as leaders.  We permit the use of raw violence, threats of violence as well as the denial of food and help to obtain behavior they promise will aid the human family.  Government has become the place where all fears, real or imagined, are focused by leaders to justify power grants but the outcomes are not the peaceful and cooperative communities needed for our survival.  Instead, in government processes, our fears are turned into irrational and controlling use of paid armed staff by humans asserting the name and authority of the community.

To understand the broader arrangement of how the human family is erroneously developing the critical tool of community, the overall structure of groups within the human family must be considered.  This structure has changed an enormous number of times over the human history, but it has evolved into the current arrangement of about 200 “nations.”  Each nation has a defined territory, “leaders” empowered by internal processes, paid armed individuals to support them and a “legal structure” (laws) that controls the critical relationships and exchanges between humans in that group.

Most impediments to our survival were created as these legal systems developed.  Most of us believe in these systems and support them (despite their irrational origin in brutal people).  Most of us continue to use faulty survival logic.

The processes of government begin with laws, written rules.  A law is a warning to all people of the behaviors that will be responded to with power in the name of the community.  Rules become necessary when a community fails to organize benefits for the survival of all individuals.  It is those that are not receiving the benefits of community that must be kept under control because they, too, act rationally-they resist if they can as they no longer can separate.

In more and more nations in modern times, the brutality of government is given to aggressive individuals that are the winners in “voting governments.”  And, after several hundred years of voting governments, what we’ve discovered is that the only dependable benefit of voting governments is a peaceful transfer of awesome power (without civil wars).  The final outcome is still increasingly powerful coercive communities, leaders with more and more powerful weapons, greater capacities to use techniques to control thoughts and peaceful behaviors and a continuing march toward the imposition of total control on us.

The lesson we should learn is that voting governments cannot function better than the correct survival logic used and demonstrated in the values of the citizens that vote.  And since most of us do not correctly perceive the sustaining source of the violence we fear, we are unable to correctly vote to organize our community to secure the benefits needed for our survival.  Voting government does not have processes for changing the values of its citizens, it simply collects power to give to aggressive individuals (leaders) to attack behaviors that enough citizens will vote to have attacked.

Votes have become bullets and they enable each of us to act just as those that are mentally aberrant with aggression.  Now, a citizen can use a vote not only to secure safety from those that are a true immediate violent threat, but to attack others that engage in peaceful behaviors that a citizen doesn’t approve of (we can impose our ideological views or we can force them to pay more in taxes-stealing).  We will not tolerate those that resist the attempt to impose our type of coercive community on them.  A vote simply gives everyone a gun (and the use of paid armed staff to actually use the gun for them).  It’s the same tools used by the mentally aberrant aggressive individuals.

All humans have the capacity for aggressive instincts-the desire to control our environment, including humans, because of our fears.  Aggression is always a form of being mentally aberrant (it forgets we need each other and must cooperate, which is correct survival logic).  Voting government is removing the rational processes that naturally control our aggression.

The voting governments we’ve developed encourage the development of and the possibility of reward from aggression for each citizen.  We act out our aggression by using our votes to engage in unprovoked attacks (the actual violence is then done by paid armed staff).  And certainly, the only eventual outcome of “culture wars” legislation, the trap we’ve permitted voting government to fall into, will be more and more of us hating each other.

We’re encouraged to impose our will on others by a false promise that that will protect us from the violence we fear.  What we have created is legalized aggression, now possible for everyone to become involved in.  And, now, just as we encounter mentally aberrant humans, we continue our long-term problem of the reality of mentally aberrant communities dominated by aggression, but the aggression is increasingly coming from most of us.

The only valid use of community power is the immediate intervention on behalf of a human about to be injured (or the apprehension of one who has physically injured someone) or to stop stealing.  We don’t need a government system for that; we simply need a peacekeeping staff that is, in purest theory, a medical team-like any other medical group.  They are medically intervening with a human with the medical problem of aberrant thinking, one that is using faulty survival logic.  And the “medical” care needed is to return the aberrant one to the nurturing process.

Instead, the peacekeeping function of the community has become, through voting government, a war machine which citizens can participate in with use of their votes.  We insist on behaviors beyond those necessary for a cooperative peaceful community.  Peace is not the goal and the imposition of an ideology or stealing are the hidden motives and become the outcome of what most of us are willingly participating in.

It is protection from violence from our fellow humans that creates a valid purpose to empower some people with the ability (power) to intervene immediately to stop an injury from being inflicted or when stealing is occurring.  The service desired is “peacekeeping,” and, while such help often doesn’t require physical intervention or weapons, all humans would authorize that power when necessary for life.  The only goal all of us agree upon for the use of the power we want to give humans we choose, is peacekeeping.  Peacekeeping (which may involve a need for power to stop an injury) and government (with an endless list of threats that enable the imposition of an ideology or stealing) are different.

It’s the protection in peacekeeping that will permit the environment for sharing of food and safety services that we need.  What we want and need is peace.  There’s probably another way to organize the many services developing under the “power umbrella” of “government” (which currently includes such help as nurturing services for child development or care of the disabled and orphaned youth; fire and medical life protection services; a fairness system for conflicts and contract enforcement; monopoly and business regulation, etc.).  We have permitted aggressive individuals to convince us to use government (power) for these helpful community purposes and they do it because it’s a pathway to request the power they seek from us.

This use of votes as weapons makes us vulnerable to the continuing development of total control of us by aggressive individuals.  As a result of needing votes to secure power, actual raw violence is used less and less because the threat of violence is usually sufficient.  To secure the power needed and conveyed by votes, the aggressive people have adapted and perfected the art of tricks.

The list of tricks used is nearly endless but some that are the most damaging should be considered.  We create constitutions that seek to protect us from misuse of government power but, since the “rights” only exist if the aggressive people in power will enforce them, the rights turn out to be a trick.  These constitutional rights and other laws promise protection and fairness, but the enforcement system is designed for the wrong motives, is too complex and too costly for most of us to get the fairness promised in the “rules” ( you get all the justice you can afford-and it doesn’t come fast).

In a trick, peacekeeping became “law enforcement” departments, a system of enforcing rules favorable to those whose votes are needed to secure power.  Law became too convoluted to be knowable and you must pay for knowledge of how it works.  Another really effective trick is controlling those permitted to vote-a smaller group is easier to manipulate to secure votes from.  Or making voting difficult is another trick   Finally, the key to tricks is often secrecy (if there’s any secrecy, you’re vulnerable to tricks).

The ultimately successful area for tricks in modern times, to avoid the need for raw violence, is evolving into manipulating the “economy.”  The economy, again, is sharing food and help needed by all of us.  The economy is so important because it’s the behaviors that sustain the hope of the continuing existence of the human family as well as those needed to manage and protect the earth life organism (ELO).  The economy is a complex mechanism, permits many hidden behaviors and has become an effective tool for enslavement.

Over the centuries, a “money system” has developed to permit exchanges that enable us to share food and services, but that is being distorted by our use of coercion through aggression.  As there are 200 nations, there are 200 mini-economies.  They endure “cycles,” whereby, either because of bad design or massive stealing, millions of people become unable to obtain “jobs” that permit them to “earn money” for the food and help they need to survive.  We are told it’s because of a “bad” economy-a cycle.  We become desperate.  We fear for our own survival and we, too often, permit others to suffer.  It’s panic.

In purest theory, unless there’s a crop failure, there can never be a bad economy.  How can there be?  There’s food to feed everyone in that economy, therefore, there’s food to create the energy people need and then, we have the ability to exchange the vital services we need to survive (grow more food, emergency and medical services, sustaining our nurturing system, search for more and better practical knowledge and even recreational services).  If there’s food, how can we have a bad economy?

It’s the design and misuse of the money system, and the stealing it permits, which creates the myth of a bad economy and reduces us to having to beg for jobs (food and help).  The design permits money to be removed and we can’t see it.

The sectors of the badly designed money system that permit money to disappear are numerous.  Among the worst is the system of institutions that “process” the money we’re exchanging.  Some of the money simply disappears in “skimming” (taking a “percentage” of the flow) Or saving accounts can be raided.  Or our money is put in “assets,” whose value changes daily (the trick is to cause us to purchase when the value is high and sell when it’s low and we’re desperate).  Or vital food and other commodities are purchased by speculators, who sell them back to us at inflated prices.  We also have trouble sustaining the value of the money; the money endures a slow (or sometimes rapid) “inflation,” which steals some of its value each year.

