Episode 11: Relying on Reality, Not Beliefs

This is Pod Populi podcast for the people. Welcome fellow humans to the why Are you here on Earth podcast. I am your host, ta. We are born onto the planet Earth. It's a nursery planet. It is here for us to learn and explore and mature and figure out what we need to do to go forward safely and structurally secure. We have not done that yet. We are still in our childhood phase and, according to the Jewish rabbis who discuss these things, we have 216 years left to go before our pass-fail test arrives.

I think we're in the restive period now rest of period now, and I do not want to rely on their beliefs that that 216 years is all available and that it will end with a bang. I think it's time for us to get going now. So one of the things we're going to have to do is realize that, other than me, very few people make decisions based almost entirely on reality. We all make decisions, myself included, based on beliefs. I might believe that one guy makes a better hamburger than another, so I go there. Totally understandable, not something you should reject, but whether I think someone will make a better executive for a country, will one do a better job? Will one protect what we have until we can transform it into what we need. Voting for a person to head a country, you can't really go on what you believe and what you'd like. You have to go on what is best for the country and will give you the best chance to transform Everybody who thinks that they are safe and secure and nothing could happen to us. You're the problem because things are happening to us. We call it senseless violence because we don't have a sense of why it's happening. The why it's happening is in the Bible. The Bible is our remedial workbook by God through humans, so that we can see the various human inflections that are placed upon the information, including the information that was not included but must have been given. It's our job to work all this out, but we have a workbook and that's what it's for.

I came to this realization when I sat and discovered, through an event of senseless violence, what one group of individuals characterized it as versus what it appeared to be in reality, and I couldn't understand why they were characterizing it this way, and yet they seemed to really, really believe that their characterization was correct, and that was what set me on the journey. I looked around and I said I mumbled under my breath oh my God, we'll never be able to come together if we can't get on the same page. Get on the same page, and a chill went down my back. You know, sometimes you'll hear things and you'll say, oh, there's something important there. I don't know what it is yet, but there's something important there. Your subconscious is letting you know that you need to do more work, subconsciousness letting you know that you need to do more work. Well, this happened to me. My own breath caused the words to come out and caused the reaction. I didn't have a reaction to the mental picture, but I did have one to the sound picture, which lets me know that my conscious was working, perhaps overtime, but it was not directly involved with my conscious, which is necessary and something we need to investigate big time.

The infrastructure that surrounds humanity is something that we have never formally taken on, and we need to. But to get to that point, we have to get more people on the page that I'm on, which is the one that the Bible tells us about, and I read the Bible before that for many years, but I read it because I was trying to differentiate a religious supposition. Someone said, yeah, this is what this means. So I looked it up and I don't know, do I agree with that? Know, do I agree with that? And even though the individual was strongly sure that, in their belief that that's what it meant, I had to work that out for myself. I'm one of those people that have people have constantly said, eh, there's no reason to reinvent the wheel, and I said, wait a minute, maybe we do it right the first time or maybe there's a better wheel to be invented. So telling me that does not work does not work. I am responsible for everything I say and do, period, before God. As it turns out. I realize that now, as well as to other humans. So I'm not just on this podcast saying something to create a reaction. I'm trying to give you information that you can use to make decisions with once you quit relying almost entirely on belief.

So today we're going to discuss God, and that's because we have an awful lot I'd say at least 1,700 years of information built up about God. That is not necessarily correct. It is from a religious point of view, and when people were trying to create and bind others to a religion, they said and did things and may have believed things that were not necessarily true but were bindable. And so we are at that point now where we have to look back at our childhood, even though we're still in it, and say, all right, what did I automatically include in my belief system Because everybody around me believed it? That was incorrect. That has no foundation in reality. That has no foundation in reality. So, using the Bible as our guide, we will go back and discuss God today. God is the top of our food chain. That is correct. He is over all of us. We feel that he resides in heaven, which is above us, which is fine, and a lot of people have built up a lot of information about heaven. That may not be true, but it might be. We need to work on it and figure it out.

