Imagine if you would a world wherein all religions were tolerant of each other because they realized that the common thread they all share is the goodness they feel within themselves with an awareness of a higher authority or plain of existence. Imagine when the first campfire was lit under an open sky with the twinkling stars magnificently arrayed above, and dawn of reality finally took hold questioning "where do I come from," and "how did I get here?" Man's quest for the unkown has always been with him and for many the question of "am I really just an accident?" is intolerable. We wish to belong to a purposeful design in which we are given a destiny. Because religion probably feels it knows better than most other disciplines the frailties and imperfections of Humanity, it has always looked for perfection in a higher authority called God who is responsible for creation. If God is goodness than creation must be the same. Now imagine God is manifested in all the goodness found inside each of us, need we look anywhere else for the solutions we need to become the best we can be? We have had the solution to our Salvation and Evolution inside us from the very beginning, even from the dawn of time. Imagine a future in which the only true temple to God that existed was recognized inside each of us, and churches and other houses of worship would become meeting places to do acts of goodwill and charity and to recognize God's will is being done through the goodness of humankind and the diversity of our rich cultures and races. There is something good in all of us and we need only to expel the badness to realize it. Creation and Evolution are but two sides of the same coin, and human beings at this time in history are now experiencing such an excelerating pace of growth that it may enable them to evolve to the next stage of existence with self discipline, that hopefully can be realized, if they don't stay the course of self destruction first. Imagine a future in which all sentient beings felt the goodness and purpose of being alive was to uphold a Standard of Conduct that did not fringe upon the welfare of others.
Imagine if you would a world in which all the rich people that plant pretty flowers in their yards instead planted fruit and nut trees and gardens to capacity, who would feel the hunger and despair of their more unfortunate fellow humans and donate at least half of the produce to alleviate some of the suffering of the world. What if city parks, community centers, schools, and all open space owned by the people was made beautiful with such things as cherry trees, apricots, peaches, walnuts, pecans and other trees which yield so much goodness and nutrition? If everyone that has a house and land would plant all their yards with varieties of fruits, nuts, and vegetables and give all the extra produce to a world food bank, there would be no more hunger in the world today. Imagine a world that limited individual wealth to a few million and not many billions or even a trillion, and donated all their extra wealth to a worldwide education and health fund that would wipe out ignorance and greatly alleviate sickness while giving hope for a better world by improving the lots of their more unfortunate brothers and sisters. By more evenly distributing wealth, more money would be in the hands of the many who would spend it widely at a greater pace because of their need to survive, all the while creating a richer and more just and happy society, because everyone would feel they were a part of a greater cause built upon Equality. How much the world would admire and respect the contributions of the few to the many and how good would the fortunate feel about themselves when they could see the real difference they make, because the heart of humanity is basically good and feels best when caring and giving become a shared theme. The Future is not lost, nor can it be hidden if everyone gets aboard the Ark of Humanity wherein we all can share the future Equally, and look out for each other, instead of throwing most of our wealth to the fires and ruin of Wars and Conquest.
Imagine if every parent of their first new born child realized how lucky they were to have contributed a valuable new member to society and helped do their part to control world population by limiting the number of their offspring. Imagine if children were so precious that all of society would look to their welfare and nurture their growth to help them realize how valuable and needed they are. With the world population now at close to seven billion humans and the rate of new births three times that of deaths, only Japan with a declining population and China with a one child per family policy have managed to control their populations in contrast to the world's population of epidemic explosion. Just Imagine if some Religion and Conservative values did not demean the value of a woman and the need for her to control the functions of her own body, if for no other reason than the health of an unborn child and the safety of its mother. Imagine if the whole world acted in unison on just one thing like population control, emulating responsible countries like Japan and China, maybe the world would become truly unified and the United States could not walk away from world environmental concerns like the Kyoto Protocol. Maybe a greener and more healthy world would be possible, if every country that ratified the Kyoto Protocol would have boycotted the United States with a no trade agreement to show the U.S. walkout of the Protocol would not be tolerated.
Imagine if houses were built in components that generated so much electricity that they could share it with their neighbors and do away with the ugly overhead power lines and eliminate the power grids and their toxic polluting generating stations. What if only clean generating stations were needed to power electro magnetic trains and other forms of mass transportation and all heavy duty hauling and construction work was done by machinery built to burn carbon dioxide not expel it, what a breath of fresh air it would be. What if converting carbon dioxide into a cleaner burning biofuel than methanol resulted in all non-electric small vehicles like cars and trucks burning only clean fuels. We know it takes motion to generate electricity in almost all applications, so why not use it as the primary means of propulsion? I have often thought about the waste of design that only looks to the immediate knowledge available and doesn't aspire to loftier ideas, like for example a ground vehicle that only needs a boost to get it moving and the sequential linear movement is done by the wheels, whose very movement can generate all the electricity needed to drive the electric motor and recharge a very small powerful battery for the initial thrust and emergencies, thus eliminating the need for a giant battery whose only purpose is to store electricity. What if technology and science became so exciting that the majority of incoming students were given free education to pursue careers in newly founded and publicly funded Universities exclusively for discovering the secrets of the Universe and enabling all sciences to interact together to make a sustainabale cleaner and more healthy world to live in. What if trade and art schools were publicly funded and open to all the people that wanted to use their hands, brains, and inventive talents to design, create and build new functional objects like round hurricane and tornado proof living structures that were subterranean in nature that utilized the insulating earth to cool and warm even an upper ground level tornado proof art studio and recreation area, or even art itself used to propagate new designs for generating energy and inspiring new artists to light the way to creativity. Imagine how much lower the cost of insuring buildings would be if they were only allowed to be designed and built to withstand nature's turbulences and chaotic disturbances of the earth itself, which could eventually eliminate the need for insurance. What if we quit rebuilding the same old destroyed structures and demanded that life and property were far more valuable than the proven worthless and cost draining rebuilding of the same old dead end thing. Just imagine if we quit building great armies and armament and exporting these things to pacify, change, and control other nations and instead invested all this money in furthering and protecting the minds, health, and talents of our very citizens.
Imagine news medias that were independent of corporations and their board of directors were given a mandate to fully expose the truth from all sides in a non biased manner or they were heavily fined for keeping secrets and telling lies. What if governments were truly made to serve all the people, and not just the few and powerful who bought control of an entire nation's purse strings and politics. Imagine if all our leaders were arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced in front of all the people by a nationwide forum for misleading us, keeping secrets from us, and profiteering from their service in office or position, oh what shame and corruption in the world would be exposed! Our leaders worldwide would think twice about using their positions and priveleges to benefit themselves and others instead of the people to whom they owe their allegiances by oath of office, if they were indeed humiliated in front of an entire nation. Nothing is too great a punishment for a person or persons that cause the loss and destruction from economic ruin, unnecessary war, and environmental damage that effects the well being of the great majority of a nation or the world. Maybe then, Democracies that were built to serve the people would not be abused and changed to benefit those in control, but really were a light from which a beacon for honesty, truth, justice, and equality were held sacred by all people and not meant to be trampled upon by a few.
