Saturday, February 20, 2010

Poem's Keep On Breathing

Fog broke into fleecy tufts,
Driven away by the wind;
Mother Earth bathed in sunlight
Under the glare of the sun.

Some green leaves in the treetops,
Covering the earth’s vales & mounts,
Danced in the wind that stroked them.

I wrote poems from what I saw.
In my built-in receptor,
Mother Earth’s silent voice stirred,
“You give life in what you saw;
Go on as you roam around,
When you sink into my skin
One plants a marker thereon;
Thenceforth you’re measured by time.

“But the poems you’ve written
Keep breathing forevermore.”

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I Am A Neonaturalist (Part 6)

It is an assumed fact that God is the Creator. So He rules His creatures. Neonaturalism believes in it, sans religion, sans money, sans pious fraud.

As I have said, I am a neonaturalist; and neo-naturalism has nothing to do with any organized religion. Being a neonaturalist, I have no desire to enrich myself at the people’s expense. When I spoke of God, I did not intend to touch on religion; and I know that real God is not the property of organized religion except a human god. Mythical or human god and religion are man’s creatures who owe their existence to true God, the Creator. Man, the creator of a human god, catapults his creature into its throne in the santuary of a church held sacred by the fanatics who, in their mental darkness, believes in God, the Creator, and in god, the creature; but their chief religious belief in human god and have only very faint belief in true God.

As a consequence, the fanatics as followers have become milking cows. Where does the gullibility of these people start? It sprouts from their peccant concept of nature as a force itself which theism and deism, together with natural science, call such force as “natural law” to which neonaturalism has cautioned the theists to be consistent and logical.

Theism believes in one God as the “creator of all things.” In the phrase “all things,” nature, which is a thing, is included. It means, therefore, that all the “natural laws” pour forth from God, the Creator or First Cause. He is self-existing and ruler of the universe. Hence, He has placed everything under His design, pattern and whatever force under His rule needed to put into effect His governance. So God need not be reduced to a mere “mediator,” the belief of the ancient Hebrews and the Egyptians, because God who is almost all-knowing and all-powerful can make two opposing parties understand with each other without the need of personal presence to mediate.

The so-called miracle is not the product of God’s mediation, but it is an act of God. It is the outcome of what God wants. A claim of mediation is an implied rejection of God’s omniscience and omnipotence; and any being without these attributes are but God’s creatures, according to the views held by neonaturalism.

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I Am A Neonaturalist (Part 5)

Theism believes that God’s commandments can be violated. Such position repudiates the concept of God as almost omniscient and omnipotent because if His laws could be broken, it denotes that He is not nearly all-knowing and all-powerful. More positive than theism, neonaturalism maintains that God is certainly almost omniscient and omnipotent, and His unwritten, self-executory mandates are either positive or negative absolute.

Neonaturalism reason out that when god has designed man to have only two arms, He has impliedly prohibited him to grow wings or more arms,. Such written mandate is an example of negative absolute, and no one can break it.

A man doing acts daily in connection wit is livelihood is complying with the positive absolute law which, if worded for the sake of illustration would say, “Man, in connection with your existence, you’ve got to move.” No man could stay put on fixed place and be alive because he could not violate the positive absolute law.

He who calls the aforementioned examples of God’s self-executory laws as “the law of nature” is a believer in a human god created by religion that calls him “mediator,” with the main function to intercede – an old belief of the ancient primitives of Mesopotamia that cause the constructions of churches and chapels. To say that god is a “mediator” is to deny him as Creator and ruler of the universe because he is divested of his omniscience and omnipotence, reducing him to mere human being assuming the rule as negotiator, like pharaoh, between two conflicting forces. Hence, theism holds self contradictory views.

What are these opposing forces that a theist wishes to imply, forcing him to reduce God a “mediator”? Perhaps, the theist would level his finger at what e calls “nature and man” But man is one of the elements of nature, according to science.

Let us be serious and honest, without any intention to fleece some simple-minded people. It is not nice to ridicule God by calling Him the creator of all things and then divest Him of His near omniscience and omni-potence by saying that He becomes the “mediator” between His two contending creatures. Does theism reduce God to a human being, say, a father negotiating between his two quarreling sons? Such poverty of human concept would only be worthy of respect by a worthless fanatic, somersaulting himself and knocking his head, turning him into a nincompoop.

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I Am A Neonaturalist (Part 4)

The irony here lies in the fact that the inventors of the myth of human-god so much believed in their invention that they failed to grasp sound reasoning which asserts that God, almost all-knowing and all-powerful, can never be tortured, let alone nailed to the cross. Knowing these evil thoughts of men, true God would suspend His law of motion; and those evil men could not torture Him any more; or God would suspend the life-giving force, divesting from those evil men the ability to move. How could they nail a person on the cross?

