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  1. Bill Van Fleet

    HUMANIANITY: THE RELIGION FOR EVERYONE

    When you say you have not seen anything new, I do not know how much you have studied. Your question implies that the answer can be in a few sentences, and I cannot agree. I do not know what you are referring to when you use the word "handbook." The best I can answer is probably with the...
  2. Bill Van Fleet

    HUMANIANITY: THE RELIGION FOR EVERYONE

    There are those of us that will wait to see what others do, and those of us who actively do something. Early in the process, there is very little reward for those actively doing something, other than the wish to pay forward. Participating in Humanianity
  3. Bill Van Fleet

    HUMANIANITY: THE RELIGION FOR EVERYONE

    I believe that indeed the various religious organizations and leaders are increasingly using the findings of science in their study of ethics, and that is a good thing. We have a long way to go, though.
  4. Bill Van Fleet

    HUMANIANITY: THE RELIGION FOR EVERYONE

    I understand.
  5. Bill Van Fleet

    HUMANIANITY: THE RELIGION FOR EVERYONE

    Well, it is a religious movement, a movement within the religions and within our species generally, that I am simply trying to call attention to so that we can more consciously promote that movement. It is not just another religion to compete with the others.
  6. Bill Van Fleet

    HUMANIANITY: THE RELIGION FOR EVERYONE

    What readily available place have adults always gone to study how to be a good person? What readily available place have adults always gone to study the way the world is?
  7. Bill Van Fleet

    HUMANIANITY: THE RELIGION FOR EVERYONE

    A quick look at what I have been working on for decades will not offer you a chance to evaluate it. The words are necessary to prevent the inevitable tendency to misunderstand and stereotype. The material involves thinking new thoughts, and that is always difficult. Most people will not...
  8. Bill Van Fleet

    HUMANIANITY: THE RELIGION FOR EVERYONE

    And I would say that if you look at everything that we have called a "religion," although most religions have that as a component, the more defining characteristic is as I have said. Also, that definition is very ambiguous. What do those words mean? "Impulse" I would assume means "desire."...
  9. Bill Van Fleet

    HUMANIANITY: THE RELIGION FOR EVERYONE

    No. I don't understand what you are looking for. What would be an example of the kind of statement you are looking for?
  10. Bill Van Fleet

    HUMANIANITY: THE RELIGION FOR EVERYONE

    Yes, you are right. But you have not explored the concept of the third exponential change that our species is just beginning to undergo. There is no guarantee that we will accomplish it, but the chances are not zero. I am working on promoting that change, and am asking you to join me. FOR...
  11. Bill Van Fleet

    HUMANIANITY: THE RELIGION FOR EVERYONE

    For one, it has one definition. "Humanism" has a number of definitions, and none of them are the same as that of "Humanianity." So that is the most important difference. Other answers would depend on which definition of "humanism" one chose. I believe Humanianity deserves to be evaluated in...
  12. Bill Van Fleet

    HUMANIANITY: THE RELIGION FOR EVERYONE

    That is a way to discount Humanianity. But the definitions are actually different, as I have pointed out. Some definitions of "humanism" make it sound very Humanian, whereas others do not. In our effort to discount things, one method is to say, "Oh X, why X is just A, and we have already...
  13. Bill Van Fleet

    HUMANIANITY: THE RELIGION FOR EVERYONE

    What if we humans had the feeling of membership in our species, with its ultimate ethical principle, with the same fervor as the members of ISIS?
  14. Bill Van Fleet

    HUMANIANITY: THE RELIGION FOR EVERYONE

    It is for promoting not only the survival of our species but also as much joy, contentment, and appreciation as possible and as little pain, suffering, disability, and early death as possible, for everyone, now and in the future.
  15. Bill Van Fleet

    HUMANIANITY: THE RELIGION FOR EVERYONE

    You aren't derailing the thread. It is important to ask these questions. And they are asked all the time. But what is discouraging (but not enough to cause me to give up) is that few people really have the interest to pursue the study of this set of ideas such that they then can join in in the...
  16. Bill Van Fleet

    HUMANIANITY: THE RELIGION FOR EVERYONE

    To me, the definition of Utilitarianism is entirely different: the doctrine that actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit of a majority. the doctrine that an action is right insofar as it promotes happiness, and that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the...
  17. Bill Van Fleet

    HUMANIANITY: THE RELIGION FOR EVERYONE

    I understand.
  18. Bill Van Fleet

    HUMANIANITY: THE RELIGION FOR EVERYONE

    Okay. But if A is a property of X and of Y, it doesn't mean X=Y, right? If men have two legs and women have two legs, it doesn't mean men are women, right?
  19. Bill Van Fleet

    The Religion for Everyone

    I don't understand. Does my reply seem hostile? Why? Please give me feedback. If I was being hostile, I would like to become aware of it. I don't know what you are referring to.
  20. Bill Van Fleet

    HUMANIANITY: THE RELIGION FOR EVERYONE

    But that is what your stereotyping is causing. You can't find them because they do not exist. There are opinions, some of which are expressed on the Home page, but they are not creedal requirements. You are not accepting what is written there because you believe that there is something else...
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