As far as God given rights go; it's not possible for any mortal authority to suspend such rights. As individuals and collectively our power is that limited. The only problem is that most people have no clear idea what those rights amount to. It doesn't even matter how many people you can get to vote on human rights, or what the majority opinion happens to be, it can still be wrong. The Constitutional rights of the American people are just dead words on a musty old parchment and nothing more than that, because they can never be guaranteed equally to all people. Under some conditions we are willing to say that an individual has forfeited their rights. Always and with every rule there must be an exception, but God can not make exceptions and neither can the person who presumes to assume the role of Great Patriarch. There must be a common degree of Human Dignity in our personal dealings at all times.
The founding fathers of the United States claimed that even King's do not have superior personal rights than they themselves had, going so far as to imply that every human being has the exact same rights. Sadly most American people have not taken this idea to heart; which just serves to reinforce my view that they amount to dead words on a musty old parchment. I was born in America but I consider myself to be a citizen of the Universe by birth, and a citizen of no lesser divisions thereof. My 51 years of personal experience have brought me the revelation of one human right which is absolutely guaranteed equally to all; "You have the right to have peers and companions." You can never be denied companionship, as we must consider all degrees of physical separation as being meaningless. While a few individuals have enjoyed or suffered a more isolated experience of life, the spirit of the living God is still with us at all times wherever we may go. In fact God's presence pervades every corner of this great big Universe, no thing can ever be hidden from the divine eye. No cubic meter of manifest substance may be considered more or less holy than any other, as it is all touched by God's constant activity.
Many of us may think that some individuals should never be considered as a peer to themselves, but truly we have no power to negate that relationship. We have that relationship with every single individual human being; including many that have had to endure unfavorable living conditions, for a history going back approximately 100,000 years! People like Sadam Hussein and Ossama Bin Laden are exactly equal to Presidents Bush and Obama, as far as rights go. We should never presume to demand a life to end our own suffering; but quite often we are willing to employ those very means to assure our own personal comfort, as if we are more important than the one that must be sacrificed. At the very best we can request your attention to an expression of ideas, in the hope of persuading you to make a simple choice which we have no special power to make for you. Sadly it's so often believed that, "Might Makes Right!" Whether it be physical strength or the strength of superior numbers or even the strength of superior firepower, up to and including the ability to employ weapons of mass destruction. Mankind has pursed this principle for thousands of years and nothing ever changes, planet earth and all it's inhabitants still need to be saved. Perhaps some unmanifest existence awaits us beyond our mortal ends; but what we really want is a physical self without the limitations of time to hinder us. According to some Biblical texts, explicitly or implied there is that possibility in our future, that we may be manifest once again and forevermore. But nothing in this Universe seems to be able to last forever; even the information that it holds may be sucked away into a separate realm, or so goes some theories. Eventually the fabric of our space time will expand and cool to the extent that no chemical reactions will be able to take place, in some very distant future which we need not worry ourselves about. Even if our medical science can prove to us the possibility of immortal life; how can we believe in the possibility of a resurrection for the dead of our great multitude?
Well I don't think that I can say such a fate has been guaranteed to Humanity at this point in time at least. It seems that our great and wonderful Creator is very much pro-choice and not particularly pro-life. At least this seems to be the truth of our reality given my own personal knowledge of our history. In the PC game Diablo 3, Malthael the Angel of Wisdom says, "Whatever their struggles, whatever their triumphs, they die. That is wisdom." And it's not that strange that an important bit of truth can be found in a video game. After all those fantasy worlds were created by some of us, and they often tell a story, a story of a life where enjoying the time playing a game is the only thing that matters. Rank and privilege matter far less than participation in the Great Game of Life, we are equally important participants in this great and epic story. A story to be remembered until the ends of time, or so I believe.
I for one know that I'm a part of something much greater than myself, and greater than Humanity, even greater than Life on Planet Earth. And I also know that I can never be removed from my place in history, therefor I feel a great sense of security in my own existence. I have lived long enough and accomplished enough to secure my place in Heaven and the greater Eternal Kingdom. Instead of faith, I have trust. I trust God to keep me in a good consciousness; but at the same time I realize that he does not guarantee that I will enjoy every experience, but he has the power to make me endure any experience. I believe that our time is truly unlimited, perhaps we are even unlimited in our potential to grow and mature, at least this is the truth of my version of reality. Conditions may be subject to change, therefor the authority that some people exercise in this world is merely a temporary condition. As we judge others, so are we being judged in return, and the judgement of those others may matter more than we believe it does. In due course of time we are equally favored and loved, for some of our time we may even be more or less favored and loved.