The nations secure the money for their activities by taxation and that process creates opportunities for tricks.  The tax systems are so complex and layered that no one usually understands the total amount they (or others!) Pay each year, And, with the number of citizens participating, and the complexity, it’s impossible to have adequate staff to ensure all are paying correctly.  It’s simply a ripe area for errors and stealing.  It happens often and we lose faith in the system.  Further, serious amounts of labor are wasted because of the excess work we need from tax “experts” to help the citizens.

The money system permits our coercive communities to give benefits to some, without taxation to pay for those benefits, by “borrowing.”  The repayment for these benefits given, essentially as bribes, will be made by future generations that did not receive the benefits.  It’s a practice that creates children that are “indentured slaves” from birth.

The money system also permits a distortion in the amount of labor required by an individual to secure vital food or services needed for survival.  A worker earning $25,000 annually must exchange 17 hours of labor to receive a medical service costing $200, while a person earning $200,000 gives only 2 hours for the same service.  Or a $150 traffic fine requires over 12 hours of labor from the lesser paid individual or about 1 ½ hours of labor from the one with the greater income.  The securing of luxuries in life must be evaluated differently, but for vital items such as food, medical care or shared costs of government, this is simply a distortion in the concept of cooperation in a community.

Those who can secure control of large amounts of money can exercise stunning power and authority.  With large amounts of money, the modern equivalent of “fiefdoms” can be created; it’s a mini-economic nation and a variation of those medieval institutions that controlled the labor of peasants.  A person with a little over a million dollars can control the labor of one human for the working lifetime of 30 years.  A person with $100 million could control the labors of 2,500 humans for a year or the lifetime labor of 83 people.  A billionaire could exercise control of more than 830 humans for their working lifetimes (and gigantic corporations magnify this capacity).  How do we ensure that the labor will contribute to the broader needs of the human family?

Another feature of the power of money is that large tracts of vacant land can be “purchased” (an “asset”).  When the human family needs more land because there are more humans (currently inevitable) or for community purposes, the land is sold back at a profit.  Or if we need resources on or under that land, a “royalty” is extracted.  Where’s the helpful contribution to our survival by the owners in this arrangement?  The money system simply conveyed economic power and privilege.

Lastly, a totally destructive practice that severely damages the dynamics in the communities we need is called corruption.  A significant portion of law is really false rules-that is their result is to permit stealing or to impose the ideology of some upon us.  Corruption occurs when those with power can “sell additional freedom” to some because they’re the enforcement.  The false rules are presented as “good” goals and usually justified with righteous rhetoric by those that will profit from selling the freedom. False rules always make tricks possible because they’re not based on reality.

Looking to our future, it’s obvious that the human family must develop a world economy.  We’re one earth life organism with our survival at risk from the realities of the universe.  We must organize the entire human workforce for our best hope.  As long as the world economy is fractured, economic basics will be distorted because costs will be higher due to inefficiencies, some limited raw materials won’t be shared to permit everyone’s survival (or they won’t cooperate) and stealing remains possible.

On the pathway to the world economy we need, the 200 coercive communities (nations which contain “mini-economies”) face destruction from each other.  We frightfully hope that totally mad humans do not gain control of the nuclear ones.  Even a “small” nuclear war may result in horrors similar to a strike by a large asteroid or the eruption of a super volcano.  It’s the weather disruption that could cause the death of so many plants (food) that takes the horror beyond the immediate effects of the weapons.

Otherwise, the governments of the nations have reached a nuclear stalemate.  Yet, equally troubling is the next step in the more modern struggle between the 200 coercive communities-economic competitions.  The stronger nations seek control of raw materials and an unfair appropriation of the labors of the weak ones.  When weak nations lose the “economic wars,” they must accept the manipulation from stronger nations or their people will not have the needed food and help.

The human family will not benefit from an ultimate dominant nation-whether that nation wins by military or economic weapons.  We will simply end up with worldwide enslavement of humans either way by those with aggression.

The critical struggle of the human family continues to be the struggle for human freedom -- the need of humans to be free from other humans imposing their selfish or ideological will on you.  Whether it was to be free from stealing, or other people’s god thoughts or those with the right goals but imposing their solutions with the wrong methods, we have struggled for the right to peacefully survive.  The only “power” we should encounter is the power of the universe.  Instead, the power we actually encounter is that of the universe and that controlled by aggressive individuals we choose and empower.  Human coercion dooms us, at some unknown point, to a form of accidental suicide because we do not organize our workforce for the dangers of the universe.  We need peace and cooperation.

In summary, “we” are the problem.  We fear violence from other humans and we seek help from the wrong people.  The effective community we need cannot be achieved by the use of violence and, using our votes, giving some people the authority and power to attack other people we want attacked.  Worse, so many think they’re doing the right thing.  It’s an error.

If we continue to create coercive communities and use our votes to attack each other, we have not understood we need each other and, therefore, we have faulty survival logic.  It’s our negative behaviors that prevent us from helping each other and every attack on a peaceful person simply contributes to the continuing cycle that negative behaviors cause fear and fear causes negative behaviors.  Many of us fear our own community.  And we cannot separate.

There’s a strong momentum caused by our history of errors in human thinking and it guarantees a continuation of the creation of hundreds of millions of doomed people.  The crippling injuries and deaths of the doomed will continue as long as most of us live (even if we seriously tried, we cannot organize fast enough to save many of them).  It has been such a struggle to survive in environments where community-empowered aggressive individuals prevent effective systems of help with their exercise of authority we give them.

It’s useless to go looking for “enemies” to attack in the human family because the source of negative behaviors originates inside us.  We have fear of violence and we create and turn our lives over to aggressive humans to address our fears-at any cost.  Unfortunately, the cost will be a complete loss of freedom as well as, probably, all hopes of survival of the human family.  We need a different approach to organize our human tool of community.  The universe is dangerous and does not forgive errors.

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CHAPTER FIVE:  LORD, THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO – OUR MINDLESS EXISTANCE

Nearly every human could be enjoying the best of times ever. It may not continue forever but the human family has the greatest kind of wealth – we have a food surplus. All of us could be well-fed and available to share the work for the survival of life and to pursue individual happiness. Instead,  looking ahead for decades and maybe centuries, the experience of life for most will range from nagging constant fear to tragedy. This misery cannot or will not be prevented and will needlessly impact the vast majority of us. Even a sincere effort would be too late for so many. They’re doomed. It’s because humans behave mindlessly.

Of earth’s 7 billion humans, some will enjoy dependable abundance and safety (several hundreds of millions), while the remaining 6 billion and more will experience lives ranging from endless anxiety to physical pain or premature death. The numbers could get seriously worse as we grow to 9 billion people over the next 40 years. And the major reason for the different outcomes is the accident of where you are born.

The history of humans has been one where the vast majority of people that ever lived, from their births to their deaths, have had their needs neglected or have been coerced and violently forced to be subservient to other humans or worse. There’s a capacity for stunning cruelty and horror in humans. We’ve had communities cheer and be joyous as humans had their skin peeled off of them while they were alive or burned at a stake or killed in public displays at arenas.

So many of us remain hard-hearted. It’s widely known that there’s 20 thousand young children dying each day because we don’t give them food and inexpensive medicines that we have (seven million annually). Hundreds of thousands of unaided women are dying each year during childbirth and at least a billion more people suffer from diseases we can prevent or make tolerable cheaply (but we don’t). We neglect the disabled. And orphans. And minorities. The economically poor. And many of the aged.

One of the most revealing measures of our insane capacity for cruelty is that our worst behaviors are inflicted upon the physically weak. It’s a fact of biology that human females are smaller and as far back in history as we can discover, females have been crushingly brutalized and denied the fullness of equality and safety. Today, a huge section of the human family with billions of people still continues this totally violent suppression of them. And among these groups, there’s not even a serious reform movement in sight. (Their great granddaughters will have the same  experiences). Even in the more “developed” portions of the world, subtle pressure for control of females continues. Daughters there must be taught the process to surrender their humanity.

Even in the little things, we’re cruel. Some children can expect nice holidays and gifts, while others living nearby receive little or nothing. And we let some of those caring for the weak bear the burdens alone, while we enjoy what the “caretaker” cannot enjoy. And it’s important to remember that too many humans are fully capable of shedding quickly the little civility that’s been accumulated. We can return to cheering torture – some would do it now.

