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		<title>Homeless Jack on Taking the Path</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[by H. Millard &#8220;LOOK, MAN, a lot flows from the basic principle in Arman&#8217;s Teachings about what we call Code A. And, understanding what he teaches about Code A helps us sort out lots of things about morals and values and how we should live our lives. &#8220;Now, I follow Arman&#8217;s Teachings as best I can. Others can as well, <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2014/06/hj-on-taking-the-path-2/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>by H. Millard</p>
<p>&#8220;LOOK, MAN, a lot flows from the basic principle in Arman&#8217;s Teachings about what we call Code A. And, understanding what he teaches about Code A helps us sort out lots of things about morals and values and how we should live our lives.</p>
<p>&#8220;Now, I follow Arman&#8217;s Teachings as best I can. Others can as well, but they&#8217;re not forced on anyone. In fact, we believe that one must come easily to the Teachings as an indication that such a person may have the right parts inside. You know that so-called <a href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2012/09/homeless-jack-praise-the-white-racism-gene/">White racist gene</a>? Well, we believe in it. We say it is a survival gene or genes or is somehow part of our DNA code, but that it is dormant in many of us and weaker in some and stronger in some others. Not only do we not run from this concept of a racist gene, we embrace it. We love it as a beneficial mutation and we want to expand it.</p>
<p>&#8220;But I&#8217;m getting ahead of myself, man. First things first. We believe that our purpose in living is to make more like ourselves and to will our own evolution into a new species incapable of bearing children with other humans. We believe that by following the Teachings, we can cause beneficial mutations and changes in Code A that will lead us ever upward to specieshood. Some other religious philosophies try to obtain enlightenment, or closeness with God, or other higher states, through various methods. Many of them fail because they don&#8217;t understand or their believers don&#8217;t have the right internal parts &#8212; Code A. Anyway, our goal &#8212; as conscious believers &#8212; is specieshood. Enlightenment and higher consciousness will come as we progress physically and spiritually toward this goal.</p>
<p>&#8220;Now, just to refresh your memory, so I don&#8217;t confuse you: We call our White genotype Code A. Yeah, it&#8217;s the DNA code, or recipe to make a White person. All of us Whites get it in one way only. We must have a White mother and a White father. There&#8217;s no other way to get it, man. One White breeding with any kind of non-White cannot produce a child with Code A. That&#8217;s why miscegenation is evil. Just to be clear, man. It takes two White parents to produce a truly White child who is our kind with both our physical and our spirit Essence. Miscegenation is bedroom genocide. It destroys your family&#8217;s essential Whiteness.</p>
<p>&#8220;The two White parents give us the 46 chromosomes and the 3.1 billion combos of the four nucleic acids abbreviated as A, T, C, G and the 20,000 or so genes that make us White people. And, Code A exists within all the cells of our bodies where there is DNA. Code A <em>is</em> us, and we are it. It is what makes us. It spins us out as the people we are in our everyday world. Without it, we would not be. With it, we can become more.</p>
<p>&#8220;Because of our belief in the utmost importance of Code A and the further belief that we must protect it, improve it, and expand it, and because the way we do this is by living long, righteous lives so we can have the maximum number of children who carry Code A, we say that things such as miscegenation, homosexuality, celibacy, family planning, birth control, abortions, putting off having children, suicide, taking risks with our lives that might lead to our early death, going to war for false causes, irresponsible and dangerous acts of bravery for any reason other than to help Code A, mixing with those who are not our kind &#8212; and anything else that might stop us from protecting, improving, and expanding the particular version of Code A that each of us as individuals carries &#8212; are evil.</p>
<p>&#8220;You get that, right, man? We live to expand Code A and to also try to help it evolve, which means <em>we</em> evolve. And, we believe we can help do this by the things we believe and the way we live. You see, we believe that we, as our normal selves in our normal world, can influence Code A inside of us to improve it. We call our way of helping our evolution &#8220;method living&#8221; &#8212; which is somewhat like method acting. That is, we try to <em>be</em> what we wish to <em>become</em>. We try to act the part of the &#8220;next man.&#8221; And, we do this by everything we do. It affects how we dress, our haircuts, our food, and everything else in our lives. This helps us move to evolving into a new species incapable of mating with other humans and to be the next model man who will eventually and naturally replace earlier models just as new cars replace older models.</p>
<p>&#8220;You see, man, the person we see in the mirror, you and I and other Whites &#8212; are the carriers of Code A. Code A is what must survive. Our importance as the person we see in the mirror is that we are the way Code A expands and evolves. Nature screams out to every type of organism: Make more like yourself! Too many of us Whites aren&#8217;t listening and we do not follow this very basic and important command and we substitute false and inauthentic things for what is most important. We are all going to die, man. Our bodies are going to wear out. But, if we have had many children who survive us, they will carry on and we will be part of them. This is our basic purpose in being alive and it is the basic purpose of every living thing: to make more like yourself &#8212; to make more like our kind.</p>
<p>&#8220;And, we also say this basic principle about Code A guides us in our idea of morals and marriage. You see, we are also individualistic in our beliefs and in this context this informs us that we are not born as couples. We are born as individuals, and as individuals, male and female, we have different natural laws that control our breeding. A male can impregnate many women each and every day, but a female is out of the baby making business for nine months while a new one of us is growing inside her. Why should the man also be out of the baby making business? It makes no natural sense for a people who want to expand their kind.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are also particularists. Our religious rules and religious laws are for us alone. We don&#8217;t care what other peoples do. They can have abortions all day long for all we care. They can commit suicide. They can practice birth control. They are not our kind and we believe in non-interference. We have our destiny and they have theirs. We do not make the mistake of trying to mix these different destinies as many non-believers in the present Dark Age are doing.</p>
<p>&#8220;So, you read all these words and you wonder what concrete things can I do: Here&#8217;s the answer. Separate from non-Whites as best as you can. Mix as little as possible with them. Have as many White children as possible. Bear a sacred symbol next to your skin (six-armed fylfot with curved arms and a central hub &#8212; the hub turns counter clockwise and the arms follow and it looks sort of like a spinning galaxy &#8212; is preferred by Arman). Pray a short prayer like this in the morning: &#8216;Thank you Lord for letting me have another day to do your work.&#8217; And, in the evening say something like: &#8216;Thank you Lord for having let me do your work today.&#8217; Yes, you should say those prayers or something similar twice a day even if you don&#8217;t believe. They help focus your mind and keep you on track. Remember, Arman&#8217;s Teachings involve method living, and this prayer stuff is part of it. But, you may say that you&#8217;re an atheist, and you don&#8217;t feel right about praying. Well, just understand that in our system we believe that there was a First Cause that started existence. We don&#8217;t know what that First Cause really was, and while some of us believe it was something like a cloud of consciousness and intelligence with no physical brain as we know such things and may have something to do with subatomic particles, waves, forces or energies, it is perfectly okay in this system to not believe that and to believe it was just the natural workings of Nature and had no intelligence or consciousness. Hell, man, I even go back and forth in my own mind about the nature of the First Cause and I sometimes wonder if there was no First Cause and existence always existed. You should also dress in functional, comfortable, dark clothing. In our system, if this has not already been made clear, we must try to have as many children of our kind as possible, and all forms of relationships that accomplish this are perfectly okay in this faith.</p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing to join, man, and you don&#8217;t have to send money to anyone to take our path. Just believe. You are an individual and you have the right to believe or to not believe. You are as empowered to take this path as I am, and we&#8217;re all going through our lives as best we can while learning more about the ways of existence as we go. Some of us think Arman has the answers to the big questions, and those answers can be found scattered in these essays. I&#8217;ll tell you some more things about how to take this path in future essays. To some of us this is a religion. To others a philosophy. It doesn&#8217;t matter how you view it. You are a free and sovereign individual equal to anyone else who follows this path.</p>
<p>&#8220;You can choose to believe as we do, and if you decide later that you don&#8217;t believe, so be it. You&#8217;re a free individual and you have the absolute right to choose your path in this life of yours that belongs only to you. You were born alone, and you&#8217;ll die alone. Make the most of what is in between. And, don&#8217;t forget this: Your life is your own. Be happy. If this system makes you happy, follow it. If it doesn&#8217;t, don&#8217;t.&#8221;</p>
<p>(© 2013 H. Millard)</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[by H. Millard THE EAGLE swooped down and said to the Cockroach, &#8220;You are a despicable creature and you are hated by humans. You live everywhere, you eat anything, and you breed like crazy. &#8220;I, on the other hand, am loved by humans. I am so noble and beautiful that many humans use me as a symbol for themselves and <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2013/01/the-eagle-and-the-cockroach/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>by H. Millard</p>
<p>THE EAGLE swooped down and said to the Cockroach, &#8220;You are a despicable creature and you are hated by humans. You live everywhere, you eat anything, and you breed like crazy.</p>
<p>&#8220;I, on the other hand, am loved by humans. I am so noble and beautiful that many humans use me as a symbol for themselves and their nations.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Cockroach replied, &#8220;I don&#8217;t care what humans think of me. They are not my kind. I don&#8217;t exist for their pleasure. You think you&#8217;re noble and above me in the big scheme of things? You&#8217;re a fool. You and your kind are dying out. You only eat certain things. You only live in certain places. You don&#8217;t breed enough. You are not a symbol worth copying. You are death walking.</p>
<p>&#8220;All individuals die. I will die. You will die. The difference is, Mr. Big Shot Eagle, that I will live on in the many offspring that I have brought into the world who have my DNA Code within them. When you die, you will cease to exist and your DNA Code will die with you. You might as well not have lived at all.</p>
<p>&#8220;However, it is not you or I as the individuals that we see every day in our normal lives that are most important, Mr. Eagle. It is, in the first instance, the Core DNA Code within that is truly important. It is the Core DNA Code that has transformed so-called non-living minerals into what we know as life. All life is the manifestation of the Core DNA Code and its particular variants that make each of us different in our everyday reality. So, in the second instance, what is truly important to each form of life is its particular variant of the Cord DNA Code. Your DNA Code variant makes you a particular type of Eagle, mine makes me a Cockroach.</p>
<p>&#8220;Some particular DNA Code variants produce dead-end creatures like you, Mr. Eagle, who have specific adaptations, and such creatures are always on the verge of dying out as we live in a dynamic universe where everything changes because everything is moving. Such creatures cannot compete when changes happen.</p>
<p>&#8220;And, some particular DNA Code variants produce dead-end creatures like my kind who have general adaptations. Now, bear with me, Mr. Eagle, and I will explain why we are both dead-enders in our own ways. It is a sad knowledge that I possess for both of us.</p>
<p>&#8220;We Cockroaches do eat just about anything (and relish it all) and we do live just about anywhere (and are very comfortable) and we do produce many more just like us (gotta love those children) as we expand our particular DNA code. We are the survivors, but we are also trapped, Mr. Eagle. You and your kind are losers because you cannot genetically adapt to ever-changing conditions so you can survive and prosper. We Cockroaches, on the other hand, are losers precisely because we can survive without having to genetically adapt. You see the problem, do you not? No? Well, I will explain in due course</p>
<p>&#8220;Now, Mr. Eagle, you spoke of humans, so here&#8217;s something about them and especially about White humans. Many of them are ignorant of the ways of existence, and they, like you, fail to see that they must adapt and they must breed like us Cockroaches if they are to survive as a distinct life form and if they are to ever fulfill their highest possible destiny which, ironically, is to go extinct as they are now and to become a new species of human that is incapable of breeding with the other kinds of humans that still walk the Earth long after they would have died off had White humans not intervened to feed them and to medicate them and take care of them, just as they are taking care of you and your kind, Mr. Eagle.</p>
<p>&#8220;We Cockroaches know, with a cosmic sadness, that while we have survived for millions of years pretty much unchanged, that we are not the end all and be all of evolution, and it is precisely because we haven&#8217;t had to change that is our problem. We are both trapped, Mr. Eagle. Your kind will die out. My kind will continue to live, but we won&#8217;t evolve. We&#8217;re perfect as we are. We long for challenges that will force our particular DNA Code to change in order for us to survive so that we can become more, so that we will become more intelligent and more conscious, but we continue to meet all challenges without evolving. It is sad, in the long run.</p>
<p>&#8220;You see, Mr. Eagle, evolution requires change, not stability. Mr. Eagle, you will go extinct &#8212; truly extinct &#8212; because you are not able to evolve to meet changing conditions because of your special adaptations. And, we Cockroaches will not go extinct, for the same reason &#8212; we cannot change to a higher form, because we are perfectly capable of meeting most changes in the environment just as we are.</p>
<p>&#8220;But, back to White humans, Mr. Eagle. The hope of expanding and improving their particular DNA Code lies with those few White humans, who have the so-called &#8216;racist gene&#8217; and the brains to understand these things and who can consciously adapt and evolve <em>if</em> they do the right things. It is this sub-set of White humans &#8212; the ones with the so-called racist gene &#8212; who will break out of the trap and who will <em>will their own evolution</em>, and who will go extinct as they are so that they can transform themselves into a new species that is just a little bit stronger, a little bit healthier, and a little bit smarter than other humans.</p>
<p>&#8220;You see, the White humans with the so-called racist gene have already started changing from other White people. They have a mutated gene that will lead to other mutations, and if they breed like us Cockroaches, they will spread their mutations to other White family lines. Oh, they look just like other White humans, but that&#8217;s the way it is with most mutations &#8212; they are subtle and often internal, but they are also <em>very real</em>. Their major survival advantage is that their racist gene helps them avoid miscegenation and even close contact with darker humans. These mutations are changing the particular DNA Code that they have just a few letters at a time, but the ramifications are going to be Earth-shattering if all goes as we Cockroaches believe they will in the fullness of time.</p>
<p>&#8220;And, these few ones, the White ones with the so-called racist gene &#8212; have the power to bring about their own further mutations. They have a plasticity of their DNA Code that is part of their mutation, and they just need the information on how to use that plasticity to make the right changes. They need to know how to use their minds to will their own evolution in the right direction.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is these White humans, the ones with the so-called racist gene, that are on the threshold to a new type of human that will be born from them. These new humans, this new species, will eat just about anything, live just about anywhere, and they will breed their kind like we Cockroaches breed our kind &#8212; but the difference is that they will be able to use their brains to keep evolving ever higher.</p>
<p>&#8220;You look at me, Mr. Eagle, and wonder how I know these things about Destiny, and I say to you, there is more to existence than you or I will ever understand, but I tell you that what I know, I know, and it is true and this knowledge comes from that which brought somethingness to the nothingness and which programmed that first molecule of DNA &#8212; that cornucopia of life itself &#8212; to endlessly and tirelessly bring forth and tinker with life in order to eventually fill all of existence with a life form that understands the meaning of existence and which is the master of all of existence and which is as a god to creatures that have not evolved to such a level.&#8221;</p>
<p>(© 2012 H. Millard)</p>
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<p><em>&#8220;Millard is an original. His books aren&#8217;t like your typical fiction. If you don&#8217;t know where to put his books, try the same shelf with Kerouac, Kafka, Sartre and Nietzsche&#8230;&#8221;</em></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[by H. Millard ARMAN SPOKE, SAYING: We are different, some of us, I am convinced; at least those of us who instinctively understand, or who are easily awakened to the White truth with very little prodding. We who know, know in our bones that we Whites must remain separate and even isolated in order to evolve along the best trajectory <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2012/11/arman-speaks-we-are-different/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>by H. Millard</p>
<p>ARMAN SPOKE, SAYING: We are different, some of us, I am convinced; at least those of us who instinctively understand, or who are easily awakened to the White truth with very little prodding.</p>
<p>We who know, know in our bones that we Whites must remain separate and even isolated in order to evolve along the best trajectory for us. This knowledge is as much a part of our genetic code as is the color of our skin.</p>
<p>We know that we must not mix with other types of humans and that doing so will cause our genocide and extinction.</p>
<p>We may not all understand the <em>science</em> of why we must remain separate, but we <em>know</em> this is the case and we know that we <em>must not miscegenate</em>. Some of us might simply say that we want our children to look like us and leave it at that. But, what this really means is that we know that we must breed only with our own kind, because that is <em>how</em> we have children who look like us. And, this is as it should be and is the right strategy for the survival of us as individuals, for the survival of our family lines, and for the survival of our people as a whole.</p>
<p>But some folks new to our thinking may want to know more about <em>why</em> we should not mix and blend in with the others and why we must avoid gene transfer. The quick answer is that we have a DNA code within us. It is the blueprint or recipe to build a White person. Some of us believe that this DNA code is sacred in all its parts and must be preserved and expanded. We like to think of this DNA code as being somewhat similar to the concept of <em>soul</em> in that it is the <em>real us</em>, and we, as the manifested human beings we see in the mirror are what it has spun out and maintains.</p>
<p>We must digress a little at this point for a fuller explanation. We believe that there is a core DNA code that is the same in all organisms. We say it started as a single DNA molecule that formed and was able to make the leap from so-called non-living minerals to what we call life. The core DNA code doesn&#8217;t care which type of organism or organisms win the struggle for survival. It just wants to fill all of existence with itself. Its program says <em>find a way to survive, expand, make life</em>. We sometimes visualize this core DNA code as being like an unchanging nucleus or hub at the center of all life. Although the core code always remains the same and always has those same basic commands &#8212; survive, expand, make life &#8212; it fulfills its commands by creating a great variety of organisms which all carry the same basic core DNA code but which are adapted to different environmental niches. We see humans as one of the organisms that was eventually produced by this process, but we do <em>not</em> see humans as the final product, because <em>there is no final product</em>. The process will continue forever.</p>
<p>Because living organisms require energy to survive, and because they must transform so-called non-living minerals into the substance of their bodies, and because existence requires movement, a struggle and conflict in existence is established as a natural law. This is part of our reality and we must understand that this struggle and conflict permeates existence and is necessary. We need to learn to love the struggle and conflict and we must learn to compete better.</p>
