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and then on FaceBorg a Zen Buddhist Said:

As much as we would always love to be positive and upbeat, the truth is that this is not realistic. Tough times will happen, but that's just the natural course of life.

Without tough times, you would never appreciate the good, so it's natural you will go through periods with a negative mindset. The problem arises when that mindset becomes constant as it will ruin your life.

One of the biggest causes of a negative mindset is fear.

The trick is choosing what you allow into your mind, and what can influence you. This means you might need to turn off the news or avoid people who only bring you down.

But as we mentioned, a negative mindset is nothing but a habit, and any habit can be broken.

Look at negative thoughts like spam email. You wouldn't take a spam email seriously, you just delete it.

The Humanist Manifesto signed by my Grandfather Eldred C Vanderlaan (part author) Leader of The Free Fellowship, Berkeley, CA

https://americanhumanist.org/what-is-humanism/manifesto1/

Humanist Manifesto I

The time has come for widespread recognition of the radical changes in religious beliefs throughout the modern world. The time is past for mere revision of traditional attitudes. Science and economic change have disrupted the old beliefs. Religions the world over are under the necessity of coming to terms with new conditions created by a vastly increased knowledge and experience. In every field of human activity, the vital movement is now in the direction of a candid and explicit humanism. In order that religious humanism may be better understood we, the undersigned, desire to make certain affirmations which we believe the facts of our contemporary life demonstrate.

There is great danger of a final, and we believe fatal, identification of the word religion with doctrines and methods which have lost their significance and which are powerless to solve the problem of human living in the Twentieth Century. Religions have always been means for realizing the highest values of life. Their end has been accomplished through the interpretation of the total environing situation (theology or world view), the sense of values resulting therefrom (goal or ideal), and the technique (cult), established for realizing the satisfactory life. A change in any of these factors results in alteration of the outward forms of religion. This fact explains the changefulness of religions through the centuries. But through all changes religion itself remains constant in its quest for abiding values, an inseparable feature of human life.

Today man’s larger understanding of the universe, his scientific achievements, and deeper appreciation of brotherhood, have created a situation which requires a new statement of the means and purposes of religion. Such a vital, fearless, and frank religion capable of furnishing adequate social goals and personal satisfactions may appear to many people as a complete break with the past. While this age does owe a vast debt to the traditional religions, it is none the less obvious that any religion that can hope to be a synthesizing and dynamic force for today must be shaped for the needs of this age. To establish such a religion is a major necessity of the present. It is a responsibility which rests upon this generation. We therefore affirm the following:

FIRST: Religious humanists regard the universe as self-existing and not created.

SECOND: Humanism believes that man is a part of nature and that he has emerged as a result of a continuous process.

THIRD: Holding an organic view of life, humanists find that the traditional dualism of mind and body must be rejected.

FOURTH: Humanism recognizes that man’s religious culture and civilization, as clearly depicted by anthropology and history, are the product of a gradual development due to his interaction with his natural environment and with his social heritage. The individual born into a particular culture is largely molded by that culture.

FIFTH: Humanism asserts that the nature of the universe depicted by modern science makes unacceptable any supernatural or cosmic guarantees of human values. Obviously humanism does not deny the possibility of realities as yet undiscovered, but it does insist that the way to determine the existence and value of any and all realities is by means of intelligent inquiry and by the assessment of their relations to human needs. Religion must formulate its hopes and plans in the light of the scientific spirit and method.

SIXTH: We are convinced that the time has passed for theism, deism, modernism, and the several varieties of “new thought”.

SEVENTH: Religion consists of those actions, purposes, and experiences which are humanly significant. Nothing human is alien to the religious. It includes labor, art, science, philosophy, love, friendship, recreation–all that is in its degree expressive of intelligently satisfying human living. The distinction between the sacred and the secular can no longer be maintained.

EIGHTH: Religious Humanism considers the complete realization of human personality to be the end of man’s life and seeks its development and fulfillment in the here and now. This is the explanation of the humanist’s social passion.

