It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: arpgme
Prayer/Intention is powerful and can even affect Space-Time. Prayer can change the weather. One person is powerful, but Unity in Prayer is even more powerful.
originally posted by: arpgme
The more people come together in Unity with positive intentions, the more the energy of Earth will become more Positive (what you called type IV Society). "Reality" is only the thoughts and beliefs of the group, but even if a few come together, it can influence the reality to be more positive. This is why miraculous healing and other positive things that are unexplainable happen.
originally posted by: Magillian91
So the argument here is that we need to start working together and abandon all of Self Hatred species of hatred on ourselves (redundancy intended). If only we could improve our creation crayola creative captain planet forces on ourselves, we could advance up the next civilization ranking, becoming immortals who go searching the universe for answers to questions that we do not have because we are a type 4 bulbasaur.
I can't really make heads or tails of this threads topic, not trying to be an asshole. You're telling us that we need to do some "maturing" individually of our souls in order to progress up this scale. In order to do this, we need to give up greed, things of materialistic nature, ego, our desire for power, etc. Only then will we be able to attain this immortality and get cool gadgets and tech..
I don't think I really need to point this out but I will..
This is the furthest thing from mature. Complete polar opposite.
originally posted by: Magillian91
The motivation is purely materialistic, greedy, a desire for powers, and a major stroke to the ego.
Ego, being so disgustingly prominent throughout your posts. I tend to have a hard time understanding someone who talks about themselves in a third party, possibly even omnipotent, perspective. Half of your posts are in a yoda/spock format just for the sake of being mysteriously knowledgeable about something, 1 is this, 1 is that, thank you for contributing to 1. Like I said, not trying to be an asshole, but this annoyed the # out of me, and i'm sure i'm not the only one.
originally posted by: Magillian91
Putting aside the motivation, this "maturity" of the soul sounds a lot like Buddhism. That's great, I really agree with the Buddhist philosophies. There are actually a lot of GREAT morals to be learned from the Bible as well.
originally posted by: Magillian91
Something positive can be achieved from most religions in the world. The problem is when these movements are taken for more than what they are, namely a set of guidelines on how to live your life in a way that is cohesive with everyone else. It is happening now, has happened in the past, and will never stop happening. There will always be religion, and honestly, trying to fight this fact is just as hopeless as trying to maintain an individual religions integrity for every member.
originally posted by: Magillian91
People will always try to bend the rules for anything to get what they want. Someone may see Christianity as a valid reason for slaughtering innocent people. Not everyone sees it that way. You can't control the population, it will never happen. Look at ATS, PERFECT EXAMPLE.
originally posted by: Magillian91
With that being said, the idea of abandoning religion is completely improbable if not impossible.
originally posted by: Magillian91
One major thing that we have always had an amazing history of developing new technologies, medications, and overall scientific breakthroughs during, war. Like it or not, wartime has always been very good to the human race in terms of technological advances.
originally posted by: Magillian91
As gruesome as it may be, it is a prime example of how competition drives advancements. What's the saying? It will always get worse before it gets better. You can't stop the population from fighting, praying, screwing, or prying. These things will always occur, in one way or another.
originally posted by: Magillian91
The only thing, in my opinion, that we can do is completely remove ourselves from the bull#. The elite will always strive for more power. Religions will always be misinterpreted. Ego will ALWAYS exist. I don't think that our journey is going to be leaving the earth, but within ourselves.
originally posted by: Magillian91
Order out of chaos will never present itself for a few reasons.
Everything happens for a reason.
Chaos can not exist.
Chaos is how we label events that we do not understand why they have happened.
We exist to be off-balance
You can't have love without hate, dark without light, rich without poor.
Thinking in terms of absolute value.. love and hate to the extreme would have the same value.
To be balanced, would mean that love and hate do not exist.
They only exist, when we are skewed one way or the other.
Put this into a grander scale.
Everything exists to be off-balance, or else it wouldn't exist at all.
So you have two options.
1) Find an inner balance and cease having purpose or existence
2) Go on living your life, like animals do.
originally posted by: HarryJoy
I just wanted to throw in a few ideas of my own on this subject. First of all I agree with the basic premise of the OP but I have a little different take on how I would like to see our civilization achieve balance and harmony. First of all I would like to say that looking at the artists conceptions of these higher levels of achievement was a bit disconcerting to me. I personally would rather see a world with less artificial surroundings and not more.
I know that we could create a world where everyone's needs were met and one that would bring about much more peace and contentment then the present system. And we could do it by utilizing past technology as well as present in order to have a self-sustaining non-environmentally damaging infrastructure. As far as creating the infrastructure......that is the easy part. The hard part would be setting up the guidelines for the inhabitants of the system. I just have a hard time imagining a society that would be able to cooperate on all the necessary levels for an indefinite period of time.
I know that most of us don't want to believe that the culling of society is necessary...and yet it seems at times like there may be no other way to achieve harmony on that level. I realize that no human being can judge another ...in fact I cannot even judge myself with 100 % accuracy. The Bible speaks of a judgement and when I see the line of thinking employed by some humans I have to wonder if there is any other way to achieve the level of cooperation necessary to build and maintain such a society as the one we desire.
originally posted by: ItalianDressing
Why does it have to be all of humanity...? Can't they just graduate the people like us and leave the other bad greedy humans behind in type 0?
ID