<p><strong>The human genetic code</strong></p>
<p>The genetic code for humans has 46 chromosomes, and (at last count) 20,000 genes. That code is one with us and we are one with it. When we mate, we pass on 23 of our chromosomes that contain about half of our genes. Our mate also passes on 23 of his or her chromosomes with half of his or her genes. Bake for nine months in the womb and then the resultant child will be born with the 46 chromosomes and 20,000 genes that are normal for our species. If the two parents are White, the child will be a 100% by-the-recipe White person. So, right away you can see that if you mate with those who look like you, the child will also look like you, but if you mate with people of another race, the child will only have 23 chromosomes and 10,000 genes from you and your White race, but will also have 23 chromosomes and 10,000 genes from another race. Such a mixed child <em>cannot</em> be authentically White, no matter what he or she looks like, simply because it does not have 46 White chromosomes and 20,000 White genes. It is more complicated, but this is the basic idea.</p>
<p><strong>Born &#8220;racist&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard some people say that we Whites are born &#8220;racist.&#8221; Others have said that we have a &#8220;racist gene.&#8221; We think they&#8217;re right, at least for some of us who are the lucky ones of the White race to have born with this so-called racist gene, because we see it as a mutation, and one that is positive and builds into us a desire to remain White. It helps us survive as Whites. In other words, it&#8217;s not really a racist gene, it is a <em>survival</em> gene that gives us a heightened awareness of <em>who is us</em> and <em>who is not us</em>.</p>
<p>This special part of our genetic program that we were born with, whether it&#8217;s an actual gene or genes or some other part of our DNA code &#8212; again, call it a mutation &#8212; truly is a survival mechanism for our particular genetic code. It helps keep it on the right evolutionary path. It helps us survive as we are and as we should be. Even with all the present Dark Age societal conditioning pressures to have Whites blend themselves away in the non-White masses, those of us with the so-called racist gene mutation resist, and know instinctively that to blend ourselves away is evil and that it will lead to the genocide and extinction of many Whites who were not lucky enough to have been born with this survival mutation.</p>
<p>We must, however, distinguish between those of us with the mutation who are exactly as Nature intends us to be and some Whites who come to their so-called racist views via hatred or misinformation or conditioning to become &#8220;racist.&#8221;</p>
<p>As you know, many Whites were once conditioned to be so-called racists. Not all of them had the mutation that we have. So, when the times changed, and when racial separation, which was once widely accepted, suddenly became thought of as no longer acceptable, some of these once staunch so-called racists were conditioned anew &#8212; they were reprogrammed with anti-racist, and even self-hatred thoughts, and many just lapped it up. And, like smokers who give up smoking and become the most vehement opponents of smoking, these former so-called racists, in some cases, became the most vehement opponents of so-called racism. Why did they break that way? Because they lacked the so-called racist gene. Their original racism was part of their cultural conditioning, not part of their essence, and, when the culture changed, the conditioning changed &#8212; and so did they. These are the Whites among us who are like Pavlov&#8217;s dogs on two feet.</p>
<p>My guess is that those of us with the racist gene don&#8217;t usually have a lot of hate for other peoples (unless we or someone we know has been victimized in some way by some of these others) and that we are mostly just indifferent toward them. They are not our people and they are not our concern. They have their destiny and we have ours. They are not part of our lives and we like that just fine. Some of us also believe that we are not to interfere with the trajectory they are on, unless it negatively impacts our own trajectory. If they die off, that is Nature&#8217;s way.</p>
<p>How far widespread is our racist gene in the White community? We don&#8217;t know. But in time we may find out, because Whites who lack it miscegenate and destroy their family lines, while the ones who have it don&#8217;t miscegenate. In the future, all Whites then alive may be related to those of us with the so-called racist gene, because they may be the only Whites still alive &#8212; all others may have blended themselves back into the dark masses and ceased to be White.</p>
<p><strong>Our revealed destiny</strong></p>
<p>Our revealed destiny is to evolve into the next type of human being. We Whites are on the threshold, and so long as we do not have gene transfer with other types of humans and if we follow the Teachings, we will move ever closer to making the leap. And once the leap is made we will have many benefits. We will no longer be able to breed with other humans. We will live longer, healthier, happier lives. We will just <em>know</em> things as our intelligence rises. We will have new general adaptations that make us the fittest type for all environmental niches that are right for our species. Eventually, and if we are righteous, we will, through natural selection and the other fundamental forces of evolution and Nature, replace all other humans simply because that is the way existence works. It is a truism that the end result of the evolution of any organism is the extinction of the old and the birth of the new from out of the old.</p>
<p>It is not predestined that we Whites will be the ones to replace the old humans. We have reached a point in evolution where we must use our brains to <em>direct</em> our evolution. It is by doing this that we are most likely to be the ones who win the evolution competition.</p>
<p>Evil are those who try to carry other humans and who help them survive and escape their trajectories. Just as individual organisms die, so too do entire species of organisms die, and this is the goal of evolution &#8212; to replace earlier forms that are less fit with new models that are more fit. These workings of Nature will continue whether we believe as we believe or not, and <em>some</em> organism &#8212; some human type &#8212; <em>will</em> move to the winner&#8217;s circle of evolution. We say that we want that to be our kind of organism, and we say that we can make it so by living consciously and by guiding our evolution along the revealed path. This is our faith. This is our way. We are different, and we want the differences to increase in positive ways.</p>
<p><strong>Why won&#8217;t Whites awaken?</strong></p>
<p>We often hear some Whites complaining that other Whites are not waking up and aren&#8217;t seeing the truth. Well, could it be, as we&#8217;ve said above, that many of these other Whites simply lack our mutation? Can it be that many are like people who are color blind and can&#8217;t see certain colors? And, here, we don&#8217;t mean color blind in the colloquial sense of not seeing different races, but in the literal medical sense of not being able to see reds or some other colors. Why are they this way? It is because of their DNA code. They can&#8217;t see certain colors because their DNA won&#8217;t allow them to see them. They lack the genetic ability to do so. So it is with those Whites who cannot see our truths. They lack our ability to see what we so plainly see.</p>
<p>But you shouldn&#8217;t complain about Whites who can&#8217;t awaken. What do you want them to do if they awaken? Do you want them to carry you, because you are too timid to take action yourself? Are you incapable of taking individual responsibility such that you won&#8217;t follow the Teachings unless you&#8217;re in a crowd? Do you lack self-reliance? Do you have low self-esteem? Get over these negatives. How many people who are awake does it take to make changes? It only takes one. You as an individual have an individual responsibility to do what is right and to fight evil. You do not need to wait for others to awaken to somehow validate you and your beliefs. Stand alone, but always be willing to join with others who can also stand alone for what is right.</p>
<p>You have a personal and an individual responsibility to spread your DNA code that contains our differences so that eventually it will replace the DNA code of those who are weak seeds. And, when you reproduce correctly, you increase the chance that the Ones To Come will be born. Yes, we are looking for ever more mutations among our kind that will further us along the path. The more White children you produce, the greater is the chance that the foretold mutations will occur and spread.</p>
<p>You also have a responsibility to find and awaken those of our people who <em>do</em> have the differences we have, but who simply haven&#8217;t been exposed to the truth. However, it is not your responsibility to try <em>too</em> hard to awaken others. Those who have our differences, once exposed to the truth, will quickly awaken &#8212; while those who lack our differences will not. Present our truth in kind and compassionate ways, and those who have our differences will understand.</p>
<p>Thousands of years ago there weren&#8217;t <em>any</em> White people. Then, we automatically mutated and we evolved and we did so in order to have a survival advantage in the dimly lit lands of Europe.</p>
<p>Now, we need to evolve again. Now we need to evolve into a new species <em>that can no longer bear children with other forms of humans</em>. That is our highest destiny and that is the path that only we can take. And some of us believe that is the path that takes us closer to the First Cause of existence itself.</p>
<p>(© 2012 H. Millard)</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[by H. Millard &#8220;SO, YOU&#8217;VE READ A LITTLE about Arman&#8217;s Teachings that I follow that constitute my religion, my philosophy and my world view and you&#8217;ve seen the lexicon that I&#8217;ve put together and you probably think you&#8217;ve seen it all, right, man?&#8221; asked Homeless Jack. &#8220;Well if that&#8217;s what you think, then you&#8217;d be wrong. I&#8217;m not just helping Arman <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2012/05/homeless-jack-righteous-path/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>by H. Millard</p>
<p>&#8220;SO, YOU&#8217;VE READ A LITTLE about Arman&#8217;s Teachings that I follow that constitute my religion, my philosophy and my world view and you&#8217;ve seen the <a href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2011/06/homeless-jacks-lexicon/">lexicon that I&#8217;ve put together</a> and you probably think you&#8217;ve seen it all, right, man?&#8221; asked Homeless Jack.</p>
<p>&#8220;Well if that&#8217;s what you think, then you&#8217;d be wrong. I&#8217;m not just helping Arman spread his Teachings which make up this religion, I&#8217;m also helping with the groundwork to establish a tribe and colonies that, with the help of God, will grow to a nation and which will be the White people of the future born out of the worn-out husks of the masses of effete White people now alive.</p>
<p>&#8220;A vibrant, vital, bold <em>new</em> White people, man, to replace the present dispirited weak-seed masses. One blood, one faith, one people.</p>
<p>&#8220;After all of the rest of the present conditioned weak-seed White people die or are killed off by the darker peoples either directly or via miscegenation, low birth rates, contraception, abortions, or celibacy, <em>we will still be here</em>. And, we&#8217;ll still be believing and breeding, man. Believing and breeding. Expanding always, contracting never. Let the weak-seeds blend themselves away, man. Screw them.</p>
<p>&#8220;The conditioned weak-seed White masses are Winter. We are Spring. And, I don&#8217;t mean that they are necessarily old and we are necessarily young according to the calendar. I mean that they are old and decrepit in the way they see the world with their lack of awakened self and group interest, while we are young and vibrant in the way we see it.</p>
<p>&#8220;However, many of them have just been lulled to sleep by societal conditioning in our present Dark Age and can be awakened. Arman says it is our religious duty to try to awaken as many as possible by exposing them to the Teachings, but once they are exposed to them, it is up to them to take the path or not. It is their choice.</p>
<p>&#8220;We should not try to force them to believe. If they freely and knowingly choose the righteous path, this is an indication that they may have all the right parts of the Code. If they <em>don&#8217;t</em> choose the righteous path, this indicates that while they may look like us, they may have corrupted versions of the Code and are weak seeds who should be left alone by believers. The weak-seeds are extinction walking.</p>
<p>&#8220;Look man, the thing that distinguishes humans from other organisms that we are aware of is that we have big brains as our tooth and claw, and those who come to our Teachings and understand them and internalize them and live them are the ones among us who still haven&#8217;t been defanged or declawed. Their brains see the truth. They have the right instincts because they have the right elements of the Code. They are tuned in to the First Cause who is all around us, man, kind of like radio waves, but different.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are a distinct people aborning out of the old. We are <em>different</em>, man, and we know it and <em>we want to increase our differences</em>. We don&#8217;t want to blend back in. We are the distilled ones. We are on our own path to becoming a new species and when we reach the new species level we will no longer have to worry about gene transfer from those unlike us that will pull us back into the masses.</p>
<p>&#8220;We &#8216;racialists,&#8217; that is, those of us who easily see the truth, know the truth in every iota of our beings. We are a subculture of the larger White population. We are the ones who will lead to the survival of Whites. The masses of sleep-walking Whites,who can&#8217;t be easily awakened, are on their way to extinction.</p>
<p>&#8220;We look forward, man. The past is gone. We can learn from it, but we don&#8217;t dwell on it. A Golden Age in the past? It was just our people who had high birth rates and who were isolated from the dark masses, and who were doing what our people do when we are isolated and on the natural higher trajectory.</p>
<p>&#8220;They did much and built much in their blessed isolation, and with their high birth rates, but those days are gone. Now we are victims of modern science, modern communications, and modern mass transportation. Our modern science helps the dark masses live longer to breed more. Modern communications helps them see that our formerly all-White lands may be more comfortable for them. Mass transportation makes it easy for millions of them to invade our lands and swamp our gene pools.</p>
<p>&#8220;And, too many of our people have become weak and effete. Instead of barring the door to the dark masses, they&#8217;re putting out welcome mats. It&#8217;s as though they&#8217;re saying: &#8216;Come on in and change our gene pool and destroy us by killing us in the streets and in our homes; and those who you don&#8217;t directly kill, why, just blend us away by mating with us.&#8217;</p>
<p>&#8220;These White weak-seeds value material things over having children. They lack generative power. They are dying, man. Don&#8217;t let these weak-seeds among us pull you down. Reject them. Shun them. Go your own way. Take the path. Follow the Teachings. This is the way up.</p>
<p>&#8220;You must meet three requirements to be fully one of us, man. <em>Right Blood</em>: This means right genes or right DNA code &#8212; and this is the largest circle and includes all non-Jewish White people. <em>Right Belief</em>: This is the next smaller circle and contains those from the first circle who also believe in the major ways that we believe. <em>Right Action</em>: This is the smallest circle and has those from the first two circles who actually live the Teachings each and every hour of each and every day to the best of their ability and circumstances.</p>
<p>&#8220;Okay, man, so if you&#8217;re still with me here&#8217;s one of our statements of our beliefs:</p>
<p>&#8220;We believe in the First Cause, in the ways of existence, and in the Teachings of Arman who was selected by the First Cause to bring the Teachings to us in this Dark Age to save us and guide us on the righteous path that is ours alone, so that we may evolve ever higher as commanded by the First Cause.</p>
<p>&#8220;Suppose you don&#8217;t believe in the First Cause &#8212; our usual term for God. Does this bar you from following the Teachings? Nope. Why? Because the Teachings are based on revelations and true science and our revelations will never be at odds with true science and they are not totally dependent on blind faith.</p>
<p>&#8220;Arman teaches that God &#8212; again, we usually say the First Cause &#8212; is needed as the &#8216;ender of all arguments&#8217; and is important for human psychological reasons, but you don&#8217;t have to believe, man. But, keep this thought in mind: If you don&#8217;t believe, just fake it, man. Just method act it. God won&#8217;t mind. Just go through the motions. Yeah, just silently thank God and ask Him for guidance. Suspend your disbelief when you are all alone. You won&#8217;t be untrue to yourself for doing so. You have that right to do so as the sovereign individual that you are. You are hereby enabled, man.</p>
<p>&#8220;If there is no God, so what? What have you lost? Nothing. And, it&#8217;ll help you focus your mind. Then do all the rest of the things that are in the Teachings: have many children, dress in plain clothes, live simply, bear the symbols next to your skin. Be a good person. Follow the Golden Rule &#8212; yes, we have that also, man. Live the Teachings, man. Don&#8217;t worry that you may feel inauthentic in doing so, just play the part and the part will come to you, man.</p>
<p>&#8220;If you want to <em>be</em>, you just have to act the part, man. That&#8217;s the way to <em>be</em> and to <em>become</em> more.</p>
<p>&#8220;This may sound too simple to you, but it&#8217;s true: Method act your way into taking the path, and you&#8217;ll be surprised at the insights you develop and the hidden guidance you will receive from the First Cause (that you may not even believe in) &#8212; or from your own mind.</p>
<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t get it? Try this. Say you&#8217;re a cave man and you&#8217;ve never seen a radio. Someone tells you to turn the knob and you&#8217;ll hear voices. You may not believe it. You may reason that such a thing is crazy. Your reason tells you that voices can&#8217;t come out of a small box that is not connected to anything. How can a man be inside that small box? Then you just put aside your lack of belief and turn the knob and a voice comes out. You can&#8217;t explain it. You just did the motion of turning the knob and it worked. You just did the action without believing and it worked.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think that&#8217;s part of what Arman is teaching, man. Just do it. Just go through the motions. Just turn that knob. Do the simple things of studying the Teachings, staying with your own kind, having many children, dressing in plain dark comfortable clothes, bearing the symbols next to your skin, praying at dawn and dusk by simply saying something like: &#8216;Thank you Lord for letting me live another day.&#8217; Or if you want guidance just say: &#8216;Please help me find the right answers, Lord.&#8217; Just method act yourself into evolving.</p>
<p>&#8220;And, you might keep a candle or light burning in front of a picture of some representation of one or more of the spinning, circling, spiraling symbols, man, to help you focus. Call it an altar.</p>
<p>&#8220;As Arman says, man: &#8216;Everything is simple. It is only the explanation that is complex.&#8217;</p>
<p>&#8220;Oh, and one last thing. This isn&#8217;t fiction. But if any haters of our people ask you, you can tell them it&#8217;s fiction.&#8221;</p>
<p>(© 2012 H. Millard)</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[by H. Millard &#8220;I KNOW YOU&#8217;RE trying to figure out more about this religion of mine, man,&#8221; said Homeless Jack, &#8220;so here&#8217;s a basic lexicon that may help you get it. I got this from Arman. &#8220;And, you probably want to know how many believers there are in addition to Arman. Well, all I know is, I believe. One is <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2011/06/homeless-jacks-lexicon/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>by H. Millard</p>
<p>&#8220;I KNOW YOU&#8217;RE trying to figure out more about this religion of mine, man,&#8221; said Homeless Jack, &#8220;so here&#8217;s a basic lexicon that may help you get it.  I got this from Arman.</p>
<p>&#8220;And, you probably want to know how many believers there are in addition to Arman.  Well, all I know is, I believe.  One is enough.  You see, that &#8216;one&#8217; principle is also part of our beliefs, our kind of human is like the first point that started all of existence. It all starts with One.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are a branching off, and each one of us is another possible branching if we have as many children as possible in our image.&#8221;</p>
<p><em>Abiogenesis</em>&#8211;The theory that life can arise from non-living matter.</p>
<p><em>Adaptation</em>&#8211;The process whereby an organism becomes better suited to its environment.</p>
<p>General adaptations are those that fit an organism for life in broad environmental zones, as opposed to â€˜special adaptations&#8217; which are specializations for a particular way of life. Organisms with broad general adaptations often survive while those with special adaptations become extinct when changes occur in the environment.</p>
<p><em>Absorption</em>&#8211;Armanist religious concept that holds that living organisms can absorb parts of the code of other organisms as well as from so-called non-living things. Works with natural selection. Often seen as mimicry.</p>
<p><em>Allele</em>&#8211;One of a series of different forms of a gene.</p>