As a neonaturalist, I do not succumb to such naïve thinking of attributing my existence to a human god. I recognize real God as my Creator and ruler; and I believe man could do nothing if he has accidentally strayed away from God’s governance. Inasmuch as God is the creator of almost all things, including nature, man’s existence would be reduced to nothing outside God’s control. Without the law of motion, man would lose his appetite for lovemaking; without the law of death, he could not die though he felt useless. In short, man could do nothing – nothing at all outside God’s governance.

As I have said, I am not teaching any religious doctrine. Being a neonaturalist, I am just embracing the truth believed as such by neonaturalism, one of the six different views outside any organized religion such as deism, theism, neonaturalism, agnosticism, pantheism, and atheism.

Of these six viewpoints mentioned, atheism is incurably negative while agnosticism crouches on the gray area and awkwardly stays there, waiting for the sunlight to shine on a clear evidence. Except for atheism the five isms – namely: theism, deism, pantheism, neonaturalism and agnosticism can have the same views elsewhere but contradict each other somewhere.

As an example, deism and theism have the same belief in human god. Theism upholds revelation but deism openly rejects it, declaring further that God has no control over His creatures. Theism has a ticklish position, as though it were resting on a quicksand, because while it believes in God’s omniscience and omnipotence, it implies that God has no control over His creatures.

Pantheism also believes in God but it rejects revelation. On the other and, neonaturalism plunges ahead by recognizing the operations of the unwritten yet self-executory laws which emanate from the self-sustaining central energy called Divine Power, First Cause or God. Like theism, neonaturalism also acknowledges the phenomena manifested through revelation. However, while theism considers revelation as esoteric or is meant for only a “chosen few,” originally claimed by the Jews, noenaturalism advocates that revelation, based on facts, is exoteric or is commu-nicated to the people in general; but most of them are too busy and do not care to interpret or understand it. Making it worse, they let a preacher do the thinking for them.

He who believes in revelation as esoteric can easily be hoodwinked by a glib talker. A neonaturalist does not want to be a witless sucker. He declares, based on facts, that revelation is open to all. When a dead trunk of a tree decays, it is an exoteric revelation of God’s law of change, as pointed out by neonaturalism. Also, when a mare gives birth to a foal, it is a revelation of the unwritten yet self-executory law of propagation. Such law operates without any law enforcer, for God has instilled in his every creature the instinct to automatically comply, when a need arises, with His unwritten law, thereby generating the force of self-execution.

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I Am A Neonaturalist (Part 3)

The Creator could never be a human being, as what ancient, primitive people in Mesopotamia and in other ancient places believed. Humans are only creatures, as we have known. But the Creator or God is a self-generating energy with great omniscience and omnipotence, filling up the infinity. So He is the sourceless source, self-existing, beginning and continuing endlessly.

I have unwavering faith in my strong belief, based on logic, that the Creator as designed every creature, inanimate or animate, to fit to His selected habitat for each creature which He has placed under His control.

For instance, He has made distinctive design for each animal although He has designed all of them to live on the crust of the earth, and then He has instilled in each animal the instinct to comply with all His un-written, self-executory laws such as the law of change, motion, pattern, design, perpetuation, propagation, etc.

It is why a lioness has her shape different from that of a fish or a bird; and, upon reaching maturity, she does not grow any more in obedience to the design and pattern implanted in her by the Creator. His law of death is one of the means of His control, to repeat. As we know, the lioness is a predatory beast. Yet, obeying the Creator’s law of procreation which carries with it love and the responsibility to take care of an offspring, the lioness does not gobble up her cubs; instead, she feeds them and protects them from harm. Is it not amazing to think of the behavior of the lioness?

I want to point out that when I speak of the Creator, I do not intend to join in any religious enterprise nor intend to teach a religious doctrine. Religion is one thing, the Creator is another; it is absurd to equate religion with the Creator. Any religion is invented by man and man is a creature by God – I mean true God, not a human god. Any human god is property of religion upon whom its fallacious doctrine is based.

In the Holy Bible which is also manmade, there are two gods: God, the Creator to whom I owe my existence, and god, the creature. To repeat, human god is man’s creature, the basis of his religion; but true God is the Creator of almost all things, the Author of all unwritten self-executory laws under the operations of which everything functions.

It is true God, the Creator, referred to in Matt. 19:26 which says: “…with God all things are possible.” But in Judges 1:19, the Bible refers to a human god, barren of omniscience and omnipotence; for the verse says: “And the Lord was with Judah, and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.” This verse goes to show that a human god, like the human god who was tortured and nailed to the cross, is not the Creator with omniscience and omnipotence. The assertion is based on facts.

From time immemorial man has been creating human gods and religions. It was why the ancient, primitive people in Mesopotamia or Egypt did have numerous human or myth gods. Most of these human gods, who were ahead of Jesus Christ, were called Saviors, born of Virgin Mothers who were tortured to death, became religious martyrs, buried and rose from the dead then ascended to heaven.

