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	<description>Religion. Atheism. Meaning of life. Well-being. Self-value. Nature's laws. God. Gods.</description>
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		<title>What is atheism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Atheism&#8230; simply put&#8230; (to me)&#8230; means: To feel no shame, no guilt, no repentance, no dues&#8230; toward the ancient gods of the past. It is to walk in this moment&#8230;  completely whole, completely new. A moment that contains its own definition(s). Unattached, centered, human.  The meaning of your existence originates&#8230; Not in the days of old, But in the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Atheism&#8230; simply put&#8230; (to me)&#8230; means:</p>
<p>To feel no shame, no guilt, no repentance, no dues&#8230; toward the ancient gods of the past. It is to walk in this moment&#8230;  completely whole, completely new. A moment that contains its own definition(s).</p>
<p>Unattached, centered, human. </p>
<p>The meaning of your existence originates&#8230;</p>
<p>Not in the days of old,<br />
But in the center of your being.</p>
<p>———————————————————————————————————————–&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
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		<title>What is sin ? Or &#8211; in nature, there is &#8211; no such thing &#8211; as sin or sinners.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8212;&#8212;- Nature (the universal &#8220;Source&#8221;) is eternal. Eternal means &#8211; nature never had a first (beginning) moment&#8230; and will never have a final (endding) point. Nature has always been there&#8230; is always there. The only &#8220;time&#8221; in which nature exists is the present. (We, and every form that exist, live in a flowing now.) (Now&#8230; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p>Nature (the universal &#8220;Source&#8221;) is eternal.</p>
<p>Eternal means &#8211; nature never had a first (beginning) moment&#8230; and will never have a final (endding) point. Nature has always been there&#8230; is always there. The only &#8220;time&#8221; in which nature exists is the present. (We, and every form that exist, live in a flowing now.) (Now&#8230; now&#8230; now.)</p>
<p>Nature has laws (forces) that keeps eternity into an eternal present. (Theses forces &#8211; also &#8211; act through you)</p>
<p>In the &#8220;present&#8221;, nature recreates itself&#8230; eternally. &#8211; Continuously, forms come, forms stay,  and forms go. We experience the coming and going of forms as the continuous /discontinuous movement of two powerful forces: Life and Death. (In between &#8211; other forces &#8211; keep forms in &#8220;existence&#8221;.)</p>
<p>Forms come into being: &#8211; Life.<br />
Forms fade away: &#8211; Death.</p>
<p>The Life/Death continuous /discontiuous movement is the universal heartbeat that permeates all forms. From everywhere, in this one single flowing instant, nature  &#8211;  creates, keeps, and destroys &#8211; . This instant is the beginning, the middle, and the end. In this instant we are born&#8230; grow&#8230; think&#8230; act&#8230; dream&#8230; want&#8230;  view the purpose of our existence&#8230; stay alive&#8230; flourish&#8230; and fade away.  </p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>Enters religion.</p>
<p>Nature is defective. We are imperfect.</p>
<p>Religions claim that a &#8220;God&#8221; created the universe&#8230; and our first and last moment. In the mean time, &#8220;God&#8221; has placed at our disposition an earth/nature shopping-mall. In it, we live &#8230; buying and selling the forms of nature&#8230; while sinning, repenting, whorshipping, obeying, and serving the &#8220;God&#8221;.</p>
<p>Within the shopping mall, the &#8220;God&#8221; is All-good. But the &#8220;God&#8221; has an ennemy. The devil. The lord of the underworld. The Evil One. Satan. &#8211; Satan is All-bad. The forces of &#8220;God&#8221;  and the forces of Satan wage &#8211; through us &#8211; an endless battle. &#8220;God&#8221; is the way to go. To fall into the ways of Satan &#8211; which are the ways of nature &#8211; is to sin. In his battle against &#8220;God,  Satan tricks us in wanting forbidden &#8220;fruits&#8221;&#8230; forbidden knowledge&#8230; forbidden thoughts&#8230; forbidden acts&#8230; forbidden sensations&#8230; forbidden desires. &#8211; The list goes on&#8230; and on&#8230; and on. </p>
<p>We fall. And we sin. And we sin. And we fall. We battle. And we repent. (We are saved). And we fall&#8230; and sin. The game never ends. We are caught in a nightmarish illusion. The nightmare, consumes our exsitence. If we have been good, at death &#8230;. we may go to Heaven!<br />
&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p>Religion explaining perfection/imperfection:<br />
&#8220;God&#8221;/Satan. </p>
<p>Nature explaining perfection/imperfection:<br />
Life/death.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p>Humanity is fast asleep in an imaginary drama. Instead of sensing the real Life /Death heartbeat of forms&#8230; and thoughts, dreams, actions&#8230; being created or crashing within and around us&#8230; we play hide and seek with &#8220;God&#8221; and &#8220;Satan&#8221;. But of the real game we know nothing. (How effective can we be at the game of living when we do not know the game&#8217;s most elemental rules?)</p>