<p><em>Arman</em>&#8211;The Teacher. Receiver and promulgator of the revelations and divine inspiration.</p>
<p><em>Armanism</em>&#8211;one of the names used for this belief system.</p>
<p><em>Basic Impulse</em> or just <em>Impulse</em>&#8211;The inherent &#8220;desire&#8221; to be and to be more.</p>
<p><em>Blenders</em>&#8211;Those who promote the blending of all races, religions and nations into a sort of plain wrap human being that we call the Tan Everyman. Blenders do not like human differences, but sometimes push &#8220;diversity;&#8221; not because they actually <em>want</em> human diversity, but because they see this as a step to blending. The idea of the Blenders is to keep all lands where humans live from being exclusively of one race, one religion and one nation. One way they try to do this is by encouraging the mass immigration of peoples who are far different from the natives in those lands, to those lands.</p>
<p>Then, over time, the Blenders expect the &#8220;rough edges&#8221; and &#8220;extremes&#8221; of racial types, religious beliefs and nationalistic tendencies in those lands to disappear by blending in with the mass at the center of the bell curve.</p>
<p>The ultimate goal of Blenders is to have one universal race, one universal religion, one universal nation that is worldwide. &#8220;Blenders&#8221; is our word for them. They do not call themselves this.</p>
<p><em>Blending</em>&#8211;In nature, the majority of any type of life will be clustered around the center of the bell curve in characteristics for that type of life. This is natural. In humans, we not only see this as the blind workings of nature, but we also see some humans trying to increase the mass near the center while eliminating the different versions that are in a minority. This is an attempt to remove the &#8220;rough edges&#8221; of different races, religions and nations and have them all become part of a sort of plain wrap world where conformity in all ways is the norm. Some well meaning, but misinformed, people believe this is the way to have a peaceful planet. Unfortunately for those pushing this idea, it won&#8217;t work &#8212; because the spinning of existence will always cause change and differences. And, all life, whether it is aware of this or not, will continue to struggle to be and to be more. Life is competition. Life is struggle. Differences are what move us forward. Without differences there would be no evolution.</p>
<p><em>Blue eyes</em>&#8211;A recent evolutionary development, probably emerged within the last 10,000 years according to recent research.</p>
<p><em>Bottleneck</em>&#8211;There have been recurring bottlenecks on Earth. These have been times when most living things died off (think dinosaurs, for example), and only a few types, for whatever reason, survived and got through the bottleneck to replenish the Earth. The coming great die-off of <em>Homo sapiens</em> will not be complete. Many with Code A will be saved because of their right blood, right belief and right actions and they&#8217;ll survive and get through to the other side of the bottleneck and become a new species. In other words, they will have the right DNA combination (the correct mutations) and other factors that will immunize them to what is to come &#8212; or which will, in some way that we are unaware of, protect them. White skin is an absolute necessity according to the revelations. Why? We can only guess.</p>
<p><em>Cause and effect</em>&#8211;We live in a cause and effect universe. Effects have causes. Things always happen because something causes them to happen.</p>
<p><em>Chromosomes</em>&#8211;DNA is organized into chromosomes. Humans have 46 chromosomes. The chromosomes are of different sizes. Chromosome number 1, for example, which is the largest human chromosome, has about 220 million base pairs. A male and female each contribute 23 chromosomes to a new child. Because Whites are a later evolutionary development, their genes are less fixed and are more fragile than genes in other humans. This means most genes for White characteristics are recessive and will not be expressed if a White bears children with a non-White. It thus takes two Whites&#8211;a White male and a White female&#8211;to produce a White child.</p>
<p><em>Code, The</em>&#8211;That which is within everything in existence that makes it what it is. In life that we are aware of, the code is in the form of DNA. The code is the same on the most basic levels of existence and then is changed and modified to make all that exists. It is also this way within life and within human beings. It is programmed to spread and expand into every possible niche.</p>
<p><em>Code A</em>&#8211;Our term for the specific code that makes non-Jewish European-descended White people as we are. Believers will sometimes just say &#8220;The Code,&#8221; and by this they usually mean Code A.</p>
<p><em>Comfort</em>&#8211;All living things seek comfort. The comfort sought may be psychological or physical. The desire for psychological comfort can override the desire for physical comfort and can be used for good or bad. Nietzsche thought humans had a &#8220;will to power.&#8221; We think he was wrong. We believe there is a &#8220;will to comfort,&#8221; found in humans and all living organisms, and the will to power is just a subset of the psychological desire for comfort found in some individuals.</p>
<p><em>Competition</em>&#8211;A natural and desirable part of existence.</p>
<p><em>Correspondence</em>&#8211;As above, so below. As below, so above. There are links unseen between things on the surface that appear to have little or no connection, and there are &#8220;buttons&#8221; that can be pushed with proper symbols and rites.</p>
<p><em>Cosmic Balancing</em>&#8211;Similar to the concept of karma.</p>
<p><em>Cosmic evolution</em>&#8211;the study of universal change and the assembly and composition of energy, matter and life. This is at the heart of our beliefs; the evolution of everything. Human evolution is just a small part of this, but since we are humans, we give it a lot of attention. We understand, however, that we are not unique or special except for the fact that, as far as we know, we are the only organisms on Earth who can think the abstract thoughts about this and other things, and we are the only organisms on Earth &#8212; again as far as we know &#8212; who can take an active and conscious part in determining the direction of our future evolution. The same basic forces at work in cosmic evolution are also at work in the evolution of life. Understand the very small, and you&#8217;ll understand the very large. Understand the very large, and you&#8217;ll understand the very small.</p>
<p>Here are the general steps of Cosmic Evolution:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8211; The emergence of the first &#8220;point&#8221; of  energy and forces in the absolute nothing</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8211; The spinning evolution of the energy and forces into vibrations, elementary particles and atoms</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8211; The spinning evolution of atoms into galaxies, stars, planets, etc.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8211; The spinning evolution of star material into mineral elements</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8211; The spinning evolution of those mineral elements into the molecular building blocks of life</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8211; The spinning evolution of those molecules into life forms</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8211; The spinning evolution of advanced life forms into intelligence</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8211; The spinning evolution of intelligent life into higher consciousness</p>
<p><em>Deadenders</em>&#8211;Those who do not reproduce their kind or who reproduce too few so that their code does not survive into the next generation.</p>
<p><em>Deme</em>&#8211;A local population of one species that share a distinct gene pool. When isolated from other demes of the same species they can become a distinct subspecies or species.</p>
<p><em>Dissimulation, Religious</em>&#8211;Religiously sanctioned act of lying or otherwise doing whatever is necessary to prevent persecution for one&#8217;s beliefs and faith.</p>
<p><em>Divine Inspiration</em>&#8211;The Teachings are the product of revelation and divine inspiration. Believers should also seek divine inspiration in their daily lives by praying to be guided in doing the right things.</p>
<p><em>DNA</em>&#8211;Deoxyribonucleic acid is made up of four bases: Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, Guanine that are usually abbreviated A,T,C,G. DNA is organized into units called chromosomes. Humans have 46 chromosomes. A child receives 23 chromosomes from his or her mother and 23 from his or her father. Great emphasis is put on DNA, genes, genotypes, phenotypes and similar concepts in this belief system, as DNA is considered to contain the essential person, and to be that which is to be improved and which moves forward. Our individual bodies are constructed by the DNA and our DNA can survive our individual bodies. All life is built from the inside out by the DNA spiral. The DNA spiral looks like a twisted ladder.</p>
<p>All DNA is the same. It is the <em>order</em> that is important. Very minor changes in the sequence or order of the DNA can have major effects. This is often misunderstood or misrepresented by blenders who want everyone to think that all humans are the same except for different paint jobs. They&#8217;re not. To say all humans are 99% the same may sound as though we&#8217;re all the same, but when you consider we&#8217;re talking about 3.1 billion letters of DNA, 1% difference can be major. Here are some other comparisons that you&#8217;ve probably seen. The actual percentages shown here might be slightly different from what you&#8217;ve read, because the percentages and counts are often updated as new information is learned. Chimps and humans are about 96% the same (the old figure was 98.5%). Slugs and humans are about 70% the same. Daffodils and humans are about 35% the same. Bananas and humans are about 50% the same. This last comparison is often cited this way: Although humans and bananas are 50% the same, this doesn&#8217;t mean that a human is half banana. Keep that in mind when you hear blenders say that all humans are the same because they share 99% the same DNA with other humans. It is the <em>differences</em> that are important, and minor differences often produce major results. DNA is the almost robotic molecule of life. It works automatically and never stops working in tinkering with life to try to expand itself into all of existence and to find the best carriers of itself.</p>
<p><em>Dominant</em>&#8211;(1)The primary type of any organism in an area. All life &#8220;tries&#8221; to be dominant. (2) In genetics, the form of a gene that is expressed in the characteristics of an organism. Generally, many of the characteristics of White people are recessive and require both a White male and a White female to produce a White child.</p>
<p><em>Drift, genetic</em>&#8211;Random fluctuations of gene combinations that are often neutral and nonadaptive, but which may become fixed in a small population even though they do not appear to offer any survival advantage.</p>
<p><em>Drogh</em>&#8211;Our religious term for ground of existence or the field. It is where matter comes into existence from vibrations.</p>
<p><em>Enlightenment</em>&#8211;Awakened to the true nature of reality. It is more than just an intellectual understanding, but may include that, and is a quiet but exalted or ecstatic glowing feeling of oneness with the First Cause that words can&#8217;t describe. One who is truly enlightened will see patterns and truths that others miss and will see the universe in a back yard.</p>
<p><em>Essence</em>&#8212;The core of everything in existence. Used with a capital &#8220;E&#8221; to refer to the Essence of the indigenous peoples of Europe both still in Europe and in the European diaspora. With the capital &#8220;E&#8221; it is similar in meaning to DNA, genotype, phenotype and Code A.</p>
<p><em>Evolution</em>&#8212;The gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form. We accept this as a reality. However, we believe that evolution on Earth is just part of Cosmic Evolution. As far as evolution on Earth goes, we do not believe that Darwinian evolution has all the answers of evolution. Darwin got much right, but there is more. Much more. Note that evolution and Darwin are not synonyms. Darwin posited what he believed about evolution, but there are other evolutionary views that seek to answer some of the questions that Darwin couldn&#8217;t answer. For example, Darwin&#8217;s idea of gradual evolution never satisfactorily accounted for the emergence of completely new types beyond the species level. Enter punctuated equilibrium and similar theories. Evolution is all about differences in living things, and evolution usually requires isolation to work. Evolution is a branching off as nature tinkers with the DNA code and shuffles the letters of DNA in different ways. The differences &#8220;stick&#8221; if there is isolation&#8211;either geographic or reproductive&#8211;and if the changes offer a survival advantage (note&#8211;some changes do not offer survival advantages but also stick, perhaps because of pleiotropic factors) so those with the differences do not blend back in with those they branched off from. Remember also that Darwin lived and died before DNA was discovered. In addition to changes caused by adaptation and natural selection, all life on Earth is constantly bombarded by various types of cosmic rays and other forces that can cause some of the letters of DNA to be knocked out of place and which can cause mutations. Nature works on a trial and error basis. It tries something, and if it works it keeps it. If it doesn&#8217;t work it doesn&#8217;t keep it. Evolution doesn&#8217;t take place when gene pools reach equilibrium, because evolution means change.</p>
<p><em>Exogenesis</em>&#8211;Hypothesis that life on Earth came from elsewhere. Similar to panspermia but more limited in its scope.</p>
<p><em>Expand always; contract never</em>&#8211;Armanists believe this is a command that is within everything in existence and that anything or any living things that disobey this command will become extinct. Humans of one type expand and change the frequency of genes in the gene pool by becoming more numerous than other types of humans, primarily by having higher fertility rates than other humans. Those who produce the most children who live to produce their own children in great numbers will eventually replace other types of humans who do not breed as fast or in such quantity.</p>
<p><em>External Signs</em> (or <em>characteristics</em>)&#8211;the genetically determined way we look. Phenotype.</p>
<p><em>Extreme Individualism</em>&#8211;An error in thinking that causes one to not see that one is part of a group of like beings and the product of a group genotype.</p>
<p><em>Fail Point</em>&#8211;The paradoxical  threshold of evolution where humans now find themselves. By evolving big brains,we have reached this point where we are able to stop the evolutionary process of natural selection for the best qualities. The weak and the strong can both survive under such conditions and pass on their codes. This puts the best adapted and least adapted on an equal footing in the chance for survival and in expanding their codes. Believers seek to get past the fail point and to cross the threshold to move higher.</p>
<p><em>Faith</em>&#8211;Faith is important for a number of reasons including the fact that the brain can cause physical effects that can be beneficial.</p>
<p><em>False ideas</em>&#8211;humans have many false ideas in their humancentric ideologies and beliefs, and these false ideas often block the path and must be identified and corrected. The major false idea in this age, one which leads to many subsets of other false ideas, is that all humans are the same. This idea is anti-nature and anti-evolution. Our view, to be clear, is not that there are superior or inferior humans, but that there are many, many <em>differences</em>. Humans have evolved and adapted for certain environments and as a result of these adaptations and resultant gene changes, they have acquired other secondary changes.</p>
<p><em>Field, The</em>&#8211;Also known as the ground of existence and Drogh. Behind everything.</p>
<p><em>First Cause, The</em>&#8211;That which created something out of absolute nothing. Used interchangeably with &#8220;God.&#8221; The Ultimate. The Source of all of existence.</p>
<p><em>Flow, The</em>&#8211;The great spinning river of existence in which the Earth bobs along like a very tiny piece of dust as a little zoo of a planet.</p>
<p><em>Free will</em>&#8211;We believe that human free will is not as free as many people believe and that our actions, in a very broad sense, are more gene-directed than many people want to believe. However, there is a level of free will that is important, even though it is difficult to ever know whether we are acting because of our genetic programs or because of free will.</p>
<p><em>Frequency dependent selection</em>&#8211;the fitness of a phenotype is dependent on its frequency relative to other phenotypes in a given population. Blenders try to change the frequency of genes in a population via immigration in order to change the population.</p>
<p><em>Gene</em>&#8211;a portion of DNA that carries the code for some action or characteristic of the living organism. Humans have somewhere between 20-30,000 genes. The exact number has not been determined. They are the program within us. Genes &#8220;want&#8221; to survive and struggle to be expressed. We are their way to do this. Competition and struggle are natural and exist throughout all of existence. This competition and struggle is inherent in existence itself. Note that a gene is not an actual thing, but a location on a strand of DNA.  We often say: Genes Are Us.</p>
<p><em>Gene fixation</em>&#8211;one variant of a particular gene (allele) remains the only one in a population. A partial but incomplete example of the process may be easily seen in Finland which is considered the blondest nation on Earth. That is, the allele for blond hair is almost the only allele in the population, and if gene flow were completely stopped, the allele for blond hair would become fixed in the population.</p>
<p><em>Gene Flow</em>&#8211;The transfer of alleles of genes from one population to another. Gene flow stops divergence and prevents the emergence of new species from the old species. New species develop when the gene flow is stopped. The major way gene flow is stopped is by physical separation and isolation. Gene flow causes homogenization or blending.</p>
<p><em>Genetic Drift</em>&#8211;A mechanism for evolutionary change resulting from the random fluctuations of gene frequencies in small, isolated populations.</p>
<p><em>Genetic homeostasis</em>&#8211;the tendency of a population to maintain a constant genetic composition.</p>
<p><em>Genetic Isolation</em>&#8211;The absence of gene flow between populations as a result of geographic separation or other mechanisms that prevent gene flow.</p>
<p><em>Genocide</em>&#8211;Actual genocide is the killing off of genes by any cause. Legal genocide is defined by the U.N. We accept both actual and legal genocide as realities. Whites are victims of genocide by both definitions.</p>
<p><em>Genotype</em>&#8211;Your internal blueprint or code. All the letters of DNA in their particular arrangement that makes you, uniquely you. A descriptor for genome which is the actual, physical DNA molecules.</p>
<p><em>Gens</em>&#8211;Latin for clan, race, nation, people, tribe.</p>
<p><em>God</em>&#8211;Unknowable. The First Cause. The Source. That which did the impossible and created itself and everything else from nothing. We see the something that was created in the nothing as an invisible, spinning, spiraling and expanding skein of existence that underlies all of existence. No human form. Sometimes used as synonym for nature or creator or similar terms. When you peel back everything to a time before there was anything, you are left with a mystery of what started existence and you are left with this concept. The necessary end of all arguments. One <em>contra</em> theory holds that there was never a time when there was absolutely nothing.</p>
<p>Although, as a thing easily said, we often speak of the &#8220;big bang&#8221; as the start of existence, our reason tells us that something was already in existence at that time&#8211;perhaps subatomic particles or waves&#8211;so the first cause must have been before the big bang.</p>
<p><em>God gene</em>&#8211;Is an hypothesis that some humans inherit genes that predispose them to spirituality. Gene VMAT2 is thought to be involved. This gene doesn&#8217;t directly cause one to be spiritual, but causes certain chemical changes in the brain that are interpreted as spirituality. The importance for us in this faith, even if the hypothesis is proven wrong, is the indication it gives of the increasing recognition that genes cause various attitudes and behaviors as well as the physical characteristics that we see, such as eye color and skin color. We believe that there is a gene variation that may draw some people to our beliefs while others will not be so drawn because they lack the particular allele for this, and just cannot fully understand the teachings on a deep level. Teachers will point to the well known example of color blindness in which some people with certain gene variations can&#8217;t distinguish between the colors red and green. No matter how hard those with this gene variation try, they just can&#8217;t see the difference. No one would call them dumb. It&#8217;s just a difference in genes. So it is with many of our beliefs. Some people simply won&#8217;t get it.</p>
<p><em>Golden Rule</em>&#8211;Treat all others as you want to be treated and treat all others as they treat you.</p>
<p><em>Great Die-Off</em> or <em>Mass Extinction</em>&#8211;Arman had a vision of a time when most humans would die off and only believers would be spared to get through the bottleneck.</p>
<p><em>Ground of Existence</em> (also <em>Field</em> or <em>Drogh</em>)&#8211;Thousands of years ago people began realizing that our everyday objects were made up of ever smaller objects called atoms. Then they realized that atoms were made of even smaller objects. Today, it is recognized that subatomic particles, which can also be subatomic waves, may be what underlies everything in existence and that all of reality is built up from them. Subatomic waves may be the source of matter. Some religions, sensing this reality, posit the notion that everything is thus illusion. We reject that notion. We do sometimes indicate that everything we know in our universe is a projection of the subatomic particles/waves but this idea of &#8220;projection&#8221; is far different from other uses of the term, most notably in the way a film is projected. In our use of the term, we see the subatomic particles/waves spinning into reality that which they are the essence of. The unseen skein.</p>