Everywhere in the world, even though there’s food abundance, our “economic” systems will ensure an unnecessary lifetime of anxiety for most people. An economy is the processes by which we share food and help and it appears that ultimately survival will depend upon a “money system.” There are billions of us that live with daily terror as to whether we’ll lose our jobs (our source of food and vitally needed services).  And massive community job losses happen during contrived “bad economy” events. Job losses occur with the surprise of lightning. Every year many millions of humans will experience this panic.

We also have so many “ticking time bombs” and they will cause millions to experience sadness or tragedy. There are the never-ending daily community injuries and deaths from those humans unable to control emotions in situations like arguments. And there’s so many weapons left from past conflicts (landmines hurt hundreds annually). And the coming violent struggles to change governments in scores of countries will add more injuries and deaths.

And in many nations the concept of “community debt” permits stealing the lives of future generations. When it becomes obvious that many “promises” must or should be broken, violence may result. And the fact we’ve carelessly poisoned much of the earth (and continued to do so) will cause sickness and death. The cleaning will be a hidden obligation for future work that cannot be avoided. The children are inheriting slavery.

Some elements of this endless agony have gone on for so long that nearly the entire human family is afflicted with “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).” Many of us live in and accept a permanent state of anxiety or fear. Then hopelessness. Then numbness. Then indifference. And we pass it on. The factor that will guarantee our continuing failure is so many of us think we’re doing the right thing.

How can we explain this situation? It has rarely ever been different. We live in and are part of a chemical-system universe. Chemicals act automatically and have no kindness. Our growth in “practical” knowledge has permitted wonderful and helpful inventions and techniques, but we have not developed the ability to control how to treat each other. We behave like the chemical machines that we are.

With accumulating knowledge, humans have learned enough about our universe to conclude that it’s a massive and powerful device that operates according to unchanging and discoverable rules and principals. It simply does what it does endlessly. It has no obvious ultimate purpose and, since it has many processes that can be so destructive to life, its focus cannot be the creation of life. It is indifferent as to whether humans survive. The universe is mindless.

For life, the most important components of the universe are its “atoms” and the “forces” that act on the atoms, both of which are “programmed” to always behave exactly in accordance with their rules. That is “chemical” behavior and the universe is best understood as a system of atoms on autopilot. While all other actions in the universe are inevitable, the only non-automatic activity we’ve discovered occurs in life organisms. While amazingly complicated and intricate, it’s hard to conclude that life is anything but an accidental event among atoms and life, too, has no obvious ultimate purpose. Life simply struggles to continue its existence in a dangerous chemical universe. And faces death and extinction daily. For humans, all reality separates into “life” and “other.” Life reveals itself currently as many hundreds of trillions of individual organisms that are spread out across the earth. Each organism maintains separation from the other atoms of the universe by creating walls enclosing its own group of cooperating atoms. Life activity is sustained because the atoms in organisms can disassemble molecules (atoms bonded together) to obtain “energy.” (Another defining characteristic of life is its ability, and usually its determination, to make copies of itself).

Humans and most forms of life (maybe all) are parts of the “Earth Life Organism” (ELO). It is composed of the members of a large collection of interdependent species and operates as an immense atom and molecule transfer system. A critical flow involves the transfer of molecules containing accessible energy. This life-sustaining process of the ELO can be initiated because some of its organisms can capture energy directly from the sun and store it in molecules (humans secure 80% of their energy from twelve types of plants in the ELO).

The ELO also is a chemical system. It’s simply atoms interacting in accordance with the rules. Its aggregate behaviors can make it appear similar to a large life organism, but it does not look for and recognize danger to itself. It does not have a singular memory nor a system for coordinated reasoning. It does not realize that some events in the universe will severely damage or destroy it. Indeed, it’s capable of participating in the creation of a disease species so virulent that a great portion or maybe all life could die. It is never aware of itself. It’s a vital part of life processes but it is brainless.

Humans are one of the many “species” of the ELO. After a very long and violent struggle, humans have emerged as the dominant species and are increasingly in control of or are impacting all the others. Humans are the most complex reasoning species of the ELO and can use energy to act independently and pursue some of their own goals. Human behaviors are neither inevitable nor dependably predictable. All the unnecessary problems of the human community are due to errors in these choices.

The realities of the universe create critical danger for the ELO and, since humans cannot survive without the ELO, it is mandatory that humans make a desperate effort to protect it. We must become the “brain” of the ELO and its care and management will be the ultimate and critical biological role for our species. The continuing existence of life on earth has become the responsibility of the human family.

Again, the actions of the universe are inevitable and humans possess the only significant “awareness” that exists. There’s no source of help and we are alone. While the ELO should be the first priority of the human family, it’s not. The major effort among humans is the struggle for who will control the thoughts and behaviors of all humans on earth. Until this tragic struggle ends, that’s where our resources will be spent and our hope for survival is more at risk than it needs to be.

Behaving mindlessly involves an absence of awareness of the consequences of choices or being indifferent to their impact on the life community of earth. Nearly all humans are behaving like chemical units. We want “our” group to control the most powerful weapons. We want “our” group to control the food supply and raw materials. Our focus is not planning for the care of the ELO. We want to “win” and that’s how humans organize their relationships with each other. It’s power. It’s chemical thinking. While effective communication and the use of a variety of tools are extremely notable characteristics of humans, what gives us the most hope to  survive is the level of reasoning we could utilize possessing knowledge. Knowledge is dependable conclusions about realities in the universe. Knowledge and reason enable us to use anticipatory thought to choose which activities we should engage in. Only by using knowledge and reason can we take control of the automatic behaviors originated by our chemicals.

Mindlessness is built into our systems. With the level of knowledge we’ve acquired and with the survival of so many individual humans and the human family at risk, It’s embarrassing how “silly” these human processes are. Some believe it, but most of us know we’re being required to “pretend” we believe the behaviors imposed on us are the result of some “rational” processes.

The purpose of the pretending is to give an appearance of reason and justice to the authority being exercised in the community. If full transparency existed, the violent undercurrent that controls the lives of nearly all of us would be exposed and obvious. We’re still making decisions based on “might is right,” it’s just hidden. It’s built into our systems.

Each person is a separate collection of atoms and the purpose of behavior systems is to help us in our relationships. Our social systems should serve our need to live and work together successfully, but they are not effective, reliable, fair and do not ensure peace. The options for the individual from the pathway we’re on are injury or death by violence or submission to total control. The systems that ensure these outcomes are government and the economy.

The origin of government was brutality: violent control of the group by the physically strongest. Government’s effect has always been to provide comfort and safety to the controlling minority or, later, it was also used to impose an ideology  (a system of required thoughts). It had to be imposed on us because it was the wrong methods for organizing a human community and had the wrong purposes. We have wasted so many centuries with the failure of government using violence.

Governments have desperately sought to discover a basis to claim a valid source of authority for their use of violence. In the past, it was argued that monarchs had “divine rights” or that theocracies were led by some “god.” Of course, everyone had to pretend to believe it. The reality was that it was raw violence. The communities created were abusive. We know it’s impossible for government to have valid authority, that’s why it’s imposed with violence.The biologically strong of our “animal” days have been replaced with “weaponized” humans that sell their services (paid armed staff). Our realities and rules are created by those that can secure control of the political system and gather the resources to pay them. Government processes in every community begin with the struggle for control of the paid armed staff.

Those paid must agree to be compliant and to use violence to enforce whatever rules they’re given by those paying them. For rule “authority” they cite outcomes from systems we’re forced to pretend we believe use rational processes. To sustain this system, those in control cause the collection of “taxes” to pay the salaries of the weaponized staff, which means we pay them to control us. It’s a circle – those with power use power to pay the salaries of those they use to control us.The inherent behavior of government never changes, only its appearance. Hiring “enforcers” began thousands of years ago (kings always used them). It continues that modern functional authority is based on nothing more than what benefits those with control of paid armed staff, though it’s usually hidden through tricks and secrecy. The proof our government systems are mindless is they require secrets the citizens can’t know. If secrets are used, the system is based on violence. We are made to appear to give to some individuals the right to use secrets and the “power to use violence.” That guarantees they will ensure their needs first.The outcome in modern voting governments isn’t different. They cannot establish a basis for a valid claim to authority. Anywhere in the world, what candidate secures the votes (commitments) of a true or sustaining majority of those that will be governed? These systems don’t even require assent of a true majority before the assumption of the power of violence. The process always produces a “winner” with a claim to support from only a minority of those governed. And that support is temporary

These leaders cannot summon a true majority because they’re not required to and, in reality, they do not try. Indeed, for those scheming for power, a transfer of power by minority is preferred – it’s easier to control (who can vote is limited, voting is made difficult, information is controlled, minority wins are permitted).  They’re sham elections controlled by minorities and tricks. It’s pretend.