NINTH: In the place of the old attitudes involved in worship and prayer the humanist finds his religious emotions expressed in a heightened sense of personal life and in a cooperative effort to promote social well-being.

TENTH: It follows that there will be no uniquely religious emotions and attitudes of the kind hitherto associated with belief in the supernatural.

ELEVENTH: Man will learn to face the crises of life in terms of his knowledge of their naturalness and probability. Reasonable and manly attitudes will be fostered by education and supported by custom. We assume that humanism will take the path of social and mental hygiene and discourage sentimental and unreal hopes and wishful thinking.

TWELFTH: Believing that religion must work increasingly for joy in living, religious humanists aim to foster the creative in man and to encourage achievements that add to the satisfactions of life.

THIRTEENTH: Religious humanism maintains that all associations and institutions exist for the fulfillment of human life. The intelligent evaluation, transformation, control, and direction of such associations and institutions with a view to the enhancement of human life is the purpose and program of humanism. Certainly religious institutions, their ritualistic forms, ecclesiastical methods, and communal activities must be reconstituted as rapidly as experience allows, in order to function effectively in the modern world.

FOURTEENTH: The humanists are firmly convinced that existing acquisitive and profit-motivated society has shown itself to be inadequate and that a radical change in methods, controls, and motives must be instituted. A socialized and cooperative economic order must be established to the end that the equitable distribution of the means of life be possible. The goal of humanism is a free and universal society in which people voluntarily and intelligently cooperate for the common good. Humanists demand a shared life in a shared world.

FIFTEENTH AND LAST: We assert that humanism will: (a) affirm life rather than deny it; (b) seek to elicit the possibilities of life, not flee from them; and (c) endeavor to establish the conditions of a satisfactory life for all, not merely for the few. By this positive morale and intention humanism will be guided, and from this perspective and alignment the techniques and efforts of humanism will flow.

So stand the theses of religious humanism. Though we consider the religious forms and ideas of our fathers no longer adequate, the quest for the good life is still the central task for mankind. Man is at last becoming aware that he alone is responsible for the realization of the world of his dreams, that he has within himself the power for its achievement. He must set intelligence and will to the task.

and His Grandsons are a Part of This Church: 

The First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco is a welcoming community to all who seek a congregation grounded in love, committed to caring for one another, supporting one other in spiritual growth, and dedicated to building a compassionate, just and sustainable world.

Unitarian Universalism invites you to bring your whole self: your full identity, your questioning mind, your expansive heart.

Together, we create a force more powerful than one person or one belief system. As Unitarian Universalists, we do not have to check our personal background and beliefs at the door: we join together on a journey that honors everywhere we’ve been before.

Our beliefs are diverse and inclusive. We have no shared creed. Our shared covenant (our seven Principles) supports “the free and responsible search for truth and meaning.” Though Unitarianism and Universalism roots draw from liberal Christian traditions, this responsible search inspires us to learn from diverse, multi-cultural, spiritual, ethical and moral traditions and philosophies.

OUR SEVEN PRINCIPLES

1: The inherent worth and dignity of every person;

2: Justice, equity and compassion in human relations;

3: Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations;

4: A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;

5: The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;

6: The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all;

7: Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.

~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

I was Raised an Atheist. My Grandfather was a Minister but during the 1930s he had a Crisis of Faith and Concluded that God Did Not Exist. No One was Putting any money in the Collection Plate. So, in order to feed his Family he Quit and Became a Math Teacher.

My Dad was Enthusiastic about Atheism. His Entire Life... I Was Not Real Excited one way or another. However, When I Took LSD I Had a Religious Experience. I Experienced True Enlightenment... For a Few Hours. That Experience made Traditional Religion Seem BOGUS... 

Moses Talking to A Burning Bush that Explained All the Secrets of Life? Been there, Done That, Got the Tie-Dye T-Shirt...

~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

*JUST JOKING* A Step by Step Guide to the Violet Overgrow of the Ruling Class - A Novel by Gregory Vanderlaan *JUST JOKING*

Step #1: 

Boycott Everything Until Prices Come Down. 

