Talk Back 9

by Mr Pejman Khojasteh

I am writing to you as an agnostic. I hope to make a positive impression on you with regard to Natural Law religion.

On 21/6/2000 (i.e. summer solstice which is the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere) Natural Law religion that was created by Greek philosophers Heraclitus and Aristotle was revived. Natural Law religion is an intelligent, informal, non-dogmatic, non-exclusive and devolved religion that an individual can personalise, very easily memorise and completely control his/her belief.

Natural Law religion justifies that the possible creator of our universe and possible other universes possibly does exist and the percentage for the existence of the creator is between zero and one hundred (0% < n% <100%). Example: 15% the creator exists and 85% the creator does not exist, or 60% the creator exists and 40% the creator does not exist.

In Natural Law religion any combination of the following set of two statements is valid:

• Nature including humans can be considered to be part of the creator referred to as god, and hence a human can be considered as an element of god.
• Nature including humans can be considered as separate from and inferior to the creator.

Natural Law religion defines the laws of nature as the ultimate reality and true path.

Natural Law religion derives human laws known as compulsory basic tenets from the laws of nature which for those who strongly believe in a creator is also the laws of the creator.

By accepting the compulsory basic tenets, the individual will become a Natural Law religion follower known as a Naturalist.

There are also optional basic tenets which as the name suggests are optional to follow, should not violate the compulsory basic tenets, and should be created in order to be suitable for a particular time and locality.

Those who are interested in Natural Law religion can formulate their own personalised religion by adding their own belief(s) to compulsory basic tents and possibly optional basic tenets, using their own opinion, principles, emotions, knowledge, experience and imagination.

Natural Law religion was designed to be applicable and popular until the 1,000,000,000 century and beyond.

Please visit the web site^[1] for this religion www.geocities.com/natlaw1 . There is a good religious joke section.

Natural Law religion has passed critical appraisals from anti-cult groups, 35 Professors in religion from prominent universities such as Harvard, Yale and Cambridge, and from prominent atheists.

For your interest I have sent the following summary that outlines the core of this religion. You are welcome to raise any comment(s) and your constructive advise will be much appreciated.

With regards

Mr Pejman Khojasteh

1. Introduction to compulsory basic tenets

Compulsory basic tenets as the name suggests must be followed, and these tenets are completely derived from the scientific and mathematical laws of the natural world.
Compulsory basic tents are based on the fundamental laws of the natural world, and the application of these laws such as the perception and interpretation of the human brain and logic. Therefore compulsory basic tenets should be thought of as creator's tenets if you believe the creator most likely exists or natural world's tenets if you are not sure about the existence of a creator, and not as man or women made tenets.
Not following the cbts is defined as wrong, and the response to that wrong action, if any, will be defined by the personal freedom laws of your local liberal democracy. Out of all the present forms of social government, liberal democracy is the most compatible with the perception and interpretation of the human brain based on the liberal democracy's mixture of personal freedom, equal rights, voting power, self interest and etc.

Cbts 1 to 4 state that there should be no malice in a person's relationships, which are 1. relationship towards oneself, 2. relationship towards other people, 3. relationship towards other organisms and 4. relationship towards the environment.
Cbts 1 to 4 personify from observable and/or deduced fundamental laws of the natural world, the fact that the fundamental laws of the natural world show no malice with the exception of laws in black holes which destroy any thing in the vicinity.

Cbt 5 incorporates infiniteness of time and distance not just as attributes of a creator, but also as the upper limit of our physical world that can contain up to infinite number of other universes as supported by the chaotic inflationary theory. The physical limit of infiniteness of time and distance can not be surpassed and therefore will still be very relevant in for example 1,000,000,000 century.

Cbt 6 incorporates infiniteness of a person's imagination as the upper limit of our mental inner self. The inner self limit of infiniteness of imagination can not be surpassed and therefore will still be very relevant in for example 1,000,000,000 century.
Reference: A belief is a principle or idea considered to be true, and also belief involves a degree of uncertainty. The statements, the oceans are made up of water or the Earth is like a sphere, are not beliefs but facts.

