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Thank you Al, and bulldog. I'm very pleased to be back. 
Van,
I will try my best to reply to your response in the most respectful way possible, and not to effect your beliefs. On that note, I personally don't believe I will be held responsible for your lack of faith in your paradigm if my project, i.e. experiment, proves worthy. Futhermore, any work I formulate will, in no way, have the ultimtate power to overturn your faith, or lack thereof. Therefore, I reiterate, I will not be held resonsible for your lack of faith, nor will I be hailed guilty by simply testing my own faith and the authenticity it hails itself held in contrast to something else.
That stated, I would also like to clarify that it is not my ultimate goal, nor direct goal for that matter, to turn anyone from this book, or alleged revelation. In fact, I'm trying to turn myself to it in the process, but I will not do so without analyzing it thoroughly, since my faith in my life is one of the most important keys to my total being, and I won't single guess myself and be satisfied therewith. Instead, I'll test everything in my faith time and time again until I can eliminate any doubt whatsoever from my mind. And in the end, my faith will resemble a polished sword without blemish. Of course, this is my own view.
As far as debunking the UB, I'm not interested. As I said earlier in the thread, I'm attempting to recreate what some say can't be done, which is to create a revelatory book that can make you or me believe it is true, but, as the author, knowing it isn't. This is interesting, since, if the author(s) of the book were falsely writing truth and aware thereof, I would be acting in their exact state-of-mind. No, it won't determine the truth either way, but from a personal standpoint it will either confirm it or not to some extent.
My concern I have is, why do we, or should we, believe a book solely just because (1) it sounds good to the ear? Does the validity of the UB come from us? Yes. But who verifies it and by what standard? Who steps in and says “Because of the complex literacy, and beautiful sounding words, we should believe this”? And with that said, who then says it’s okay to believe that guy? The sad thing is no one does. You believe it because of these reasons given above most likely.
You see, in contrast, I’ve always known of the Bible, and I believe it, for the most part. Why? For one, it’s part of my culture, my country, and 3,000 years of human practice, paradigm, history, etc. I’m not the only one that has believed it, and I wouldn’t be foolish to follow it if I were to follow anything by those reasons alone. With the UB, we don’t have any of that; it’s a completely new set of concepts with no history, no culture, and no one backing it except those of this generation. Why throw away almost everything I l believe, and so many others for so long, just because? Well, if I were careless, I would say because I find the statements the UB expresses pleasing to my senses, my previous concerns related to my faith, the afterlife, and the like. Interestingly enough, this is one of the bigger reasons I want to believe this book, and would like to add it to my own paradigm.
Could I believe this book not turning back and be happy with everything it says to me? Of course I could. Would it enhance my way of life by resting my mind that there are all these wonderful things in the after- life that I NOW happen to be aware of? Absolutely. By believing this book whole-heartedly, would my intelligence be improved by then knowing everything I learned in it would make me superior, humble or not, to those that don’t know? Maybe. But, my point is, what if it’s wrong and my previous paradigm right?
So, faith is at stake when you paradigm-shift, and it shouldn’t be a short-thought out decision, but one that is tested, tried, and really thought about over time. I respect those UB readers that have read it so long and still have decided to continue to do so, because I know that they must have really done this. That, in itself, gives this book credibility to me, since I know many UB readers are intelligent professionals, retirees, doctors, etc. If it weren’t for these, I probably wouldn’t even waste my time.
Ultimately, this book wasn’t wrote or composed in a day. Many years were had that resulted in this book. My attempt isn’t to replicate it completely. Instead, I would like to experiment with the idea by creating a smaller version that would take only a short amount of time, but enough time to thoroughly make sure everything in it matches up to everything else in case I knew others were to wish to criticize it someday.
lux, vita, amor,
RS
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
-- Aristotle (384-322 BC)
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