I wrote this book to crystallize my beliefs. I have been a member of a Christian church for the past 40 years, but joined it because the ones I care about believe its tenets. Maybe even they joined because they were taught to believe by the ones they care about, and so on and so on and so on. When I came to a point at which I felt a need to know what I believe, and not what someone else believes; I decided to write down all my thoughts on the subject, and then edit them over time until everything fit to my way of thinking. Then, I could say, This is what I believe. I promise you that if you do likewise writing down what you believe in a way that you can understand, and if you go and do what you are prompted thereby, you will discover your truth. You will not suddenly be able to say, Now I know the truth, because there will always be more to know. In the meantime and as a catalyst for your thinking, read this book. It is written as an exercise for me so that I can see what I believe in words and not just in feelings, and so that I can feel what I believe using my form of allegory. 2
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A Taste for Gibbing The Prologue It really is possible for there to have been an evolution in which a being, or maybe even many have developed to become what we could actually call gods. After all, if the possibilities are endless; why not? In a couple billion years, many gods could have advanced to be able to corral the elements so that they could populate such places as this beautiful earth, full of variety and wonder. If there are natural laws, were they written, or were they discovered? Many humans on planet Earth are convinced that evolution is the cause of all existence. They say that because there are seemingly an infinite number of possibilities; we humans may be here by chance, and in other parts of the universe, other things and other beings may or may not have popped into existence and evolved in whatever way chance would have it. Other humans say that it is preposterous that 5
we are supported by a conscious entity up there in space somewhere, partly because they have been bombarded with such distasteful negativity that they stop listening when some short sighted preacher says, Man must pay the price for his sins, while he pounds his fist on the podium; and goes on and on preaching hell fire and damnation. The very same idea expressed in a different way might be more convincing and inviting: If one says, There is no such thing as a free lunch, it sounds quite reasonable, and it is just like saying, Man must pay the price for his groceries. Cause and effect is always in place in the ruling laws of the cosmos. If one eats too much, and works too little, he will pay the price and eventually become less able to do what is most expedient and most rewarding. Selfishness has a price too. Selfish behavior is blinding to what could be an amazing eternal adventure. Happiness can become magnified when concern for others becomes more important than self satisfaction.
We are all tempted to be selfish, but if we are, the price equals: narrow vision and loneliness. We can be charitable, which is not our nature, but if we are, that sacrifice equals: the price of our happiness. We are fortunate that we can make that 6
choice. Being able to make choices allows us to actually see and feel many opposing forces that exist in all of reality. Think about it. All the great novels ever written have conflict. The more trouble, the better. The greatest novels sometimes end in defeat. Recorded history would not exist if there were no bad things that happened. There probably wouldnt be any newspapers to read either. Without some kind of villain or evil force, even this book would be boring and nobody would bother reading it. Think again. Can you imagine getting stronger in an exercise program without resistance? No. All improvement, advancement, and creation will always require a negative aspect that must be overcome. In your own life, try to see your troubles as stepping stones toward a positive fruition. Dont just look forward to lying on the couch to just drink in what others have created. When the path of creation is seen as a series of events with positive and negative components, inseparably connected, it can be realized that the negative side cannot be avoided by any creator. Often people want to blame God for their trials. Well, so be it then, but choosing the negative path would not be his choice, but it could be yours. If 7
you deny that the forces of nature seen all around us are made available to us for our growth and learning by a god, so be it then. A great master of words said exactly what I would like to echo in this book, and he said it better than I ever could:
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. William Shakespeare Sometimes we humans become closed minded about what is really going on in our universe. We are taught intangible concepts with words that over time seem to be tangible. We hang onto the words without advancing our understanding. Now that we can put aside childish things, I think some of us need to set aside our sticks in the mud of confounded language and start fresh in the quest for discovering the meaning of life not just from our own perspective, but from a wider view. Many words are clear to us, but many words are ambiguous without personal context. We all have a different understanding of many 8
things in the ethereal realm. In the following story many characters are analogous to beings in the real world and in the world that is envisioned by evolutionary creationists. This book is for those who want to hope for something more than something usually short of a hundred years of experience. Religious people hope for something more than what they see, so they sometimes appear to be Pollyannaish. Some would call immortality wishful thinking and false hope. I hope along with many humans that there is a purpose for life. The following allegory allows us to envision a real possibility for an eternal round of which we are all a part. When there is hope, there must be action toward that hopeful goal, whether it is action by the one who hopes or at least actions observed or recognized by him.
One premise that stands out in the search for truth: Everything needs to fit. With all the senses that we humans have, we cannot see with our limited senses clearly enough for everything to fit, to be fair, to make perfect sense, or to bring comfort to our souls, so we need to extrapolate the evidence that we have. Knowing the truth is like finally discovering all the pieces of the puzzle that fit with perfect alignment when we see through the matrix of the three dimensions into a full picture including all the dimensions of reality: height, width, depth, time, and all other parameters that can be used to define and evaluate things. 9
On the short term, (lets say 10 million years), many things do not fit and do not become resolved and are not just and do cause us to doubt that any perfect god would permit evil to reign even for a moment, but perhaps with an eternal perspective, (lets say 10 billion years), hope can allow for a positive direction in spite of any hellish pranks. Perhaps positive evolution cannot be stopped, ever. As for the longing for eternal life, the same master of words said, oh so poetically, the crux of the hope for many people.
That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.
Most of us fear death but hope for eternal life, and what we want is to be satisfied forever; but when put that way there is a certain amount of distaste in that hope. Man is naturally a selfish beast, but perhaps we could graduate into a condition of unselfishness with considerable practice. There is more than that self indulgent wish that should be in the hearts of those who hope for eternal life. Dream with hope, and work with passion to create something. 10
One major problem with us humans is that we often mince the truth with what are called by psychologists, defense mechanisms, to shelter us from the discomfort from knowing the negative aspects of our lives. The truth is that we need this negative experience so that we can be propelled out of our lack of hope; but if we resist too much, we will stay stuck in the mud. It is easy for us to identify others defenses, but our own are often hidden by ourselves from ourselves. Some say that proof of anything is not really necessary in order to proceed with creation when we finally see through our self inflicted cloud, and that all that is needed in the mind is acknowledgment of possibility, and that all that is needed in the soul is a beam of hope. Disclaimer: This fictional model is designed to imbue the reader toward positive and ethical action, not toward any particular doctrine. Do something outrageously positive for someone who you dont think deserves it; and wait as long as it takes to see what positive comes from it. What does life mean to you? Pondering what might be beyond our senses can yield hope for an eternal existence for anyone who reads this book. Write your own life; your own book; this is my picture of eternity. Sincerely, Paul R. Miles the Author 11
Chapter 1: In the Beginning before Seedland Many eons agone, there was an outward burst of energy the brightness of which defies all description. That burst was the premier event in the universe of the Seeds, who are the beginnings of awareness. It was felt by all of them, to one degree or another. They had no tangible reference to any reality whatsoever, but they witnessed the grandest demonstration of the outward quest that will be called charity. The Seeds did not even have knowledge of their location or size or shape, but only a sliver of a notion of their own existence. These countless seeds had greater or lesser longings and potentials to become players in the process of creation. In the beginning there was nothing to picture, nothing to be noticed by the Seeds except hope itself and the first effect of charity, which is light, the first principle of creation. After about 400 million years, a few Seeds stumbled upon a means to embellish creation. This allowed them to progress. This means of creation was due to an evolution. They began to care about 12
something outside of their own existence. They had very limited power to observe things because they had no senses, but they felt the need, the longing to serve someone or something besides themselves. Over millions of years, these special Seeds, called Forgibs learned that countless numbers of Seeds were unable to develop because they were not motivated to progress. They did not understand the value of charity, because it was their natural tendency to bring things to themselves for their enjoyment and to be assimilated into their self awareness seed. It took millions of years for the Forgibs to find their way to their means of perception, and creation. The senses that developed in them were unknown to the lesser Seeds. The Forgibs knew they had something substantial, and the more they progressed, the more they wanted to share with the Seeds. The caring accelerated, and their evolution to become Gibs accelerated too. They began to know that they were becoming Forgibs and Giblings only because they cared so passionately for the Seeds and because they knew that charity would ultimately touch all those who accepted the gift.