Corporations owned by the 1% keep on raising prices and collecting windfall profits. They will keep on doing that until people quit buying. If they could, they would charge $100.00 for a Quart of Milk... 

Step #2: Sneak Marijuana Cookies onto the Buffet Tables of the Hotels near Capitol Hill in Washington DC. If the "Suits" that Run the Government had a Cannabis Trip... maybe they would think twice about doing evil for a living. Place some Cannabis Edibles in the Senate Dining Room also... At the very least they would change the CrazyLaws® about Marijuana... 

Step #3: Cut the Pentagon Budget in Half. This will really anger the Ruling Class as They Profit Greatly from Corporate Welfare. Remember: Since 1945 the US Military has Never Defended the USA... Not Even Once... So all that money being spent at the Pentagon is Just a Way to Transfer Wealth from the Taxpayers to the Owners of Defense Corporations...  The same Owners Finance the Campaigns of the Senators and Congressmen that Write the Bills that Fund the Pentagon... So the Money Travels in a Tight Circle... and YOU GET NOTHING... 

Step #4: Stop Funding Fossil Fuel Corporations. "U.S. taxpayers spend tens of billions of dollars a year subsidizing new fossil fuel exploration, production, and consumption, which directly affects how much oil, natural gas, and coal gets produced—and how much clean energy doesn’t." https://generation180.org/the-absurd-truth-about-fossil-fuel-subsidies/

Step #5: YOUR IDEA HERE! Email Me: gregvan (at) yahoo (dot) com 

READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/digital-monkeywrench-silly-science.html

So Many Different Gods... and So Many Believers Loudly Proclaim that THEIR God is the One True God. That's Absurd! I, like 100% of the people on Earth HAVE NO CLUE if God is real or not.

Some people state that they know... but they are just deluding themselves... I don't mind them deluding themselves, but if they Kill people that are of different Religions... They are Crazy and Dangerous.  

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/04/i-accepted-jesus-as-my-personal-savior.html

Inca Sun God - drawing by gvan42

and Then After Listening to The Saturday Night Alive for the Global Peace Tribe Show...

I Had a Dream: 

We were walking towards the Entrance of the Los Gatos Library and there was a Thin Old Man dressed in a Small Bathing Suit ahead of Us. He pulled on the entrance to the Children's room and It was Locked... Disappointed, he turned around and I asked: "Are You Looking for the Man Who Works There?" He Said: "NO" and I Motioned towards the Main Entrance. We all Entered. He seemed lost so I asked: "Do you Need Help?" as I would ask any Lost Old Man... He Said: "NO" and then I asked again: "Can I Help You?" He said: "No. I'm Fine." and then we went on Our Own Ways. By That time it was Obvious to Me That he was Ram Dass and That it was a Rather "Heavy" encounter to Ask Ram Dass If I Could Help Him... a Meaningful Event... and I was Shaking... So we went downstairs and I went searching for a Book that I Has Started reading before (about Philosophy) - and on the same shelf was a large picture book of the Grateful Dead's Fare Ye Well Tour with four CDs (that were missing) and My friend asked me why I would want to check out that book and I said: "Too Look for Pictures of Myself." and then I woke up and Typed this Document... It's Best to Type it Up before I forget it... For Certain, I would have tried to help any Lost Old Man but It seems Important that I Offered Ram Dass Help in my dream. That's One Of His Main Teachings...

Pentagon or Pentagram? Visual Mantra -
Just Looking at this will cause inner peace -
Psychedelic Art by gvan42

I Enjoy Collecting Obscure Documents, Manifestos, Utopian Visions - Here are some words by America's Great Thinkers

Nolan Bushnell's Atari Manifesto: [full text] - A Utopian Vision from Silicon Valley. 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/06/nolan-bushnell-atari-manifesto-full.html

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow. He passed Away on 2/9/2018. Co-Founder of EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation. Lyrics for The Grateful Dead. 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-declaration-of-independence-of.html

EVERY WORD OF "The Skeleton Key to Gemstone File" - a Classic Watergate Conspiracy Theory Text - Connects the Dots Between Onassis, Hughes, Mafia and The JFK Assassination- It Was distributed by Xerox Copy before the internet was invented...

