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Towards a New World Belief System To reduce emotional and physical pain, a new belief system is needed. The world's dominant belief systems and religions were all founded by people without knowledge of the laws of evolution as first proposed by Charles Darwin.* Nor did they have the benefit of modern psychology or brain research. Each system attempted to explain what was at that time unexplainable. With the progress of science, however, we now are in the position to formulate a much more intelligent and accurate system of beliefs. While we do not yet have answers to all of our questions, it seems clear we have enough scientific evidence, as well as historical data, to move to a higher level of social and universal enlightenment. With regard to the intersection of emotions and beliefs, here are some general problems I see:
What is needed then is a new belief system. Here are a few components which might be in this new belief system:
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Harmony With Nature And Evolutionary
Trends The more we discover about nature and evolution, the better we can align ourselves in harmony with fundamental natural laws and trends. Once we correctly identify these fundamental truths, we can immediately use them in personal and social decision making and policy setting. Here are some of these laws and trends, as I see them:
Along with the above, it seems that as we evolve our needs change. It might be fair to say that we evolve both as a species and individually we have more need for intellectual and emotional fulfillment and less need for physical fulfillment and sexual fulfillment. In particular, it seems that highly evolved people have more need for
Lesser need for
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Few More of My Beliefs Here are a few more of my beliefs:
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More of my beliefs about emotional
intelligence Here is something from an editorial I wrote:
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Some of my beliefs about education
Also - I believe travel is one of the best types of education. I encourage all young people to travel as early in their lives as possible, and as often as possible. |
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Alfie Kohn on the Importance of Beliefs We can often predict the way an adult will treat children simply from knowing what she believes about them. Someone who thinks that kids are always trying to get away with something is likely to believe that we adults must overcome these unsavory motives, force children to obey the rules, and see to it that they are punished when they dont. Indeed, research has shown that a dark view of human nature tends to be associated with controlling and punitive strategies (Clayton 1985). Truly, what we believe matters. From Beyond Discipline, p. 6 - Clayton, L. O. (1985). The Impact Upon Child-Rearing Attitudes, of Parental Views of the Nature of Humankind. Journal of Psychology and Christianity 4, 3: 4955. |
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Evolution and Sensitive
People Here is part of a letter I wrote to Nelia -- she said "Sometimes I think my existence is a mistake."
To continue that thought, I believe we have a very important part to play in helping others become more aware of the importance of emotions and empathy, compassion and understanding. We can be leaders and role models for future generations. A world
leader like Ghandi might emerge from people like us one
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Beliefs and Critical Thinking "Most people don't develop their thinking. One way to put this point is to say that most people do not know how to discipline their thinking. Most of their ideas about the world have come into their minds without their having thought about them. They unconsciously pick up what the people around them think. They unconsciously pick up what is on television or in the movies. They unconsciously absorb ideas from the family they were raised in. They are the products, through and through, of forces they did not choose. They reflect those forces without understanding them." "To become a critical thinker is to reverse the process, by learning to practice skills that enable one to start to take charge of the ideas one has about the world. It is to think consciously and deliberately and skillfully about that world. It is to begin to remake one's own mind. It is to develop a mind that is analogous to the body of a person that is physically fit. It is like a puppet that discovers the strings, and figures out how to gain control of the way they are pulled." - From frank.mtsu.edu/~cfrost/god/index.html |
Footnotes
1 For example, the belief in scarcity, in material success, in supernatural punishment, original sin, "evil", in equality, in democracy, in nationism, etc.
2 With the exception of the "Scientologists" which is a rapidly growing group, but which I consider a dangerous cult that has gone far beyond the more traditional religions in their use of mind control.
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... many people become so identified with their political opinions that they cease to be opinions and become deep-seated beliefs. If you attack a position they hold, in their mind you are attacking them personally. If you prove them wrong, they die...
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For tens of thousands of years, people did not go up to other people and say "my beliefs are better than yours, you should accept my beliefs". People were much happier, and more tolerant, when the idea of "conversion" was not present - which in the last 2000 years has led to mass destruction of peoples and culture, enmity and hatred, and much unhappiness in the world. -- SH - but what if my beliefs are better in terms of reducing/preventing suffering, war, killing, abuse etc?
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2012 Note - I see that I did not mention the idea of Heaven and Hell as another way of trying to get people to do what we want them to, so I am adding now. The idea of karma is not a lot different, in my opinion. Both ideas are based on beliefs (or "make-believe") about what happens when we die. I was almost going to say that these kinds of stories might be good for children.... but then I realized I don't even believe they are good for children. I believe children can handle the ideas presented on this website - in other words ideas such as the belief in nature and the belief that when you die you simply die. There are no more electo-chemical reactions. Just like a car battery or a flashlight battery or a watch battery that runs off of elecro-chemical reactions for a while then the process simply stops.
I also have a very positive view of children and nature in the sense I believe the children are born with the instincts needed for survival of the species, and these include feeling good when they do things which help our sursvival and they feel when they do the opposite. If adults simply used the natural instincts of children and met their natural needs, we'd all be a lot better off. No man-made beliefs about what happens before or after death seem at all necessary to me.