<p><em>Homo Armanius</em>&#8211;The next man. The new model human. We are the ones before his emergence and he will only emerge from us and no others.</p>
<p><em>Ideal</em>&#8211;Of every thing in existence there is an ideal. Finding the ideal in our kind is important so that it can be reached and then can be overcome to move ever higher. The Ideal for living conditions for believers would be for them to have their own land free of all discordant elements so that they could pursue their evolutionary and highest destiny exclusively among their own people.  This Ideal Land is something to be sought, prayed for and worked for so that the people may truly be free.</p>
<p><em>Imagery, Religious</em>&#8211;Fylfots, circles, spirals, spinning, turning, bramble bushes, natural forests, rivers, oceans.</p>
<p><em>Impulse, The</em>&#8211;The inbuilt need or desire in existence to be and to be more and to expand always.</p>
<p><em>Internal Signs</em> (or <em>characteristics</em>)&#8211;the way we are that can&#8217;t easily be seen. Our intelligence, personality, etc. that are genetically determined.</p>
<p><em>Isolation</em>&#8211;Physical or reproductive isolation are usually required for speciation to occur.</p>
<p><em>King of the Senses</em>&#8211;In humans, the king of the senses is eyesight. We can reason to this conclusion by starting with the fact that the purpose of all life is to make more like itself and in humans nature has tied the libido to sight. As the king of the senses, sight is also tied into our survival instincts. We generally sense danger by seeing it and we can usually know who is us, and who is not us by sight.</p>
<p>We also believe that we must not deny our senses and that we have them for a reason&#8211;to help us survive to breed. We believe that we must feed our senses by being active, and it is by being active that we move higher.</p>
<p><em>Lamarckism</em>&#8211;Theory that an organism can pass on characteristics that it acquires in its lifetime to its offspring. Largely discredited. However, we believe that the basic ideas behind the theory (but with modern terms) are valid but have not yet been proven. We believe that living organisms (maybe just some and maybe just under certain conditions) do pick up &#8220;essences&#8221; of various other living organisms and even so-called non-living things and forces in the environment that cause changes to the genetic code under some circumstances and that some of these changes can be passed on to offspring when the conditions are right. The methods of picking up these essences are open to speculation. It may be from viruses or bacteria injecting the essences into our DNA or it may be something different. We believe that there is a sort of chameleon effect or plasticity with life that is different from, but works with natural selection. We point to certain insects that mimic the twigs or leaves upon which they live as examples of this absorption of the essence of other things into the genes.</p>
<p><em>Law of Inertia</em>&#8211;An object at rest will remain at rest and an object in motion will remain in motion unless acted upon by another force.</p>
<p><em>Living universe</em>&#8211;The idea that the universe and all that is in it is not dead. In our definition, it is not alive either, as we usually define the term, but is all connected via subatomic particles and subatomic waves (or by currently unknown forces) in a skein or field that we do not fully understand, such that the universe, or parts of it, responds automatically by receiving sensory input from everything in existence. A simple analogy might be to think of a stove made of iron. When the stove is heated up, the iron automatically changes because of the heat. In the universe, it&#8217;s as though everything that exists is wired to the underlying and unseen First Cause. Another analogy is a spider web. The spider picks up vibrations if any part of the web is moved even slightly. This is how the spider finds prey.</p>
<p><em>Meditation</em>&#8211;We reject the idea that sitting still for hours on end and depriving the senses of stimulation is beneficial for believers and will lead to any deeper understanding of existence. Our meditation is usually from a few minutes up to an hour of quiet reflection while viewing a proper focus object and while quietly asking for guidance from above. Sometimes, in some believers, longer times may be helpful. We also believe that we must not deny our senses to gain a deeper understanding, but actually bathe our senses in things of the senses. Thus, we believe that we must be physically moving and taking in sights, sounds and smells&#8211;that we must experience things&#8211;to gain fuller understanding. Walks in woods, fields, mountains, deserts and even in cities help us understand, if one does this consciously and actively. Our brains need the input let in by our senses. We must live consciously and always observing the patterns all around us and we must learn from everything.</p>
<p><em>Method acting</em>&#8211;We believe that one of the ways to improve, advance and help our evolution is to imitate certain ideals and to act the part of the ideals in all ways possible. We see this as being similar to method acting. A method actor will try to become the character he plays, and will often try to do this by doing everything in the same way as the character; which can include eating the same food, using the same toothpaste, using the same soap, living in the same place and wearing the same socks and underwear, of a real person being portrayed. By taking on the outward aspects of the character, the method actor tries to evoke the inward aspects. Everything we do or experience is registered in our subconscious mind by our senses and causes changes in the way we perceive the world and the way the world perceives us and how we act and react to various stimuli. See also Absorption.</p>
<p><em>Miscegenation</em>&#8211;mating outside the genotype. Forbidden by the First Cause as a great sin or wrong against the First Cause.</p>
<p><em>Mutagen</em>&#8211;is an agent or substance that can bring about a permanent alteration to the physical composition of a DNA gene such that the genetic message is changed.</p>
<p><em>Mutation</em>&#8211;A Mutation occurs when a DNA gene is damaged or changed in such a way as to alter the genetic message carried by that gene. Random mutations are sort of nature&#8217;s wild cards to change life to survive by throwing in random changes that might or might not stick. They are happening all the time. Most are minor and go unnoticed. Some are detrimental to the organism. There are also mutations of chromosomes and these have much greater effects.</p>
<p><em>Natural Law</em>&#8211;Naturally occurring principles of existence that channel existence toward evolution. Natural law is built into the structure of existence. Humans must deduce natural law correctly, and these teachings provide help.</p>
<p><em>Natural Rights</em>&#8211;Those rights that you have just because you are here. They are yours because of your birth. No other men or groups of men or government can legally grant them to you or take them away from you. They are yours. Among these natural rights are your right to your existence, your right to reproduce as you wish, your right to associate with or not associate with anyone of your choosing for any reason of your choosing, your freedom, self-determination, self-governance, self-identification, your right to believe as you wish and to tell others of your beliefs, your right to pursue your personal happiness as you alone see fit so long as you do not harm others.</p>
<p><em>Natural Selection</em>&#8211;The process in nature by which the organisms best adapted to their environment tend to survive and pass on their genetic characteristics to succeeding generations while those less adapted tend to be eliminated. Survival of the fittest in the struggle to be and to be more. Natural selection brings about evolutionary change by favoring differential reproduction of genes. This changes the gene frequency from one generation to the next. Natural selection does not cause genetic change, but once there is change it encourages some genes instead of others. Natural selection requires genetic variation, differential reproduction and heritable characteristics.</p>
<p>We believe that natural selection is often being overridden in modern society due to birth control, abortions and miscegenation and that this artificial state of affairs is blocking or destroying the best evolutionary path for many of our European indigenous people still in Europe and in the European diaspora.</p>
<p><em>Nature</em>&#8211;The word &#8220;nature&#8221; as we use it means far more than the narrow meaning it is usually given. In our use it means all of existence and sometimes it means God. So, when believers say they study nature for clues to answers to the big questions, they don&#8217;t just mean they&#8217;re going on nature walks (but that could be part of it). They mean they&#8217;re looking at subatomic particles and subatomic waves, galaxies, birds, flowers, physics, psychology and everything else that is in existence.</p>
<p><em>Notus</em>&#8211;Literally &#8220;Not Us.&#8221; Not our people.</p>
<p><em>Numinous feeling</em>&#8211;Filled with an overwhelming sense of wonder and awe at being in the presence of the divine. We find this most easily just before dawn and just before dusk, during storms and in forests and other places away from civilization.</p>
<p><em>Only one path</em>&#8211;This is the one genuine path for us that leads to true higher states. It requires, among other things, physical evolution. This is one of the main differences between this belief system and others. We believe the core of our being is our unique physical DNA code that we carry and which has spun us into existence. It is an absolute prerequisite that one must have to take the next step up. It is the code that must survive and expand and we are a means to that end as it is a means to our end. However, this is not to be seen as though we are merely robots carrying a real something inside of us that pulls our strings and orders us about. We are one. We are its outer aspect and it is our inner aspect. It is within every cell of our body.We would not exist as the beings we are except for it, and it cannot survive and evolve except for us. It is our essence.</p>
<p><em>Order is important</em>&#8211;DNA is composed of just four basic chemicals (A,T,C,G) yet those four chemicals when shuffled in different ways produce all the variety of life that we are aware of. This tells us that it is not the difference in the chemicals of DNA that is important (because there are none) but the way they are arranged. Change the order just a little and you have a fly or a mouse or an ape or a man or a tree. And, the emphasis here is on change the order just a little. It doesn&#8217;t take much. A few letters changed and one has white skin or non-white skin, straight hair or curly hair.</p>
<p><em>Our Kind</em>&#8211;Those with Code A.</p>
<p><em>Ourselves</em>&#8211;Those with Code A.</p>
<p><em>Our Way for Ourselves Alone</em> (<em>OWFOA</em>)&#8211;Another name for this religion, philosophy, world view.</p>
<p><em>Panspermia</em>&#8211;Hypothesis that &#8220;seeds&#8221; of life exist all over the universe and that some of these seeds caused life on Earth as well as elsewhere.</p>
<p><em>People, The</em>&#8211;When used by believers it usually means either believers or those who may not yet be believers but who share our 46 chromosomes.  Synonym for Believers.</p>
<p><em>Phenotype</em>&#8211;That which is built by the genotype. The way you look. The outward manifestation of the inner code.</p>
<p><em>Placebo God</em>&#8211;Human psychology requires an ender of all arguments and something that is bigger and anchored and which gives meaning to man&#8217;s short life. Our blessing and our curse is our large brain. It lets us think about existence and meaning and discover the laws of existence; this is both the blessing and the curse. Belief, if it is real, acts upon our minds and our minds act upon our bodies in real and physical ways by releasing various chemicals that can help or hinder us on the path. If one does not believe in God; then one should learn to do so.</p>
<p><em>Pleiotropy</em>&#8211;Genes have more than one effect. For example, when an attempt was made to domesticate foxes by breeding them for the quality of dog-like tameness, the foxes also automatically developed other dog-like qualities such as floppy ears, turned up tails, and patched coats of different colors. The changes weren&#8217;t expected, but they had the added benefit of allowing people to see the &#8220;content of the character&#8221; of the changed foxes. The outward reflected the inward. In other words, in the case of the foxes, it wasn&#8217;t possible to breed for certain personality traits without also changing the exterior appearance of the foxes. The same effect works in humans. Change skin from black to white and you change much more than just skin color.</p>
<p><em>Prayer</em>&#8211;At dawn and dusk.</p>
<p><em>Primary Command, The</em>&#8211;The primary command for all life, including human life, is to survive as long as possible to make as many more like itself as physically possible. This is less about the survival of the individual and more about the survival of the DNA code that is passed on to offspring. Some falsely believe that the primary command for organisms is an instinct for self-preservation. While at the level of the whole organism, this may appear true, it must be understood that it is the <em>code within</em> that seeks survival and which wants the whole organism to survive in order to expand and spread the particular version of the code within. Living organisms, including humans, that do not breed in their image, are evolutionary dead ends whose code will never move higher.</p>
<p><em>Proper living</em>&#8211;Living as long as possible to protect and expand the code by having as many children in the image of the people as possible. Everything else in our lives is secondary to this. We are told that the evolution of our kind will only come by having vast numbers of us filling all lands. We know also that it is not the individuals who are important, but the Code. The individuals carry the Code and they are the way it is expanded.</p>
<p><em>Punctuated equilibrium</em>&#8211;The theory that species have little change for long periods (stasis) and then experience rapid and major changes.</p>
<p><em>Pure Lands</em>&#8211;The lands that God has commanded believers to take, purify and hold forever for the people alone, where believers can live free from outside influences, discordant forces and gene transfer, and where they can practice their faith without persecution and in peace and in which they can continue to evolve along the righteous path.</p>
<p><em>Purity</em>&#8211;The actual purity of DNA, and ritual purity.</p>
<p><em>Race</em>&#8211;Race is to humans what variety is to plants and breed is to dogs, horses and other animals. It is also often used as a synonym for subspecies. It is a reality, although blenders try to deny it in order to break down barriers to blending. When populations appear to be different in their genetic characteristics and are readily recognized as being different then they are called races or subspecies.</p>
<p><em>Radio example</em>&#8211;One of our favorite ways to explain some of our concepts is to use a radio as an example. Radio waves are all around us, but unless you have a radio with all the right parts, along with a power source, and unless that radio is tuned into the right frequency, you won&#8217;t pick up any sounds. Remove just one of many very tiny but essential parts of that radio, and it won&#8217;t work. The radio has to be &#8220;born&#8221;with those parts. It can&#8217;t acquire them, and no amount of praying or living right or doing various ritual things will change that. In humans, the right parts are genes and the order of the genes and all things relating to DNA.</p>
<p><em>Recessive genes</em>&#8211;Most &#8220;White&#8221; genes are recessive. This means that if a White person has children with a non-White person, the children will favor the non-White person in most characteristics. It takes two White people to produce a truly White child.</p>
<p><em>Revelation</em>&#8211;The First Cause has revealed His Will to and through Arman, The Teacher.</p>
<p><em>Sacred Symbols</em>&#8211;Representations of the true nature of God and existence. Circles, spirals, fylfots. Believers have such symbols near or on their skin. They have a mystical but real correspondence. Believers generally prefer a rounded arm version of the fylfot. Some prefer two arms, some prefer three arms, some prefer four arms, some prefer five or six arms. The essential part of the fylfot is not the arms, but the spinning center or axis. The arms are always trailing the spin, not leading it. In nature, they are the result of the spinning center. When viewed from the side, over time, the spinning fylfot looks like a tornado or a strand of DNA or many of the other things we observe in nature. The fylfot as a religious symbol must be with believers at all times. Indicates constant expansion. Symbols should touch the skin. May be put on the skin with scars, tattoos, brands, rings, amulets.</p>
<p><em>Self-identification, self-determination, self-reliance, self-government,self-improvement, self-perfection</em>&#8211;are considered important.</p>
<p><em>Self-organization</em>&#8212; Ability of a system to spontaneously arrange its components or elements in a purposeful (non-random) manner, under appropriate conditions but without the help of an external agency.</p>
<p><em>Sen, The</em>&#8211;Another name for strong believers.</p>
<p><em>Sensory Input</em>&#8211;Sensory input is important in rituals and for creating a sense of awe. Thus, when praying one must be surrounded by the proper stimuli.</p>
<p><em>Single point mutation</em>&#8211;a mutation that involves a single nucleotide. For example, sickle-cell disease is a single point mutation in which GAG is changed to GTG.</p>
<p><em>Ser, The</em>&#8211;The flow of existence.</p>
<p><em>Source, The</em>&#8211;Another name for God.</p>
<p><em>Speciation</em>&#8211;The evolutionary formation of a new species, often by the division of a single species into two or more genetically distinct ones, usually by isolation that prevents gene flow. Speciation happens rapidly in small isolated populations.</p>
<p>Speciation has been demonstrated to be possible in as few as eight generations in <em>Drosophila</em> (fruit flies). It can also be caused by selective breeding as is done in animal husbandry.</p>
<p><em>Spiral</em>&#8211;One of the Sacred Symbols in all its forms. All of existence is dependent on the constant spinning, turning, twirling, spiraling. It is this constant spinning movement that shuffles all that exists and is why the only constant is change. The spiral is seen in distant galaxies, in storms, in water draining from a sink, in the way trees grow, in DNA, and in all of existence if you know how to look. If the spinning stopped, existence would stop. The spiral is the result of spinning with the addition of time. Ancient peoples often used spiral symbols, but did not then understand the ubiquitousness of the spinning or its necessity to existence. There is a mystery about such symbols and a teacher has said that they form an actual and real link to much that is seen and unseen. A teacher has said that there are other symbols that seek to dampen the effects of these symbols for good, and these other symbols often have something of a cat&#8217;s cradle appearance with straight lines and sharp angles.</p>
<p><em>Standing Stones </em>and<em> rings of stones</em>&#8211;With chiseled symbols, these are links.</p>
<p><em>Struggle, The</em>&#8211;The First Cause&#8217;s struggle to be and to be more. It continues the struggle to this day. The struggle against nothingness is part of all existence and it continues by the spinning that brings light and heat to an otherwise dark and cold nothingness. Even humans must struggle to exist and to be and to be more. To not struggle is to fall back into the masses of humanity and not evolve toward the first light and the First Cause. It takes no effort and no struggle to be dark and cold. It does take constant effort and constant struggle to be light and warm.</p>
<p><em>Survival advantage</em>&#8211;A genetic change from the norm that gives organisms a &#8220;leg up&#8221; on other organisms in the same habitat or environment. Often involves minor changes that have long term effects.</p>
<p><em>Survival of the fittest</em>&#8211;Natural selection conceived of as a struggle for life in which only those organisms best adapted to existing conditions are able to survive and reproduce. We know that all organisms now alive are the fittest of their types, just by their being alive today. However, if they don&#8217;t reproduce in their image to go forward into the next generation, they will be defined retroactively as <em>not</em> being the fittest. Organisms must reproduce to be the fittest.</p>
<p><em>Survival strategies</em>&#8211;All organisms have built-in genetic survival strategies that have evolved to allow the organism&#8217;s genes to be passed on to the next generation. If the survival strategy is a good one, then the organism&#8217;s genotype will survive. In thinking of survival strategies, it must be remembered that the individual is not especially important. It is getting the genotype&#8211;the code&#8211;to survive and be passed on to expand the particular code carried by the organism.</p>
<p><em>Teacher, The</em>&#8211;Arman. Receiver and promulgator of the revelations and divine inspiration.</p>
<p><em>Ultimate truth</em>&#8211;to be sought.</p>
<p><em>Unfit</em>&#8211;Organisms or populations of organisms that are not adapted to prevailing conditions or which do not produce offspring in sufficient numbers to maintain their contribution to the gene pool of the next generation.</p>
