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Why I started a Reality based Religion |
Some of you might be wondering, "Why is Marc Perkel starting a new religion? What does he hope to accomplish? Is he trying to change the world and manipulate the future?
The short answer is - Yes I am.
I am a person who is in many ways dissatisfied with the world I exist in and I have decided to try to change it; or at least lodge a complaint and try to find people who agree with me that there’s room for improvement. Here’s some of my ideas about how to get it done.
I want to live in a world where people are smarter than they are today. I want to live in a culture that appreciates thinking, understanding, invention, curiosity, and philosophy. I want to be able to talk to lots of interesting people who live interesting lives and have interesting things to say.
Imagine a world where politicians are smarter. People who are elected by a society who expects them to take reality into consideration when making the important decisions that affect us all as a society. Imagine a world where you can get on an airplane knowing that someone isn’t going to try to blow it up because he thinks his invisible friend told him to do so.
I want to live in a world where people take their Life Story seriously and put out the effort to own themselves and decide what role they want to play during their brief existence in this world. I want to live in a world where people have some sort of appreciation and respect for the fact that the way they live their lives affects all of us.
My Bible is the Star Trek series. The Christian Bible is a collection of fictional stories about the past that were designed to create a system of ethics for which to form the basis for a culture. The Star Trek series is also a collection of fictional stories but about the future, rather than the past, that were also designed to create a system of ethics for which to form the basis for a culture.
Star Trek fires my soul because I to envision that day when the mind of humanity stretches across the universe to explore and understand greater and greater things. I want to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations ... to boldly go where no one has gone before.
I want the Star Trek future. A future that gets better from one generation to the next. A future from where we can look back at our new history proud that we took the time and were thoughtful enough to get it right so that humanity can thrive and prosper.
People of the world; is it not better to believe in what actually is real and not what isn't real? Do we need to have wars over "My God is tougher than your God"? Can't we give up the Bullshit and all just agree that believing in what actually is real is important? This world, this universe fascinates me. I want to know it all, explore it al, understand it all.
People of the world; isn’t it time that we put an end to stupidity when it comes to electing our government leaders? Would it not be better if smarter people were in charge? Can we continue to pay the price of getting it wrong when we could have done the right thing if only we had the courage and took the time to think it through?
How many of you turn on the news convinced that the news media is actively trying to make your brain rot? Perhaps the government wants us all to be stupid people. They want us to believe that there isn’t an absolute reality out there, that we are a part of, and that reality created us. I say, let us rise up then and be smart people just to be sure they aren’t up to something.
I don’t know why I exist but I know that I want to continue to exist and I want the human race to continue to exist. There is a lot of work to do to ensure that the future of humanity stays on the right track. It’s going to take a lot of smart people because we need all the help we can get.
I am starting this reigion because I want also to share my appreciation for reality with others. Reality is truth and truth is reality. There is no higher truth that that which is real, the way it really is. That is my world view and I hope to inspire you to bring reality into your belief system and make contemplation of the Sacred Question, "What is real?" part of your daily life.
I want to ask everyone in the world a question, what we call the Sacred Challenge, "Where does reality fit into your belief system?" It is my goal in starting this reigion that I inspire you to think about that question.
I’m tired of living in a world where one group’s deity is at war with another group’s deity, especially when they are referencing the same deity. It makes the deity look lame and I would be embarrassed to be that deity even if I didn’t exist!
My message in this religion to my fellow members of humanity is that it’s time for humanity to grow up and take Responsibility for our own existence. Humanity does not need an imaginary invisible daddy figure telling us what to do. We have evolved to the point where we are aware of our own existence. We now have a good idea who we are and how we got here. Now it is time for humanity to decide what we will become, what we will evolve into
I ask all of you to take personal responsibility for your life. I ask all of you to own it. I want you all to understand that what you do will become what you did. I ask that you accept that what is, is; and that what is not, is not! To accept that "to be" is the opposite of "not to be" This it is not the question, that is the way it is.
I want everyone to understand. I didn’t create reality. Reality created me. And I’m just trying to understand and appreciate my creator the same way all other religions are.
So if you are wondering if I’m up to something it’s pretty obvious that, in fact, I am. I ask that all of you turn to reality for guidance; that you establish a personal relationship with reality; that you take the time to look around at the reality around you and contemplate your existence, our existence, and existence itself. Brothers and sisters of the planet; reality has changed my life. Reality can change your life too. Every time you think about reality who you are is transformed. In that moment you become a little smarter, and the universe becomes a little smarter.
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