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can't even begin to imagine where we will be in several million years, let alone several billion. What we will have become will have all the characteristics that we currently ascribe to our various Gods. We will, in effect, have become Gods.

What of a possible race of other intelligent beings who happened to develop several million or even billion years ago? Would they not appear as Gods to us?

In other words, the universe may already be filled with "Gods," or - if we are the first - it will eventually be filled with "Gods."

Technology is what humans do. Presumably technology is also what other advanced intelligent races do. Since the "rules" appear to be universal, their technology and ours will be analogous, with the only real differences resulting from having had more time to do things, either for us or them, depending on who came first. Eventually, humans (or other intelligent beings, or even humans in consort with other beings) will discover how to manipulate the very elements of the universe itself (as Gods, remember), even to the point of creating new universes.

I believe in an open book called science, a book that has no creed, but that is filled with rules that appear constant, but are always subject to change as we learn more about them.

I believe that we, as humans, can structure our society for the benefit of all of us, individually and collectively. There is no single way, but our proved nature as humans gives us some very clear guidelines as to what is likely to work and what is not.

Societies built on political ideologies, structured on philosophies, without the ability to modify as new information becomes available cannot work in the long run. Witness the Soviet Union or some of the communes of the 1960s, or even some of the early Christian communes in the first centuries A.D. None lasted because they all attempted to force humans into an ideological mold.

On the other hand, the longest lasting political society on the planet, the United States, was originally structured on the founder's best understanding of human nature, so that the structure fit the people, instead of forcing the people into a structure.

I believe humans can create an ethical framework for human society that is not founded on any particular religious principle or dogma, but rather on fundamental principles derived logically from preexisting initial conditions. Interestingly, such a structure will look quite familiar, because the same archetypes that drive a modern human conscious of his instinctual genetic heritage, also drove the ancients who created the religious rules we call the "Ten Commandments," the "Torah," the "Rg Veda," or whatever.

With my clarified view, I wanted to create my own logical framework, and I believe to this day that this approach is fundamentally better than simply to adapt and use a pre-existing religion-based framework. Nevertheless, I remain very tolerant of those frameworks, precisely because they really reflect the same underlying drives that form the basis for my own personal framework.

Furthermore, we have discovered during the last four hundred odd years that human society functions better when individuals are free to believe what they wish. No matter how bizarre are some beliefs, there always will be sufficient clear thinking people to keep humanity moving forward in its path toward Godhood.

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