The Natural Law religion's cbts are intended to be very logical, generic and concise, and to use a paradigm it is meant to be like a well designed and constructed steel structure placed within a firm foundation and demonstrated to home builders, and it is for interested home builders to use the steel structure and foundation to create their own building and decorate it as they wish using their own opinion, principles, emotions, knowledge, experience and imagination.
It is envisaged that this approach to home building would be popular from the 21st century until for example the 1,000,000,000th century. In Natural Law religion the metaphor of steel structure is scientific and mathematical laws and the foundation is monotheism.

 

2. Compulsory basic tenets

2.1 A person should not intentionally take action(s) which will or may harm themselves in a serious manner without an intellectually convincing and/or good and/or just reason, as defined by the personal freedom laws of your local liberal democratic society.
Example 1: It is ethically wrong for a Naturalist to be addicted to illegal drugs, however it is ethically right for a Naturalist if he or she risked his/her life in order to save someone's life in an event of a fire.
Example 2: It is ethically right for a Naturalist to go sky diving as this activity carries little risk of death which can be justified by the recreational pleasure to be gained from this activity.

Reference 1: Nearly in all instances, those people who have been addicted to hard illegal drugs, or lost their savings from their addiction to gambling, or had unsuccessfully attempted suicide and had damaged their liver, regretted their actions in their old age. The wishes of the old people which have regretted their actions in their younger age is more important than their wishes when they were younger, because for this particular tenet due to the forward action of time, the individual's future is considered more important that their present which is considered more important than their past.
Reference 2: It is acknowledged that as a person with a sound mind you can do what you like with your life, however if it violates this tenet the action(s) will be recognised as ethically wrong.

2.2 A person should not intentionally harm and/or violate the rights of other people without a good and just reason, as defined by the personal freedom laws of your local liberal democratic society. These laws are very similar to civil and criminal laws of your local liberal democratic society. A person should not intentionally seriously hurt the feelings of other people, as defined by the social ethics and etiquette of your local liberal democratic society. These laws are common sense moral principles based on the perception and interpretation of the human brain.
Example: It is ethically wrong for a Naturalist to cheat on his or her partner, even though this act is legal. However it is ethically right for a Naturalist to aid the arrest of a criminal.

2.3 A person should not intentionally harm other life forms without a good and just reason, as defined by respected animal wellfair groups.
Example: It is ethically wrong for a Naturalist to harm organisms for pleasure or sport, however it is ethically right for a Naturalist to utilise breed organisms for food and clothes.

Reference: All organisms which exhibit all the characteristics of life are recognised as a life form.

2.4 A person should not intentionally harm their environment (i.e. water, land, air) in a fashion that is considered to be irresponsible without a good and just reason, as defined by respected environmental groups.
Example: It is ethically wrong for a Naturalist to harm the environment because of greed or negligence, however it is ethically right for a Naturalist to exploited the environment for human progress in a responsible way.

2.5 A person should acknowledge that there is a two perspective rationale for the existence and non-existence of a creator (e.g. a 91% existence : 9% non-existence or 60-50% existence : 40-50% non-existence), and he/she should believe in a quantified probability for the existence of a creator and the quantification can be performed by anyone.
It will not be intellectually correct to state that a creator 100% exists, because 100% exists is like stating that currently there is only one sun in our solar system, and it will not be intellectually correct to state that the creator 100% does not exist, because 100% does not exists is like stating that currently there is no second sun in our solar system. A person that does not believe in a creator can have a probability for the non-existence of the creator of 99.99999%, obviously 0.00001% is the value for the existence of the creator, and a person that believes in the creator can have a probability for the existence of creator of 99.9999999%.
It is intellectually right to believe that the creator probably exists (i.e. (0% < n% < 100% for creator exists at n%), (x = 100 - n% for creator does not exist a x%) ) or (i.e. (0 < n1 < 100, 0 < n2 < 100 for creator exists at n1%-n2%) (x1 = 100 - n1% and x2 = 100 - n2% for creator does not exist at x1%-x2%) ).