But I know a lot of people think of God in a religious fashion and that is not God. God really is the God of everything here on earth. Now, why do I say here on earth versus the entire cosmos? Well, for man, he is God throughout the entire cosmos. But if you read Genesis 1, and you read it all the way to the end, and you get to the end of Genesis 1, you'll discover that our God was selected by the Elohim. Now most people think that's a religious term because it is reserved for Judaism, but what that means is that our God was selected by the Elohim, is that he was chosen to be our director, our protector, our information advisor, our guide through our childhood into adulthood, and he was chosen by a council of elders. We don't know who these council of elders are. They are not present on earth. They are out of the picture, because God is the entire picture above us. But the Bible related to us how God was chosen and by whom Exodus 3. We can go through the rest of Genesis, but Exodus was the part where Moses asked God for his name.

God is a job title, it is not a name. It's not like George or John or Judy. It's not a name, it's a job title. I'm your host, ta, and that's a job title. It stands for teacher's assistant, because that's all I am. That's all all I am to you. I have a human name, like everybody else, and with my family we relate to one another that way. They're not all necessarily aware of my job as the teacher's assistant on this podcast, because it's not something they're interested in. Something they're interested in. This is a job I have to do, just as God belongs. That's the title of the job that he has to do Now.

Through several religious texts, various names have come up for God. I have no idea. I know of two of them at least. I have no idea how accurate they are If they refer to the same individual, and by that I don't mean individual in a body, although there is a reported time when God came to earth in a human body. It was a reported time when God came to earth in a human body, but that was only for a very short period of time. It was only to mix with and get the tenor of the individuals. Did Jacob wrestle with God or with an angel? It's been reported both ways.

But anyhow, we get back to Moses asking God for his name and God refusing to give it to him. And he asked why do you want to know? And he asked why do you want to know? And Moses told him hey, so I can basically tell my buddies who I was talking to. And God said isn't the fact that you're speaking to a burning bush that is not being consumed important to you? Isn't that important enough that you would set aside your human desires to catalog that which you don't understand and make it normal.

Now, that's not the way it's related. That is, it comes from a study of the Bible heuristics. It's a study of the Bible heuristics and it's called Brother Hermanology. I'll have to look that up. I am not religiously instructed. I did not go through any sort of college for training in this particular field of religion. So there are religious terms that I've heard of but I don't use, and that's one of religion. So there are religious terms that I've heard of but I don't use, and that's one of them. So the heuristics of hermeneutics whatever it is, I'm sorry is something that we need to study.

Why did God refuse him? Why didn't he give him his name? Why did he not want Moses to normalize that which had happened and explain it away to other humans? Because, as we know now, it was too important for God to establish his position on earth. Through Moses, he would create a people, and today they have sorted themselves out, eventually to become the Jews, but at the time they were to become the Israelites and they were created of all the individuals who were enslaved. They were led by Moses and he took as his information what Authority? The Levites that were the clan that he was born into. So these people, this clan that he was born into, decided they did not want property, they did not want land, they wanted basically to farm.

The Israelites, who became the Jewish people through the religion that they created, the religion that they created to bind them to a method of worship that God said they are not worshiping me the way I want them to. They're worshiping me the way they want to, and I'm tired of it. And it was shortly after that that he reputed that God repudiated the contract that he had made at Mount Horeb with the people that he had gathered together and he certified them by saying I have fashioned you in the crucible. You are who I want going forward. Well, they certainly weren't obedient. Are who I want going forward? Well, they certainly weren't obedient. So why did God want them to exist? Going forward?

They are our historians. They are the people who would make sure that the language would not be lost, so that we could translate the Bible into the future into English. And there are at least 60 English translations To this date. They are all religious translations because that is the authority that the Levites took for themselves and have pushed forward. But because of that and their sense of community, they have given us a picture that we have used throughout our history our history, including here in the United States that we feel was justified and we come to that realization now, in September 2024, that all the various peoples that make up the world, the world is not the planet we live on. When Paul was talking about the world almost 2,000 years ago, he was talking about the interconnected human societies that were part of humanity. He is not talking about the planet that those societies were housed on. So when you look at the world news tonight, if you think it's news of the planet and occasionally it is it is not what it is meant to represent. It is meant to represent what is going on in the human-inflected parts of the societies that are connected by being human. So it's another definition.

