Go find ye a true god.

You have faith in yourself, you have to face the world, you fight how
you can, you do what you can, you are confronted with things you can't
solve on your own, the fight demands development of new qualities that
can't come from within but from without, you stop having faith in
yourself only and have to expand your horizons to other places besides
the self.

You have faith in people, you run into all kinds of wrong of which
people are capable, you get lost and broken and taken advantage of, you
stop having faith in people and have to look elsewhere for faith. You
may decide that there are good people and bad people and then have
faith in good people; this raises all kinds of questions about the
nature of good; "good" people organize to kill off the "bad" people, we
get Southern gentility sustained by KKK or the social infrastructure
sustained by materialistic psychology. Hypocrisy is noticed; your
children turn against you; you call them spoiled when what they are is
insightful into the nature of what is around them. Your faith in people
has just led to colossal darkness, and you have to appeal toward
something else.

You have faith in reason, reason's own investigations into the higher
mathematics, biology, astronomy and everything else show the existence
of other forms of rationality in the universe - its fundamental
nonlinearity, instead its intricacies and complexities. Reason itself
therefore goes beyond reason and discovers other horizons, other
methods and other ways of thinking and intuiting which show that it's
not the only method nor the only right one.

You have faith in work, the process of work (and what it takes to
maintain it) leads to all kinds of unanticipated consequences, which
then require greater exploration, which then create a more enhanced
understanding of what is work and what it is that is doing it,
expanding both the definition of work and the definition of usable and
worthwhile abilities and of worthwhile things besides what is
previously known as work and the extent to which they improve people's
lives - and the extent to which previous forms of work are not
beneficial.

You have faith in morality, the process of striving for ethical living
leads to all kinds of agonizing moral choices, which likewise expand
undestanding of human existence, and which when carried out
incomptently or incompletely raise all kinds of moral questions about
the validity of the morality that oneself claims to practice. Which
morality, in order to be maintained through methods consistent with
principle, including honesty of examination, then lead to a greater
understanding and greater empathy and greater insight into just what
constitutes truly ethical choice. Which leads to understanding that
morality is not the be-all and end-all, and that it is not the only
thing in which it is ethical to place faith.

You have faith in responsibility, then acting in a responsible manner
presupposes understanding the world enough that one knows the full
range of consequences of one's actions and thus acts in a manner that
anticipates and takes responsibility for the results. And the people
who most loudly shout about responsibility are hostile to knowledge and
what it takes to attain it, thus putting a lie to their claim of
valuing the responsibility they claim to espouse as well as of valuing
reality. As knowledge builds definition of responsibility expands, as
in the previous example does the definition of work, until things seen
previously as irresponsible become recognized as useful and are
incorporated. At which point the people have a choice of recognizing
this as consummation of meaning of responsibility, or to go back to the
cave and keep screeching about responsibility without realizing its
implications.

You have faith in reality, then you start discovering intricacies and
complexities and clouds and butterflies that are a part of reality, and
any concept of reality that is honest has to incorporate all such
things. As knowledge is incorporated, people's understanding of reality
expands, until it involves such things as quantum mechanics and
relativity. Questions start to arise in honest minds as to where all
such things come from and what are the implications. Attitude in honest
people changes from stomping to wonder, which changes the definition of
realism. What was previously thought unrealistic or insane becomes
appreciated and incorporated; and reality of human existence grows
through people's efforts from multiple angles. Realism turns into
something much better - or, should irrational faith in materiality
prevail, leads to a place that cannot possibly be regarded as realism
and can only be defined as hypocritical evil

The false and incomplete gods are therefore inevitably, according to
logic contained in them, going to flounder to other places or take to
another level that show them to be incomplete.

This does not make them evil, but rather not worthy of worship.

Go find ye a true god.

Ilya Shambat.

You have faith in yourself, you have to face the world, you fight how
you can, you do what you can, you are confronted with things you can't
solve on your own, the fight demands development of new qualities that
can't come from within but from without, you stop having faith in
yourself only and have to expand your horizons to other places besides
the self.

You have faith in people, you run into all kinds of wrong of which
people are capable, you get lost and broken and taken advantage of, you
stop having faith in people and have to look elsewhere for faith. You
may decide that there are good people and bad people and then have
faith in good people; this raises all kinds of questions about the
nature of good; "good" people organize to kill off the "bad" people, we
get Southern gentility sustained by KKK or the social infrastructure
sustained by materialistic psychology. Hypocrisy is noticed; your
children turn against you; you call them spoiled when what they are is
insightful into the nature of what is around them. Your faith in people
has just led to colossal darkness, and you have to appeal toward
something else.

You have faith in reason, reason's own investigations into the higher
mathematics, biology, astronomy and everything else show the existence
of other forms of rationality in the universe - its fundamental
nonlinearity, instead its intricacies and complexities. Reason itself
therefore goes beyond reason and discovers other horizons, other
methods and other ways of thinking and intuiting which show that it's
not the only method nor the only right one.

You have faith in work, the process of work (and what it takes to
maintain it) leads to all kinds of unanticipated consequences, which
then require greater exploration, which then create a more enhanced
understanding of what is work and what it is that is doing it,
expanding both the definition of work and the definition of usable and
worthwhile abilities and of worthwhile things besides what is
previously known as work and the extent to which they improve people's
lives - and the extent to which previous forms of work are not
beneficial.

You have faith in morality, the process of striving for ethical living
leads to all kinds of agonizing moral choices, which likewise expand
undestanding of human existence, and which when carried out
incomptently or incompletely raise all kinds of moral questions about
the validity of the morality that oneself claims to practice. Which
morality, in order to be maintained through methods consistent with
principle, including honesty of examination, then lead to a greater
understanding and greater empathy and greater insight into just what
constitutes truly ethical choice. Which leads to understanding that
morality is not the be-all and end-all, and that it is not the only
thing in which it is ethical to place faith.

You have faith in responsibility, then acting in a responsible manner
presupposes understanding the world enough that one knows the full
range of consequences of one's actions and thus acts in a manner that
anticipates and takes responsibility for the results. And the people
who most loudly shout about responsibility are hostile to knowledge and
what it takes to attain it, thus putting a lie to their claim of
valuing the responsibility they claim to espouse as well as of valuing
reality. As knowledge builds definition of responsibility expands, as
in the previous example does the definition of work, until things seen
previously as irresponsible become recognized as useful and are
incorporated. At which point the people have a choice of recognizing
this as consummation of meaning of responsibility, or to go back to the
cave and keep screeching about responsibility without realizing its
implications.

You have faith in reality, then you start discovering intricacies and
complexities and clouds and butterflies that are a part of reality, and
any concept of reality that is honest has to incorporate all such
things. As knowledge is incorporated, people's understanding of reality
expands, until it involves such things as quantum mechanics and
relativity. Questions start to arise in honest minds as to where all
such things come from and what are the implications. Attitude in honest
people changes from stomping to wonder, which changes the definition of
realism. What was previously thought unrealistic or insane becomes
appreciated and incorporated; and reality of human existence grows
through people's efforts from multiple angles. Realism turns into
something much better - or, should irrational faith in materiality
prevail, leads to a place that cannot possibly be regarded as realism
and can only be defined as hypocritical evil

The false and incomplete gods are therefore inevitably, according to
logic contained in them, going to flounder to other places or take to
another level that show them to be incomplete.

This does not make them evil, but rather not worthy of worship.

Go find ye a true god.

Ilya Shambat.