<p><em>White skin</em>&#8211;A mutation that occurred in Europe to adapt the people there so their skin would let in more of the dim European sunlight to produce more Vitamin D than darker skin colors. It gave a survival advantage to those with the mutation, in that with more Vitamin D, those with the mutation didn&#8217;t get the bone softening disease rickets, and lived longer to produce more children who also carried the mutation. In time, the white skin mutation spread throughout Europe.Scientists now believe that a tiny mutation in gene slc24a5, located on the long leg of chromosome 15 at position 21.1, started in the few people who left Africa and headed into Europe about 20,000 to 50,000 years ago, was a major reason for the emergence of white skin.</p>
<p><em>Willed Evolution</em>&#8211;Causing the evolution of one&#8217;s line by right belief and the right actions that naturally flow from the right beliefs.</p>
<p>(© 2011 H. Millard)</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[Of Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis, and Historical Narratives by A. Helian JONATHAN HAIDT IS ONE OF THE MOST coherent thinkers in the social sciences today. A Professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, he specializes in the study of morality and emotion, and how they vary across cultures. He describes himself as an atheist, and embraces the notion <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2011/05/the-happiness-hypothesis/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Of Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis, and Historical Narratives</em></p>
<p>by A. Helian</p>
<p>JONATHAN HAIDT IS ONE OF THE MOST coherent thinkers in the social sciences today. A Professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, he specializes in the study of morality and emotion, and how they vary across cultures. He describes himself as an atheist, and embraces the notion that there is such a thing as &#8220;human nature,&#8221; in the sense that our behavior is profoundly influenced by innate predispositions. For that alone he would have suffered the anathemas of his fellow experts in the behavioral sciences a few short decades ago. Until quite recently they were still in thrall of the collective delusion that human behavior is almost entirely determined by culture and education. But Haidt doesn&#8217;t stop there. His work focuses on our moral nature, and he is of the opinion that moral reasoning is not the basis of moral judgment. Rather, he supports what he calls the social intuitionist model, according to which moral judgments are the result of quick, automatic intuitions, including moral emotions. Moral reasoning commonly only appears after moral decisions have already been made, serving to rationalize them after the fact. Innate, evolved traits play a significant role in the process. In Haidt&#8217;s words from the paper, &#8220;The Emotional Dog and its Rational Tail: A Social Intuitionist Approach to Moral Judgment,&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>The social intuitionist model… proposes that morality, like language, is a major evolutionary adaptation for an intensely social species, built into multiple regions of the brain and body, that is better described as emergent than as learned yet that requires input and shaping from a particular culture. Moral intuitions are therefore both innate and enculturated.</p></blockquote>
<p>Obviously, we have come a long way since the 60s and 70s, when the entire orthodox scientific establishment was defending the cherished but palpably absurd dogma that &#8220;human nature&#8221; was almost entirely the result of education and culture, and the effect of innate predispositions of the kind Haidt (pictured above) refers to on human behavior were insignificant. In one of the more remarkable paradigm shifts in scientific history, they have finally been forced by the weight of evidence to abandon that delusion. For all that, they have shown a remarkable resistance to facing the obvious implications of the truth they have finally embraced. Nowhere has that been more true than in the field of morality.</p>
<p>If what Haidt says is true, then human morality is the expression of evolved behavioral traits. As such, it cannot be other than subjective in nature. Objective good and evil cannot exist because there is no legitimate basis for their existence. Morality has no purpose, nor does it serve any higher end. It exists purely and simply because it has increased the odds that carriers of the genes that give rise to it would survive and reproduce those genes. In spite of these seemingly elementary facts, no human illusion is as persistent and resilient as the belief in objective good.</p>
<p>Haidt explores some related issues in his book, <em>The Happiness Hypothesis</em>. It&#8217;s a good read, consisting of a collection of interesting ideas, insights and recent research results and concluding with an examination of the question, &#8220;What is the meaning of life.&#8221; According to Haidt, the question, &#8220;What is the meaning of life?&#8221; really consists of two sub-questions: <em>What is the purpose of life?</em> and <em>What should be our purpose within life?</em> He does not attempt an answer to the first, but focuses on the second, noting that it refers to what we should do to have a good, happy, fulfilling and meaningful life. Haidt devotes the final portion of the book to the question. There is something rather striking about his answer. It requires acceptance of the theory of group selection.</p>
<p>Why is that striking? Back in the day when, as noted above, virtually the entire orthodox scientific establishment was proclaiming the dogma that &#8220;human nature&#8221; was almost exclusively the result of education and culture, the most influential and significant writer insisting that the establishment was wrong, recognized as such at the time by proponents of both points of view, was Robert Ardrey. Well, it so happens that Ardrey, a brilliant writer with a profound grasp of the big picture, was right and the establishment was wrong about the role of the innate on human behavior. Yet today his name is hardly mentioned in the same breath with Galileo, or any of the other great destroyers of false orthodoxies in the sciences for that matter. Rather, he has been almost entirely forgotten. It happens, you see, that Ardrey was outside the academic pale. He was, in fact, a playwright for much of his career, and it would be too painful for the guild of &#8220;experts&#8221; to admit that a mere playwright like Ardrey had correctly insisted on an abundantly obvious truth at a time when they were still collectively defending a cherished but palpably false delusion.</p>
<p>Eventually, when the delusion collapsed, resulting in one of the more remarkable paradigm shifts in the history of the sciences, the &#8220;experts&#8221; constructed an entire alternative reality, exemplified by Steven Pinker&#8217;s <em>The Blank Slate</em>, according to which, incredibly, Ardrey had been &#8220;totally and utterly wrong,&#8221; and the real hero had been the more respectable and palatable E.O. Wilson, no matter that the ideas he set forth in books like <em>Sociobiology</em> and <em>On Human Nature</em> were no more than a reformulation of Ardrey&#8217;s thought. Now the chances that Pinker ever actually read Ardrey before dismissing him as &#8220;totally and utterly wrong&#8221; are vanishingly small, but he cited Richard Dawkins&#8217; <em>The Selfish Gene</em> as the basis of his claim, as if Dawkins were as infallible as the pope. Dawkins, in turn, based his entire criticism of Ardrey on some remarks he made in his book <em>The Social Contract</em> about a theory that was of no particular significance whatsoever as far as the fundamental question of the role of the innate on human behavior is concerned. And what was that theory? Why, none other than the theory of group selection, without which Haidt&#8217;s &#8220;Happiness Hypothesis&#8221; evaporates in the mist. It appears that Dawkins was somewhat premature in announcing its demise. Such are the narratives that occasionally pass for &#8220;history&#8221; in the sciences. Meanwhile, <a href="http://www.ditext.com/ardrey/imperative/imperative.html" class="broken_link">Ardrey remains an unperson</a>. I should think he deserves better.</p>
<p><a href="http://helian.net/blog/2011/03/">Read the original article at Helian Unbound</a></p>
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		<title>Sensitivity International: Network for World Control</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[by Ed Dieckmann, Jr. from The American Mercury, Winter, 1969 EARLY IN MAY of this year, a courageous mother, Mrs. Lois Godfrey of Garden Grove, California, succeeded in getting sensitivity training outlawed, at least temporarily, in the Garden Grove Unified School District. Mrs. Godfrey withdrew two of her children from a class in which the process was being used, then <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2011/02/sensitivity-international-network-for-world-control/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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<div>by Ed Dieckmann, Jr.</div>
<div>from <em>The American Mercury</em>, Winter, 1969</div>
<p>EARLY IN MAY of this year, a courageous mother, Mrs.             Lois Godfrey of Garden Grove, California, succeeded in getting <a title="'Sensitivity Training' News Archive Search: 1969 and older" href="http://news.google.com/archivesearch?as_q=&amp;num=10&amp;btnG=Search+Archives&amp;as_epq=sensitivity+training&amp;as_oq=&amp;as_eq=&amp;as_ldate=&amp;as_hdate=1969&amp;lr=&amp;as_src=&amp;as_price=p1&amp;as_scoring="> sensitivity training</a> outlawed, at least temporarily, in the             Garden Grove Unified School District. Mrs. Godfrey withdrew two of             her children from a class in which the process was being used, then             appeared before the school board where she was challenged to give a             definition of sensitivity training, which she gave, having received             it from me through State Senator <a title="Schmitz&#039;s Introduction to None Dare Call it Conspiracy" href="http://reactor-core.org/none-dare.html#introduction" class="broken_link">John             G. Schmitz</a> (pictured).</p>
<p>The definition:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sensitivity training is defined as group meetings, large or               small, to discuss publicly intimate and personal matters, and               opinions, values or beliefs; and/or, to act out emotions and               feelings toward one another in the group, using techniques of               self-confession and mutual criticism.</p>
<p>It is also, &#8216;coercive persuasion in the form of thought reform or               brainwashing.'&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The second paragraph, admitting that sensitivity (human relations)             training is <em>brainwashing</em>, is from page 47 of <em>Issue In             Training</em>, a manual for group leaders published in 1962 by the             <a title="Sensitivity Training: New Age Psychology in the Church" href="http://www.rapidnet.com/%7Ejbeard/bdm/Psychology/sensit.htm" class="broken_link">National             Training Laboratories</a> (<a title="NTL Homepage" href="http://www.ntl.org/">NTL</a>) of the National Education Association             (NEA). That is, from the <em>main source</em> of sensitivity             training, from the &#8220;horse&#8217;s mouth!&#8221;</p>
<p>Many people tell me that, in saying this comes from the horse&#8217;s             mouth, I miss the target by the length of exactly one horse.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m forced to agree with them.</p>
<p>For what we are talking about is communist group criticism, a             destructive process that is used in every communist country every             day to control the people, to force their thinking into the             &#8220;correct&#8221; patterns; and to make sure that each person acts as the             fearful and submissive member of a group, a &#8220;collective.&#8221;</p>
<p><a title="Quotes and Excerpts - Brainwashing and 'Education Reform'" href="http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/brainwashing.html">Edward             Hunter</a>, in his book <cite><a title="Brainwashing: From Pavlov to Powers (Unknown Binding), by Edward Hunter" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007H662M/conspiracyarc-20/">Brainwashing &#8211; From Pavlov to Powers</a></cite> (Bookmailer: 1965), calls group criticism &#8220;The greatest threat             against our society &#8211; the calculated creation of a national             neurosis.&#8221; Then he goes on: &#8220;The only Red defense has been to hush             up the subject, because even to deny it would bring attention to             it.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Pressure Has Increased</strong></p>
<p>Realizing this makes it easy to understand why, since my expose in             &#8220;Communism in Our Midst,&#8221; <em>American Mercury</em>, Summer 1967:             followed by &#8220;<a title="Hate therapy: Sensitivity training for " href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0006PAR66/conspiracyarc-20/">Hate Therapy</a>,&#8221; by Gary Allen,             <em>American Opinion</em>, January 1968; the pressure and pace of             the sensitivity assault have increased &#8212; with &#8220;voluntary&#8221;             participation increasingly replaced by the frankly brutal             insistence that sensitivity training be mandatory.</p>
<p>The outlawing of sensitivity training at Garden Grove has given             added force to that reaction. For it was at Garden Grove on             February 26, 1969, that 2,000 teachers were forced to attend a             seminar where psychologist Jack Frymer, of Ohio State University,             told them that &#8220;They should go to sensitivity training sessions in             order to know how to use ST on their pupils.&#8221; Already an attempt is             being made to sneak the process back again under the name             &#8220;Evaluation,&#8221; or another program called &#8220;Social Sciences             Framework.&#8221; School Superintendent <a title="Google News Archive Search: 'David Paynter'+'Garden Grove'" href="http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22David+Paynter%22+%22Garden+Grove%22&amp;btnG=Search+Archives&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8"> David Paynter</a> has suddenly decided that &#8220;sensitivity training             cannot be defined,&#8221;! and the battle rages on.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft" src="https://www.conspiracyarchive.com/images/2006/c/carlRogers.jpg" alt="Carl Rogers" width="140" height="159" /><a title="Carl Rogers and the IHM Nuns: Sensitivity Training, Psychological Warfare and the &#039;Catholic Problem&#039;" href="http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/1999/rogers.html" class="broken_link"> Carl Rogers</a>, Ph.D., of the <a href="http://www.ewtn.com/library/PRIESTS/COULSON.TXT" class="broken_link">Western Behavioral Sciences</a> Lab, and one of the chief             pushers of ST, was so shaken that when he spoke at Cerritos College             teat Long Beach on May 6, he refused to answer questions, stating,             &#8220;I do not know the audience.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Main Attack</strong></p>
<p>But the main attack comes on a much broader front:</p>
<ol>
<li> Recently California Senate Bill (SB) 1414 set a pattern for               repressive legislation in every state, providing, in its               &#8220;Poverty&#8221; provisions, Section I, for inservice sensitivity               training for all teachers under threat of losing tenure (their               jobs) if they do not submit.</li>
<li> In June, Robert Finch, of Health, Education &amp; Welfare,               announced plans for a national network (note word &#8220;network&#8221;), of               &#8220;experimental and demonstrations schools dedicated to the               innovative process.&#8221; Translation: <em>Sensitivity training for               planned change</em>.</li>
<li> Again in California, that testing lab for &#8220;<a title="Social Engineering for Global Change" href="http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/04/teichrib-engineering-social-change.htm">social               engineering</a>,&#8221; SB 474 was introduced in June by Senator               Beilenson (D), the same legislator who originated a bill in favor               of abortion. No. 474 would allow group leaders in ST or Human               Relations training to be licensed by the State, &#8220;to make sure               they are qualified.&#8221; This completely ignores the fact that,               whether the group leaders are qualified or not, no one has any               business forcing healthy people to take sensitivity training, &#8220;a               perversion of group therapy that makes healthy minds sick!&#8221;</li>
<li> To increase the pressure even more, The California Elementary               School Administrators Association (CESAA), now promotes <em>legal               contracts</em> with organizations teaching ST, such as the <a title="Education for Sex or Immorality" href="http://www.advancepublishing.com/schoolsincrisis/sicch12.pdf">Far West Laboratory</a> [pdf]. These contracts are made with school boards not alert to               what they are signing, &#8220;To evaluate curriculum, stressing               <em>human potential</em> and development of the child.&#8221; Again               <em>sensitivity training</em>.</li>
</ol>
<p>But the deadliest thrust is nationwide:</p>
<ol>
<li> The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education               (AACTE), a department of the NEA, now reaches into <em>every               state</em> to force both teachers and teacher-candidates to               accept ST for <em>national</em> accreditation. That is, an               interstate teaching compact is being set up to enforce               nation-wide standards of &#8220;teacher understanding,&#8221; plus               <em>disciplinary moves against teachers or candidates who               protest!</em></li>
</ol>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>National Education Association</strong></p>
<p>On September 23, 1968, the then President of <a title="Chronology of the National Education Association" href="http://www.crossroad.to/Excerpts/chronologies/nea.htm">the             NEA</a>, Elizabeth D. Koontz, got into the AACTE at a meeting of             the association in New York. Said she:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The NEA has a multi-faceted program already directed toward the               urban school problem, embracing every phase, from the Head Start               Program to sensitivity training for adults &#8212; both teachers and               parents.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Thus she revealed the real goal: involvement of the entire             community in one gigantic laboratory of groups, exactly as in North             Vietnam, Russia, and Red China.</p>
<p>It is enlightening to know that this same Elizabeth Koontz, the             first Negro president of the NEA and a known member of the board of             <a href="http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/ctfgc97.html">SIECUS</a>, the infamous &#8220;Sex Information &amp; Education             Council of the U.S.,&#8221; was appointed by President Nixon, earlier             this year, Director of the Womens&#8217; Bureau of the Department of             Labor!</p>
<p>Synchronized with this attack by what, we must remember, is             &#8220;coercive persuasion or brainwashing,&#8221; was the announcement last             February by New York University that it now offers a master&#8217;s             degree in sensitivity training; followed by Redlands University in             California with its trumpet blast in May that it, too, starts ST             this summer &#8212; and that it will be mandatory!</p>
<p>Thus a class of group trainers or &#8220;<a title="World Government Fronts, Psycho-social Change Agents" href="http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NewAge/social_change_agents.htm">social             facilitators</a>&#8221; is coming into existence to &#8220;facilitate&#8221; the             understanding and &#8220;<a title="The Intelligent Student's Guide to the New World Order" href="http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/Intelligent_Students_NWO.htm">correct             thinking</a>&#8221; of you and your children. For the same thing is             happening, sparked by AACTE of the NEA, at nearly every college and             university in the United States, including any private or parochial             school that is foolish enough to accept either Federal funds or a             Ford grant.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Nixon Invited</strong></p>
<p>It is somehow fitting and just, in view of President Nixon&#8217;s             appointment of Mrs. Koontz, that in <em>Look</em> magazine, June             10, 1969, Nixon himself, along with his entire staff, was invited             to attend sensitivity training &#8220;in a series of interracial             confrontations&#8221;! Who invited him? None other than Ralph D.             Abernathy, of the Communist Southern &#8220;Christian&#8221; Leadership             Conference, left hand man of the late <a href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2011/02/the-all-too-real-sexual-frailty-of-martin-luther-king-jr/">Martin Luther King</a>.</p>
<p>Although this information tells us very much, it is still necessary             to ask where the force comes from that can react to the gradual             awakening of the American people, to the dangers of sensitivity             training, with such coordination and power. What is the source, the             origin, the Eye of the Octopus?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>State Advisory Committee</strong></p>
<p>A special advisory committee to the State Board of Education in             California hinted strongly at this source on May 9, 1969. Staffed             by such courageous conservatives as Dr. Edward Klotz, former             Special Assistant to the Board of Education, and Professor Harden             B. Jones, of Berkeley (who made an extensive study of the Nazi use             of ST in Hitler&#8217;s Germany), the committee concluded that:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sensitivity training is being used by those who are in fact               aligned with revolutionary groups acting contrary to public               policy; that is, they intend to use the schools to destroy               American culture and traditions.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The path to the Eye of the Octopus, where the destruction             originates, extends much further than I at first supposed in 1967.             But complicated though the path may seem, and cancerous in its             meanderings, it is actually simple, in the way that an avalanche or             a raging forest fire may be said to be simple.</p>
