42 THESES ON THE MEANING OF LIFE

1 The human dichotomy is that we are spiritual beings with animal bodies.

2 We live in a dangerous but beautiful, frightening but thrilling, neutral Universe.

3 Life’s neutrality is the most common reason people deny special purpose in life.

4 But life could have no special purpose if it was anything but neutral.

5 The purpose of anything, including life, is what it does.

6 What life does, is not test our self/soul/spirit, but provide it with three opportunities.

7 Life, firstly, allows us the opportunity to be our self.

8 Life, next, offers us the opportunity to know that self.

9 Life’s ultimate opportunity is to grow, evolve, our self – until we can love the self.

10 Human happiness depends on being able to love the self.

11 The purpose of the relative (good, better, best) is creativity through evolution.

12 The absolute is absolute – the relative is evolving the absolute.

13 This ultimate purpose of life allows it special meaning.

14 Meaninglessness is based on the speculation that we only have one life.

15 There is no evidence that we only have one life.

16 That the animal and spiritual co-exists is only proof that it can happen.

17 It is not proof that it must never happen again.

18 Religion’s “g” god is made in man’s animal image: male, brutal, sexist, tribal.

19 To dispose of this god is not to dispose of “G” God.

20 The Big Bang was caused by energy becoming matter.

21 Why anything exists at all is because energy existed in the beginning.

22 When we use the word “God” we are trying to approach this original, absolute of energy.

23 All matter is of this energy – God did not “create” the universe, God is the universe.

24 Energy cannot be created, so to ask “who created God?” is a nonsense.

25 The closest you can get to God is another living being – energy, matter and soul.

26 To love one (your self) and others, is to love God.

27 Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to God.

28 Religion tells us nothing about God, only something about the person holding it true.

29 Jesus brought “T” Truths to us : Love, Forgive, Do (unto others).

30 Jesus was not religious – religion killed Jesus, not “the Jews”.

31 Then a religion formed in his name buried his “T” Truths under its “t” truths.

32 Atheism is not a search for truth, but an “H” House, much like religion.

33 Houses are about shelter and comfort, not homes for truth.

34 Our bodies are animal, driven by physical needs and genetic imperatives.

35 Our bodies are not our selves.

36 Our selves are our souls/spirits, driven by spiritual needs and imperatives.

37 There is no “problem of evil” because evil (like cold) does not exist as a thing in itself.

38 As cold describes the absence of heat, evil describes the absence of love.

39 There is no human need for evil.

40 Evil is always done for other motives – animal survival and/or self esteem objectives.

41 Usually money, power, and/or fame – the objective being actually animal survival and self esteem.

42 Only loving one and others meets the animal and spiritual needs of the human equation.