Digging to Find the Truth

What is true and what is not?

This blog started out as somewhere to list my ancestors and record what I remember about them. As I have no decedents, this has not turned out to be greatly motivational, as I expected. Oh well. It does not matter, for soon we will all be dead anyway. There are too many people in this world already, the earth will only support so many in steady state carbon dioxide level, which we pasted in 1960. Carbon dioxide is being produced twice as fast as it is converted back to oxygen. This higher carbon dioxide level is causing warming, and as a result, methane hydrate in the arctic is melting releasing more methane, causing faster warming. We are beyond the point of return, we are headed for a hot house condition. Oh well, we all just die anyway.

We humans are loaded can be loaded with a belief system over our physical genetic operating system, and in turn, knowledge is loaded over that. Some parts of the belief system and knowledge system are wrong, and should be corrected. Knowing where our ancestors came from is all fine history, but does not help in correction of our belief system, nor help us live better now. Some of the information they had may help us as the living standard declines over time as the geopolitical system breaks down and the current young are left scrambling for a living. I expect that many of them will find themselves living in the winters in a couple hundred square feet per person heated space. Oh well. We current live well.

The human animal is likely the most successful species ever; other contenders depend on us; rats, cats, domestic animals, cockroaches, etc. We have destroyed our own environment, it is done for now, even though it is still livable for a few more years. This is reality, not pessimism, even though the optimistic see it as pessimism. Reality should be the target. Reality is the truth, and that is important.

To me, the realization that gods are just concepts, and belong to a group of concept class of objects, like mathematics, physics, geometry, calculus, class of objects that seam real but have no physical existence. These exist beyond space and time. We humans likely need a belief system of some sort for rapid early learning, but religions have corrupted what is really needed. We need to be clear of any supernatural thinking; that is dangerous and is not reality. We need to learn a clean strong moral system, to practice a virtue system, and always require critical thinking. We do not need supernatural thinking. This would be equivalent to taking all the good of all the religions and deleting the supernatural, unfounded, and bad. The conflicting concepts would need to be resolved and rationally codified, as specific concepts, not as general stories.

Story telling is the original art. It existed when the lesson of the story was not clear as a definable principle, and even today, some of those principles have not been isolated and defined, although philosophy has made tremendous inroads in some of these. Realizing that we can correct our belief system is a major break through. Now comes the tough part, each generation must learn the same stuff, and it must be filtered through the teaching generation to the learning generation. No teaching generation should load supernatural thinking into the learning generation. We have a responsibility to teach the truth. Failure to do so is basically abuse of the young.

If we are going to have peace at the world level, with modern communications and travel, there must be a standardized moral, ethical, virtue, behavioral code world wide. Not in my life time, but they must come. Oh well, that is for the next generation. It is enough to figure out what is right and just for myself and my community first for now.

Looking back, many generations likely had atheists. In our family Gus was one. He was burred with his buffalo great coat, a knife, and a gun, or so I was told, but that was Julius's decisions.

Enough.