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Religion has no new duties to perform, but it is urgently called upon to function as a
wise guide and experienced counselor in all of these new and rapidly changing human
situations. Society is becoming more mechanical, more compact, more complex, and more
critically interdependent. Religion must function to prevent these new and intimate interassociations from becoming mutually retrogressive or even destructive. Religion must act as the cosmic salt which prevents the ferments of progression from destroying the cultural savor of civilization. These new social relations and economic upheavals can result in lasting brotherhood only by the ministry of religion.
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Makalu wrote:i shouldn't really have to point out that the UB, in various places, openly advocates world government, world law, world economy, world police, world language, world religion (or at least a religion with a worldview) and the outcome of it all, world peace.
And it calls nationalism a delusional virus.Religion has no new duties to perform, but it is urgently called upon to function as a
wise guide and experienced counselor in all of these new and rapidly changing human
situations. Society is becoming more mechanical, more compact, more complex, and more
critically interdependent. Religion must function to prevent these new and intimate interassociations from becoming mutually retrogressive or even destructive. Religion must act as the cosmic salt which prevents the ferments of progression from destroying the cultural savor of civilization. These new social relations and economic upheavals can result in lasting brotherhood only by the ministry of religion.
notice it says what society is becoming, doesn't really matter if you consider it progress or not. it is becoming with or without you.
Thu Dec 15, 2016 11:55 am +0000
fanofVan wrote:118:1.4 (1295.4) Experience, wisdom, and judgment are the concomitants of the lengthening of the time unit in mortal experience. As the human mind reckons backward into the past, it is evaluating past experience for the purpose of bringing it to bear on a present situation. As mind reaches out into the future, it is attempting to evaluate the future significance of possible action. And having thus reckoned with both experience and wisdom, the human will exercises judgment-decision in the present, and the plan of action thus born of the past and the future becomes existent.
Thu Dec 15, 2016 12:22 pm +0000
MidiChlorian wrote:fanofVan wrote:118:1.4 (1295.4) Experience, wisdom, and judgment are the concomitants of the lengthening of the time unit in mortal experience. As the human mind reckons backward into the past, it is evaluating past experience for the purpose of bringing it to bear on a present situation. As mind reaches out into the future, it is attempting to evaluate the future significance of possible action. And having thus reckoned with both experience and wisdom, the human will exercises judgment-decision in the present, and the plan of action thus born of the past and the future becomes existent.
The UB quote which you presented somewhat contradicts your previous statement in another post where you state " - how do we retreat or go back from here? And who wants to? And why? The past is gone...to lament its passing is simply silly...it's GONE! What's the way forward?" -- where I understand it is not an exact association but reminds me of the following.
Where basically what this quote is indicating is that: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" (George Santayana), on this case if we don't learn from past mistakes, we are destined to repeat them.
So, what can we learn from this as might be considered as similar as we plow into the future? I for one can see some big repetitions coming in our future if we don't stop and associate the past to what seems to be repeating itself, although by a new name or with subtle differences.
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fanofVan wrote:99:1.3 (1086.6) Urantia society can never hope to settle down as in past ages. The social ship has steamed out of the sheltered bays of established tradition and has begun its cruise upon the high seas of evolutionary destiny; and the soul of man, as never before in the world’s history, needs carefully to scrutinize its charts of morality and painstakingly to observe the compass of religious guidance. The paramount mission of religion as a social influence is to stabilize the ideals of mankind during these dangerous times of transition from one phase of civilization to another, from one level of culture to another.
Me here: We must employ the "panoramic" perspective or we will surely find ourselves in the weeds of mere politics and economic theories of the brief and passing moment we call now or today.
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