The founding fathers of the United States claimed that even King's do not have superior personal rights than they themselves had, going so far as to imply that every human being has the exact same rights. Sadly most American people have not taken this idea to heart; which just serves to reinforce my view that they amount to dead words on a musty old parchment. I was born in America but I consider myself to be a citizen of the Universe by birth, and a citizen of no lesser divisions thereof. My 51 years of personal experience have brought me the revelation of one human right which is absolutely guaranteed equally to all; "You have the right to have peers and companions." You can never be denied companionship, as we must consider all degrees of physical separation as being meaningless. While a few individuals have enjoyed or suffered a more isolated experience of life, the spirit of the living God is still with us at all times wherever we may go. In fact God's presence pervades every corner of this great big Universe, no thing can ever be hidden from the divine eye. No cubic meter of manifest substance may be considered more or less holy than any other, as it is all touched by God's constant activity.
Many of us may think that some individuals should never be considered as a peer to themselves, but truly we have no power to negate that relationship. We have that relationship with every single individual human being; including many that have had to endure unfavorable living conditions, for a history going back approximately 100,000 years! People like Sadam Hussein and Ossama Bin Laden are exactly equal to Presidents Bush and Obama, as far as rights go. We should never presume to demand a life to end our own suffering; but quite often we are willing to employ those very means to assure our own personal comfort, as if we are more important than the one that must be sacrificed. At the very best we can request your attention to an expression of ideas, in the hope of persuading you to make a simple choice which we have no special power to make for you. Sadly it's so often believed that, "Might Makes Right!" Whether it be physical strength or the strength of superior numbers or even the strength of superior firepower, up to and including the ability to employ weapons of mass destruction. Mankind has pursed this principle for thousands of years and nothing ever changes, planet earth and all it's inhabitants still need to be saved. Perhaps some unmanifest existence awaits us beyond our mortal ends; but what we really want is a physical self without the limitations of time to hinder us. According to some Biblical texts, explicitly or implied there is that possibility in our future, that we may be manifest once again and forevermore. But nothing in this Universe seems to be able to last forever; even the information that it holds may be sucked away into a separate realm, or so goes some theories. Eventually the fabric of our space time will expand and cool to the extent that no chemical reactions will be able to take place, in some very distant future which we need not worry ourselves about. Even if our medical science can prove to us the possibility of immortal life; how can we believe in the possibility of a resurrection for the dead of our great multitude?
Well I don't think that I can say such a fate has been guaranteed to Humanity at this point in time at least. It seems that our great and wonderful Creator is very much pro-choice and not particularly pro-life. At least this seems to be the truth of our reality given my own personal knowledge of our history. In the PC game Diablo 3, Malthael the Angel of Wisdom says, "Whatever their struggles, whatever their triumphs, they die. That is wisdom." And it's not that strange that an important bit of truth can be found in a video game. After all those fantasy worlds were created by some of us, and they often tell a story, a story of a life where enjoying the time playing a game is the only thing that matters. Rank and privilege matter far less than participation in the Great Game of Life, we are equally important participants in this great and epic story. A story to be remembered until the ends of time, or so I believe.
I for one know that I'm a part of something much greater than myself, and greater than Humanity, even greater than Life on Planet Earth. And I also know that I can never be removed from my place in history, therefor I feel a great sense of security in my own existence. I have lived long enough and accomplished enough to secure my place in Heaven and the greater Eternal Kingdom. Instead of faith, I have trust. I trust God to keep me in a good consciousness; but at the same time I realize that he does not guarantee that I will enjoy every experience, but he has the power to make me endure any experience. I believe that our time is truly unlimited, perhaps we are even unlimited in our potential to grow and mature, at least this is the truth of my version of reality. Conditions may be subject to change, therefor the authority that some people exercise in this world is merely a temporary condition. As we judge others, so are we being judged in return, and the judgement of those others may matter more than we believe it does. In due course of time we are equally favored and loved, for some of our time we may even be more or less favored and loved.
