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What Science Should I Trust? :: Wrestling with Lo

You can’t know everything, so how do you navigate scientific knowledge? There’s so many people out there trying to get your attention, and all of them appeal to science to make their case. Who’s right? Here’s some principles to follow: Trust the scientific consensus. Individual studies don’t matter to you. Individual studies will only matter to you if you are a scientist or student. News or…

Covid-19 is teaching us about emissions, necessity, and welfare.  

One of its lessons is that personal transportation is only a small part of carbon emissions.  We have learned that it is not enough to just drive less.

Another lesson it offers is that supply chains and traditional styles of work need an update. Getting food and products to where they need to go has always been a problem, but it has been ignored because those who suffer are in underprivileged countries.

We believe in Salvation Apocalypse is the end of a world Genesis is the beginning of a world Salvation comes between them Salvation is not a place, a state, or a person It is collaboration between organisms To move through worlds with love

There are many competing definitions of religion out there.  Some try to break it down into one vital component.  There are others that try to name everything religion is capable of organizing.  Many definitions have a western bias, others tend to be demeaning.  Terranism will avoid this kerfuffle and content itself with its own definitions.  

The Terranic definition of religion:

Religion is an organization of spirituality

And the Terranic definition of spirituality:

Spirituality is an organization of the truth

I am forging a religion.

I am dissatisfied with the religious paradigms available to me; they are either burdened by superstition or define themselves negatively in relation to mainstream religions (“we are NOT Christians, etc.).

I am dissatisfied with atheism.  It is a void. To be an atheist is to proclaim no belief, but that does not describe me.  I hold many beliefs, and I want to be defined by them not by the lack of someone else’s.