"What isn't possible?" "Nothing." "Therefore, everything is possible." How do so few words mean so much to me? Well, consider that without fail, all species on Earth are intentionally trying to survive and surpass the last generation that died. Some will. Many won't. Humans are perhaps the only species where one can be born with inferior genetics and circumstances yet have the natural ability to thrive like the rest of them. It's uncanny. Our species is able to do so much, with incredible utilities at our disposal. These utilities possess the inner power of both knowledge and power, of science and technology, and it is rapidly accelerating at faster speeds. With many believing that they have the ability to commune with the divine and gain a sense of greater benevolence.
What I'm trying to get across, ultimately, is the sense of divinity in oneself and others. Consider the possibility that if you move something and nothing else moves it, it stays in that position and would continue to do so until an outside factor moved the thing you were moving. We are great, wondrous creatures that happened to have abilities beyond our wildest dreams. We are a product of our ancestors, and so were they, and then on. Everything is occurring at a more organised and intelligent fashion than ever before. We shape our realities around us, by the computer programmer modelling CGI effects for a movie or video game.
What is the point of all of this progression? Well, I would certainly like to think that many, if not most people like the changes we've done so far. It all leads up to a point, our extropy, called The Omega Point. The Omega Point happens when all realities that are possible collide with one another, creating an infinity loop of probabilities. I see a mass exaltation going on around me at all times. One decision leads to another and eventually leads us to your reality. This is your reality. Everything is striving to become greater than what it possibility can become, but with the current and future technologies humans impose all realities might and probably will itself become reality.
Everything I see is driving us closer to infinite reality. Our reality itself is drawing closer to its own infinity. The progression is for the purpose of divinity - to be closer to our own salvation; to become biologically immortal; to possess the technologies to reshape the future of nearby planets and to find our much-distant cousins, to eventually go forth far enough that we have enough to be worthy under these constraints, to be valued not for who we are but who are are about to become.
I believe that the afterlife will consist of this life, and will merely be a simple continuation thereof. I believe that dying will become a mistake rather than fate. I believe all is holy and doesn't need the recognition for a supreme overlord to be worthy of its own grace. I believe that supreme overlord (God) does not exist, but, in many ways, exists in each of us as we ourselves strive to be more benevolent, potent, knowledgeable, and present ourselves to many faces in many different ways. I see this collective whole of existence on Earth becoming much greater than the sum of one.
I've been trying to develop a new term of theology to describe what I'm experiencing everyday. Apotheosis only describes the ascension of one man to his own personal salvation. Theosis is the Christian term to describe any believer in Christ waywards to Heaven. Pantheism is the belief that everything is God, but I don't see divinity in everything - I see a great climb in an uphill battle towards the goal. Thusly, I term this theology pantheosis. It is a belief of potential divinity in all that exists. It is the hope that things will get better.
Without this belief, I am nihilistic. I don't see the point in everything we're doing right now if it doesn't have some goal attached to it. My theory states that if and when I do die, I will be brought back to life by future humans somehow. I attend on making that theory a reality. I want to be around for the distant future. As far as pre-life goes, I believe the same as scientific thought: I am an assembled of excess genetic code from my mother and father that happened to get lucky with the biological big bang. That excess genetic code was made from my mother when she was born, and is continuously being made by my father to this day.
On that note, I would like to say that just like scientific pantheism, or even panentheism, there is nothing within what I believe that inherently goes against scientific belief. When you search religion on dictionary.com you get a nice juicy definition that basically boils down to what our beliefs are regarding the nature of the universe. I'm going to quote it for you
"A set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs."
The cause is to prevent the end times from ever occurring, and to reach the end of evolutionary apotheosis with a mass-deification process, a.k.a the pantheosis. The reason we will do this is to prevent utter oblivion that is prevalent among every species. All rituals performed should try to strive for this, although most do not. I believe that doing something, even if it's simple as typing up a basic report about your beliefs on the computer, constitutes a higher act of living, and regardless of what is being said should be taken under consideration. However, filling time with zoning out, staring into space, and general apathy functions as acts of inaction, and would be viewed as someone choosing to live in oblivion. The general ethical code is to become godly; namely, omnibenevolent.
So, to sum this up, I don't think I can prove my religion. My religion, like all religions, is a viewpoint. I like to stay positive however and think that even if people never come close to believing the things I hold true, that the human race would survive long enough that I do have an afterlife. My general belief is that pre-life is oblivion (biological energy) and post-life is oblivion (biological energy), but that there is a good chance, a reasonable probability, that there would be some way to bring me back into life. I plan on writing a part of my will that will deal with my conscious, wherever it is decided that I go to. I named this, 'religion' I've invented The Faith of Exaltation and the general philosophical concepts behind it Exaltism. I would much like to go down in history like the French positivist philosopher Auguste Comte did. I which his Church of Humanity was still around, I find it to be very enlightening, just reading what he tried to do with it on Wikipedia. I liked the fact that you wouldn't be a clergy of the church unless you were married.
Anyways, I hope this answers all your deep questions about my faith. I've tried to answer it from an emotional standpoint, a logical standpoint, and a direct standpoint. I hope this helps you find yourself. You're pretty brave to want to everybody's viewpoints on this subject (aren't you an atheist)?
It will end badly when it doesn't have to.[/QUOTE]