But the part that we need to understand is that the people in Palestine, gaza Strip and the people in Israel both think that they are justified in their actions and their reactions. They feel ownership towards their hate, distrust understandable when you're not doing anything wrong and you're attacked and your children are murdered, raped, people are taken hostage and secured across the border, and when you get close to releasing them. They are killed because they no longer have a hostage value, and that shows that, in this case, hamas does not want to make nice. They want to continue to live as a cancer for the Palestinian people, for the Palestinian people, and, understandably, israel wants to remove this cancer. Anyway, they both feel justified in what they do. In the Russian enclave. They have attacked across the border to kill hopefully not so much to rape and pillage but we don't really know what is happening in Kursk and in other cities and areas that are under attack. Because they feel justified in doing so. They don't want to deal with them as a people. They would rather own the property and deal with them as subjects. So they are fighting for their freedom and their lives and their right to direct their own lives. Well, we all have made that fight. Hopefully we're to the point where we understand that these wars and rumors of wars are the point at which Jesus said we would get to before we started to wake up, and that it was necessary. So, not to try and shortchange it, but, when the time came, to review what it is that we were doing and why we were doing it. And we're there. We are there now.

It's not just me saying that Look around you. You do not know why these things are happening. You do not know why people who have everything they've ever asked for and wanted are suddenly causing violence. They're reacting violently, they're doing things that they can't tell you why they're doing, because they are not in complete control of themselves, they don't live logically, they live on beliefs and they feel impelled to do these things even though they can't live logically. They live on beliefs and they feel impelled to do these things, even though they can't explain why People in every society throughout the world Certainly, we hear about it a lot in the United States, but it happens in China and India and everywhere else too, and India and everywhere else too and the reason is because we don't know who we are, what we are or why we are here on earth. We've never tried to figure that out. Oh, when we're teenagers and growing up, we'll think about it but will never really work on figuring it out, and that's why this podcast exists. We need to work on figuring it out Now.

The Bible tells us and I rely a lot on the Bible not entirely, but a lot the Bible tells us that we need to come up with a logical reason to do something, manipulate it by human reasoning abilities and then check to see that our supposed answer is wise. Will it work in the long run? Is it a stopgap measure? Is it something to get us from here to there? Where should there be? What are we looking for? What should our final results get us to? And that's the future and that's our adulthood, and we don't yet know. We need to work on it, but all the things that we need to work on are the understandings that we have, the beliefs that we have and the decisions we make based on those beliefs or on reality. So today may be a little shorter than other podcasts, but remember, going forward, that we need to understand who and what we are and why we're here on earth, and we need to work at it. And we need to revisit the definitions that we have for God, for humanity, for the infrastructure that surrounds humanity, for the conscious versus the subconscious, the unconscious and the id, which are the four that we've defined. How many more are there that we have not defined? We need to work on that.

So, going forward, we will do a glossary about all the different terms that are differentiated in the Bible and that we have conflated. If you have a friend who is a Christian, ask him what is the difference between redemption and salvation? And he will look at you with a question like why do you want to know? Well, what's the answer? He won't know Because those two things have been conflated. They're very different in the Bible, they have very different attitudes that surround them, but they have been religiously conflated to be the same. But ask him see what he says. And when he can't say well, what does the Bible say? And when he can't give you the information for that either, then realize that his beliefs, that he knows what's going on and what it's all about, is not well founded. It is founded in other people's beliefs that he has accepted without proof, because that is the definition for belief Acceptance of something as true or real, without proof. God is not a name, not a name. God is a job title. His job is to direct us, instruct us, develop us, and we have turned away from him.

There's a song by Frank Sinatra called I Did it my Way, and he starts off saying the end is near and he's not upset about that or about the fact that there's plenty left undone because he did it his way. I think it was written by paul anka and it reflects the 1940s and 50s, but it is the single reason that we are separated from God Because we insist on doing things our way instead of doing things his way. His way leads to a future, our way leads to death, but we need to figure that out, and those of us who want humanity to live beyond the next 216 years need to figure out a path towards responsible adulthood, where we make decisions based on reality rather than belief. And with that I'll let you go and we'll talk with one another next week. ©.