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I Am A Neonaturalist (Part 2)

Yes, I am a creature. How was I created? By direct creation or through revolution, designed and under the direction by the Divine Power? We must assume that our origin has a cause.

Let us be sincere and honest. We must recognize, rather than believe, the facts we are actually aware of and relate those facts to the Divine Power through observations, analysis and logical reasoning based on the assumed fact that this Divine Power is almost all-knowing and all-powerful. Accepting these attributes of the Divine Being, we must be consistent throughout our analyses; and we have to push off our thoughts any concept which defies these attributes.

Now let us begin to analyze, step by step. First, we have accepted that we have origin and we were not the ones who created us, nor did our ancestors create themselves. Whether or not we have been given life through direct creation or through evolution under the Creator’s direction, we were unaware of it.

Considering the assumed facts of the attributes possessed by the Divine Power we have accepted, we are willing to embrace the belief that this Divine Power must be our Creator; and since He is the cause, source and origin of all inanimate and animate beings, He must be the author of all unwritten, yet self-executory laws under the operations of which the forces throughout the universe function. Under its objective studies, science calls nature all the forces at work throughout the uni-verse; and the elements of nature, according to science, are humans, mountains, rivers, et cetera.

As a neonaturalist, I leap from the objective studies of science to the mysterious origin or creation of nature and its function. After careful analysis and logical reasoning, based on the assumed fact that the Divine Power or Creator is almost omniscient and omnipotent (omnipresence is inherent in the two attributes just mentioned), I assume that the forces of nature only function under the operations of the Creator’s unwritten divine laws.

There are chapters in the Bible which are relevant to the belief in the Creator or God. For example in Genesis, chapters 1 and 2, it says that God is the creator of the stars, humans, rivers – and all things. Nature in included in the phrase “all things.” Therefore, God, as Creator, is the sole ruler of the universe; and everything is placed under the operations of His unwritten, self-executory laws.

Making it easier for Him to rule, the Creator has designed every inanimate or animate being and implanted in each the law of perpetuation for His design and pattern to continue, including the instinctive obedience to His unwritten laws to make possible His means of control over His creatures. It is why every animal, young or old, when its time comes it instinctively complies with the absolute law of death, as example of is control.

Speaking honestly of the Creator and of the attributes which logically befit Him, every honest and truthful man accepts that he understands God only through his imagination. Hence, it is demanded of him to be strictly honest and be very careful in his approach, using his keen observation, analysis and sound reasoning based on known facts and upon the manifestations of the operations of the unwritten, self-executory laws. Queer people who call themselves believers in God yet impliedly repudiates the Divine Power as Creator, call God’s unwritten laws “the universal laws” and they also impliedly assume that nature is self-existing. Neonaturalism claims that only the Creator or God who is self-existing.

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I Am A Neonaturalist (Part 1)

As a neonaturalist, I strive to think sincerely and honestly in my quest for truth concerning my origin and the power that makes it happen; and the nature and circumstances of the cause preoccupy my mind.

Like any other being, I am a recipient of a life which I have not participated in its creation and which I know too little about, nor do I own it for which reason I cannot direct it to its destiny. If a I could I would stop all deceivers from cheating the unsophisticated people who are victims of swindling by those who claim they know the origin or creator of all animate or inanimate beings.

What was the cause and how was the origin of my existence being done? My parents and their ancestors could have asked the same question without available authoritative answer scientifically considered as a thing confronting a man’s awareness. Yes, I am aware of my existence; but I am aware of the Being responsible for my birth, honestly speaking.

I had not known what little I know about myself before I knew I was, for I was without prior knowledge of my being and of the space I am presently occupying; and, based on this known fact, I dare say all humans are unaware of their origin and the cause behind it. Therefore, anyone who claims awareness of his origin and of the One responsible for man’s existence and why man is here on earth cannot exculpate from an accusation that he is a darned phony.

Whence I have come or Who was responsible for my birth is now the object of my search for truth. When I speak of truth I refer to that which is either in accordance with fact or with logical reasoning based on the law of causation, the law of change or motion and other laws in operations governing the universe.

As I occupy only too limited a space and too short a span of time within the infinity, with my knowledge limited within my existence, I do not so much expect of facts to surface concerning the cause responsible for my appearance on this earth as obser-vation, analysis and logical reasoning must now operate.

Since I am bereft of knowledge about my origin and its cause, there is nothing within me but an analysis of the nature of my origin and the Power that has made it happen. Logical reasoning, observation and analysis based on the law of causation are those which are available to form my belief in the absence of physical evidence. Here, I will allow the focus of my thoughts to swing from the little known to the unknown, applying the method of reasoning in the process of mental adventure.

It is a fact that I am. Another fact is I have origin or beginning. The Being that cause my origin to happen, to be honest and truthful, is outside the
sphere of my awareness and no amount of thinking could bring out physical evidence.

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