<p>Before we take that path it is essential to understand two things:</p>
<ol>
<li> The <a title="The Delphi Technique: How To Achieve A Workable Consensus Within Time Limits" href="http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NewAge/Delphi_Technique.htm"> &#8220;far-out&#8221; methods</a> of sensitivity training that have received               so much publicity, such as the nude marathons, the body               awareness, the intimate contacts and sexual permissiveness, are               not <em>allowed</em> in communist countries. These types are only               used on countries targeted to be softened and undermined for               subversion and conquest.</li>
<li> Sensitivity training, according to Melvin Anchell, M.D. of Los               Angeles, is clinically desensitization and should be called               &#8220;<em>In</em>sensitivity training.&#8221;</li>
</ol>
<p>With that as a foundation we can proceed without illusion, seeing             our subject steady and clear, knowing it not only for what it is &#8211;             but what it is not.</p>
<p><a title="The Great Deceit: Social Pseudo-Sciences (A Veritas Foundation Staff Study) (Hardcover), by Zygmund, ed.; Archibald B. Roosevelt, intro.; Veritas Foundation Staff Dobbs (Author)" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000G97FEY/conspiracyarc-20/">The Great Deceit</a> (Veritas Foundation Staff Study:             1964), referring to the American socialist and one-worlder, <a title="Mental Health, Education And Social Control Part 2" href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis16.htm">E. A.             Ross</a> and his book <a title="Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order (Paperback), by Edward Alsworth Ross" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1410200655/conspiracyarc-20/">Social Control</a> (1901), points out that:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The main interest of leftist socialists is to construct               processes which are now lumped together under the popular term               &#8216;brainwashing&#8217; as a means of conditioning and indoctrinating the               mind of man.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>And further:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The left-wingers have as their aim the seizing of all society.               This includes not only all the wealth and political power, but               also control, through conditioning and manipulation, of the mind               and spirit of all mankind.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>It should therefore come as no shock, to those who study the             One-World Movement, to learn that the earliest One-World             organization, <em><a title="Illuminati Conspiracy Part One: A Precise Exegesis on the Available Evidence" href="http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/Illuminati.htm"> The Order of the Illuminati</a></em>, used sensitivity             training.<strong>*</strong></p>
<p><strong>*</strong> <em>Seventeen Eighty-Nine</em>, American             Opinion Review Series: 1968 PP. 85-86; <em>More Stately             Mansions</em>, <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/departments/profiles/abtwelch.htm" class="broken_link">Robert Welch</a>: 1964 P. 16, Item #8</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Illuminati</strong></p>
<p>Founded in Bavaria on May 1, 1776, by the brilliant but degenerate             Adam Weishaupt, the <em>Illuminati</em> (Enlightened Ones) played a             major role in the French Revolution, before going underground in             1795 and emerging, partially, in 1848 as the League of the Just,             which hired Karl Marx to write the <em>Communist             Manifesto</em>.</p>
<p>Sensitivity training, as it turns out, is the most poisonous legacy             the <em>Illuminati</em> left us &#8211; and the main evidence we have             that the <em>Illuminati</em>, as a part of the overall conspiracy,             are very much with us today, not only in the United States, but             throughout the world.</p>
<p>Before we probe further for the Eye of the Octopus, a brief recap             is necessary. We already know the following:</p>
<p>That the self-criticism of the <em>Illuminati</em> was revived in             1929 by the Soviet Secret Police for use on Russian citizens; while             under the name of &#8220;sensitivity training&#8221; it was started in the U.S.             with the founding of the <a title="T-Groups" href="http://www.orgdct.com/more_on_t-groups.htm" class="broken_link">National Training Laboratories</a> of the NEA in             1946.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://www.conspiracyarchive.com/images/2006/c/chisholm.jpg" alt="G. Brock Chisholm" width="132" height="167" />That in October, 1945,             a Leftist Canadian psychiatrist, <a title="Revealing Quotes On The Goals Of Psychiatry And Psychology" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:IX5B0tX-GKkJ:www.psychquotes.com/+%22G.+Brock+Chisholm%22&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;cd=5&amp;client=firefox-a"> G. Brock Chisholm</a>, gave <a title="The psychiatry of enduring peace and social progress; (The William Alanson White memorial lectures) (Unknown Binding), by George Brock Chisholm" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007IV8WY/conspiracyarc-20/">three lectures</a> in Washington, D.C. which laid the             foundations for both the &#8220;sex education&#8221; that is causing so much             trouble today and sensitivity training.</p>
<p>Now Chisholm was invited to give these lectures by Alger Hiss and             was warmly applauded by a Washington lawyer, Abe Fortas. It is easy             to see why Fortas liked the lectures.</p>
<p>Not only did Chisholm advocate doing away with the &#8220;ways of the             elders,&#8221; by force if need be, but also insisted we must do away             with the &#8220;concept of right and wrong;&#8221; start sex education in the             4th, 5th, and 6th grades; fumigate &#8220;Mom and Dad&#8221; psychologically             with self analysis, ST, that is; all with one race, one common             humanity, as the goal in a One-World Government.</p>
<p>This, of course, but scratches the surface of the Chisholm world             improvements; but we now know that a member of Chisholm&#8217;s staff             when Chisholm was Director of the World Health Organization (WHO),             was Dr. Frank Calderone, husband of Mary Calderone of SIECUS fame.             We are consequently not surprised again to learn that the &#8220;sex ed&#8221;             of the kind now being pushed is sensitivity training and that&#8217;s             what is wrong with it! All the ingredients are there:             self-confession, the lack of right and wrong, group consensus, the             &#8220;New Morality,&#8221; and the only loyalty that toward One-World, as             condensed in the <em>World Citizenship Credo</em> of the United             Nations: &#8220;<a title="Mental Health and World Citizenship" href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis14.htm">World Citizenship and             Mental Health</a>.&#8221;</p>
<p>Get it? If you are so blind as not to perceive the blessings of             One-World, you are less than healthy and <a title="Forced Mental Health Screening For Your Children" href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd64.htm">ready for             shock treatments</a>.</p>
<p>In 1951 UNESCO, &#8220;United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural             Organization,&#8221; brought the chain of power behind sensitivity             training to a focus by imposing the UNESCO doctrine of &#8220;Social             Health&#8221; on the United States. This was done through the U.N. Joint             Commission of Mental Health, of which &#8220;our&#8221; National Education             Association, with its National Training Laboratories, is a member.</p>
<p>What is the UNESCO doctrine of social health?</p>
<p>Belief in One-World Government.</p>
<p>In that year 1951 the National Association for Mental Health, part             of Health, Education &amp; Welfare, and subordinate to UNESCO and             WHO, announced:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The principles of mental health cannot be successfully furthered               unless there is acceptance or the concept of world government.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>And then:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Our chief problem is . . . how individual and group resistance               to change can be overcome.</p>
<p>Or do you prefer, &#8220;We shall overcome?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>As the late Congressman Usher L. Burdick put it:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;To bring this country into line to accept world government, many               things must be done by the U.N. and her agencies, such as UNESCO.               First of all, love of country is found by these conspirators to               be very deep and hard to destroy. Here UNESCO comes into play, to               teach these children, with specially trained teachers, that love               of country interferes, with loyalty to a world organization, that               they must transfer their loyalty to a world organization.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The &#8220;specially trained teachers&#8221; now come, in a steady stream, from             the many teachers&#8217; colleges where sensitivity training is             mandatory.</p>
<p>The American Legion, Department of California, declared, July 1,             1962:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The international cartelist structure, through which the               collateral descendants of 18th Century Illuminists control the               U.S. Government and its people today, is represented by the               subversive <a title="Politically Correct Treason" href="http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/Treason.htm">Council on Foreign               Relations</a>.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Of course.</p>
<p>Anyone who has read Gary Allen&#8217;s article on the             C.F.R.<strong>*</strong> is aware of the interlocking directorates,             memberships and influences that make the world conspiracy what <a title="Hilaire du Berrier: Spy From North Dakota" href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_1_15/ai_53510061/print" class="broken_link">Hilaire du             Berrier</a> has aptly called, &#8220;A Basket of Eels.&#8221;</p>
<p><small><strong>*</strong> &#8220;The C.F.R Conspiracy to Rule the World,&#8221;             <em>American Opinion</em>: April 1969.</small></p>
<p>The Eye of this particular Octopus, then, is UNESCO.</p>
<p>But something is missing.</p>
<p>The other eye.</p>
<p>For that trail we go to <a title="The New Age Files - Biogs and Info - The Esalen Institute" href="http://thenewagefiles.shadowweb.info/biogs_info/esalen.php" class="broken_link">The             Esalen Institute</a> between the Pacific and the pines of Big Sur.             The only note of optimism I have is that Esalen is named after an             extinct Indian tribe.</p>
<p>From now on, hold tight.</p>
<p><a title="Transpersonal Pioneers: Abraham Maslow" href="http://www.itp.edu/about/abraham_maslow.cfm" class="broken_link">Abraham M.             Maslow</a>, Ph.D., President of the leftist <a title="'Mind Control' in new Religious Movements and The American Psychological Association" href="http://www.rickross.com/reference/apologist/apologist40.html"> American Psychological Association</a>, on the staffs of both             Brandeis University and Esalen, has called Esalen, &#8220;Potentially the             most important educational institution <em>in the world</em>.&#8221;</p>
<p>He ought to know.</p>
<p>For although this strange collective of huts, halls, and swimming             pool has only been active since 1964, it has &#8220;serviced&#8221; more than             150,000 of the curious, the weak, and the sinister, in search of             their &#8220;<a title="Human Potential Movement: Encyclopedia of Psychology" href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0001/ai_2699000166" class="broken_link">human             potential</a>,&#8221; including teachers from the C.T.A.: California             Teachers Associations.</p>
<p>The chief characteristic of Esalen, once you get past the first             shock of the obvious degeneracy, is the unmistakable evidence of             widespread overlapping and cross-fertilization. The National             Training Labs are very much involved in Esalen; and Carl Rogers,             advisor to Esalen and member of the Western Behavioral Sciences             Institute at La Jolla, California, admits that, &#8220;all groups start             from the NTL.&#8221;</p>
<p>Not only does Esalen have a weekly program over San Francisco             station KQED, but the staff and advisors includes psychiatrist             Frederick Perls, developer of <a title="Gestalt therapy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_therapy">gestalt             therapy</a>, &#8220;a hostile personality,&#8221; according to a woman who             questioned him once about the value of sensitivity training.</p>
<p>Then, of course, there is <a title="&#039;Permanence for Hayakawa,&#039; Time Magazine, Friday, Jul. 18, 1969" href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,901065,00.html" class="broken_link"> S. I. Hayakawa</a>, now permanent president of San Francisco State             College, a staunch advocate of sensitivity training an advisor to             Esalen.</p>
<p>There is also <a title="Esalen: Will Schutz" href="http://www.esalen.org/air/essays/will_schutz.htm" class="broken_link">William Schutz</a>, Ph.D., who, when I             debated him on the Joe Dolan Show in Oakland last February, gave me             the opportunity to point out to the audience, not only that the             Nazis used sensitivity training in their &#8220;<a title=" Kraft durch Freude" href="http://www.feldgrau.com/KdF.html">Strength Through Joy</a>&#8221; movement, but             that Schutz, by the sheerest coincidence, is the author of a book             on ST whose title is <em>JOY</em>.</p>
<p>But I grow lyrical and, while that&#8217;s easy to do with Esalen, it&#8217;s             not proper when dealing with an octopus.</p>
<p>We have seen that all groups start with the NTL and that the             NTL-NEA combine is prominent at Esalen.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>European Network</strong></p>
<p>Now let&#8217;s shift our focus from Esalen to the NTL and its double             headquarters at <a href="http://www.ntl.org/mirror-site/about-bethel.html" class="broken_link">Bethel, Maine</a>; and Washington, D.C. (1201 16th St.,             N.W.). We find that a web of NTL programs is being conducted in             Puerto Rico, Mexico, Nigeria, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England,             France, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Japan, West Germany,             Australia and New Zealand!</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft" src="https://www.conspiracyarchive.com/images/2006/t/tavistock-esalen.jpg" alt="Tavistock and Esalen Institutes" width="150" height="270" /> This European network extends from England and the <a href="http://educate-yourself.org/nwo/nwotavistockbestkeptsecret.shtml">Tavistock Institute</a>, <a href="http://www.le.ac.uk/greenwood/gw_courses2.html" class="broken_link">University of Leicester</a>, to the Institute of Social             Research, University of Vienna, Austria; The Technological             Institute in Denmark; and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lievegoed">Netherlands             Pedagogical Institute</a> at Zeist.</p>
<p>In Germany, The German Productivity Center; in Sweden, the State             Technological Institute; and from there, always under NTL control,             the network spreads to six centers in France, foremost of which is             the Social Psychology Laboratory of the Sorbonne (scene of the <a href="http://www.marxists.org/history/france/may-1968/index.htm">leftists riots, May, 1968</a>), and the National             Association for the Development of Humane Sciences, at the             Universities of Bordeaux and Strasbourg.</p>
<p>It is instructive to know that, in September, 1969, sex &#8220;Family             Life&#8221; education started in the schools of West Germany.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>India and Pakistan</strong></p>
<p>Tempting as it is to take a closer look at this sub-network in             Europe, the NTL programs on the other side of the world, in             Pakistan and Socialist India, demand our attention.</p>
<p>For several years Pakistan, split into East and West by Northern             India, was &#8220;beneficiary&#8221; of sensitivity training from the NTL             trained School of Public Administration, UCLA, before the             communist-led riots tore that divided country even more apart last             year. The smug report of liberal Associate Professor Robert             Abramson: <em>Techniques of Sensitivity (Human Relations) Training             and Their Application in Pakistan</em> (UCLA: 1967), makes it only             too clear what an impact ST had on that unhappy land.</p>
<p><em>India and Pakistan</em>. Have we hit on something?</p>
<p>Consider this. Michael Murphy, owner of Esalen, is an unusual             character. Just being the brother of Dennis Murphy, author of             <em>The Sergeant</em>, now a movie about a homosexual sergeant in,             of course, the U.S. Army, makes him unique enough.</p>
<p>But in 1948-&#8217;49 <a title="Michael Murphy Speaks On Transformation And Evolution" href="http://www.lifepositive.com/Mind/personal-growth/transformation/michaelmurphy.asp" class="broken_link">Michael             Murphy</a> studied in India at a place called <a title="Auroville Homepage" href="http://www.auroville.org/">Auroville</a>. Auroville is on the east             Coromandel coast of the Bay of Bengal, just outside the former             French city of Pondicherry.</p>
<p>As coincidence would have it, young Mike studied collectivist             doctrine under a &#8220;guru&#8221; who in reality was <a title="Sri Aurobindo Ghosh and Bede Griffiths" href="http://www.wandea.org.pl/bede-giffiths.html">an old Marxist             revolutionary</a> named Sri Aurobindo. The gentle Aurobindo was a             Cambridge graduate born in 1872 <a title="Alipore bomb case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alipore_bomb_case">and             had once in 1908, been jailed</a> by the British for a very             ungentle bomb plot.</p>
<p>He died in 1950, but not before indoctrinating Murphy in what he             must do, as well as laying plans for a much larger Auroville and             <em>Ashram</em> or Growth Center. Aurobindo&#8217;s wife, now 92 and             known as &#8220;The Mother,&#8221; became and remains titular head of             Auroville, &#8220;the Planetary City.&#8221;</p>
<p>Murphy returned to the U.S. and, almost literally, went into a             cocoon, while the world changed and Western civilizations, as we             know it, became hell-bent for suicide. Then, in 1964, Esalen sprang             into being on Murphy&#8217;s land in Big Sur, midway between Hearst             Castle and Monterey. Miraculously, it was revealed that the Growth             Center of Auroville in India was ready to grow. Just as             miraculously, or so it seemed, the Growth Center of Esalen was             joined by other &#8220;Ashrams for human potential&#8221; throughout the U.S.             and Canada:</p>
<ul>
<li> Adanta, Inc. &#8211; Atlanta, Georgia</li>
<li> Admare &#8211; Bowling Green, Ohio</li>
<li> Berkeley Center for Human Interaction &#8211; Berkeley, Calif.</li>
<li> Boston Tea Party House &#8211; Boston, Mass.</li>
<li> Bucks County Seminar House &#8211; Erwinna, Pa.</li>
<li> Cambridge House &#8211; Milwaukee, Wisconsin</li>
<li> Casaelya &#8211; San Francisco, Calif.</li>
<li> Evergreen Institute &#8211; Littleton, Colorado</li>
<li> Gestalt Therapy Institute &#8211; Cleveland Heights, Ohio</li>
<li> Human Resources Development &#8211; Hidden Springs, New Hampshire</li>
<li> Kopavi, Inc. &#8211; St. Paul, Minn.</li>
<li> Laos House &#8211; Austin, Texas</li>
<li> Oasis (Midwest Center for Human Potential) &#8211; Chicago, Ill.</li>
<li> Ontos &#8211; West Chicago, Ill.</li>
<li> Orizon &#8211; Washington, D.C .</li>
<li> Plainfield &#8211; Plainfield, New Jersey</li>
<li> Shalal &#8211; Vancouver, Canada</li>
<li> Synergia &#8211; Montreal, Canada</li>
<li> Sky Farm Institute &#8211; Calais, Vermont</li>
<li> San Francisco Gestalt Therapy Institute &#8211; San Francisco, Calif.</li>
<li> Shadybrook House &#8211; Mentor, Ohio</li>
<li> Tarry Town House &#8211; Tarryton, New York</li>
<li> Wainwright House &#8211; Rye, New York</li>
</ul>
<p>And miracle of miracles, the growth of the &#8220;awareness&#8221; centers             multiplied, as though from the splitting of an amoeba, into             something called &#8220;Intentional Communities,&#8221; 69 of them, all the way             from The Children of Light Commune in Gila Bend, Arizona, to Magic             Mountain (Spartacist), Seattle, Washington; and many others in             Canada, Japan, Central America, France, New Zealand, even Israel.</p>
<p>Do you suppose we should take another look at Auroville?</p>
<p>The first thing we notice is that the Auroville center has indeed             had a tremendous growth since the death of its founder 19 years             ago, and that it is now a small city with an expected population             for the near future of 50,000 from all walks of life and all             countries, all believers in one-world, one race, one government.</p>
