1) "You should drink coffee tomorrow."
2) "You should not drink coffee tomorrow."
To me the following statements are impossible nonsense:
- "That hurricane that happened yesterday should not have happened."
- "That hurricane that happened yesterday ought not have happened."
- "You shouldn't drink coffee."
- "You should drink coffee."
After reading my book, most people agree with my view. But, before reading my book, most do not agree.
For those who don't, I'm especially surprised when I find out they do believe in an all-powerful creator god.
It's one thing for an atheist to honestly say, "If the world was created by a god, that god did a bad job. He should have made the world differently!" I don't agree, but it's consistent.
But what I find inconsistent is when people who believe in a creator god accept the aforementioned atheist's premise instead of accepting my counter view that the world (a.k.a. "Creation") is perfect (i.e. that nothing should be different than it is).
As I see it, to believe in an all-powerful god and think should-not-have-ness exists is to therefore believe God did a bad job. Or to believe he's just mean and hateful and nasty and such. Or stupid.
In contrast, since I don't believe in should-not-have-ness, it means I look around at the world and to me the world as a timeless 4D whole is perfect. To me, not a single spec is out of place. Unlike most people (i.e. anyone who believes should-not-have-ness exists), to me, when I look out at the world, I conclude that if it was made by an all-powerful god then that god is all-loving and did a wonderful great perfect job, and deserves infinite thanks, because there is nothing that should not be exactly as it is.
I know there isn't a nasty, stupid, mean, or unloving god because I see the perfection of the world. I know that if there is a god that god must be all-loving and perfect and wonderful and worthy of infinite love because this world is.
Re-read those last two sentences and take note how I don't say "I believe"; I say "I know".
In contrast, those who think the world 'should' be different than it unchangeably is have an opposite view to me: They therefore think that, if there is a creator god, that god did a bad job. They say, "Creation should be different than it unchangeably is!"
With their judgementalism and hate, be it towards anything or anyone at all, they thereby curse and sneer at any creator god. "You did a bad job," they say to him. "Your creation should be different than how you created it," they say.
To me the question, "Do you believe in God?" is far less meaningful, interesting, and important than the question, "Do you believe there is a nasty, stupid, mean, and hateful God?"
Let us not be spiritually divided and conquered: We can answer the latter question with agreeable logical certainty. To the second question all of the truly logical among us can and will agreeably say, "I don't just believe; I know for an absolute fact there is not a nasty, stupid, mean, or hateful God."
Whether you believe there is a loving God, or prefer to use phrases like "The Universe" and "Reality as a Timeless Whole" or "Mother Nature" or "The Real Us" or the "Collective Consciousness"; I think what's more important to remember and find peace in is what we can agreeably know, not believe, but know.
We can with infinite ease and simple logic know there is not a nasty, stupid, mean, or hateful god.
And this has practical applications. For example, show me a hateful violent homophobe's god, and I'll show you a god that doesn't exist. Show me a hateful racist's racist god, and I'll show a god that doesn't exist.
In contrast, you show me a force of unconditional love, and I'll show you something I know exists.
You show me an all-accepting eternal omnipresent invincible source of invincible heavenly inner peace, and I'll show you something I know exists, not believe, but know.
What do you think?
"The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master."
I believe spiritual freedom (a.k.a. self-discipline) manifests as bravery, confidence, grace, honesty, love, and inner peace.