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/04/great-books-secret-agenda-by-jim-hougan.html

Text of the UNABOMBER Manifesto... An Ecology Book written by Ted Kaczynski and published by Newspapers in order to stop bombings.

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/07/text-of-unabomber-manifesto-ecology.html

AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS - Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The Country, Not Even Once. Ever since Victory in Japan, All of Our Wars have been Marketing to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex.

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/07/great-book-americas-bogus-wars-since.html

The Humanist Manifesto signed by my Grandfather Eldred C Vanderlaan (part author) Leader of The Free Fellowship, Berkeley, CA

https://americanhumanist.org/what-is-humanism/manifesto1/

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-humanist-manifesto-signed-by-my.html

Mary Pinchot Meyer gave LSD to JFK and Then He Decided to End the Vietnam War in 1963. Defense Contractors had him Assassinated to Protect their Profits. Mary was a Girlfriend of JFK and...

She was part of a movement to give LSD to the Leaders of the World. 

The top scientists, business leaders, artists, poets, actors, politicians, 

writers, musicians and athletes were to be given LSD and then they would 

use what they learned while high to rebuild society. The cosmic knowledge 

was to be distributed from the top down in order to create a better world.

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/06/mpm-gave-lsd-to-jfk-and-

then-he-decided.html

Here is a conspiracy theory that was published in 1995 in an 

underground 'zine...
https://erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_media1.shtml

"The High and the Mighty: JFK, MPM, LSD and the CIA"
============================================
Steamshovel Press #12
by G.J. Krupey
1995

Nolan Bushnell's Atari Manifesto: [full text] - A Utopian Vision from Silicon Valley.

GOALS:

FAIRNESS:
Fairness is the best single word which means play the game by the rules. We play hard, play to win, but we will play by the rules of local, state, federal and international law, as well as the standards of ethical business practice and fair labor relations.

An unethical corporation has no right to existence in any social framework, Besides, wining by cheating is, at best, a hollow victory.

PEOPLE:
A corporation is simply people bending together in an organized fashion to produce products or accomplishments which would not be possible otherwise. When the goals of Atari and the goals of its people are in harmony, Atari is strong and its people are happy and satisfied. Therefore Atari Will:

a. Provide maximum remuneration and benefits to its people based on their contribution to its profits and goals.

b. Provide a work atmosphere in which a person can maintain his dignity and identity.

c. maintain a social atmosphere were we can be friends and comrades apart from the organizational hierarchy.

d. Encourage and promote personal growth thru education and training suck as that we may all reach our individual potentialities. 

e. Judge all people on the basis of their skills and contribution and not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, creed, national origin, sex, appearance or personal life. At Atari, discrimination of the whites against blacks or blacks against whites; of short hairs against long hairs or the long hairs against the short hairs; the trained against the untrained; the experienced against the unexperienced will not be tolerated.

f. Bring together people who enjoy what they do and are willing to strive to build a strong and innovative corporation in which we can all take pride and satisfaction and know that our part is well done. Our corporation will only be as strong as the sum of its parts.

PROFITS:
Eventually, without profits, a corporation cannot exist. Therefore, all other goals except the first must be subservient to profits. 

Profits should be large enough to fund our growth, share with our employees and strengthen our corporate base. 

Our profits should also be reflective of our contribution to those that our products serve. The best and most lasting business relationships are those in which all persons involved make profits in proportion to their income. By fairly pricing our products we can keep ourselves, as well as our customers, financially healthy and contribute to the overall growth of the industry.

GROWTH:
Our goal of growth will be aimed at expanding our current market through innovative products as well as increasing market share through better solutions to our customers' problems. We will also grow by cautious entrance into allied fields, fields in which we can use our current successes to give us a competitive edge. Our growth will be dramatic, fueled by  excellence in all areas, whether it be in research, finance, manufacturing, marketing or management. 