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Some of the Forgibs evolved to become Giblings because they were perseverant about acquiring their special senses. They had an intense longing to serve. The Giblings found that they could join with their counterparts to produce Giblings whose DNA codes could be altered over time so that senses could be produced; senses that could detect attitudes and needs of Seeds and Forgibs. The Giblings learned that the Seeds and Forgibs had no chance of progression without the motivation that allowed them to develop their super powers of observation and creation. The greatest of all the super powers discovered was charity. It was learned by the Giblings that this was the first working principle that could be used to advance the cause of Gibbing. Once the Giblings became acquainted with their environment, they formed a Gibbing Council. They unanimously elected a president and two kinematic balancers called counselors. The first president was from then on called Gib Himself. Gib Himself became the master builder of the Gibbiverse because he yearned infinitely for giving to all that ever might latch onto his sense of the joy of Gibbing (giving). His problem was that he had this sort of insatiable need to share all his 14
joy. He came across another such as himself who he called The Giver. The Giver whose name was Susej shined with innocence and hope. Gib Himself fostered him and felt the need to produce the first familia of the Gibbiverse in order that his son could progress along with himself. So, from the beginning of the status of Susej, he was a pure giver without negative experience. So, the Giver developed into a Loom of Good because of his total innocence, and from then on was the principle instrument by which Gib Himself would Create his Gibbiverse. The first proclamation that was given by Gib Himself was: My goal is to find those Seeds who have the potential to create and then help them to be able to do so as we are doing. Henceforth and forever until the Final Condition, I will remain anonymous because my own first rule is to be humble. It is impossible for me to continue Gibbing to the Seeds and Forgibs if I am known to be their supporter and provider. He said though in contradiction, But they need to know of me somehow in order that they may see something of the way that I am, so we need to send someone to give them a message. It 15
is especially important that the Giblings on Seedland are aligned with the principles of charity and creation as taught by messages from the Gib Council, not just so that they would obey, but if those Giblings adopt all the principles of gibbing as an inseparable part of their inner seed, then they would be given the senses and tools needed to do something good forever. Many occasions would arise that would require methods outside the understanding of the Giblings to accomplish the goal of the Gibbing Council. On Planet Earth, these are called miracles. Many things developed on Earth that were called modern miracles, but they were technological advances that occurred because of isolated incidents of godly perseverance which was instilled into the landscape of great accomplishments by special men and women dotting time during the latter days of Earth before its final condition.
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the hidden future. The hidden future is and will always be a part of reality because the future is the effect of what happens in the present, which is always variable, so the future cannot be known as a fact, but only as a goal, a plan, and a hope which is eternal. So, hope is what causes charity and creation, and it will be that way forever. Gibs First Counselor, the Giver, said, My Father, Gib Himself has said that we need all to be anonymous and perfectly humble, so it is his plan that will be the one to ultimately teach the Forgibs to acquire senses the way that we have. I will go to them and appear to fail, but I will give them a message. I will tell them that if they care for each other they will acquire the needed senses for eternal progression. One of the first key principles discovered, charity, was in contradiction to the nature of Seeds and Forgibs. The appetite for self fulfillment was almost insatiable in the raw state of their emptiness. Although the council did not know for sure all that would take place in the next ten billion years, they projected that it would take that long for their universe to evolve to a state that could 17
accommodate the place that was needed for the Seeds and Forgibs to dock. The Forgibs would be born on a world as Giblings, and would need shelter, many wonders, many trials and many enhancements that would be parallels and reflections of the true nature of things. Many questions arose in the Council. One of the first questions was posed by Micholan, the first Arcintel, Gib Himself, how can the Seedlings or the Forgibs get close enough to each other to even notice that the process of charity can yield an increase in perception and happiness? Gib Himself said, I have discovered a key matrix. I want to organize groups into famlia. This group will be composed of a gene tree which will be a framework designed to challenge the Forgibs with disappointments and hurdles but also designed to help the motivation for charity. Each famlia needs a head and a heart, two separate and opposite entities that forever oppose but forever join in a harmony like the atom itself. Gahbrohal, another Arcintel mentioned the following potential problem, Gib Himself, I feel that some of the Forgibs may be unable to get your 18
message before our beloved First Counselor appears with his message. What shall we do about that? Gib Himself said, We will provide for them many chances. Evolution will take too long for them because we will synthetically implant our nature unto them. That synthesis will not have enough staying power without our injections of notions of love into their self awareness spot. They will not understand what we call Love without the Light of The Giver and without the Forlight from The Eloh Stoga.
Raffyelos, the third Arcintel said, A potential problem, too could be that some of the Giblings could behave almost like the Gibs, which would require an extraordinary acceleration of the plan for them. They could perhaps avoid some of the suffering because of their use of charity in their patterns of life.
Gib Himself said, My First Counselor, The Giver, will Reflect for all regardless of rank or achievement. (To Reflect here means: to install 19
Gib codes that may or may not be adopted by and accepted by the Giblings.) The Giver will justify the plan by imaging his Charity on the Seeds and the Forgibs, and I will have a place prepared for all, but all are not the same in brightness, but all are loved, from the lowest Seeds to the highest Forgibs. All the Seeds will have a place on Seedland. The lesser Seeds will be born in the form of many different varieties of plants and animals. As many as possible need to have place there in Seedland so that the Giblings will have enough clues to wonder about what the truth is and enough evidence that evolution and creation and charity are all the same. The Second Counselor, The Eloh Stoga, offered his services to the Plan and said that he could remain a Forgib until the Final Condition. His being a Forgib would allow him to remain ethereal, hence effective in the convincing to the core (the Seed) of a Gibling of the value of charity and other important principles. Many Eons passed in preparation of the setting on which the Seeds and Forgibs could have place. When it came to pass, it happened on a grand scale. Galaxies were created and then solar systems with planets. This development took 20
place, but was not recorded in the minds or hearts of any of the Seeds or Forgibs. They had no minds and hearts and would not until they were created on Seedland. So they, as they would be born onto the planets, would not know about the actual sequence of events that led to their sojourn on a wonderful globe with seemingly infinite fertility.
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Chapter 2: The 2 Key Rivals of Charity The Antigib One of the Forgibs, Izhehtin, (izhAtin), came to the front of the Gibbing Council and said, I know that these Forgibs cannot ever get to where we are in the levels of perception without our Gibbing them with cloned senses combed from our altered DNA codes. Let me just shower them with a blessing of super powers from the Gib Council. I want to Gib them with happiness and I want them to thank me for it. It will take too long for them to understand this plan. They are too ignorant. You are all just hiding from them. Izhehtin did understand the value of charity, but it was his natural tendency to bring things to himself for his aggrandizement. He would want to see that Charity would benefit him so that he would become the most powerful Forgib. He refused to see the big picture of creation. He convinced many Forgibs to follow his plan to prove that creation would only diminish his power to rule and control the Seeds. He told his followers that if the Seeds would become free, that they would be out of his control. Izhehtin developed a plan to gain power over the Forgibs and the Seeds, as many as he 22
could cajole. Deception was his key method. His basic message was: If it feels good, do it, and if it can be taken, take it. That philosophy was generated by the premise: I am the center, and the most important one. Some of the Forgibs who were on the side of Gib Himself coined a nickname for Izhehtin. They said that he Is Hating personified; not hating himself, but hating everything but himself. Is Hating convinced many that if we are free, we will most likely fail and therefore freedom is counterproductive? He said that if we are forced to obey laws and restrictions, we will certainly be protected from harm. Izhehtin is the personification of evil on Seedland. As a Forgib, he was actually enhanced in the same way as the Seeds who eventually became Giblings, but he was found to be in opposition to the noble and great Giblings who initially formed the Gibbing Council. Ultimately, Izhehtin will have no glory at all because of his Tirachic attitude. He will have an ignominious end in a bottomless pit of his own making.
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The Natural Gibling The other rival of charity is the natural Gibling himself. Doing true charity causes creation and happiness, but if one does service in order to be happy, it is not really charity. Why would anyone do charity if there is nothing in it for him? It seems that, in the Giblings mind, true charity would be impossible, because all his senses are contained within his body. How could he sense the satisfaction in someone else? At first, Giblings just do what is considered charitable because they are told to do it by those who they know care about them. Then, they feel happy as a natural consequence of doing it. Once charity is set in motion, it fuels itself with feelings of happiness for doing it when it is started by parents or somebody who cares for the young Gibling. The natural tendency is to be selfish though, so there are many times that a Gibling will slip into that tendency. When he does, he loses the happiness and the drive to do charity. That drive will not come back on its own. It will take someone like the Eloh Stoga to see that things move along once again in the positive direction of charity. Sometimes Giblings are not exposed to the loving push toward doing charity. When that is the 24
case, special efforts need to occur for those unfortunate Giblings to be able to roll down the charity road to happiness and any beginnings of any Awesome Eternal Adventure. The famlia would facilitate the best positive direction for Giblings on Seedland, so it is a good and essential part of the positive plan of perpetual creation introduced by the Giver to Gib Himself especially because he learned that very principle from His Father.