And even if a majority could be collected, how does justice or wisdom sufficient to protect and guide the human family emerge from what is, essentially, a survey of “popular opinions?” And in so many elections, in the population there’s job insecurity or hunger. They’re not choosing for wise community policy, they’re voting for a hope for food.

The voting processes simply pretend to transfer the control of the weaponized individuals using a contrived appearance of valid authority. Unable or unwilling to summon true majorities and by making choices using opinions of those lacking a critical level of knowledge, its own premises guarantee failure. Voting governments are incapable of creating or possessing valid authority for their control of humans. Elections simply become pathways for exhibiting emotions and exercising latent desires to do violence to certain others.

Political power is control of “tools” that can coerce behaviors of humans. Those tools at their most direct level are weapons and money within the economy (you must beg for food and help). Design flaws in the evolved economic system are a major contributor to human misery. Since our population grew so much and all land was allowed to become “owned,” the “money-system economy” that developed permits an additional type of control of us.

The purpose of a modern economy should be to make available necessities (food, etc.) and help, while collecting and organizing the labor needed to provide those essentials. We can no longer look for what we need in nature, instead we must please someone that has “money” to “earn” what we need. Without nature, everything we need comes from the labor of other people or involves something “owned” (now, to eat or have some space to sleep, “someone” with money must be pleased). From birth, a human will have a lifetime of needs, but where does that human get money? You must beg for “work.”

Obviously at a minimum, we might need some community “accounting” system that records needed labor contributed and distributes “money” in return. That’s not how our economy works. Unless your labor is for someone that has wealth/savings, you cannot get money. Unless those with wealth/savings want to spend it, there’s no money for anyone’s necessities. The farmers grow food on “our” land (community?), but who has a valid way to secure “money” to buy it?

Our modern economic system is dependent on the accumulation and use of wealth/savings. We permit the creation of “super humans” that control wealth and they secure the power of leaders. (They often have more direct control than other kinds of leaders). Some manipulate the laws through the political system to get “free money” to accumulate their wealth (“legal” stealing); then there’s those with pure luck that receive a substantial inheritance, while others have a skill performing some economic task and generate “earned” wealth. Our system permits wealth to be converted to political power – a “right” to use their wealth/savings to determine what jobs will be available and this has impact on and controls so many lives.

Mostly the goal of those with wealth/savings becomes “profit” (the pursuit of more). How does that ensure the labor for community needs? The system’s flaw is not because profits are permitted (we probably benefit from the effect of profit pursuit in some area of the economy). It’s that all community needs require cooperation of those with wealth to pay the “helpers,” it there’s no profit available. How can needed help be provided for those without money if there’s no hope of profit? The problem of accumulated money is that it can be used as a political power.

The malfunctions and misuse of wealth can be a direct cause of our misery when it’s able to have control of services to be performed by the community’s workforce. Why permit stolen wealth or inherited wealth or even honestly earned wealth to determine whether the disabled will be cared for or whether children of deficiently-skilled parents will receive additional remedial help or whether other community needs will be addressed? Our economic system denies us a way to ensure funding for our community needs as well as opportunities for all to work. Permitting profits or wealth to be converted to political power (the ability to control us) is mindless.

The complexity of the modern world is making possible a growing environment for powerful resistance to the imposition of oppressive human control: revenge on community. Some humans lose all hope for justice and the freedom they deserve. Fueled by the reality that they had only one life to live but it was stolen by the community’s false rules and violent threats, their anger becomes rage and they want to damage or destroy the “system.”

Those seeking revenge gain their focus when they recognize the sources of power and the vulnerable pieces of critically needed structures in our increasingly complex and intricate societies.  Since they can no longer separate to secure freedom, they are hiding among us (acting normal). They will seek to do as much damage as possible, to as many as possible and as soon as possible.

Some will self-destruct as their reasoning is overcome by their anger and we can discover many of the others as they make planning errors. But some, the most dangerous, we cannot stop and the only question is how much damage will occur. The planning can even be multigenerational (the adult passes rage to the child). Just their existence causes community damage in wasted resources seeking to detect them. This is one of the inevitable outcomes of the misuse of power in a life system. Revenge is chemical. Its pursuit is automatic.

Some of us are beginning to understand that human history will remain unfair and tragic unless we stop this never-ending struggle for control of the largely unneeded, expensive and mindless groups of paid armed staffs in the world and that we must modify the destructive political and economic systems we ask them to create and sustain. Our systems permit us to use this staff to attack peaceful people whose behaviors we don’t like and ensures greater control of us.

All government as well as any economic system that permits the accumulation of wealth that can be converted to political power will always fail us. The goal of political power is controlling thoughts and behaviors and the tool that guarantees that outcome is always paid armed staff. For thousands of years, the logic presented for our systems has created false justification for the results of this behavior. It’s simply humans using physical power on humans. It’s chemical behavior.

Those seeking or using authority are chemically-deformed units – they have a sickness. Nearly everyone exercising authority or using power is participating in processes of stealing (whether they personally benefit or not) or participating in imposing their ideology. And they’ve discovered that fear is the key to getting power from us to create their authority.

Perhaps the ultimate issue for the human family is in this question: what could justify one human exercising authority over another human? Of course, except in immediate defense of life by peacekeepers, no one has valid authority in the lives of other humans. In this age, our systems permit power to be used for anything people will vote for or when the group’s emotions cause them to be enraged and they attack. They don’t bother to justify, but sometimes they hide. The important concept is that nearly all authority use is based on fake reasons. It’s our chemicals.

Our communities do not protect us from humans that want to control us for their selfish purposes nor ensure access to necessities and help we need. Our capacity for reason is used more for invention of practical “trinkets” (that’s what we reward with “riches”), rather than the developing of processes and making contributions to successful living together. Most of us continue participating in the march towards total control of us. We permit the use of “tools” such as control of jobs, paid armed staff, spying and raw violence. When convenient, we pretend our social systems are rational. Our future is that our thoughts and behaviors will be watched and controlled. We’re fighting over who decides what’s acceptable.

Most of us participate in creating these problems. The truth is we continue to believe in using violence in our relationships. The origin was the long and necessary violent struggle all life engaged in. Now, when we’re dominant and the circumstances are different, we’re unable as a group to change our behaviors. In our community problems, we always automatically use the logic that looks for a solution that uses violence. It’s chemical.

There are billions of us and we’re trapped. It’s nearly impossible to change the thinking of adults. Unless “something special” happens during the development of our reasoning processes, a human remains a mindless chemical unit – that’s what the universe creates. Cooperative and peaceful humans are not born, they are nurtured into existence by their fellow humans. Usually this positive thinking must be developed early in life or the human will develop very-hard-to-change negative behaviors; that’s why the coming misery will not be stopped. The doomed are doomed. And, because of our thinking, many more will join them.

Our lives are lived amidst the powerful and inevitable actions of the universe and we desperately need the ELO to continue our survival. We are in constant danger and we are alone. Our only help comes from each other, yet like the universe and the ELO, the behavioral outcomes of the human family reveal we remain largely mindless. All the unnecessary problems of the human community are due to errors in our individual choices. It’s chemical.

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CHAPTER SIX:  AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE – SOME MORE THOUGHTS ABOUT PEACE

Our abilities to work together to secure the food and help we need develop within the framework of the concept of a human community.  Community is created by exchanges between humans and, at its fullest, it’s the sum total of all behavioral interactions in a group.  In every human exchange, the goal is always survival.  How we create an environment to ensure effective behaviors that aid survival determines the fate of humans within that group as well as determining the fate of the whole group itself.

Every living organism’s logic system develops in response to its experiences and it seeks to organize its behaviors for survival.  We are not born “good” or we are not born “bad,” we are born with a desire to survive.  If we help each other, we are more successful.  The capacity to participate in “community’ is a critical step in the development of healthy survival logic. 

