{"id":375,"date":"2005-03-09T10:08:37","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T10:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=375"},"modified":"2005-03-09T10:08:37","modified_gmt":"2005-03-09T10:08:37","slug":"religion-realism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"Religion Realism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My preferred definition of <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/search?q=altruist\" target=\"_BLANK\"><b>Altruism<\/b><\/a>: <i>Instinctive cooperative behavior that is detrimental to the individual but contributes to the survival of the species.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I think I can safely say that altruism is my religion. God, or the natural goodness, exists in everybody, and it wouldn&#8217;t hurt to <i>be excellent to each other<\/i>. It&#8217;s like karma in a way. What&#8217;s good&#8230; no wait, what&#8217;s bad goes around. Bad things tend to snowball.<\/p>\n<p>What about life and death? I&#8217;ve had this theory since I was 13. There is no hell or heaven. Life is a form of energy (closest in form to chemical energy), and as energy cannot be created or destroyed, when we die we are merely reborn in the <b>nearest<\/b> lifeform, like the bacteria feeding on our dead body. When that bacteria dies, you <b>may<\/b> be reborn as another bacteria. If you&#8217;re lucky, you&#8217;ll cross over to being a fly. How do you become human again? Die as your parents&#8217; pubic lice.<\/p>\n<p>Now given that the world&#8217;s population is increasing, where is this extra energy coming from? The trees and animals that we make extinct from expanding our backyards. Don&#8217;t forget the millions of microorganisms in a cubic centimeter. I haven&#8217;t even taken into consideration that energy can change from one form to another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My preferred definition of Altruism: Instinctive cooperative behavior that is detrimental to the individual but contributes to the survival of the species. I think I can safely say that altruism is my religion. God, or the natural goodness, exists in everybody, and it wouldn&#8217;t hurt to be excellent to each other. It&#8217;s like karma in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}