<p>Sin is a deviation. Sin is a lie. Sin a twists of mind. Sin makes us hate our own &#8220;self&#8221; as well as the world around us. Sin blocks our intelligence from perceiving our true nature. Yet nature demands that we walk our existence awake, aware, and conscious.<br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>Who we think we are&#8230; we are not.<br />
Who we are&#8230; we fight to separate ourselves from it.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>When will we ever wake up and smell the roses of earth&#8230; and see that as new buds bloom, &#8220;some&#8221; petals fall to the ground? And why? And how?</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>For more information, read &#8220;A Natural Philosophy&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
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		<title>Yes, you can free yourself from religion.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though it is difficult to find your way out of religion&#8230; it is still possible to do so. The first step is to understand the origin of the God (gods) story on earth. You need to know who God was then. And who God is today. - Without this understanding, you will fumble in the dark. Never certain. Never [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Even though it is difficult to find your way out of religion&#8230; it is still possible to do so. The first step is to understand the origin of the God (gods) story on earth. You need to know who God was then. And who God is today. - Without this understanding, you will fumble in the dark. Never certain. Never sure.</p>
<p>That door is not easy to open. After millennia of control over humanity, religion has mastered the skill of plugging, and quickly, every hole, every opening, every glimpse of enlightenment. With words and with swords.</p>
<p>Then, you will need to conquer the many fears that &#8221;official&#8221; society has locked and keep locking into your mind. Society has &#8221;normalized&#8221; in your body, mind, and soul an imaginary realm. What you are taught about nature, the world, and yourself reflects this fictitious &#8221;empire of the unreal&#8221;. </p>
<p>(Awakening and maturing is never easy.)</p>
<p>But it can be accomplished through reflection, reading, and taking many walks in nature. (The nature under your feet.) And a willingness to know the real truth. The uneasiness, the fear, the reluctance that you feel &#8211; to even look at the information &#8211; attest to the power of the conditioning that you are under.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>You are a &#8211; natural &#8211; individual. Learn about it&#8230; while you are on earth.</p>
<p>(Living in reality has its benefits.)</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>For more information, read the book &#8220;A Natural Philosophy&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
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		<title>The God particule. The God gene.</title>
		<link>http://anaturalphilosophy.com/2009/07/10/the-god-particule-the-god-gene/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people undersand that the historical &#8220;God&#8221; is a white-bearded &#8220;person&#8221;. A &#8220;God/person&#8221; ruling humanity and the universe from a place named Heaven. But some people are ill-at-ease with this archaic &#8220;conception&#8221;. They want to modernize &#8220;God&#8221;. The &#8220;new believers&#8221;&#8230; as they are not yet ready to accept that &#8220;nature&#8221; is a self creating matrix&#8230; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most people undersand that the historical &#8220;God&#8221; is a white-bearded &#8220;person&#8221;. A &#8220;God/person&#8221; ruling humanity and the universe from a place named Heaven. But some people are ill-at-ease with this archaic &#8220;conception&#8221;. They want to modernize &#8220;God&#8221;. </p>
<p>The &#8220;new believers&#8221;&#8230; as they are not yet ready to accept that &#8220;nature&#8221; is a self creating matrix&#8230; and still needing to be close to &#8220;God&#8221;&#8230; why not bring &#8220;God&#8221; down to earth? As &#8220;God&#8221; is said to be everwhere, they conceive in their imagination a &#8220;God&#8221; particule, a &#8220;God&#8221; gene residing in all things. This God particule is inserted into all the forms of nature. From the largest to the smallest spect of &#8220;nature&#8221;. Then the &#8220;God&#8221; particule is revered as the power behind all things. </p>
<p>Through this twist of the imagination, they have not abandonned &#8220;Him&#8221;. And He has not forsaken them. As they walk in His domain, they can now interact directly with Him. He is truly everywhere.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br />
But&#8230; they are still in a dream-trance. </p>
<p>&#8220;God&#8221; is tough endoctrination to get from under.</p>
<p>And who they really are remains unknown to them.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>For more information, read the book &#8220;A Natural Philosophy&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
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