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Chapter 3: The Famlia
The Story of A Taste for Gibbing begins when the first Gibling awoke on a beautiful paradise called Seedland. Gib Himself named him Addman. Gib Himself had determined from millions of years of experience that flux is the power to create and the power to understand. He found that energy could exist as a material substance because of this opposition that He discovered to be in all things. So, He found a counterpart for Addman. He discovered that male and female could join in such a way that they could both oppose and attract each other at the same time just like the atom itself. Withman was 26
brought to Addman. Together Addman and Withman began to experience the most amazing life together on Seedland. Because of the nature of their being together, famlias began on Seedland. Over the period of 7,000 years, over one Billion Giblings had the opportunity to live on Seedland, each living an average of 40 years before they went back to the ethereal condition. The Giblings on Seedland were blessed by their creator senses that allow them to observe the three dimensions, height, width and depth simultaneously, but the other dimensions of reality could not be fully experienced with eyes, and ears and touch because Gib Himself knew that the other dimensions of time, warp and spirit could not be fully available to them without sensors beyond their capacity on Seedland. But sometimes there could be an inkling of these other dimensions in order that the mortal Giblings on Seedland could progress. Sometimes eternal beings such as Gib Himself could seem to come from nowhere, or float down from the sky, but actually Gib Himself would be entering Seedland from a direction of either the dimension of time or warp or spirit. So, Giblings would think that it is all mysterious, but actually just not measurable 27
with the senses given to them for the sojourn on Seedland. Life on Seedland ends: It seems like such a short time, when we see the timeline of billions of years that have passed in order for that special planet to have life teaming on it with such a flourish and such variety and such a wonderful countenance. How can it end? There are so many imperfections on Seedland that failure is inevitable. Things that do not fail and do not die are things like memories, connections, conclusions, direction, and hope. These are all ethereal. The Seeds of all physical frames are those things which allow eternal existence. Gib Himself over billions of years discovered a way to keep a record of the physical framework that each of the Giblings occupied while on Seedland. He also developed a way to ensure that the Seeds would be able to reunite with the physical frame that fit with each and every one of them. Every physical frame and every Seed has a name and a known time on Seedland.
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elements began as Seeds. The Giblings over time on Seedland became familiar with the materials on Seedland, and are able to organize them and bring them to life in the wonderful world that Gib Himself was able to Gib to the Giblings for their growth, learning and happiness. Some of the Giblings had greater understanding, and some had greater skills to lead the lesser Giblings. Many of the Giblings would be lost without the support of the noble and great ones who make Seedland a better place. Gib Himself knows that a safety net is necessary for all to be able to live forever. There are too many illusions put in the way by such as Izhehtin, that Gibling logic is not adequate for a clear understanding of all of reality. The Gibliotheca is a document compiled by the noble and great ones. Many will be lost anyway because they are not drawn to the great document from the Gibs. It is the nature of Giblings to desire self fulfillment, and reading the Gibliotheca requires a Gibly countenance.
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ingredients in this cosmic soup that I think patience should be a virtue. I mean, I think patience should be rewarded with something tangible like gold or silver; something besides just more time to progress. The Seedlings need milestones of advancement.
Gib Himself said, There will be a saying among the Giblings: A good deed is its own reward. We will see if the Giblings can even notice the reward. If they do, that is the way for us to evaluate their worthiness of anything more, such as their own project like ours. After all, you find yourself patient in our doings, dont you? The Giver said, Yes father. He paused and then asked, Oh wise father, how can we convince the fathers who will dwell on Seedland that they should be patient enough to wait until the Final Condition to see the whole picture of our work? How, especially because they will not have millions of years to learn the way we have had patience for millions of years? Gib Himself pleaded with his council, I must emphasize that I do not want to be portrayed 30
as a puppeteer pulling the strings of the Giblings in order that they will follow the right path back to an eternal Gibbing condition. They must freely choose Gibbing as the ultimate solution to all unhappiness and negativity. Gib Himself also said, Not only do the Giblings not have millions of years to learn, but Izhehtin will interfere and try to present to all of them a counterfeit. That will make it necessary for us to communicate plainly so that they will understand the connection between our rules and the super powers that they will obtain after following those rules. We should always have someone on Seedland to speak for us, so that it will be plain, what rules will yield happiness. One particularly difficult problem is that many of the Giblings will remain closed minded to the message that evolution can only be good. These skeptics will usually be very learned, but they have had so many counterfeit messages that they dont want to entertain the possibility that creation and charity will go on forever. They may even say that wishful thinking is a useless salve and that we all should just go on about our business until it is over and then it is over.
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There is a great diversity in the capacity for Giblings to understand things. Some are called gifted because they understand things so quickly, and they can know right away what the consequences of actions are by their intelligence. There are those who cannot learn by others mistakes or even from their own. There is a range of capacity, so that is a reason for the Giver to offer those who do not understand things a chance to earn the gift of Gibbing by his obedience to one plain principle: If one becomes humble enough to know that he cannot create anything without charity, he can graduate eventually to Gibhood, if he wants to create for others.
About 2,000 years after The Giver had come and gone to and from Seedland there was a confused Gibling who had a great need to find direction and meaning in his sojourn on Seedland. His name was Luap Selim. He would ask what many called dumb questions, but he had to ask them none the less. He even knew that they were questions that had no answer, or the answers would have no meaning, or there was just nobody 32
to ask, but he thought that there were virtual answers that could guide him to a condition of peace of mind about things. Some of his questions are: 1. Are success and failure inseparable? Is hope only a virtual reflection of reality? If one is struggling to get out of a hole, is he really trying to dive into another one? Is working toward a goal, moving away from one failure and then moving toward another? Is everything a vast sea of sameness or on the other hand is it a universe of confusion and ambiguity? Are we all floating in an amorphous featureless universe? Or 2. Is there a Gib who over billions of years has learned the meaning of life, and wants to share it with us unfortunate Giblings? Is there a force toward Charity and a force 33
toward Tirachy whose direction is discernible? Can I feel this force without the ambiguity of words? Is the light, good and the darkness, bad?
All these questions were published throughout Seedland. There was a response sent by sounder stream, a unique kind of communication developed by one of the noble and great ones, Alex Bellville. The sound stream vibrates all the matter and energy on Seedland by transferal and can be retrieved by a bellaphone. The response was sent by another noble philosopher and author, Gaston Whitsitt: Dear Mr. Selim, Can your awareness of yourself be measured? Can hope be measured except by actions performed as a result of hope? Can your knowledge of the value of Charity be transfused to another Gibling by actions or words or even sounder stream waves? Mr. Selim, you need to realize that it is only you who can measure these parameters for yourself. 34
These measurements are nontransferable. Many communications can be standardized, but these most precious truths can only be discovered by what is called inself detection. As a matter of fact, virtual sounder streams have been received by many Giblings. They have described them as a kind of burning at the heart of their seed, and it has been said that the source of the VS streams is the one called Eloh Stoga. See for yourself. See if you can detect the sounder stream of which I write here. Look past your nose, Mr. Selim. I t has been taught to me that it is charity itself which provides the power to understand ethereal matters like the ones about which you have asked in your circular questions. Sincerely, Gaston Whitsitt PS: I have heard some lings say that we can understand and know that we understand all we need when we see the answers to all of our questions fitting into a jigsaw puzzle, and fitting perfectly. That is not true Mr. Selim. You need to understand that that puzzle is pictured in two dimensions. Your questions do not fit in one plane, but you can find the answer to your questions by holding the solved puzzle up to the light of The Eloh Stoga and aim your attention outward toward the lings and upward toward the I deal Way with patience, hope and a peaceful 35
attitude. Gib Himself knew almost from the beginning that even though He loved all the Seeds, that as he invented their path, that many would choose the Tirachic path toward inward nothingness. Luap Selim met a Gibling who made him feel that his life would have real meaning if he could spend it with her, looking to serve her in the beginning, but ultimately looking to serve a famlia that would be created because of their eventual union. Her name was Matratha. On their first Close Encounter, she said to him, I think if I ever unify with a Gibling, I want to have six Giblings. How about you? and he said, Maybe four. But he was still intrigued that she would talk about such things on a first C. E. At first, she just made him feel good because of her great beauty, but he knew that she had already grasped the meaning of life, when he heard her wish to serve a famlia in such a complete way and so much only in a vision of her future. Only a year had passed between that first C. E. and the moment that they joined each other in their mobius bond. Petrock was the first to be born in this famlia, who was their only child for ten years, but then Matratha was inspired to quest for more Giblings to be with them, because she knew that there were precious Seedlings who yearned to come to Seedland for experience with a famlia. 36
Luap and Matratha began to gather Giblings to their famlia from other broken famlia after they learned that they could not take part in the actual Seedling - Gibling transformation in Matrathas body. Matratha developed a system with actual sounder stream to add these precious Giblings to the famlia quiver. There were six more Giblings who came into the Selim Famlia Matrix: Abrila, Bloka, Kaista, Celesta, Darcita, and Liahona. All of them came into the famlia just as they would have if they had been a part of the normal Seedling-Gibling transformation, but their synthetic DNA codes were more diverse than the usual. This diverse code mismatch presented an unusual problem for Luap and Matratha. But many on Seedland have had and will have a myriad of variations that when encountered, add great depth and perspective which is necessary in the development of any Gibling who would be on a journey toward any Gibland or heaven. Each one of the adopted Giblings came into Luap and Matrathas famlia as beautiful seeds of hope, but Kaista and Celesta came as twins both at the same time perhaps because they were linked so that they would be near each other on the vast Seedland where billions of Seeds would find themselves without the kind of link that those two needed. Abrila was the first to come into the Selim famlia ten years after Petrock joined by birth. She had a particular lack of confidence; even more so than the average Gibling. Like everyone else there she had no 37
way of remembering what it was like before she came to Seedland. She was afraid that what she might do would not bring her comfort, but would give her an uncertain future of which she was particularly afraid. She needed to learn that none of us have a pure knowledge of what is to come, but that there are many components of causing the future to be a particular way, only one of which is our own hopes and efforts. She had to learn that we cannot change the weather, but we can only point our spirits in the direction that the wind will carry us, and then be grateful that we can experience life in that place. Bloka was next on the scene. He was opinionated from the very first, and he had an aversion to staying put. Wherever he was, he wanted to be somewhere else. He needed to learn patience before he could discern the fine points of navigation on this intricate and wonderful world called Seedland. After a time, he became wise and was able to share his wisdom with halfway grown Giblings. His teaching skills propelled many into a condition in which they could evolve even more than they would without his invitations to those lucky halfwayers to get up and do something more than dream. He yearned to share with these halfwayers some of the fine points and connections that he had learned when he was in the field of real experiences, so he decided to use his teaching talents by teaching more mature Giblings. After eight years teaching the halfwayers, he went on to teach at the North Meadows High School. 38
Even when he taught there, he was always on top and in charge of the thinking that went on in class except for a few rogue students who were always to him the most intriguing. Kaista was a dreamer like Don Quixote who wanted to do good with superpowers only granted to him. He wanted to be a special warrior for the Gd. It took many years for him to humble himself to know that many Giblings want to help, but do not know exactly what to do, but need to have faith that if he supports the noble and great ones, he will be carried with them to Gibland with vicarious nobility.