All earth organisms die at some point, therefore some members of the species (but not necessarily all) must engage in activities that will produce new members of their species.  In many species this engagement must be between two members; humans are one of these species.  This survival-necessary engagement initiates a fundamental process of community behaviors for humans -- the commonly used term is “family.”  It must be noticed that the families do not require genetic relationships; families require care relationships.  The young need food, protection and live preparation (nurturing) by adults. 

Raising the young to adulthood, critical to the next generation in a species, was more successful with long-term care provided by adults.  And even larger groups, a combination of “families,” were more successful at securing food, defeating predators and diseases and accumulating and sharing practical knowledge.  It was also critical that, when we were sick or injured, the community could protect us until we recovered.  Survival for humans is nearly impossible without some level of community behavior in the form of cooperative relationships. 

Originally, and the vital element for its success, membership in a community was a voluntary decision of each member.  If we received survival benefits from the community, we remained in it, and contributed our work.  If we did not perceive that our membership resulted in survival benefits, we separated.  It is voluntary membership in a group sharing work and resulting benefits that makes community a helpful tool for survival. 

From our modern perspective, it’s possible to understand the fatal flaw in the history of relationships in the human family.  When community does not provide benefits to the individual, we no longer can separate.  There are no more wild areas where we can independently secure food.  All land is “owned.”  There’s no place for us to go if a community fails us and we want to leave it.  

Accordingly, there’s no more hope of ensuring we’re members of cooperative communities that we can choose to join voluntarily because we benefit.  From birth, we are now forced to be members of a coercive community (CC) with its structured rules that are created and enforced by the aggression of chosen members of the group.  True community membership is impossible now and too many of us, perhaps most, have become some type of slave or prisoner.  Worse, many of us help create these conditions because we have faulty survival logic.

 The situation we experience is that all people now participate in community either because they’re bribed by receiving more than others and agree to help suppress the remainder or because they’re forced at gunpoint (it used to be the sword, the club, a rock or a fist).  These CC’s have a destructive structure that benefits some of the members and the benefitting members are “served” by coerced work from the others.  A CC doesn’t have to prove it serves the individual’s survival needs -- its processes can continue if it has a benefitting minority with sufficient power.  The entire lives of many are simply stolen.  The near mindless mechanism of the CC is operated by aggressive humans with the power we give them because we think they’ll save us.

 CC’s are easy to recognize.  Food is not effectively shared, adequate housing is not available, needed medical care is not provided to many and females are violently controlled and brutalized in less developed countries or their roles are subtly but unfairly limited in more developed countries.  Many children are not valued and correctly nurtured.  There’s little progress in stopping wars, physical assaults, stealing and negligent behaviors while there’s neglect of those excluded from the community’s help systems.  And, because of the aberrant aggressive individuals, there’s the ever increasing control of thoughts and peaceful behaviors by paid armed staff.                                                   

A revealing example of the endless pursuit of total control by aggressive individuals in CC’s and the resulting distortions that arise from giving community power to them is displayed in the school system.  In the 1800's school attendance became mandatory for all youth, said to be to teach the valuable skills of reading, writing and helpful everyday math.  Since then, the schools have become a giant consumer of their lives and the time is filled with required learning far beyond the basic survival skills (often justified by “the country’s needs”).  What must be learned by each student is mandated by legislatures and committees.  The children became enslaved in a controlled intellectual environment with a curriculum containing “approved” knowledge and viewpoints.  Of course, these approved viewpoints reinforce the system created by the aberrant and out-of-control aggressive individuals. 

Every system developed within CC’s grows toward total control (like the schools).  The result from our thousands of years of experience with CC’s is that “community” has become, instead of a good tool for survival, another “bad event” of the universe-like a tornado, an erupting volcano or an earthquake.  Humans have to learn how “to survive it,” like the other dangers we encounter.  Too many of us do not succeed and are barely able to secure a near meaning less experience in life or worse, have injury and death inflicted as a result of the CC. 

Those with aggressive behaviors create CC’s and must offer a false vision to retain power.  They have dominated the history of the human family and continue to control our future.  Our trap is they think they are doing the right thing because we chose them and gave them immense power. 

The false logic we use to justify choosing and empowering aggressors as leaders is that we believe we can create the community we need through violence and threats of violence rather than benefits.  Such thinking will always result in the creation of increasingly powerful CC’s and continue to produce the sad experience of the accumulating number of doomed people we observe all over the world.  CC’s will ensure, ultimately, control of all thoughts and behaviors of humans by those with the nurturing error of aggression.       

And this behavior continues among humans despite our growing recognition that the greatest successes in any species have been accomplished through cooperation.  Largely, the violence inherent in aggression has outlived its usefulness for humans, but we’ve missed the turning point.  Instead, we are progressing to use our knowledge to produce more and more weapons to kill each other and for techniques to empower aggressive people to control our thoughts and behaviors.  We’re not creating helpful communities and we’re doing it to ourselves. 

The critical process that will sustain the effective communities we need is the sharing of food and help and that’s the definition of an economy.  Instead, in our human communities we have government emerge as the dominant institution, the inevitable outcome of our system of CC’s.  Government is a process that distorts the “peacekeeping services” we need and takes the “limited goal” power we give to peacekeepers and falsely justifies the accumulation of massive power to control all our thoughts and behaviors. 

The power we falsely think belongs in government did not develop and evolve in history from rational processes.  It began with brutal humans inflicting injury on other humans within the group to ensure the brutal ones had food and the services of others.  They, of course, enforced rules that created a supply line of food and services for them.  While the “style” of government changed, at its core, government has always involved ensuring the provision for some within the group with food and the services of others.  That’s still how CC’s use government. 

The original problem was the transfer of government power within these CCs.  In the beginning, it was determined by many fights -- raw violence and turmoil was the result. The “benefitting minorities” then tried monarchies (Kings and Emperors) or some communities tried theocracies (leadership by people claiming authority from the supernatural).  They all failed the human family and the reason is revealed in the term “government.”  It comes from the phrase “to govern,” that means some people imposing their will on others.   

Government has evolved to be a promise of creating the community we need through humans using power not sharing.  It’s the logical outcome of rational thinking by the aggressive people that we chose as leaders.  We permit the use of raw violence, threats of violence as well as the denial of food and help to obtain behavior they promise will aid the human family.  Government has become the place where all fears, real or imagined, are focused by leaders to justify power grants but the outcomes are not the peaceful and cooperative communities needed for our survival.  Instead, in government processes, our fears are turned into irrational and controlling use of paid armed staff by humans asserting the name and authority of the community. 

To understand the broader arrangement of how the human family is erroneously developing the critical tool of community, the overall structure of groups within the human family must be considered.  This structure has changed an enormous number of times over the human history, but it has evolved into the current arrangement of about 200 “nations.”  Each nation has a defined territory, “leaders” empowered by internal processes, paid armed individuals to support them and a “legal structure” (laws) that controls the critical relationships and exchanges between humans in that group. 

Most impediments to our survival were created as these legal systems developed.  Most of us believe in these systems and support them (despite their irrational origin in brutal people).  Most of us continue to use faulty survival logic. 

The processes of government begin with laws, written rules.  A law is a warning to all people of the behaviors that will be responded to with power in the name of the community.  Rules become necessary when a community fails to organize benefits for the survival of all individuals.  It is those that are not receiving the benefits of community that must be kept under control because they, too, act rationally -- they resist if they can as they no longer can separate. 

In more and more nations in modern times, the brutality of government is given to aggressive individuals that are the winners in “voting governments.”  And, after several hundred years of voting governments, what we’ve discovered is that the only dependable benefit of voting governments is a peaceful transfer of awesome power (without civil wars).  The final outcome is still increasingly powerful coercive communities, leaders with more and more powerful weapons, greater capacities to use techniques to control thoughts and peaceful behaviors and a continuing march toward the imposition of total control on us.  

The lesson we should learn is that voting governments cannot function better that the correct survival logic used and demonstrated in the values of the citizens that vote.  And since most of us do not correctly perceive the sustaining source of the violence we fear, we are unable to correctly vote to organize our community to secure the benefits needed for our survival.  Voting government does not have processes for changing the values of its citizens, it simply collects power and to give to aggressive individuals (leaders) to attack behaviors that enough citizens will vote to have attacked. 