<p>The second thing to notice is that Auroville receives, and has             received for years, the hard <a title="Thirty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Auroville: UNESCO" href="http://portal.unesco.org/fr/ev.php-URL_ID=11235&amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;URL_SECTION=201.html" class="broken_link"> financial support</a> of that first Eye of the Octopus, UNESCO. It             is this hard cash that has encouraged French architect, Roger             Anger, to develop &#8220;concrete plans for Auroville to be <a title="Auroville Center for Urban Research" href="http://www.auroville.info/ACUR/urban_research/avfuture.htm" class="broken_link">a model city</a> for             the whole planet.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Equals One</strong></p>
<p>But even before you digest <em>that</em>, be advised that Auroville             publishes a magazine with the strange, but revealing title of             <em>Equals One</em>. The &#8220;magazine&#8221; is actually an esoteric pink             package of arty booklets, obviously to appeal to the idealistic             novice worker for One-World Brotherhood, each booklet taking him             from &#8220;service to mankind&#8221; to the higher mysteries, until finally             the highest mystery or &#8220;illumination&#8221; of all is revealed: the real             goal of the organization, world dictatorship &#8211; the exact methods             and goal of the 18th Century <em>Order of the Illuminati</em>.</p>
<p>Coincidence?</p>
<p>Where do you suppose you apply for a year&#8217;s subscription to             <em>Equals One</em>?</p>
<p>Well, you could write to:</p>
<p>Navajata, General Secretary,<br />
The Auroville Office and the Sri Aurobindo Society,<br />
Pondicherry 2, India.</p>
<p>But why bother?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s much easier, and faster, to send your $6.00 to:</p>
<p>The Lucis Publishing Company<br />
866 United Nations Plaza<br />
New York, N.Y. 10017</p>
<p>Address your letter to Jack H. T. Albert.</p>
<p>And as you do, be also advised that the Lucis Publishing Company is             the former &#8220;Lucifer&#8221; Publishing Co. (something about that name             bothered people), and the publishing outlet for <em>Lucis             Magazine</em>, the official, self-admitted magazine of today&#8217;s             <em>Order of the Illuminati</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lucis Magazine</strong></p>
<p>Owned by the <a title=" Lucis (Lucifer) Trust, Alice Bailey, World Goodwill and the False Light of the World" href="http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NewAge/Lucis_Trust.htm"> Lucis Trust</a>, <em>Lucis Magazine</em> is published by the <a title="The Pre-Nicene Gnosto-Catholic Church" href="http://www.gnostic.info/palatine_pre-nicene.html" class="broken_link">Pre-Nicene [Gnostic]             Publishing House</a>, B.C.M. Consortium, W.C.I., London, England,             and edited by a mysterious Italo-Englishmen <a title="The Wondering Bishops: Apostles of a New Spirituality" href="http://www.hometemple.org/WanBishWeb%20Complete.pdf#search=Richard%20Duc%20de%20Palatine">Richard             Duc de Palatine</a> <small>[7MB PDF]</small>.</p>
<p>A researcher on the West Coast, who I dare not name because sources             of information would dry up, tells me that <em>The Illuminati</em> use several fronts, one of which is <em>The Order of <a href="http://www.kheper.net/topics/Gnosticism/Pleroma.html" class="broken_link">Pleroma</a></em>, in Los Angeles. Headed by one Stephen             Heller (as fitting a name as Lucifer), it is connected with The             Anderson Institute, a sensitivity training organization advertised             in <em>The Free Press</em>, and other underground papers.</p>
<p>All this is just wild coincidence &#8211; and if you don&#8217;t think so just             ask any member of the staff of Esalen.</p>
<p>But still something is missing. There must be a center; that is, a             control for the direction and coordination of the other centers. We             find it deep in what we suddenly realize is another front:</p>
<p><em>THE CENTER LETTER</em><br />
Deerfield Foundation<br />
Editor: <a title="The Planetary Birth Part I: What Is The Meaning Of Our Power? With Barbara Marx Hubbard" href="http://www.intuition.org/txt/hubbard1.htm"> Mrs. Earl Hubbard</a> <small>[that is, <a title="Hubbard Bio - Foundation for Conscious Evolution" href="http://www.barbaramarxhubbard.com/Public/AboutBarbara/Bio/index.cfm" class="broken_link">Barbara             Marx Hubbard</a>]</small><br />
Lakeview, Conn. 06039</p>
<p>This magazine, which advertises itself as &#8220;A <em>network</em> of             communication for those forming a coalition of concern for man&#8217;s             future,&#8221; was started in 1967 and is stabilized on a line running             from Auroville in India to the <a title="The New Cult in Washington | Edith Kermit Roosevelt" href="http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NewAge/Washington_Cult.htm">Temple             of Understanding in Washington</a>, D.C. Incredibly, the Center             Letter, if Letter No . 8, 1968, is to be believed, &#8220;is being sent             to libraries and schools throughout the world, <em>as a public             service</em>&#8220;!</p>
<p>(Thanks to the <a href="http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NewAge/Sensitivity_International.htm">Conspiracy Archive</a> for transcribing this vintage <em>American Mercury</em> essay.)</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[by Robert Johnson A CHRISTIAN PREACHER in Gainesville, Florida wants to burn Korans, citing the ninth anniversary of 9/11. Muslims around the world are upset and some are taking to the streets to demonstrate their anger that anyone would want to burn what they consider the word of God. From the start of the Abrahamic &#8220;revealed&#8221; religions, Judaism, Christianity and <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2010/09/instead-of-burning-korans-why-not-debate-the-merits-of-all-%e2%80%9choly%e2%80%9d-books/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.examiner.com/deism-in-tampa-bay/instead-of-burning-korans-why-not-debate-the-merits-of-all-the-holy-books" target="_blank">by Robert Johnson</a></p>
<p>A CHRISTIAN PREACHER in Gainesville, Florida wants to <a href="http://www.examiner.com/deism-in-tampa-bay/florida-christian-church-to-burn-koran-with-protection-of-a-christian-militia">burn</a> Korans, citing the ninth anniversary of 9/11. Muslims around the  world are upset and some are taking to the streets to demonstrate their  anger that anyone would want to burn what they consider the word of  God.</p>
<p>From the start of the Abrahamic &#8220;revealed&#8221; religions, Judaism,  Christianity and Islam, violence has been a key factor promoted by all  three of them. For example, <a href="http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/num/31.html" target="_blank">Numbers 31:15-18</a> has Moses instructing the Israeli army, &#8220;Now therefore kill every male  among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying  with him. But all the female children, that have not known a man by  lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.&#8221; This repulsive instruction  to murder all the little boys and the women who were not virgins and to  keep all the virgins for themselves is even worse than what is being  reported out of the Congo, of using rape as a weapon. And to make it  even worse, in verse 31 the priest Eleazar claims this order Moses gave  originated with God. As the Deist <a href="http://deism.com/paine.htm" target="_blank" class="broken_link">Thomas Paine</a> wrote in <a href="http://deism.com/the_age_of_reason_paine.htm" target="_blank" class="broken_link"><em>The Age of Reason</em></a>,  &#8220;Is it because ye are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no  interest in the honor of your Creator, that ye listen to the horrid  tales of the Bible, or hear them with callous indifference?&#8221;</p>
<p>Christianity has shown through the Inquisition, the 30 Years War, <em>ad  nauseam</em>, that violence against those who disagree with them is their  chosen path whenever possible. Due to their lack of real power in  secular governments, the last person they were able to murder via the  Inquisition was the Deist, <a href="http://deism.com/martyrfordeism.htm" target="_blank" class="broken_link">Cayetano Ripoll</a>. They murdered Ripoll for his Deism.</p>
<p>Islam&#8217;s &#8220;holy&#8221; book, the Koran, also contains disgusting calls to  violence but seems less centered on murdering &#8220;little ones&#8221; than the  Bible is. For example, <a href="http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/3/index.htm#151" target="_blank">Surah 3:151</a> says, &#8220;We shall cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve  because they ascribe unto Allah partners, for which no warrant hath been  revealed. Their habitation is the Fire, and hapless the abode of the  wrong-doers.&#8221; <a href="http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/9/index.htm" target="_blank">Surah 9:5</a> says, &#8220;Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters  wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and  prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship  and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving,  Merciful.&#8221; There are many other instructions in the Koran to wage war  against nonbelievers.</p>
<p>The reason the Abrahamic &#8220;revealed&#8221; religions all need to resort to  violence whenever possible to deal with nonbelievers is due to the  incredible lack of God-given reason in all of them. They can&#8217;t stand the  application of God-given reason on their doctrines and false claims to  having received divine revelations. Even the celebrated Christian  classic by C.S. Lewis, <a href="http://deism.com/answer_mere_christianity.htm" target="_blank" class="broken_link"><em>Mere Christianity</em></a>, falls flat on its face when confronted with reason.</p>
<p>If the Gainesville, Florida Christians could defend the claims of  Christianity and their Bible, they would not burn the Koran, they would  debate it. However, debating the Koran would open up their Bible to  debate. There is no way to defend either the Koran or the Bible in a way  which satisfies our God-given reason.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.deism.com/" target="_blank"><strong>God Gave Us Reason, Not Religion</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.examiner.com/deism-in-tampa-bay/instead-of-burning-korans-why-not-debate-the-merits-of-all-the-holy-books" target="_blank">Read the rest at this link</a>.</p>
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		<title>Homeless Jack: Breed and Eat Your Way Across the Universe</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[by H. Millard &#8220;HEY MAN,&#8221; said Homeless Jack, &#8221; let me tell you a little more about Arman&#8217;s teachings. &#8220;Arman says that we have to think in terms of &#8216;our people&#8217; and &#8216;not our people,&#8217; if we are to head off our extinction, expand our kind and prosper. &#8220;But, you won&#8217;t understand what he really means so long as you <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2010/08/homeless-jack-breed-and-eat-your-way-across-the-universe/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>by H. Millard</p>
<p>&#8220;HEY MAN,&#8221; said Homeless Jack, &#8221; let me tell you a little more about Arman&#8217;s teachings.</p>
<p>&#8220;Arman says that we have to think in terms of &#8216;our people&#8217; and &#8216;not our people,&#8217; if we are to head off our extinction, expand our kind and prosper.</p>
<p>&#8220;But, you won&#8217;t understand what he really means so long as you have an incorrect mindset that holds that the person you see in the mirror is the whole of the essential you.<span id="more-836"></span></p>
<p>&#8220;See, Arman repeatedly says that if you start your thought process by thinking about yourself as the complete organism you are, this gets you off the correct path and then leads you to think about human races in an incorrect way and leaves you open to having false ideas planted in your subconscious by those who want us to blend back in with the rest of humanity. You have to start your thinking <em>way upstream</em> from this.</p>
<p>&#8220;A good place to start your upstream thinking is by realizing that &#8216;you&#8217; &#8212; the person in the mirror &#8212; are a manifestation of your DNA code. That DNA code is the core that has spun out that person you see in the mirror. But it&#8217;s not as though the unique DNA code you carry has an existence separate from you, because it doesn&#8217;t. <em>You and it are one</em>. It &#8216;projects&#8217; you from within every cell of your body. You need it to exist and it needs you to exist in the form it has within you, and as you.</p>
<p>&#8220;People in other religions talk about a raceless, usually non-physical or non-material soul or spirit that they believe is the real person, and they believe that it inhabits a body that is often considered evil and a burden on the soul or spirit.</p>
<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re wrong, man, and they&#8217;ve been wrong for centuries. You are the real you &#8212; <em>and the DNA code that has made you and which is inside you is the part of you that goes on after your death if you&#8217;ve had children in your image who survive you</em>. And, remember, the DNA code is physical and material and it&#8217;s not raceless.</p>
<p>&#8220;You also need to understand, man, that the DNA code inside all life that we are aware of, including us, is the offspring of that first DNA molecule that came into existence. The basic DNA code is about as close to something immortal as we&#8217;re going to find on Earth. It just keeps spinning out life in myriad forms.</p>
<p>&#8220;But once that life is spun out in whatever form it takes and however different or similar it is from other life forms, it is up to that life form to struggle to compete and try to dominate as much of existence as it can. This struggling is an automatic process and is seen in the organism as a will to comfort. With the differences, nature also gives all organisms means to defend themselves in the struggle &#8212; often, &#8216;tooth and claw.&#8217;</p>
<p>&#8220;However, one of the side-effects of our human version of &#8216;tooth and claw&#8217; &#8212; our brain &#8212; is that we can think about such things. This being the case, it appears that we have been given the keys to guide our own evolution, but they are keys that must be used or we will devolve. In a sense, nature has kicked us out of our mother&#8217;s basement and told us to make our own way in life as fully functioning adults.</p>
<p>&#8220;So, what are we to do? Well, we must understand the natural way of existence and we must realize that whether we live or die as individuals is <em>less</em> important in the larger scheme of things than whether or not we <em>expand ourselves</em> by having as many children in our image as possible. By having as many children in our image as possible, we expand the code that we carry. That is the goal of the DNA code that makes and sustains us, and that is the purpose of all life.</p>
<p>&#8220;What if you have children outside of our people or if you have no children? Your code does not go on, man. It&#8217;s like I told you before. A human male contributes 23 of his 46 chromosomes to a new child and a human female also contributes 23 of her chromosomes to that child so that a child is born with the 46 chromosomes that is normal for our species. Those chromosomes carry our DNA code. If you mate outside the people &#8212; outside your race (race is actually a sub-species) &#8212; the child who is born does not get the full complement of 46 chromosomes of our people. In other words, you do not survive if your DNA code does not survive.</p>
<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t have to overthink this, man. Nature has made your eyes the king of your senses so you can usually tell who is like you and who isn&#8217;t. Your eyes are connected to your libido and to your survival instincts for a reason. If you&#8217;re a mentally healthy person who has been deprogrammed from the genocidal beliefs of society today, just trust your eyes and you&#8217;ll be okay under most circumstances.</p>
<p>&#8220;In fact, your brain is automatically programmed to tell <em>like</em> from <em>non-like</em>. It&#8217;s a survival mechanism. One glance at another and you can usually tell &#8212; at least subconsciously &#8212; if they are like you or not.</p>
<p>&#8220;But, here&#8217;s the rub, man. Society is trying to condition you away from this survival mechanism. Society is trying to convince you that such things as physical appearance are superficial. This is an error in thinking. Don&#8217;t buy it man. Trust your eyes and you&#8217;ll be safer. And, by trusting your eyes you may live longer to breed more and expand your individual version of the code.</p>
<p>&#8220;Okay, now I&#8217;m gettin&#8217; pissed off, because this makes me think about the numbnuts who try to minimize the importance of our white skin. You&#8217;ve heard these dimwits saying things like &#8216;Skin color doesn&#8217;t matter,&#8217; or &#8216;I just happened to have been born white,&#8217; or &#8216;We&#8217;re all the same under the skin.&#8217; Well, that&#8217;s all BS, man.</p>
<p>&#8220;You know where they&#8217;re going wrong? They&#8217;re equating skin color to paint. And, they&#8217;re dead wrong. Skin color isn&#8217;t sprayed on some samey-same universal human blank coming off an assembly line like it&#8217;s an automobile.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our skin color is an integral and essential part of who and what we are, and it comes from within. It is part of our unique code and is just one of many differences we have that are taking us on a <em>different evolutionary path</em> to a <em>different destiny</em> if we make the right choices in life.</p>
<p>&#8220;So, &#8216;looking like us&#8217; starts with white skin. Then it involves bone structure, eye color, hair color and type and on and on. We&#8217;re not clones of each other so there will still be plenty of differences, but the basic similarities are there so that anyone with any intelligence will usually recognize like from not like. Just look, man. <em>Just look</em>.</p>
<p>&#8220;You with me so far? The real <em>us</em> is the genetic code that we carry. It is the code that makes us who and what we are and it is that code that is passed on to our children if we have children with those like us. It is the code that gives us life beyond the death of our particular body.</p>
<p>&#8220;Nah, this ain&#8217;t some ego kind of thing. It&#8217;s nature and nature&#8217;s way for life. Nature&#8217;s prime command for life &#8212; all life &#8212; is to make more like itself.</p>
<p>&#8220;Nature constantly tinkers with the basic code that reads: &#8216;life,&#8217; so that the code will be able to expand in some form of life that is comfortable and able to prosper in every niche and every environment. But it isn&#8217;t the fact that we all started with that single molecule of DNA that is important to us on this level of existence, but the fact that we have evolved into different types. It is up to <em>us</em> to see that our type expands &#8212; no one or anything else will ensure that.</p>
<p>&#8220;Okay, man, let me back up a little and make a picture for you while leaving out all the minutiae. Millions of years ago, some so-called non-living chemicals somehow got mixed together and formed a DNA molecule. Now, this was and is a remarkable molecule because it endlessly &#8216;eats&#8217; other chemicals in order to expand itself so that it can fill all environments and niches with itself.</p>
<p>&#8220;But, how does it do this? This way: It has the remarkable ability to change parts of itself to adapt to different conditions. If there&#8217;s water, the DNA will adapt and bring forth organisms to carry it and to live and prosper there. If there&#8217;s land, it will adapt to bring forth organisms to carry it and to live and prosper there. If it&#8217;s hot, cold, rainy, dry, whatever, the code will change so it brings forth life that will carry it and will be comfortable and prosper. The DNA code is eating its way across the universe, man, and as it does so it is transforming so-called non-living chemicals into life forms that can carry it.</p>
<p>&#8220;Just how changeable the code is still isn&#8217;t known, but as far as the Earth goes, we find life of some type living and prospering in just about every niche possible. That means the basic DNA code is still here after all these millions of years.</p>
<p>&#8220;Humans are just one manifestation of that DNA code that started millions of years ago and as with all life, we continue to evolve.</p>
<p>&#8220;However, as I just told you, humans have reached a point where we can think about these things. Arman says that because we have reached this point, not only can we think about these things, but we must think about them and we must, in our own interest, start guiding our own evolution.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll tell you more next time, man. But for now, remember to breed to your fullest and start eating your way across the universe to expand your DNA code. It is nature&#8217;s way.&#8221;</p>
<p>(© 2010 H. Millard)</p>
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<p><em>&#8220;Millard is an original. His books aren&#8217;t like your typical  fiction. If you don&#8217;t know where to put his books, try the same shelf  with Kerouac, Kafka, Sartre and Nietzsche&#8230;&#8221;</em></p>
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<p>In <em>Ourselves Alone</em> and <em>Homeless Jack&#8217;s Religion</em>, H. Millard, the hard-to-pigeonhole author of <em>The Outsider</em> and <em>Roaming the Wastelands</em>,  has put together some of his category-bending commentaries on  post-American America. The commentaries deal with politics, philosophy,  free speech, genocide, religion and other topics; all in Millard&#8217;s edgy  style. They lead up to <em>Homeless Jack&#8217;s Religion</em>, in which Homeless Jack lays out revelations he found in a dumpster on skid row. <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0595326463/qid=1093971343/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/002-3228254-2356066?v=glance&amp;s=books">Click here to buy.</a></strong> <strong>ISBN: 0-595-32646-3</strong></td>
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<td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#fef7de"><span class="normal-font"><strong>ROAMING THE WASTELANDS</strong></span><strong>&#8211; (ISBN: 0-595-22811-9)</strong></p>