Celesta was a Gibling who wanted to be with the noble and great ones, but she didnt understand the lessons they were trying to teach her. She just knew as a Seed that Gib Himself was the master builder. But when she came to Seedland, her brain was starved so that it could not function in a way that would allow her to learn the lessons that normally can be learned by experience on Seedland. So, she was exempt from the being judged for her inabilities. But many Giblings are not able to grasp certain aspects of reality, so they too are exempt from many consequences, and after millions of years. All the Giblings will eventually be able to come to an understanding of what they can become and what they can do. Darcita was a beautiful and delightful Gibling who started out on Seedland appearing to have great 39
potential as an athlete. Early on when she was still halfway grown, she developed asthma which changed her development. Many things unknown on Seedland effect the development of Giblings, things out of their control and even unknown as aspects that thwart development. But over the course of eternity, all can be overcome, and the full potential can be reached by all on Seedland who come to the realization that hope and effort can overcome all things with the aid of Susej, the Eloh Stoga, and Gib Himself.
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only because of the kind of union that occurs so that a famlia can be created. The last puzzle to be solved by Luap and the one that could propel him to Gibland is to please his withman, to please her in the fullest sense. He needs to know what makes her tick. What makes her love her famlia to the point just short of sacrificing her happiness for them? Before she met Luap, she had her own goals and dreams to achieve things, but when she joined with Luap, she thought she could become complete enough to endure anything so that their quiver would be completely fulfilled by the time of the final condition. She experienced much sorrow along the way beginning with her losing Petrock to cancer when he was only 16. The others in the famlia were loved and spoiled, so they expected to be served and loved by their parents, but did not want to get on with it and be on their own until later than what Luap and Matratha wanted. Little did Selim know that it had only been twenty five years since he began his famlia with his withman Matratha. He has not been patient enough with his famlia. Selim came to his senses when The Eloh Stoga connected with him by virtual sounder stream to convince him that it would be 50 years before his charitic efforts would take hold in the hearts and minds of his famlia. He would be gone by then, but, none the less, that was the time line, presented. So, Luap Selim went back to his famlia, giving charity, losing himself, feeling like a fool in the short term. 41
The fifty years passed, and Luap Selims famlia all became charitors toward the light of happiness. Selim, back in the Forgib state, still does not understand how his famlia could be happier giving away than partying and enjoying life while they could. Luap actually thought that it would be a waste of time to be charitable when he could be having fun. He really did not have much fun. He just always wished for and hoped that what he had read in the Gibliotheca was true. It seemed like wishful thinking to him. Luap and Matratha look back now to their time on Seedland, knowing that they tried to teach their famlia that, Success follows perseverant work. a famous quote from Gaston Whitsitt , one of the noble and great ones from Seedland. Luap always wanted to remind his famlia that work is not like what the seven dwarfs sang about. It is not fun, but the precursor to all happy endings and all miracles and all creation. Those in the Selim famlia and many other famlia often would rather wish on a star and virtually construct a happy ending than build it with actual sweat and strain. Luap reminded his own a little too often for them to be comfortable around him. But Matratha was generally a soothing entity in the group, much needed so that all would know that they are loved in spite of the limitations that are just plain 42
intrinsic in the makeup of the SELIM menagerie. Another question Luap Selim asked Gaston Whitsitt, Do I really love my famlia, if I want them to leave home and be on their own and suffer trials in order that they can grow up in this difficult environment on Seedland? Gaston Whitsitt said, Dont you know that Gib Himself knew that the Giblings that he fostered, needed to go to the lone and dreary world of Seedland in order to develop into ones who could reach the full measure of possibility? Selim noticed right at that point that he could apply similar triangles and see that the same could be true for him and his famlia as is true of the plan of the Gibs. Remember too, that Gib Himself discovered that male and female could join in such a way that they could both oppose and attract each other at the same time just like the atom itself. Remember that the goal of the Gib Council is that every Seed on Seedland will have every opportunity to reach the full measure of its creation. If the seed does not develop on Seedland, it will not live forever, but every Gibling is most precious to Gib Himself because these special spirits were created from Seeds that were recognized by the council as having a sort of kinship with the Most Noble 43
of all. So, the Giblings need the freedom to choose the path of Charity or the path of Tirachy. If they choose the path of the Gibs, that is proof of their viability as eternal charitors, but this will take perhaps millennia to accomplish. It is they themselves, the Giblings who will be able to clearly judge their worthiness at the final condition. The truth will then be clear to all. There will not be ambiguous words or situations. Truth will shine on all of Seedland so that it can become another Gibland from which another outward burst of energy can shine toward another wonderful burst of charity in an eternal round of wonder, possibilities and joy.
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Chapter 4: Flux and Opposition The way that things fit together is not seen well by mortals. There is an opposition in all things: Success and Failure Light and Dark Without failure, success would have no meaning. Without light and dark, there would be nothing to see because there would be no contrast; so forever there will be this balance as part of all reality. In the universe of the Gibs, Charity is creation and Tirachy is its opposite, selfishness. In the beginning, charity was a brilliant flash of creation, and so Tirachy, like a bottomless pit, is an implosion from which there is no return. No return at least until the next explosion of charity. The entire universe of the Seeds is in flux, or it would be dead with no features at all. Giblings for example cannot only breathe in; they must breathe out to be alive. It is important to understand that opposition does not imply that there is conflict in all cases. 45
Often, opposition is balance, equilibrium, or completeness. Sometimes there is an arbitrary line drawn, and it is said that to the left of the line is bad, and to the right is good, but it is the vector or direction, not just position that defines quality. There is a topological figure which can help us to understand how opposition appears to be polarity when it really is a kind of unifying force. The mobius band, pictured below, shows a band that has what looks like two sides, but when studied, one realizes that there is only one side when it is all seen together. Opposition is the ultimate perspective by which one can perceive the truth of something. Many on planet earth observe what is called fasting and prayer sometimes once a month. They do this because it is said by their noble and great ones that they will be able to appreciate all of what they have all the more because they do this ritual. On Seedland there is a saying and a practice: Fast on the first and feast on the fifteenth. It becomes so clear when they can afford to feast on the fifteenth and can have the restraint to fast on the first. It becomes so clear that the seeds of their existence are upheld by the creative powers of Gib Himself. 46
The journey of Giblings on Seedland and the journey of all anywhere is like an eternal round like the mobius band. There will always be what seems like a paradox: there are two sides, but only one surface. It is opposition in perfect harmony. There may be a time when the language of the Gibs is as plain as the picture of the mobius strip. The caption should be: an Eternal Rollercoaster instead of a Final Resting Place. Many on Planet Earth have the false impression about reality because the languages are not accurate or descriptive enough for their understanding. There is another topological figure that brings to the surface, a few questions about reality. Pictured below is a Klein bottle. The oddity of it is that the inside surface is also the outside surface. 47
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more like a productive environment with opposition along the way. On Planet Earth, there is an experimental method which is employed by intelligent people. Failure is an essential part of it, so it is a well known requirement for progress on Seedland as well, and many of the Giblings create charitable paths toward a perfect world. Seedland will become a domain at the Final Condition free of many of the conflicts which prevent charity. It will become Gibland. There has always been the question among Giblings: where is Gibland, or more succinctly, where will it be? On Seedland there have been many who have speculated how it could be that there could ever be a Gibland, a place where eternity could be enjoyed and where aging of the gibling body would not happen. It was revealed to Thims Fessodge one of the profits that Seedland would be transported to the center of Dromida after the final condition so that it could sustain an eternal condition where the Giblings could work out their creative skills. It had been thought by many of the Seedland scientists that the center of the galaxy is a place where the gravitation is so great that not even light can escape from the core. The expression was coined: black hole to refer to the place at the center. It was a Gibling by the name of Dyon Lewer who came up with the term. It became a problem that the name made it sound like it was dark place from which there is no return. 49
The first principle of creation is light, so it seemed like a paradox that a black hole could be the ideal place for Gibland to exist. Even in theory, the black hole was considered to be a place where time stops, but most Giblings were skeptical about the idea that Gibland could be in a place where it seems like everything would collapse from the intense gravitation. It has been observed that the Gibbiverse is continually expanding. This was deduced by the observation of the red shift of light coming from extremely far distances. It is another example of what seems to be a paradox to notice that while the Gibbiverse is expanding that at the center of galaxies, it would seem that the gravitation is so great that everything collapses into it. The mobius strip shows that this kind of apparent contradiction is simply discarded when the topologic principle is understood that opposites are joined to form true reality. So, it would seem that the gravitation toward Heaven is intense, but the tendency of matter is to move away from it. One of the most perplexing questions comes up when the axiom is stated that Matter cannot be created or destroyed. If in the beginning Charity is that outward burst, from what does it evolve? Even charity itself has its opposite which must be inseparably connected. In order to give, one must acquire an excess from which to draw. The paradox shows when it is noted that the acquisition of the excess occurred because of Tirachy. The natural selfish beginning of 50
things can only blossom as it turns outward with the force of Charity. Positive and negative forces will always fluctuate, and the resulting force can only produce a wonderful outcome when Gib Himself oversees. The logic of Giblings uses similar triangles to attempt to show the Final Condition to be like the present condition. The lines of the so called similar triangles are straight, but that is only true if there are no other forces involved. The force of charity is incomplete. Gib Himself discovered that the Gibbing force does not always work, but in many instances it can work. Not only is the opposition in every thing, but there are opposite types of opposition: 1) Opposition at equilibrium or in balance: Addman and Withman, when sharing their opposite points of view in a compromising manor, there is balance. Some opposition is introduced to provide resistance in order that the subject can become stronger so that when opposition between good and evil actually happens, the subject is ready to combat those forces. 2) Opposition at war or in flux: Selfishness is at war with charity. Usually, Giblings are faced with the conflict between the desire to be self satisfied and the desire to sacrifice the self for the sake of someone else; but that personal battle is 51
complicated by those who believe that we should be forced to do the right thing. There is a well known symbol that itself seems to declare that all things contain opposition: the yin and the yang from Daoism on planet Earth.
