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The Principle of Existence and Survival
The Principle of Existence and Survival is based on the idea that in order to stay in the game we have to continue to exist and survive. Our world view sees the Future as having two main paths. We either continue to evolve forward (Positive Evolution) or we become extinct. We either survive or we do not. We in the Church of Reality choose existence over extinction.

We as individuals and as the human race have choice and our choices have consequences. If we make the wrong choice an annihilate ourselves then we are out of the game. Everything that humanity has accomplished will be gone. We therefore have to take Responsibility for our existence. This is the world we were born into. We choose to do the best we can with what we have to work with.

The Church of Reality's Root Axiom is that the pursuit of understanding of reality by humans has value. In order to do that we have to stick around. Our focus is on this world and this reality, Real Reality and not Imaginary Reality where a religion believes in some superior next world where this world will end in some sort of destruction. We call that view Extinctionist.
 
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