Votes have become bullets and they enable each of us to act just as those that are mentally aberrant with aggression.  Now, a citizen can use a vote not only to secure safety from those that are a true immediate violent threat, but to attack others that engage in peaceful behaviors that a citizen doesn’t approve of (we can impose our ideological views or we can force them to pay more in taxes -- stealing).  We will not tolerate those that resist the attempt to impose our type of coercive community on them.  A vote simply gives everyone a gun (and the use of paid armed staff to actually use the gun for them).  It’s the same tools used by the mentally aberrant aggressive individuals. 

All humans have the capacity for aggressive instincts -- the desire to control our environment, including humans, because of our fears.  Aggression is always a form of being mentally aberrant (it forgets we need each other and must cooperate, which is correct survival logic). Voting government is removing the rational processes that naturally control our aggression. 

The voting governments we’ve developed encourage the development of and the possibility of reward from aggression for each citizen.  We act out our aggression by using our votes to engage in unprovoked attacks (the actual violence is then done by paid armed staff).  And certainly, the only eventual outcome of “culture wars” legislation, the trap we’ve permitted voting government to fall into, will be more and more of us hating each other.

 We are encouraged to impose our will on others by a false promise that that will protect us from the violence we fear.  What we have created is legalized aggression, now possible for everyone to become involved in.  And, now, just as we encounter mentally aberrant humans, we continue our long-term problem of the reality of mentally aberrant communities dominated by aggression, but the aggression is increasingly coming from most of us. 

The only valid use of community power is the immediate intervention on behalf of a human about to be injured (or the apprehension of one who has physically injured someone) or to stop stealing.  We don’t need a government system for that; we simply need a peacekeeping staff that is, in purest theory, a medical team -- like any other medical group.  They are medically intervening with a human with the medical problem of aberrant thinking, one that is using faulty survival logic.  And the “medical” care needed is to return the aberrant one to the nurturing process.                

 Instead, the peacekeeping function of the community has become, through voting government, a war machine which citizens can participate in with use of their votes.  We insist on behaviors beyond those necessary for a cooperative peaceful community.  Peace is not the goal and the imposition of an ideology or stealing are the hidden motives and become the outcome of what most of us are willingly participating in. 

It is protection from violence from our fellow humans that creates a valid purpose to empower some people with the ability (power) to intervene immediately to stop an injury from being inflicted or when stealing is occurring.  The service desired is “peacekeeping,” and, while such help often doesn’t require physical intervention or weapons, all humans would authorize that power when necessary for life.  The only goal all of us agree upon for the use of the power we want to give humans we choose, is peacekeeping. Peacekeeping (which may involve a need for power to stop an injury) and government (with an endless list of threats that enable the imposition of an ideology or stealing) are different. 

It’s the protection in peacekeeping that will permit the environment for sharing of food and safety services that we need.  What we want and need is peace.  There’s probably another way to organize the many services developing under the “power umbrella” of “government” (which currently includes such help as nurturing services for child development or care of the disabled and orphaned youth; fire and medical life protection services; a fairness system for conflicts and contract enforcement; monopoly and business regulation, etc.).  We have permitted aggressive individuals to convince us to use government (power) for these helpful community purposes and they do it because it’s a pathway to request the power they seek from us.  

This use of votes as weapons makes us vulnerable to the continuing development of total control of us by aggressive individuals.  As a result of needing votes to secure power, actual raw violence is used less and less because the threat of violence is usually sufficient.  To secure the power needed and conveyed by votes, the aggressive people have adapted and perfected the art of tricks. 

The list of tricks used is nearly endless but some that are the most damaging should be considered.  We create constitutions that seek to protect us from misuse of government power but, since the “rights” only exist if the aggressive people in power will enforce them, the rights turn out to be a trick.  These constitutional rights and other laws promise protection and fairness, but the enforcement system is designed for the wrong motives, is too complex and too costly for most of us to get the fairness promised in the “rules” (you get all the justice you can afford -- and it doesn’t come fast). 

In a trick, peacekeeping became “law enforcement” departments, a system of enforcing rules favorable to those controlling us or for pandering to those whose votes are needed to secure power. Law became too convoluted to be knowable and you must pay for knowledge of how it works. Another really effective trick is controlling those permitted to vote -- a smaller group is easier to manipulate to secure votes from. Or making voting difficult is another trick. Finally, the key to tricks is often secrecy (if there’s any secrecy, you’re vulnerable to tricks). 

The ultimately successful area for tricks in modern times, to avoid the need for raw violence, is evolving into manipulating the “economy.”  The economy, again, is sharing food and help needed by all of us.  The economy is so important because it’s the behaviors that sustain the hope of the continuing existence of the human family as well as those needed to manage and protect the earth life organism (ELO).  The economy is a complex mechanism, permits many hidden behaviors and has become an effective tool for enslavement. 

Over the centuries, a “money system” has developed to permit exchanges that enable being distorted by our use of coercion through aggression.  As there are 200 nations, there are 200 mini-economies.  They endure “cycles,” whereby, either because of bad design or massive stealing, millions of people become unable to obtain “jobs” that permit them to “earn money” for the food and help they need to survive.  We are told it’s because of a “bad” economy -- a cycle.  We become desperate.  We fear for our own survival and we, too often, permit others to suffer.  It’s panic. 

In purest theory, unless there’s a crop failure, there can never be a bad economy.  How can there be?  There’s food to feed everyone in that economy, therefore, there’s food to create the energy people need and then, we have the ability to exchange the vital services we need to survive (grow more food, emergency and medical services, sustaining our nurturing system, search for more and better practical knowledge and even recreational services).  If there’s food, how can we have a bad economy? 

It’s the design and misuse of the money system and the stealing it permits that creates the myth of a bad economy and reduces us to having to beg for jobs (food and help).  The design permits money to be removed and we can’t see it.  

The sectors of the badly designed money system that permit money to disappear are numerous.  Among the worst is the system of institutions that “process” the money we’re exchanging.  Some of the money simply disappears in “skimming” (taking a “percentage” of the flow) or saving accounts can be raided.  Or our money is put in “assets,” whose value changes daily (the trick is to cause us to purchase when the value is high and sell when it’s low and we’re desperate).  Or vital food and other commodities are purchased by speculators, who sell them back to us at inflated prices.  We also have trouble sustaining the value of the money; the money endures a slow (or sometimes rapid) “inflation,” which steals some of its value each year. 

The nations secure the money for their activities by taxation and that process creates opportunities for tricks.  The tax systems are so complex and layered that no one usually understands the total amount they (or others!) Pay each year, and, with the number of citizens participating, and the complexity, it’s impossible to have adequate staff to ensure all are paying correctly.  It’s simply a ripe area for errors and stealing.  It happens often and we lose faith in the system.  Further, serious amounts of labor are wasted because of the excess work we need from tax “experts” to help the citizens. 

The money system permits our coercive communities to give benefits to some, without taxation to pay for those benefits, by “borrowing.”  The repayment for these benefits given, essentially as bribes, will be made by future generations that did not receive the benefits.  It’s a practice that creates children that are “indentured slaves” from birth. 

The money system also permits a distortion in the amount of labor required by an individual to secure vital food or services needed for survival.  A worker earning $25,000 annually must exchange 17 hours of labor to receive a medical service costing $200, while a person earning $200,000 gives only 2 hours for the same service.  Or a $150 traffic fine requires over 12 hours of labor from the lesser paid individual or about 1 ½ hours of labor from the one with the greater income.  The securing of luxuries in life must be evaluated differently, but for vital items such as food, medical care or shared costs of government, this is simply a distortion in the concept of cooperation in a community. 

Those who can secure control of large amounts of money can exercise stunning power and authority.  With large amounts of money, the modern equivalent of “fiefdoms” can be created; it’s a mini-economic nation and a variation of those medieval institutions that controlled the labor of peasants.  A person with a little over a million dollars can control the labor of one human for the working lifetime of 30 years.  A person with $100 million could control the labors of 2,500 humans for a year or the lifetime labor of 83 people.  A billionaire could exercise control of more than 830 humans for their working lifetimes (and gigantic corporations magnify this capacity).  How do we ensure that the labor will contribute to the broader needs of the human family? 