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Chapter 5: A School for Learning The self awareness of a Seed exists without consciousness or memory or experience or cognition; but the motive for expansion is driven by pure will, the will to serve. Without it there can be no creation of anything at all. There was only one of trillions of Seeds near where Dromeda could be that was able to create himself into one who could serve all the neighboring Seeds their needed expansion components:
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Memories, which are part of the brain, must be alive and well nourished in order for the Seed to be able to draw from its experiences so that it can have evidence to make judgments about things outside the self awareness seed. The greater number and the greater variations of experiences allow for a more charitable and just determination of what should be done for other Seeds for their welfare. 53
Experiences are recorded by the Senses, which are gifts from Gib Himself and are made available to the Giblings to evaluate experiences and to give them memorable features so that connections can be made as to the value of things.
(On planet Earth it is like this: There was a Catholic nun who was praying to her God and asked, Why do You give us so many trials? and God answered and said, I allow trials for all my children on Earth for their growth and learning. The nun said, Oh, that is why You have so few friends! So, many humans on earth and many Giblings on Seedland do not appreciate the relationship between learning and painful experience.)
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Chapter 6: An Advocate Things become more plausible and more clear and do have more meaning when you put them into your own words. And when you share these things and get some kind of affirmation, that magnifies your confidence even more. It is particularly Luap Selims problem to accept the idea that The Giver Susej is so much a part of the plan of Gib Himself. Mr. Selim pleaded with GastonWhitsitt to give some input on that question. It was put in this way by Mr. Whitsitt, Gib Himself cannot be understood at all by Giblings because He is outside the realm of possibility for the mortal point of view on Seedland, so in order that Giblings could approach the concept of Gibly charity, they would have to do so in the context of a perfect Gibling which is not possible to find among any candidates who would all have to be enhanced Seedlings. Gib Himself even from the beginning of his plan knew that he would have to employ literally his own physical offspring in the creation of Seedland and in the turning of the Giblings who would dwell there toward any amount of Gibly countenance. As a matter of fact, Susej would have to in a sense; pull the worthy Giblings into Gibland with his Gibly Powers after the final condition. Giblings on their own have no power over such things as rebuilding the physical housing of any Seed great or small, even as small as a kernel of corn or even the leg of a flea.
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Chapter 7: Invention vs. Discovery It is implied in the universe where Seedland resides that invention is the rearrangement of existing materials to formulate a new system and that discovery is finding an already existing thing. Gib Himself has claimed which things he discovered and which he invented. It is claimed that in many real universes that a god created everything. In the universe of the Seeds, (called Gibbiverse 1), it is a more plausible scenario. One problem of trying to understand the nature of the Gibbiverse is that Gib Himself evolved because of his discoveries, so he actually invented what he became. By Gibly perseverance, he became Gib Himself. In the Gibliotheca there is an outline of the discoveries that led to the invention of Seedland. Many accommodations had to be engineered to make sure that the Giblings all have an opportunity to take part in charity, even if they are stubborn, and even if they do not comprehend any of the grand possibilities that are before them. The plan of the Gib Council is to provide a setting in which the Giblings can have experiences that could be put together into part of an understanding of the true equation that charity = creation, and 56
that the gradient from weak to strong does not stop the weak because of The Principle of Reflection from Gib Himself. Discovered things are created by choice from an infinite variety of Seeds and bits of reality that have always been in the soup of potentials. Principles like justice, mercy, hope, humility and flexibility are boundaries and motives for the noblest building of a reality suitable for a happy journey that will never end. Opposition will always provide the necessary balance for a stable reality. Things are invented by taking discoveries, and fashioning them with open minded connections with the outward perspective of true charity. If things are invented with no goal but a selfish end, they become extinct after no more than a hundred thousand years.
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As a Gibling begins on Seedland he is totally dependent on his mother. As he grows, develops and matures, he learns how to fit into his environment. Whether he knows it or not, he gathers data from all his experiences and formulates patterns of behavior that will satisfy him. Unless he is forced to do otherwise, he will master his ability to get what he wants and needs. Some, less fortunate do not achieve this ability to satisfy themselves, and their sojourn ends sooner on Seedland. Sometimes the less fortunate survive as dependants on those more capable. And the Giblings live in varying degrees of dependency. As an aside: It should be noted that nothing of charity ever comes up in the mind of a Gibling naturally as a result of need. Either the motive for charity needs to be injected which may not take hold, or it needs to be learned and received willingly from The Eloh Stoga or another charitable Gibling, most likely the Withman Mother. The world of Seedland is always visible to the Giblings, but what is beyond is only seen by certain tools available to them.
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Extrapolation: In mathematics there is an axiom that states that if something continues along a course, it will continue moving in a straight path unless acted upon by a force. Therefore one can predict the future by looking at a map of the present. Gib Himself had decided that there should be no deception in the education of the Giblings, so He said that there would be no extraordinary forces exerted to thwart the ability of the Giblings to predict outcome based on the primitive axiom. Whenever there are other forces involved, those forces will be clearly marked by the Gibbing Council for fairness.
Similar Triangles: The word, similitude is used often to refer to examples that are set for behavior. Those on Seedland are told by their religious leaders that they should be examples to the lesser Giblings so that they can understand the direction they should go toward the charitable or Gibly condition. The universe for the Giblings has been carefully arranged in order that they can see the fruits of exemplary behavior. So too: similar triangles do the same thing in mathematics. There is an axiom that states that in similar triangles, the sides are proportional and the angles are equal. 59
Size is not a feature of importance, but direction is very significant. Gib himself has spoken about The Way. Direction is discernible. If one emulates Gib, it will be plane to the observer that this is so. It is important for the Gibling to put himself into the role of the smaller but similar triangle of the larger seemingly infinite triangle representing Gib Himself. It has been said by the Giver that the Giblings should do as he does, should try to be like him, and should try to emulate him, to copy his moves and attitudes. It cannot be done unless the Gibling can know what it is like to have a passion for giving. It is only Seedly on Seedland or only natural or human on planet earth to passionately receive favorable stimuli, but to thrive on giving is thought by many to be contradictory. The empath is considered to be drained by giving. Not so in the Gibly state in the Gibbiverse.
