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Have you read Childhood's End? I think it's pretty close to what the jews are trying to do. I think it's pretty damn close. Essentially.
I know about God and about Satan. I know about productive and destructive. Virtue and vice. I believe in God as a concept that represents all we should strive for. The Devil all we should avoid. We talk for ages about all the texts and lore and all the hundreds different points of view, but essentially it's all as simple as
God = virtue = productivity = good
Satan = vice = destruction = bad
I think our ultimate goal as a species is development. Even if we dont know the meaning of our existence, the only meaning we can give it is development. And if we ever want to find out the meaning and where we really come from, then the only way to do it is development. Our whole lives consist entirely of development. Our survival depends on it too. Eventually, this planet will become uninhabitable, and when that happens our species should be ready to move elsewhere. Of course, the only way we could ever survive the very death of our home planet is through development.
See, I always thought God = development. This might be obvious but the concepts of God and Satan (the Snake) are applicable everywhere. In our daily lives, for example. If (when) someone strays away from God and falls in the hands of Satan, they practice all those things that are destructive and humans should avoid. Basically, any or all of the deadly sins.
Our ultimate goal is survival, development, productivity, God, the heavens, light. In order to live the way we're supposed to live we must avoid **falling** into vice, destruction, darkness, Satan.
Since out ultimate goal is development, since the only ultimate meaning we can give to our existence is development, then maybe our ultimate God is development. Now, I already said God has always represented development, and the teachings are a guide for a life dedicated to development, as it should be.
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