Another feature of the power of money is that large tracts of vacant land can be “purchased” (an “asset”).  When the human family needs more land because there are more humans (currently inevitable) or for community purposes, the land is sold back at a profit.  Or if we need resources on or under that land, a “royalty” is extracted.  Where’s the helpful contribution to our survival by the owners in this arrangement?  The money system simply conveyed economic power and privilege. 

Lastly, a totally destructive practice that severely damages the dynamics in the communities we need is called corruption.  A significant portion of law is really false rules -- that is their result is to permit stealing or to impose the ideology of some upon us.  Corruption occurs when those with power can “sell additional freedom” to some because they’re the enforcement.  The false rules are presented as “good” goals and usually justified with righteous rhetoric by those that will profit from selling the freedom. False rules always make tricks possible because they’re not based on reality. 

Looking to our future, it’s obvious that the human family must develop a world economy.  We’re one earth life organism with our survival at risk from the realities of the universe.  We must organize the entire human workforce for our best hope.  As long as the world economy is fractured, economic basics will be distorted because costs will be higher due to inefficiencies, some limited raw materials won’t be shared to permit everyone’s survival (or they won’t cooperate) and stealing remains possible.                                                                      

CHAPTER SEVEN:  GENTAL AS LAMBS - OUR LITTLE BIT OF HOPE

While it is not clearly obvious as to what actions Love Christians should take, it is very obvious which actions we must not take. People in the world desperately need changes in our communities but we must not seek changes using any form of violence. Any type of violence will guarantee our failure. During earth’s history, the dominant tactic in relationships between organisms has been violence.  Violence is a chemical. There’s no use of reason. Hope for human survival can only be created through reason, cooperation and peace.  

We must not seek a violent revolution or rebellion. It will never be possible to have a “good” revolution, then install “new leaders” that then create “new rules” that result in effective relationships for realities of peace. Revolutions simply replace one group of controlling aggressive people with a new set of controlling aggressive people do not seek peace; they seek total control of their environment (including all human thoughts and behaviors). They do not have the goal of or a vision of peace and they cannot lead us there. No one that uses power can help us. 

 No individual or group is the “enemy,” therefore it is useless to seek to kill anyone. It will not help. The “enemy” is human thought errors (we’re passing them from generation to generation). “We” are the problem because we use faulty survival logic. We do not create communities that cooperate in necessary work using benefits. Our failing logic begins with how threaten or injure others to make them do what “we” want them to do. Continuing use of that logic in the community guarantees decades and perhaps centuries of misery for so many.  

Love Christians are not, and cannot succeed as, a political movement that seeks to capture control of some of the world’s paid armed staffs through votes (which is the essence of the struggle in today’s voting governments - who will control the guns that enforce rules?). We are not a political party.  

We also must not be an economic enterprise utilizing “capital” to capture control of the labors of the human family and of the earth’s resources. We cannot use uneven exchanges or control by wealth as a foundation of the economic system to ensure help for each other.  

Love Christians are not even a “non-violent resistance movement” to protest the enormous injustices we experience and the lives that are being stolen from us. If a non-violent movement became effective, those with power might hide the nature of their response but they would respond to violence (it’s really too easy. Leaders of a “movement” are suddenly arrested because “they were secretly distributing drugs” or were “secretly involved with foreign powers,” etc.) It’s a loss of power that’s opposed and methods make no difference.

Love Christians and many others know we need changes in our communities. We know the misery of so many individuals as well as knowing that the future of the human species is at risk. In seeking change, we will always lose any conflict to those with the guns, their paid armed staff and spying techniques that are now so perfected they enter our most private areas. The ones with the guns will use them and think they’re doing the right thing because we gave them the guns.  

All of the nations are coercive communities and are under the complete control of aggressors with weapons (either overtly or covertly). Any irritating actions of any kind simply guarantee a terrible outcome. This is now permanent and we will never be able to control them. We must recognize this truth: with their nearly unlimited power, all community changes are subject to “approval” of those with the control. Their oppressive resources exist solely to discover and destroy any changes they do not approve. 

To secure needed change and to provide hope for those that may soon join the doomed, Love Christians must use peaceful methods. And we will always have some level of sadness in our work because we know the human family could care for nearly everyone, but we won’t because we’re prisoners to the thoughts and errors of the past. To cause needed changes, we’re in the same situation Jesus experienced. While it’s very slow and it’s not enough, all that we can do is seek to change people’s vision to one of sharing and we can also contribute our labor to caring for those that need us. We can save some.  

At some point in our lives, many of us experience a vision of the world we need. In all our relationships with humans in that world, people are kind, fair, share, help, forgive and give mercy as well as that we can be confident that every human will help us to survive. It’s living a life where we each have experiences, beginning in our youth, that excite out thoughts and we acquire understanding and skills through knowledge. We can contribute appropriate and helpful work to the community and we receive from others in the human family the food and help we need to survive. These behaviors make it possible for us to discover and create moments of personal happiness. We want to create as many happy moments as we can. 

When we have that kind of world, it will be the result of utilizing the concept of a nurturing system to organize human relationships. Since serious danger can occur at any moment, the only significant help that will ever be available to a human must come from our fellow humans. Effectively providing for human needs will eliminate so much misery as well as most of the causes of the negative behaviors we fear from our fellow humans.  

Creating the safety available through nurturing processes in a world soon to be 9 billion people will take, again, perhaps centuries. We’ll continue to be surrounded by this endless carnage and sadness that results from our current wide-spread erroneous thinking and behaviors. If we’re able to survive long enough, we will ultimately change to the “we exist” thinking of transcendent consciousness (the universe will not permit life to exist with any other logic). One day humans may dependably experience a kind world, but it’s a long way off.

Every important improvement for humans began with knowledge. Our understanding of life has changed so significantly the past 200 years.  Physics and astronomy have revealed the universe; chemistry and biology provide relief and hope for diseases and body defects while concepts in evolution and geology gave us new insights. Scholarship revealed sources and history of religions. Practical knowledge led to changes in how we do work and build our structures (skyscrapers, act.). Perhaps our studies in brain processes will provide some hope for knowledge to understand and control our decision processes.  

We now know that the universe will let the human family die (maybe even all life) and the universe may engage in actions that cause it. The entire experience of life is created by atoms and the forces that act on them. The critical need for each human is to dependably secure food, water and air (atoms) as well as to avoid or survive the natural dangers of the universe (all are caused by atoms and their behaviors). And sadly, the struggle is made worse because we’ve created a world community where most humans make the wrong choices, so we must avoid or survive the anti-life behaviors of these human (each person is a system of atoms).  Our lives are determined by chemical activities.  

Since atoms are reality, our goal must be ensuring peaceful encounters and helpful exchanges between the “atom system” in an individual person and the “atom systems” in other people. Nurturing can control most behaviors. Our thoughts originate in and exist in chemicals and it’s thoughts that initiate behaviors. The wrong thoughts stimulate actions that cause us to damage each other. Almost all of us could have developed control of our chemicals but we were neglected or impacted by events or permitted and even encouraged to develop the wrong thoughts as we matured.  

No matter what the situation, intentionally inflicting injury or neglecting those in need is a “sickness.” It spreads like an infection, especially through generations from adult to child. Worse, we won’t have significant change soon because most of us have this sickness yet we think we’re choosing the right behaviors. We’re delusional. The search for a cure to negative behaviors, especially cruelty and neglect, is as important a goal as any for scientific inquiry. Most of the answer will be that it’s a “nurturing” failure, involving how we guide the development of thoughts and processes for decisions in maturing humans.  

It takes decades to prepare a human for a role in the community. Since humans are chemical systems, certain molecules must be available (usually food, water and air). Help with life’s dangers is also necessary. During those growth decades and throughout life, a human will need information and, because life is often a struggle, humans may need to encouragement. Providing for these needs is a major part of nurturing and an effective nurturing system ensures humans never feel alone with our needs or with danger. Unless a community is designed to provide this nurturing to everyone, it will produce some aberrant individuals.  

Life also involves periods of weakness, such as when we’re young, old, injured or sick. A nurturing system organizes the labor of humans to provide a birth-to-death community of human help. It’s nurturing of each human from birth that will nearly always create the behaviors we need. The maturing individual must grow to understand their role in nurturing relationships and that the community needs from each of us a commitment to peace with others as well as an appropriate labor contribution. Unless the individual is always confident of help from fellow humans, the community has failed.  