Reference 1: God is defined as an incomprehensible entity with attributes of infiniteness of time and distance, which has created the universe from nothing.

If you put a distance boundary on the universe, there must be something on the other side, and if you put a time boundary on the big bang, something must of happened before that event. The Logical conclusion is drawn that time and distance must be infinite as you will need to conceptually place boundary after boundary.

If you take the universe towards infinite number of distinct stages, past the big bang stage, the logical conclusion is drawn that the universe must have been created from nothing, such as a void lacking energy and mass. The above statement, especially with the use of the word distinct, forces this logical conclusion.

Modern humans as the result of their genetic disposition have the ability to think and contemplate about the infiniteness of time and distance and the creation of the universe from nothing, to possibly derive at the concept of a creator which is an incomprehensible entity. This is the only rational concept of a creator and this single concept is called God. A different concept will need to be applied to the single concept of God in order to define deities such as gods.

There is no scientific or mathematical laws which states that humans should link the three logics (i.e. mathematical Laws), 1. universe created from nothing, 2. infiniteness of time and 3. infiniteness of distance, to derive at a creator.

So the belief in a creator is partly based on the three mentioned logics and partly based on the human deduction which is not supported by scientific and mathematical laws.

Hence, in Natural Law religion it is intellectually wrong to believe that the creator definitely does not exist (i.e. 0% exists), or to believe that the creator definitely does exist (100% exists). It is intellectually right to believe that the creator probably exists (i.e. n% exists, where 0 < n < 100).

Reference 2: In Natural Law religion two valid view points can be adopted:

1. All Creation is separate and inferior to the creator.
2. All Creation is part of the creator which means humans are also part of the creator.

2.6 This tenet adopts a perspective for human perception based on the probability of a perception being certain or not certain. If a human perception is considered as certain then that perception is a fact and if a human perception is not considered as certain then that perception is a belief.

• - Beliefs supported by scientific and maathematical laws are defined as real beliefs.
• - Beliefs contradicted by scientific andd mathematical laws are defined as unreal beliefs and the more a belief deviates from scientific and mathematical laws the more unreal is the belief.
• - Beliefs not supported and not contradiicted by scientific and mathematical laws, where these laws can not assess the belief and obviously can not predict it are defined as unknown beliefs.
• - Beliefs not support and not contradictted by scientific and mathematical laws, where these laws can assess the belief but can not exactly predict it are defined as uncertain beliefs.

An unknown or uncertain belief is never 100% in accordance with scientific and mathematical laws similar to a real belief, or 0% in accordance with scientific and mathematical laws similar to an unreal belief, and hence the correct range is n where {0 < n < 100}.

A person can believe in any combination of the four beliefs, and it is a personal decision on how the beliefs are prioritised.

An individual can add his or her realistic, unrealistic, unknown and/or uncertain beliefs using his or her opinion, principles, emotions, knowledge, experience and/or imagination, in order to formulate his or her own personalised Natural Law religion.

People's imagination is especially important not only for innovation but also people have the freedom to conjure up to infinite number of visions which does not have to have any relation to scientific and mathematical laws or appliances based on the mentioned laws.

As humans presently are in an information age the person can easily add, subtract or amend information from/to their personalised Natural Law religion.

Example 1: To believe that the Sun burns Hydrogen by nuclear fusion is a realistic belief, to believe in our solar system the Sun moves around the Earth is an unrealistic belief, to believe that there are other universes is an unknown belief, to believe that an asteroid the size of Asia will hit Earth is an uncertain belief.

Example 2: It is intellectually wrong for a Naturalist to believe in angels, devil, healing power of crystals, Biblical miracles and/or reincarnation as a real belief, but it is intellectually right for a Naturalist to believe in angels, devil, healing power of crystals, Biblical miracles and/or reincarnation as an unreal belief.

Reference: Scientific and mathematical laws represent the reality around us, as the mentioned laws govern the activity of every level of creation, from sub-atomic particles to the vast galaxies.

3. Introduction to optional basic tenets

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4. Optional basic tenets

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5. Additional information

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