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The smaller triangle is only free to expand if the limits of the Tirachic attitude and the selfish perspective are abandoned for the sake of Charity. A combination of effort and focusing away from self is the way to grow in the power to create and in the power to become more like The Giver. A quote from one of the Noble and Great Ones from planet earth is, Success follows perseverance
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Cause and Effect: Gib Himself has said that the Giblings should do an experiment on the words in the Gibliotheca. The Giblings will be able to evaluate by making simple observations. Evidence: Records are kept in the hearts and minds of the Giblings, so they can judge for themselves whether their doings are charitable or not. Whatever works; use it. The path will become clear, and the correct rules present themselves to the Giblings in their quest for the proper direction of their doings. Gib Himself learned that there are principles that will always apply in all of His universe. The Popular Vote: One problem that has been and will always be is that it is tempting to follow whichever way the wind blows. Instead of doing what the world says is right, Eloh Stoga has emphasized that the Giblings should follow the things taught through the Gibliotheca, because Gib Himself has seen to it that his wisdom learned over billions of years would be most clear especially when acquired with the help of The Eloh Stoga. Diversions: parties, hobbies, entertainment, self gratification. Many of the Giblings are prone to put off their preparation to meet Gib Himself, because it requires a Gibly commitment to charity. It is natural to 62
desire satisfying self first and foremost. It is the natural Gibling to move inward to the pit of the inner Seed, so it is recommended that the ultimate happiness will happen if the Gibling could graduate to the condition of Gibhood which would take millions of years even after the final condition is instated.
Chapter 8: The Components of Creation: In order to create something that will last forever or for very long, the motive must be charitic; otherwise the entity would collapse out of existence, but that cannot be understood completely on the short term of anyones lifetime on Seedland. The following are the parameters for creation from a Gibly perspective. Some of these parameters are similar to mortal ones, but the whole picture requires the mobius map of eternity. The following are the important characteristics of creation and attributes of any creator necessary for Gibly progression by any and all Giblings who are on the mobius road to success:
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Motive: Charity is the only positive vector. Opportunity: Whenever it presents itself is the time to do a positive action. Diversity: Open mindedness will yield the best solution. Variety is not just the spice of life, but the way to true life which is diversity, choice, and freedom. The role of the dice is the way to success, believe it or not, oh Gibling. Some doings are considered to be mistakes, but they are all necessary for the full development of any Gibling. Selection of the best road is a matter of choice which is a sacred privilege granted to every Gibling by Gib Himself as a sort of inalienable right. Organization: Clearing the decks for any project, clears the mind. Organization allows the Gibling to see clearly what is before him. Perseverance: Eternal perspective only presents itself to the mortal Gibling when he puts aside pitfalls, sidetracks, and painful distractions for the good of the journey toward the most charitable goal. Foresight: Predicting a Positive outcome 64
with a preponderance of positive ingredients. Insight: Seeing that all viable creation is good and positive and wonderful happens with the most charitable approach. Humility: seeing all things from the broadest possible perspective happens when the self is secondary. Furthermore, The development of a Giblings soul on Seedland only happens when he applies his Memory, Experience and Cognition to a problem or an equation in which his experiences are on one side and the solution or creation is on the other side. There are unknowns in the equation, but through trials of various ingredients, a solution can work and will work eventually if the Gibling perseveres with a positive attitude, because if he seeks, he will find a charitable answer to the equation.
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Chapter 9: The Motive All things need to be created because of a positive motive. Selfish motives lead inward toward nothing. Creation is synonymous with charity and hopeful Gibbing. Selfishness leads not only to nothingness, but to ignorance and blindness to all positive possibility. In order for one to obtain a positive motive when one is not present in the Seed, he must search away from himself through the needs of others to find a spark of useful direction. Any negative motive is by definition, immaterial. Without hope there is no motive, so things have been created because of motive. If there were no hope, there would be nothing at all. Hope is the beginning and there is no end to it.
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Chapter 10: Patience Many Giblings feel that the ignorant Giblings should be reminded of their ignorance. Over thousands of years, eventually all Giblings will come to a point of understanding sufficient for them to be able to see the path most favorable. Those Giblings who feel so strongly that they know better than the ignorant ones will be made low because they themselves are ignorant to what is happening in the great sphere of Gib Himself. Long suffering may be forever, so the suffering must be the joy that motivates toward more creation and more possibilities. Over millennia the least deserving Seedlings and the least capable Giblings could become noble and great Charitors because of the powerful potential of hope.
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Chapter 11: Are We On Dromeda All things need to be visible for what they are, but the problem could be that some do not have eyes to see and ears to hear. All things in the world of the Giblings are footprints of everything else. On planet earth in the 15 th Century, it was thought that the earth was the center of the universe. On planet earth in the early 20 st Century, it was thought that the Milky Way Galaxy had all of the stars in the universe. On planet earth in the 21 st Century, a discovery was made that there just may be more than 100 billion gigantic groups of stars and planets, each group containing perhaps many millions of stars. On Seedland, this dreamer, Luap Selim was just speculating as he looked into the night sky about what had been discovered on planet earth about the vastness of the heavens. Who knows if there is a bridge from the fictional world of Seedland to the real world of planet earth? Who knows if the Gibbiverse may be 68
Andromeda and the universe of the earthlings is the Milky Way? There is so much space between the galaxies of the Multiverse that there is room for eternity and a seemingly endless round of potential and hope. Who knows how endless the cosmos is? There may be no end to reality and no end to hope. Furthermore, on planet earth, the scientific community from one end to the other, from cosmologists to microbiologists, has said that 95 percent of what exists is not measurable, from dark matter to the DNA switches. But speculating about the unknown is dangerous and can be misleading and can be fruitless. That is why perspective and open- mindedness is critical in developing a plan for eternal progression. The scientific method has been shown to allow a deep understanding of only 5 percent of what exists, but we must never give up trying to discern the most noble and creative path toward a Gibly continuance which has been labeled The Gift for Gibbing.
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Chapter 12: Potential Drop On Dromeda, the electromagnetic spectrum is the same as in the Milky Way. And there is an analogy that applies in order to explain the Gibbing Force. The longer the wire, the greater the potential drop in current. The long wire represents a greater spiritual distance from Gib Himself to a Gibling on Seedland. The wire represents a connection that exists because of the Gibling understanding the value of charity. The current represents the creative force. Hope is the potential to create the same way that voltage is the potential to apply the power of electrical current. The word, current is perfect because creation is always done in the present.
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Chapter 13: Passion vs. Calculated Conclusions To be confident because you know you are right is one thing, but another is to be passionate in favor of a particular outcome that is in the heart of the Seed. One contradiction that exists in the Gibbiverse is that Gib Himself is always a charitable entity, but he is passionate about his purposes. Usually passion is considered to be self indulgent, and it is the natural tendency, but Gib Himself has devised a method of turning outward the normally inward passion. He does this by a discipline known as the Denying of UnGibliness for the sake of charity. Try it, oh Gibling, if you have not done so. It requires a learned discipline invented by Gib Himself. It was mentioned earlier that the injected altered DNA codes might not take hold. The Eloh Stoga can supply the needed boosts of outwardly directed passion to make it possible for a charitable nature to develop. Some of the Giblings believe that when the truth is known, that the motivation for progression will automatically be instilled into the Seed of the Gibling; but without passion for another Seedling there is no hope for the Gibly direction. 71
Chapter 14: Why Rules? There are many rules outlined in the Gibliotheca. They are guidelines for the performance of charity. Giblings resist following all of them because the motive to enhance self and to satisfy the inner Seed is the natural tendency usually in the front of their consciousness. Many will say, What does that have to do with charity? in reference to the rules. These rules are: 1. Study and copy what The Giver has done and what he recommends, as recorded in the Gibliotheca. Do not misrepresent the truth. Do not gratify only for self. Many will argue that satisfying self adds strength to self, and that strength then is used to advance the cause of charity. But it is not true. Giving always strengthens more than receiving. In other words: while sacrifice appears to be subtracting from self, it is positive; and while increasing wealth for self appears positive, it is negative. 72
It may take more than a few years for Giblings to learn the relationship between following the rules and truly enhancing the universe. Charity is the only way to add. The opposite is Tirachy, which is a shrinking of things. The Giver has given all the Giblings the opportunity to redirect their goals to be in alignment with charity. He made it clear to many Giblings who read the Gibliotheca when he said, Gibling regoal! One of the Noble and great Giblings, Gaston Whitsitt tried to graph poetically the method of regoaling for the masses of the clueless ones this way: Review_Regoal_Redo_Resoul. It did not take too well because it read like a jingle. Gibling Regoal, became the saying that motivated many to become creative on the road to an eternal round of Gibbing. Through virtual sounder stream from the Milky Way direction, a parallel expression was noted: Sinner Repent. But that expression sounded much too dictatorial to most Giblings. To many, though, it made no sense to give and then give more, because all they wanted to do is take care of themselves and be responsible for building their own world of comfort and safety. 73
On the short term everything looks fine and dandy when Giblings take care of themselves. The Giver knows that in the long term it is Tirachy to do things only for self. Regoalance is to begin again for the purpose of realignment with the long term positive perspective at the heart of Gib Himself. The Giver says that the Goal of Gib Himself is simply that the Giblings join in the throng of Gibbing, but he knows that most Giblings do not see that gibbing as a throng at all, but only a means to self satisfaction. They will have some chance to see and think like a Gib by a short experience on Seedland, but in the final condition, if the cloned DNA codes do not take hold in the heart of the Seed, it will sadly be Tirachy. To be selfish and to join in with Izhehtin to a Tirachic end is as to become extinct from the perspective of the evolutionary scientist.