<p><strong>H. Millard&#8217;s latest sacred cow toppling book, is now <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595228119/qid%3D1025648466/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F0%5F1/102-1922839-6933712">available at Amazon.com by clicking on this link</a> or by calling 1-877-823-9235. </strong></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;A fun—and sobering—thing to read&#8221; &#8211; <em>Alamance Independent </em></strong></td>
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		<title>What is Deism?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[by Robert L. Johnson Deism was the religion of America&#8217;s Founding Fathers, and their wisdom in embracing it should not be forgotten today. DEISM VS. REVEALED RELIGION REVELATION, or revealed religion, is defined in Webster&#8217;s New World Dictionary as: &#8220;God&#8217;s disclosure to man of Himself.&#8221; This should read, &#8220;God&#8217;s alleged disclosure to man of himself.&#8221; For unless God reveals to <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2010/06/what-is-deism/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>by Robert L. Johnson</p>
<p><em>Deism was the religion of America&#8217;s Founding Fathers, and their wisdom in embracing it should not be forgotten today.</em></p>
<p><strong>DEISM VS. REVEALED RELIGION</strong></p>
<p>REVELATION, or revealed religion, is defined in <em>Webster&#8217;s New World   		Dictionary</em> as: &#8220;God&#8217;s disclosure to man of Himself.&#8221; This should read,   		&#8220;God&#8217;s alleged disclosure to man of himself.&#8221; For unless God reveals  to  		each of us individually that a particular religion is truly His  		disclosure to us of Himself, then, by believing that religion, we are  		not taking His word for it, but we are instead putting our belief in  the  		person or institution telling us it is so. This is what we are doing  		when we believe in any revealed religion, and that&#8217;s all Christianity  		is. It&#8217;s a revealed religion like many others such as Islam and  Judaism.  		Revealed religion gets dangerous however, when it crosses over the  line  		into politics. This is the admitted goal of the Christian Coalition.  God  		allegedly revealed to Pat Robertson and his Coalition, that He wants  		them to take over America and eventually the world with &#8220;His Word,&#8221; so   		the laws of the nations will mirror the laws in the Bible, which, if  you  		know what&#8217;s in the Bible, is terrifying. This, too, is what the  		Ayatollah&#8217;s goal was, only his &#8220;revealed word of God&#8221; was the Koran,  an  		other revelation. Are we to believe Pat when he says the Bible is  		revelation of God&#8217;s Word?&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.deism.com/paine.htm" class="broken_link">Thomas Paine</a>, the man  		who elucidated Deism for the masses and who is the primary personal  		impetus for <a title="Free subscription to Deist monthly THINKonline!" href="http://www.deism.com/thinkonline.htm" class="broken_link"><em> </em></a>the World Union of  Deists,  		wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Calvinist, who damns children of a span long to hell to burn  			forever for the glory of God (and this is called Christianity), and  			the Universalist who preaches that all shall be saved and none shall  			be damned (and this also is called Christianity), boasts alike of  			their holy [reveled] religion and their Christian faith.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Something more therefore is necessary than mere cry and  			wholesale assertion, and that something is TRUTH; and as inquiry is  			the road to truth, he that is opposed to inquiry is not a friend to  			truth. &#8220;The God of truth is not the God of fable; when, therefore,  			any book is introduced into the world as the Word of God, and made a  			groundwork for religion, it ought to be scrutinized more than other  			books to see if it bear evidence of being what it is called. Our  			reverence to God demands that we do this, lest we ascribe to God  			what is not His, and our duty to ourselves demands it lest we take  			fable for fact, and rest our hope of salvation on a false  			foundation.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is not our calling a book holy that makes it so, any more  			than our calling a religion holy that entitles it to the name.  			Inquiry therefore is necessary in order to arrive at truth. But  			inquiry must have some principle to proceed on, some standard to  			judge by, superior to human authority.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;When we survey the works of creation, the revolutions of the  			planetary system, and the whole economy of what is called nature,  			which is no other than the laws the Creator has prescribed to  			matter, we see unerring order and universal harmony reigning  			throughout the whole. No one part contradicts another. The sun does  			not run against the moon, nor the moon against the sun, nor the  			planets against each other. Everything keeps its appointed time and  			place.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;This harmony in the works of God is so obvious, that the farmer  			of the field, though he cannot calculate eclipses, is as sensible of  			it as the philosophical astronomer. He sees the God of order in  			every part of the visible universe.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Here, then, is the standard to which everything must be brought  			that pretends to be the work or Word of God, and by this standard it  			must be judged, independently of anything and everything that man  			can say or do. His opinion is like a feather in the scale compared  			with the standard that God Himself has set up.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Since we know we did not create the creation or ourselves, yet we  and  		the creation do exist, it is logical to believe that God, or an <em> <strong>Eternal Cause</strong></em> or Creator created us. This belief   		has absolutely nothing to do with revealed religion. In fact, all the  		absurdities of revealed religion are responsible for many sincere  		thinking people to reject and close their minds to natural  		religion/Deism. The priests, ministers, and rabbis need to suppress,  or  		at least complicate, the pure and simple belief and realization of  Deism  		for their own job security. And the power elites have no use for Deism   		because they can&#8217;t use Deism to &#8220;inspire&#8221; mankind to wage war against  		itself for the elitists&#8217; own selfish purposes. In fact, Deism, by  		focusing on the first creed of all religions, belief in God, could  		frustrate the war/money machine permanently.</p>
<p>The following quote from Thomas Jefferson points us in a direction  		free of the confusion of priest-craft and revealed religion:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view  			of the universe, in its parts, general or particular, it is  			impossible for the human mind not to perceive and feel a conviction  			of design, consummate skill, and indefinite power in every atom of  			its composition. The movements of the heavenly bodies, so exactly  			held in their course by the balance of centrifugal and centripetal  			forces; the structure of the Earth itself, with its distribution of  			lands, waters and atmosphere; animal and vegetable bodies, examined  			in all their minutest particles; insects, mere atoms of life, yet as  			perfectly organized as man or mammoth; the mineral substances, their  			generation and uses, it is impossible, I say, for the human mind not  			to believe, that there is in all this, design, cause and effect, up  			to an ultimate cause, a Fabricator of all things from matter and  			motion, their Preserver and Regulator, while permitted to exist in  			their present forms, and their regeneration into new and other  			forms. We see, too, evident proofs of the necessity of a  			superintending power, to maintain the universe in its course and  			order.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Because Deism is based on nature, the laws of nature, and the  		creation, it is a natural religion as opposed to revealed or man-made  		artificial religion.</p>
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<p><strong>DEISM VS. ATHEISM</strong></p>
<p>In George H. Smith&#8217;s book <em>ATHEISM &#8211; THE CASE AGAINST GOD</em>,  it  		is stated that rationality will not lead to God. That instead, God can   		only be brought about by rationalization. The book describes  rationality  		as first finding evidence, then arriving at the idea, like Newton  seeing  		the apple fall to the ground and then discovering the law of gravity.  It  		then describes rationalization as first accepting an idea and then  		searching for evidence to support it, like someone inventing the idea  of  		God and then saying God created the universe. Deism says it is  		rationality and reason that leads to God. To the Deist, the evidence  is  		the creation and the idea of what brought about the evidence is the  		Creator. There is absolutely nothing known to man that created itself.   		For example, if someone shows us a computer, and tells us that all the   		individual parts that make up the computer just came about by chance,  		that they somehow just formed into a perfectly working computer system   		all by themselves, we would be foolish to believe that person. Reason,   		if we use it, won&#8217;t let us believe a statement like that. Likewise, if   		someone tells us the ever growing creation and its perfect order  		&#8220;happened&#8221; by pure chance, we are under no obligation to believe them.   		From our own experience we know everything created has a creator. Why  		then should the creation itself be different? There is, however, one  		quality the creation has that makes leaving its existence to chance  even  		more remote. That quality is motion.</p>
<p>Turning again to <a href="http://www.deism.com/paine.htm" class="broken_link">Thomas  		Paine</a> we find the following pertinent observation he made  regarding  		atheism in a speech to the Society of Theophilanthropists in Paris,  		France, shortly after the French Revolution:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;In the first place, admitting matter to have properties, as we  			see it has, the question still remains, how came matter by those  			properties? To this they will answer, that matter possessed those  			properties eternally. This is not solution, but assertion; and to  			deny it is as impossible of proof as to assert it.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is then necessary to go further; and therefore I say &#8211; if  			there exist a circumstance that is not a property of matter, and  			without which the universe, or to speak in a limited degree, the  			solar system composed of planets and a sun, could not exist a  			moment, all the arguments of atheism, drawn from properties of  			matter, and applied to account for the universe, will be overthrown,  			and the existence of a superior cause, or that which man calls God,  			becomes discoverable, as is before said, by natural philosophy.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I go now to show that such a circumstance exists, and what it  			is.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The universe is composed of matter, and, as a system, is  			sustained by motion. Motion is not a property of matter, and without  			this motion, the solar system could not exist. Were motion a  			property of matter, that undiscovered and undiscoverable thing  			called perpetual motion would establish itself.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is because motion is not a property of matter, that perpetual  			motion is an impossibility in the hand of every being but that of  			the Creator of motion. When the pretenders to atheism can produce  			perpetual motion, and not till then, they may expect to be credited.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The natural state of matter, as to place, is a state of rest.  			Motion, or change of place, is the effect of an external cause  			acting upon matter. As to that faculty of matter that is called  			gravitation, it is the influence which two or more bodies have  			reciprocally on each other to unite and be at rest. Everything which  			has hitherto been discovered, with respect to the motion of the  			planets in the system, relates only to the laws by which motion  			acts, and not to the cause of motion.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Gravitation, so far from being the cause of motion to the  			planets that compose the solar system, would be the destruction of  			the solar system, were revolutionary motion to cease; for as the  			action of spinning upholds a top, the revolutionary motion upholds  			the planets in their orbits, and prevents them from gravitating and  			forming one mass with the sun. In one sense of the word, philosophy  			knows, and atheism says, that matter is in perpetual motion.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;But the motion here meant refers to the state of matter, and  			that only on the surface of the Earth. It is either decomposition,  			which is continually destroying the form of bodies of matter, or  			recomposition, which renews that matter in the same or another form,  			as the decomposition of animal or vegetable substances enters into  			the composition of other bodies.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;But the motion that upholds the solar system, is of an entirely  			different kind, and is not a property of matter. It operates also to  			an entirely different effect. It operates to perpetual preservation,  			and to prevent any change in the state of the system.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Giving then to matter all the properties which philosophy knows  			it has, or all that atheism ascribes to it, and can prove, and even  			supposing matter to be eternal, it will not account for the system  			of the universe, or of the solar system, because it will not account  			for motion, and it is motion that preserves it.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;When, therefore, we discover a circumstance of such immense  			importance, that without it the universe could not exist, and for  			which neither matter, nor any nor all the properties can account, we  			are by necessity forced into the rational conformable belief of the  			existence of a cause superior to matter, and that cause man calls  			GOD.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;As to that which is called nature, it is no other than the laws  			by which motion and action of every kind, with respect to  			unintelligible matter, are regulated. And when we speak of looking  			through nature up to nature&#8217;s God, we speak philosophically the same  			rational language as when we speak of looking through human laws up  			to the power that ordained them.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;God is the power of first cause, nature is the law, and matter  			is the subject acted upon.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>In addition to motion acting as a perpetual preserver, it also acts   		as a continual source for the universe&#8217;s constant expansion. Every  		second the universe is expanding at the speed of light (186,282 miles  		per second). According to Astronomy Magazine, 2/14/92, page 49,  		&#8220;Astronomers presently believe there isn&#8217;t enough mass in the  universe,  		even with dark matter, to stop its expansion.&#8221; This exciting  realization  		should fill everyone with unlimited appreciation when we realize we  are  		a part of this amazing and spectacular universe! The Creator is  		immeasurably generous!</p>
<p>In ATHEISM &#8211; THE CASE AGAINST GOD, the author writes, &#8221; . . .when I   		claim not to believe in a god, I mean that I do not believe in  anything  		&#8220;above&#8221; or &#8220;beyond&#8221; the natural, knowable universe.&#8221; Deism teaches  that  		the Creator is knowable and discoverable through the creation itself.  It  		is very understandable how people could be turned off by man-made  		religions and superstitions with their bombings and financial  		beg-a-thons, and confuse artificial or revealed religion with God.  		However, the atheist attitude of accepting things simply as not  knowable  		is dangerous to the progress of humanity. Many things were not  knowable  		in the past that are knowable today. At one time Europeans believed it   		was impossible to know what was on the other side of the Atlantic  Ocean:  		but they were wrong. As we learn more about the sciences, we are  		learning more about the Power that put those principles in place. An  		eternal Being, as <a href="http://www.deism.com/paine.htm" class="broken_link">Thomas  Paine</a> said, &#8220;whose power is equal to His will.&#8221;</p>
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<p><a name="DEISM AND DEATH"><strong>DEISM AND DEATH</strong></a></p>
<p>Revealed religions all teach different opinions on death. Even the  		different denominations of the same umbrella religion preach different   		dogmas. A good example is Christianity. Some of the Christian  		denominations say an essential qualification to get into heaven (of  		course they all agree dying is a key requirement) is that you have to  be  		baptized &#8220;by submersion,&#8221; while others say just a &#8220;sprinkling&#8221; is  fine.  		Which is it? Sprinkling or submersion??</p>
<p>The fear of death is a big motivator for many people to support a  		particular religion. We all know, without the possibility of doubt,  that  		a day will come for absolutely all of us when we will die. This  		realization brings fear to many people. It also brings money to  		religious charlatans who aren&#8217;t ashamed to prey on this fear. In fact,   		it can be truthfully said that the revealed religions of the world all   		use the fear of death to put cash in their own pockets.</p>
<p>Contrary to this self-serving attitude of the revealed religions,  		Deism teaches that no one knows for certain what happens after death,  if  		anything at all. It teaches that, based on the creation we are all a  		part of, we shouldn&#8217;t worry about it. That instead, we should be  		concerned for the present and future of planet Earth and humanity.  That  		we should work hard to improve life and also enjoy it here and now.  Why  		should we worry about death when we have so much to do in life? And do   		we think so little of Nature&#8217;s God that we don&#8217;t trust Him with our  		future? Ethan Allen, a Deist from America&#8217;s Revolutionary War era,  		wrote, &#8220;Ungrateful and foolish it must be for rational beings in the  		possession of existence, and surrounded with a kind and almighty  		Providence, to distrust the author thereof concerning their futurity,  		because they cannot comprehend the mode or manner of their succeeding  		and progressive existence.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another Deist that had interesting thoughts on death was Benjamin  		Franklin. One quote of Franklin&#8217;s was, &#8220;Take courage mortal, death  		cannot banish you from the universe.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ben Franklin&#8217;s epitaph on himself provides a look at his belief  that  		our life on earth is not the beginning and end of a personality. He,  		like Ethan Allen above, seems to have believed that the state of our  		spirits or souls is of an evolutionary nature. Franklin&#8217;s epitaph  reads,  		&#8220;The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer, like the cover of an old  book,  		its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding, lies  		here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost; for it will, as  he  		believed, appear once more in a new and more elegant edition, revised  		and corrected by the Author.&#8221;</p>
<p>In 		<a title="The Age of Reason at amazon" href="http://www.deism.com/the_age_of_reason_paine.htm" class="broken_link">Thomas Paine&#8217;s  The Age Of Reason</a>, we  		read on pages 177 and 178 the following: &#8220;But all other arguments  apart,  		the consciousness of existence is the only conceivable idea we have of   		another life, and the continuance of that consciousness is  immortality.  		The consciousness of existence, of the knowing that we exist, is not  		necessarily confined to the same form, nor to the same matter, even in   		this life.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We have not in all cases the same form, nor in any case the same  			matter that composed our bodies twenty or thirty years ago; and yet  			we are conscious of being the same persons. . .</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;That the consciousness of existence is not dependent on the same  			form or the same matter is demonstrated to our senses in the works  			of the creation, as far as our senses are capable of receiving that  			demonstration. A very numerous part of the animal creation preaches  			to us, far better than Paul, the belief of a life hereafter. Their  			little life resembles an Earth and a heaven &#8211; a present and a future  			state, and comprises, if it may be so expressed, immortality in  			miniature.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The most beautiful parts of the creation to our eye are the  			winged insects, and they are not so originally. They acquire that  			form and that inimitable brilliancy by progressive changes. The slow  			and creeping caterpillar-worm of today passes in a few days to a  			torpid figure and a state resembling death; and in the next change  			comes forth in all the miniature magnificence of life, a splendid  			butterfly.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>In an essay <a href="http://www.deism.com/paine.htm" class="broken_link">Mr. Paine</a> wrote the following short and to the point passage:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I consider myself in the hands of my Creator, and that he will  			dispose of me after this life consistently with His justice and  			goodness. I leave all these matters to Him, as my Creator and  			friend, and I hold it to be presumption in man to make an article of  			faith as to what the Creator will do with us hereafter.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.deism.com/deism_vs.htm" class="broken_link">Read the original article at Deism.com</a></p>
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