We are the cause of the creation of those with the negative behaviors that create so much of the misery experienced by humans in life. If we’re cruel, that has a tendency to create a cruel person. If we ignore and neglect those that need help, we also contribute to the creation of negative behaviors. A nurturing community was always important to the development of positive humans but, because our reality has become that everything is owned or controlled, help to protect the individual from “system errors” has become critical, too.

Using concept of a nurturing system produces a dramatic change in the area of peacekeeping. Our current approach waits until aberrant humans are stealing or injuring people and then intervenes with violence and may seek to administer punishment as a deterrent. Aberrant people are, of course, medically (mentally) defective and the use of violence and “punishment” simply adds further damage to an already damaged “unit.” It’s not “law enforcement” that’s needed its intervention by a medical team and their processes seldom require weapons. Further, nurturing provides life-long help to avoid these “behavioral breakdowns.” 

A nurturing system protects us by creating a community to share food and help. Importantly, it returns the true sense of “community” to individuals of the human family by enabling us to choose which nurture group to be members of. (A world-wide nurturing system will probably involve hundreds of thousands of independent but interdependent groups of cooperating humans in their respective communities. They can be large or small. If we don’t benefit from our contributions, we can separate and join a different nurturing group). This can be made possible by an honest approach to “leadership.” A successful nurturing process for the human family will have many groups with leaders.  

The creation of a successful nurture system will require leaders and our human communities currently do not permit leaders because they are dominated by people that grabbed power. Why do some humans seek control and authority? The world of nurturing systems is created by sharing and the desire for control and authority is not a sign of good mental health. And it guarantees failure for meeting human needs. No one seeks authority or power in a nurturing system.  

This pathway to failure is created by the tools those seeking authority will use to obtain power: violence, control information; secrecy; reducing us to economic slaves by controlling access to food, shelter and medical care; using fake religion with rules that begin, “God says…”, or generating fear as it hides their purposes and causes us to permit their violence. History is clear that they are determined to secure power over us as they’re physically stronger out number us or have weapons or use tricks. The outcome is always their control of us.

Leadership may be the most important decision made by human – either the leadership you choose to provide or the leadership you choose to follow. Leaders are especially important when they must help us through changes in response to history.  It will be difficult now because we have 7 billion humans with the historical momentum of accumulating thought errors. 

A nurturing system depends upon “true” leaders that will not accept from the community authority or power to inflict injury. They know there’s no process to inflict injury. They know there’s no process that can create “valid authority” – it’s simply rules generated usually by hidden people. True leaders only want free speech as their “strength” comes from their possession of wisdom. They have acquired a transcendent consciousness (“we exist”) and they can choose the right goals. They recognize that the origin of morals is what will enable us to live together in peace and be able to cooperate.  

These leaders recognize that, currently, we continue to share life on earth with humans that have not yet acquired transcendent consciousness and because of them; violence will continue to be a too frequent behavior. They always seek alternative to violence by the individual or in community processes. They recognize that violence can no longer serve as a foundational strategy for human relationships and that we must form voluntary links among humans as they are effective for creating cooperation for survival. 

The character of true leaders becomes obvious. They put the welfare of the group above themselves. They never believe they’re entitled to more than others. Their actions are transparent and all community business is conducted in the open (there’s no secrets. If there are secrets, violence and cheating are being hidden). Their words reveal the knowledge and reasoning processes they are using and it’s available for public criticism. They act with compassion. They ensure that participation by all is voluntary and seek benefits for everyone. Only this type of leadership can lead us to a nurturing system. 

Social systems are hard to change. Largely, the world’s 200 nations are coercive communities (CC’s) and are organized on a “law of the jungle” system. Those people that are getting basics depend upon the aggressors that control the Cc’s to keep the “flow going,” so they form a symbiotic relationship. When “they” reach a “critical” mass (enough humans and weapons to ensure control), the CC system is “in place.” “Others” are not needed and are excluded (they might reduce “portions”). Those “in” the system fear changes and that’s the source of the anxiety of so many or the willing neglect that creates the inevitable deaths of the “doomed.” 

The purpose of any “system” among humans is to provide help. There are billions of us, and if we’re getting our basic needs, we may quickly forget the hundreds of millions that are not – they have no value to us. The foundation of the safety for humans provided by a nurture system is a community commitment to the value of and the wisdom of the inclusion of every person. The nurture system seeks mutually successful encounters among humans and those are dependent upon prompt fairness.

Our goal is to ensure that life’s essentials and help are available to all of us. These activities, of course, require the expenditures of energy (labor) by those of us trying to help. The modern community environment for sharing labor is contrived and, without the use of violence, will only organize needed helpers if someone can make a “profit” from the labor. There’s no profit in helping the weak, so we must gather as much volunteer help as we can. It’s critical to use these labor gifts wisely. 

It’s our knowledge of the fact that “life” functions, to a great extent, as a chemical system that provides some clues as to how to help. An “agitated” human is more likely to engage in negative behaviors. With young people, it’s ensuring they develop maturity without acquiring negative behaviors. However, with earth’s already “developed” adults, most we cannot change. They have developed faulty survival logic but think their behaviors are right. It helps to avoid their agitation by ensuring their access to food and help.  

To be effective “helping people,” there’s methods that will improve our successfulness. Our goal is to “give” and not “take.” Always design peaceful processes to secure desired behaviors, especially using knowledge and benefits but not coercion. Don’t argue or criticize or focus on changing a person’s ideology, instead demonstrate needed behaviors. Our behaviors should attract help and the right people will join us.  

We’re seeking to communicate a vision of sharing and it’s important to ensure that the “arts” are a category of labor we encourage. Art, poetry, dance and literature have had a great impact in history for forming new visions. And music has a stunning ability to provide positive feelings (especially among the young that have so much available but unfocused energy). Music should be a regularly used tool for encouragement. We should share our thoughts in music and sing often. In addition to effectively communicating, singing creates happiness for so many.  

 Its 2000 years later, but the challenge for Love Christians remains the same as that experienced by Jesus: we need a world where every behavior choice is guided by the principal of “Love One Another.” The work of Love Christians must be to create and encourage people who are kind, fair, share, and help, forgive and give mercy – the automatic behaviors of those that live by The Love Principle. Those behaviors are the foundation for compassion sought by Jesus. Creating such people is a contribution of Love Christians to the world of people and cooperation. 

There are people that are not followers of Jesus but they also want to create that kind of world. As a Love Christian, our individual role is to become helpers n this larger effort and, sharing work with all people of good will, we will give the gift of life to as many as we can and soon as we can. One by one as well as over and over and over. Some of those in the group of “doomed” people will have hope of the help they need and deserve. We must save as many as we can. 

Earth life is very fragile and we’re barely able to cling to our existence on this now small planet. Every human life and the future of the human family are always at risk from the dangers of the universe. And the energy that makes our life possible is captured from the sun by plants and is only to us because of organisms in the ELO. We must always organize our workforce to manage and protect the ELO. The fundamental relationships among humans must be formed for the purpose of cooperation to survive. Humans are members of one world family.  

Peace does not exist in the human community because, in addition to avoiding the dangers of the universe, the behavior choices made by humans have created an unnecessary second set of problems. Most of us fear each other more than we fear the dangers of the universe. We must discover ways to change that history and stop humans from intentionally causing injury and death to other humans through violence or permitting neglect. And we must stop those that impose their will on us.  

This second set of problems has existed as long as humans have existed. We have always had to fear many of our fellow humans. It’s because we exist in a body of atoms and with our consciousness, we think “I exist.” Our vast new knowledge is making clear that most will experience misery and danger until we learn to develop humans whose thinking is based on “we exist.” We need help from each other. “We exist” thinking creates a nurturing system of relationships and the peace needed to cooperate.  

With earth’s billions of people and nearly all engaging in behaviors initiated by faulty survival logic, we have too big a problem. And there’s too few trying to help.  Life is a large chemical system with a powerful momentum and we may have passed the turning point. It will require a massive effort and effective organization to ensure food and to provide the needed help to each of our fellow humans. Nonetheless, Love Christians and their partners must attempt survival efforts and continue seeking to provide rescue missions. Maybe we’ll have a miracle! Otherwise, we continue to invite misery and human extinction. 

All the unnecessary problems of the human community are caused by our behavior choices. The message of hope from Jesus is “Love One Another.”







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