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Chapter 15: Similar Triangles When The Giver said words in the language of the day in which he lived on Seedland, they are symbolic of the actual message. Not only the words as sounds represent ideas, but those ideas are representative of larger ideas. One important example is his saying, Love your enemy. This saying in itself is an oxymoron. In language there are synonyms for words that can be substituted, but some that cannot. The small triangle is, love your enemy, the larger one is: Involvement with or regard for lazy bums, losers, selfish pigs, red necks, sinners, fools, etc. The small triangle is what I do; the large triangle is what Gib Himself does. How do I involve myself with the lazy bums, and how does Gib Himself involve himself with them? There are literally hundreds of synonyms for the word: love and the word: enemy. Obviously The Giver did not mean that we should honor or worship a murderer or a terrorist. The Giver wants the Giblings to extrapolate to try to see that Gib Himself started by providing 75
opportunities to the Seeds which allows them to become what it is that they desire to become. What the Giblings learn by their experiences on Seedland will mold their attitudes. If a Gibling resents a thief for steeling, he will be unhappy, but if he can possibly enjoy finding a way to serve that thief by Gibbing to him he will be fulfilled. The problem is that it is natural to resent the thief, but Gibly to actually find a way to serve him. The Eloh Stoga is the only one who can ultimately lead a Gibling to the correct path for serving the thief. It just seems impossible or incongruous to try to lift up the thief, but it is the only way to accomplish Gibbing.
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noble and great Giblings who can testify to all in the finite setting on Seedland that evolution will always be in the favor of a positive goal. Those on Seedland need to remember and be patient, knowing that even when there is a positive goal met, there is always negative residue. The advice to Giblings by the noble and great ones is that it is obviously better to be outrageously positive than to completely give up because there are no positive choices. Consider that water runs downhill as the inevitable negative push of gravity, but the positive push upwards with the buoyancy of incessant hope is like a helium filled balloon that cannot be stopped except by a stubborn ceiling of discouragement. Within the span of only 150 years on the planet earth from the 19 th to the 21 st centuries, there have been so many advances in technology that if one were to describe cell phones, cameras, computers, automobiles, airplanes, etc. to one in the 19 th century, it would be called impossible. That 150 years is not very long compared to the perhaps 10 billion years that Gib Himself has had to be able to organize and accomplish such a wonderful setting in which charity can flourish. 78
They could only Reflect upon the message from Gib Himself through the appearance of The Giver to the planet Seedland. Charity cannot be stopped, but some of the unfortunate Seeds who have a chance on Seedland as Giblings make a choice for self centered behavior to the point of Total Tirachy or Gibacide. They would rather gratify themselves than give away their energy to anyone. If you were to ask him, that unfortunate soul would say, That is my choice. What is mine is mine, and I will keep it unto myself forever. This would be like diving into a bottomless pit. In Seedland, geometry and topology and metrology are tools that the Giblings can use to extrapolate enough to see a virtual image of Gib Himself. Any extrapolation requires what is called faith on the planet Earth. That vision is called faith on Seedland too, but on Seedland, tracers show and evidence lines make it clearer because it is a fictional world. On the planet Earth, the reality makes it necessary for faith to be a part of understanding in an extra dimensional way, as in poetry, or music, or dance, not just the tracers of a fake world. Feelings can be measured, but they are not proof of any extrapolated super Gib made up in a fantasy. 79
Gib Himself has said, I have created countless souls from Seeds. There are as many kinds of souls as there are Seeds, and I have prepared as many places in my galaxy as are needed. The places have different things for my Giblings. As many who take part in charity will have solace in their ethereal being forever. The following have been either invented or discovered. Discovery implies that the thing precedes the discoverer. Invention implies an organization of things which requires the inventor. The things are not the Gib, but the Gib discovers, designs, invents, organizes, and creates, because he loves the Seeds and their potential that cannot be realized without His Gift for Gibbing. Cause and effect is a law, a basic law that cannot be broken. Natural laws make outcomes not only predictable, but impossible to overcome. Ethics, rules to follow and rewards also are things, one following another. Gib Himself has discovered and outlined many cause and effect patterns that have taken millions of years to confirm, but in some cases these discoveries were discovered immediately. In essence, the rules that Giblings hear and often resist are simply those rules which, when followed will yield what has been coined Gibbing or charity or creation, all identical terms cherished most by the Gibbing Council. 80
Chapter 17: Gibly Traits In the Gibliotheca there is a list of Gibly traits which are the ones that allow Giblings to evolve to a Gibly condition, but it must be understood that in most cases, the natural state will prevail. Only when the Gibling perseveres throughout his sojourn on Seedland fitting the Gibly traits into an eternal commitment that he can enjoy the ability to create in an eternal round. Here is a listing of some of those traits: Realizing limits equals humility. Being committed to creation equals charity. Denying natural tendencies equals shunning the Tirachy. The most important Gibly trait is love. Gib Himself as supported by the Gibbing Council was responsible for instigating the invention of the solution to the problem that the Seeds in the Gibbiverse could never enjoy his level of happiness without the construction of Seedland as a place for the Giblings to learn about charity and its effect. One of the Giblings, Luap Selim said, 82
There is nothing more stunning, perplexing and amazing than the thought that we are here on this wonderful planet Seedland because Gib Himself through The Givers work created the setting. Not only that, but in the Gibliotheca, it is written that Seedland is one of many worlds that exist just so that the seeds in this Gibbiverse can reach the measure of their existence. Extrapolation is a necessary tool for any Gibling to be able to understand what Gibly love encompasses. The Givers name shows that he is the personification of giving. There being opposition in all things supports the truth of the following: The ultimate sacrifice yields the greatest reward. Again: A good deed is its own reward. This concept seems like an invention, but it is a discovery which took millions of years to verify. Patience on a Gibly scale of time cannot be known by Giblings. Giblings must graduate from the dust in order to have the power to do eternal charity. It is Gibly love that is the fruition of the seeds of existence. One who knows what Gib Himself is doing and will do forever would certainly say, I Stand All Amazed.
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Chapter 18: Inconsistencies Resolved Any heaven that is hoped for by a Gibling would only be valid if it is like the so called proving ground which has been called Seedland. The gift for Gibbing should be known by now to be the ability to Gib or to give forever without turning inward. There may be those who believe that heaven is a place for eternal rest: a place where Giblings dont have to do anything anymore except sing in the choir and be entertained by Gib Himself. If ones idea of hell is to have to work forever, it seems that he would not have to worry about going there, because Izhehtinland is a place where Seedlings do absolutely nothing. One problem with the model of the Gibbiverse is that one must receive in order to give. A reciprocal relationship exists in all things as demonstrated in the mobius strip analogy. So it is with giving. It must be an eternal round. Nothing makes sense unless it is part of that round: that is: no beginning no end.
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Chapter 19: Honesty and Concealment All things need to be visible for what they are, but the problem could be that some do not have eyes to see and ears to hear. All things in the world of the Giblings are footprints of everything else. There are many different languages of speech, but the understanding of truth requires experience, hard evidence, and concepts which in some way cannot be conveyed without a purer language like mathematics or music. The Gibs have a more pure language than mathematics or any written language. The language of the Gibs is like thought itself, which is not speech, or signs, but it is pure sounder stream with high definition. Without receptors sensitive to the wavelength, there is no understanding. With the right receptors, though, Giblistics is the most open and honest form of communication. It appears too many Giblings that the Gibliotheca is in some kind of primitive code making it almost impossible for a student to understand content. The Eloh Stoga is necessary for the ultimate communication to happen between Gib Himself and any Gibling needing understanding. 85
Chapter 20: What would you do on Gibland? Would it be better to rule in Tirachyland or serve in Gibland? A lazy bum or a selfish pig or Izhehtin Himself would say, If I have to serve, I dont want to go there. Who is the servant of all and who loves his enemy? The Gibbing Council knew that most Giblings would not ever want to do anything unless there was something in it for them, so it looks from the surface that the plan could not work, because no amount of convincing would persuade a Gibling to adopt Gibly traits. Many Giblings even feel that when they go to Gibland they will be rewarded for Gibbing. They do not realize that a good deed is its own reward, plain and simple.
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Chapter 21: Reverence vs. Acknowledgement Cause and effect, and evolution cannot be denied. There is an opposition in all things. Things have happened and will happen forever. These truths which are self evident make it impossible to deny significant inevitabilities. Because these truths cannot be denied, many conclusions can be drawn: There either is a being capable of being Gib Himself or there will be. We are all part of eternity. If there is a forever in a positive sense there is eternity in a negative sense also. There are an infinite number of possibilities and directions. With these acknowledgements, the question comes up: Is there a higher power making choices for us about some of those infinite possibilities?