CITIZENSHIP:
We will remember that this society and its institutions have provided this climate for business activity. We believe that corporate citizenship is important to keep our institutions strong. We will be politically active for causes we feel are just. Our colleges and universities will enjoy our financial and personal support, and charitable causes will be supported. 

SIGNED, NOLAN BUSHNELL

I found a picture of this manifesto on
 https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/130414/the_history_of_atari_19711977.php and I read it and typed in all the words...

Biography TV Show about the UNABOMBER... I learned that he is alive and living in Prison and supposedly has a Large Cult Following Online...

and NO, I do not Know How to Join a Unabomber Cult nor Do I Know Where to Read His Latest Words... Sorry, TED, I'm Just not Buying The General Idea!

~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

He is continuing to write "words of wisdom" - He promised to stop bombing if the Washington Post and the New York Times would publish his MANIFESTO... they did and his Brother recognized the words, Called the FBI and then they arrested TED... The brother collected the One Million Dollar Reward and RE-GIFTED it to the Families of the Victims... so everything worked out just fine... case closed... If only we had the internet back then... Ted could have published his words without sending ANY BOMBS! and YES, He was a Test Subject in the CIA Project MKULTRA... NOT the LSD testing but in a Test of just how far could a person Tolerate being Screamed at Using His Own Beliefs as Weapons of Psychological Torture... Well, Isn't THAT Special... Your Tax Dollars at Work... Screaming at College Students!

Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, is an American domestic terrorist, former mathematics professor, and anarchist author. He was a mathematics prodigy, but he abandoned an academic career in 1969 to pursue a primitive lifestyle...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski

Great Books: "You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto" by Jaron Lanier... "You are Not the Target" by Laura Huxley

https://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Not-Gadget-Manifesto/dp/0307269647/

Lanier discusses the technical and cultural problems that can grow out of poorly considered digital design and warns that our financial markets and sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter are elevating the “wisdom” of mobs and computer algorithms over the intelligence and judgment of individuals. 

Lanier also shows:
How 1960s antigovernment paranoia influenced the design of the online world and enabled trolling and trivialization in online discourse
How file sharing is killing the artistic middle class;
How a belief in a technological “rapture” motivates some of the most influential technologists
Why a new humanistic technology is necessary.

Controversial and fascinating, You Are Not a Gadget is a deeply felt defense of the individual from an author uniquely qualified to comment on the way technology interacts with our culture.

https://www.amazon.com/You-Target-Laura-Archera-Huxley/dp/0374293805/

 You Are Not the Target by Laura Huxley 

In this book, the life partner of the famed Aldous Huxley offers practical wisdom on how a human being in a chaotic world can cope with stress, anxiety, competition, and the uncertainty of the times without going to pieces mentally or physically. it offers 33 "recipes" for living, which show you how to change, hoe to influence the elements around you, how to cope successfully with the problems of the inner and outer world.

Colin Powell gave a Press Briefing at the United Nations where he explained the Reasons for going to War in Iraq.
Traditionally, press briefings are held in front of Picasso's Painting "Guernica" that depicts death from the sky...
Powell was proposing starting a war that had a lot of Death from the Sky...
SO HE HAD JANITORS COVER THE PAINTING AND HE SPOKE IN FRONT OF A WHITE SHEET.
This Image shows what the press conference would have looked like. 

Text of the UNABOMBER Manifesto... An Ecology Book written by Ted Kaczynski published by Newspapers in order to stop bombings.

In the 1990's a man sent bombs thru the mail to Universities as an ecology protest. He was a Math Teacher at UC Berkeley... Here is the first paragraph of his Manifesto. His ideas make a lot of sense... If only he had a BLOG then he could have self published his ideas and not had to blow things up... Sadly, BLOGS had not been invented yet...

"INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND ITS FUTURE
Introduction

1. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries."

Read More at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm?noredirect=on