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Chapter 22: Questions and Riddles 1. Why strive to improve, when it will always end in defeat? Why serve others unless the result is favorable to you? How can anything good come from something bad? The questions can have incorrect assumptions in them which make them seem like riddles or improperly loaded questions. In response to: 1: The journey is an eternal round in The Gibbiverse. 2: Charity always eventually comes back to improve the Gibber. 3: Experiments must have negative outcomes in order that direction can have meaning. 4: Gibliness is a goal, but has no end because it requires the endless pattern like the mobius band. 88
Chapter 23: What will Never End? It seems that things would never end only if they have always been. The cycle of life appears to be one which includes rebirth the way it happens every spring on planet earth. On Seedland it is the same. It is the same on all worlds. There is a cycle which continues. Patterns of life and death occur in every part of the Gibbiverse. Rebirth appears to be a miracle, and it is, but one which brings joy to all who have hope. Things can be reborn into a positive or a negative state. In order to progress toward a charitable state, Gibbing is the mode and attitude of any giver. In order to continually hide in the bottomless pit of Tirachy, any Seed would remain a slave of selfishness. Either way it all goes on forever. It is your choice, oh Gibling.
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Chapter 24: Awareness of more Self awareness is a clue of a Giblings existence, and it is an undeniable thing, but ironically points nowhere, but back to self. It would seem then that all one can know is himself. It is the nature of the Giblings to be selfish because of this undeniable fact, but it is possible that one can see beyond himself by extrapolation and by using tools of observation that are certainly available to all of the Giblings on Seedland. Abstract but nonetheless true principles can be employed to become more aware of the bigger picture, but it is unlikely because of the nature of Seedlings. Giblings though, have been Gibben a chance to plan ahead, to set goals, to project, to extrapolate, to look forward to eternity. The following graph shows many abstract things. One thing to keep in mind is that in the universe of a mathematician as well as in the fictional Seedland, the charity vector has no beginning or end. The same is true with the time line. The only real truncation is the triangle of known experience. A Gibling can only know things beyond the known experience triangle if he pushes away by taking a chance, and trying and failing and looking outside his self awareness Seed to become Gibly, as Gib Himself has tried to show all the Giblings by the vision they see 91
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universe helps them to feel secure in the principle of the stability of three points, but what of the fourth or even the quintessential stabilizers that are necessary for the wisdom and perspective of the Gibs. It seems that the position of Heaven would be more accurately known when a point of reference is actually off track. Following that narrow straight path unwavering is sort of like blind obedience. The off track experience is like partaking of the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. All of reality contains right and wrong things. The Giver saw the dilemma, and has been able to provide a way to excuse Giblings who stray in order to discover how dark tirachy really can be and decide that Charity is really the best option.
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Chapter 25: Knowledge To know something by experience or acquaintance is most important, but some things cannot be directly measured by the senses. Truth, simply put is what exists in reality, but to complicate the matter of knowing the truth, what really is desired is understanding the truth and how it relates to things. The understanding of words is part of it, but words are not always useful as understandable symbols of truth. Putting that aside for now as a separate caveat, consider this first: The following picture shows that things can be believed which are not true. It also shows that there is truth which is not known and not even believed. Propositions are shown to include things which are not true and not known and not necessarily even believed. This picture does not demonstrate the whole paradigm. Gib Himself is not real. He is an imaginary being, but He has features which may or may not resemble a being who really exists.
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any basis of credibility. Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind. J. L. Borges. Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. Ralph Waldo Emerson. People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true. Robert J. Ringer
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Live truth instead of professing it. Elbert Hubbard Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. Aldous Huxley The formula, then, for finding the truth is this: 1. Be unselfish. 2. Be open minded. 3. Be patient. 4. Be observant. 5. Be humble. There was one who taught these very steps. His name is Jesus Christ, and he even said that He is the Truth. Maybe if we are patient enough, we can find out if he is telling us the Truth. Truth is one, but error is manifold. Simone Weil. That oneness has polarity though; there is opposition in every thing, but, like the mobius band there is a mutual coexistence that defines that oneness as possible; so, everything needs to fit. With all the senses that we humans have, we cannot see with our limited senses clearly enough for everything to fit, to be fair, to make perfect sense, or to bring comfort to our souls until our picture of reality is complete, so we need to extrapolate the evidence that we have. Knowing the truth is like finally discovering all the pieces of the puzzle that fit with perfect alignment when we see through the matrix of the three dimensions into a full picture including all the dimensions of reality: height, width, depth, time, and all other parameters that can be used to define and evaluate things. 99
It has been said that we can know the truth of all things, including the primary truth that needs to be known in order to be propelled toward a god that we can know by doing charity as I believe he does which has caused all of his creation to exist because of his eternal thrust of charitable energy that he has learned to do for our sake. Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. Francis Bacon It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. Mark Twain See for yourself oh children of evolution, oh giblings, do an experiment to find the truth about our origin. Try what has been suggested by one who has been said to be the only begotten son of our Heavenly Father, and do charity as soon as your basic needs are met, and find out that creation is the result; creation of positive evolution. In order to prove this primary premise, do this: 1) Whenever you have an urge to do something solely for your own benefit, replace it with an urge to benefit someone else. 2) Whenever you can say a positive word to another, do so, and whenever you can, observe the effect and log your interpretation into a journal in your souls memory. 100
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Chapter 26: The Undeniable Truth The standard that can be used to measure truth can only contain undeniable evidence. The best Giblings to make the judgment are actually the ones who doubt everything. The Agibist is one who has no beliefs at all, but one who relies only on reality itself, not even history, because history is a story about what has happened. As many have heard justice is blind, but truth is all eyes. Truth itself is not a statement, but it is simply a proper reflection of what actually exists. Words can paint a picture which can well be in some cases a good reflection of what actually exists. Those pictures can be interpreted by the Eloh Stoga and can be enhanced to make the picture clearer, but on the other hand, Izhehtin can paint a picture to camouflage the truth. There is a Seed in every Gibling which can recognize truth when all language is purified and when all vision is clarified. The problem is that the language of the Giblings has been confounded in many intricate ways. If enemies agree, if the lamb lays down with the lion, if all confess that The Giver is the one who Gibs; then truth is on the horizon or is even in the foreground. Truth has characteristics that make 102
it discernible: Truth is plain it is eternal it is connected to everything it has universal application. Only the purest mind can recognize truth. Gib Himself has discovered many necessary traits that must be in the mind of a Gibling in order for him to be in line with truth. Sometimes, truth is intended to be taught in what are called parallelables on Seedland abbreviated, parables on planet Earth. To demonstrate that they do not teach the whole truth, here is one: The mother eagle shoes the eaglets out of the nest so that they will learn to fly. At first, the mother eagle would shoe them out, but swoop down and catch them just in time to save them. Again, the mother eagle would shoe the little fledglings out, but then they would, alas, fly away and never return. The lesson is taught that sometimes we need to be given no choice in order for us to follow the right path in order to progress. What then should be said for the mother turkey and her poults? All of us cannot be compared to eagles. Some of us are turkeys. Some of us may be Giblings. Some of us may be humans. Another example of a parable that does not fit perfectly is one about convincing someone of 103
something. It is said sometimes that one must be hooked in order to be convinced of a thing. To hook someone implies that he is tricked into it. One can only know something to be true if he is not tricked, but on the contrary, he must know it because of undeniable experience or understanding. It is an oxymoron to say that someone can be tricked into believing what is true. So, the truth is not a comparison, or an analogy. It is not a saying, or words or wisdom. Truth is just, what is. Knowing the truth, though, is knowing what to do about it. If nothing can be done about it, then it is to no avail to know it. Why read the newspaper, if the reader can have no effect on the reality that is exposed? Why get up in the morning, if there can be no contribution made, no charity done, no deposit of achievement made in the Gibbiverse Bank? The answer is in the intent, because hope coupled with an eternal round of effort will allow for all things to be Gibben. The unselfish, the impartial, and the humble are candidates to be the ones who are acquainted with truth: They are the ones who will be given the Gift for Gibbing. Obviously, the self centered Gibling is less likely 104
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Chapter 27: Another Chance Most Giblings do not understand that selfishness always has no positive outcome. The Giver knows this and has taught that a Gibling needs to Forgive 7! (7 factorial) or 5040. There is a vast gradient of the intensity and focus with the trait of Gibliness in the Famlia of Addman. Some appear to be completely selfish by other Giblings, but in fact are at a stage of gathering experience or acquiring a bank of unearned blessings so that they have something from which to draw strength to be given to another Seedling at a later time. A little baby obviously thinks he is the center of the universe. He is shown by his parents that he is just that, but he will learn on his own and in his own time from The Eloh Stoga the value of Gibbing. It is in opposition that we are taught that we are important from the beginning, but that in reality we are as insignificant as a grain of sand. It is only when we begin to understand that charity is what makes us important. So, if it takes 10 years of experience for one and it takes 70 years for another; so be it. Gib 106
Himself and the Giver and all the noble and great ones have infinite patience. They know that eventually if a Gibling is converted, he will be rewarded forever with the Gift for Gibbing for his positive attitude. Gib Himself cannot break his own laws or rules. He cannot go against his discovered principles or waiver from his invented plan. He is not stubborn, but he cannot contradict himself; so in order to allow his Giblings to successfully regoal, he must send an advocate. That is why The Giver is involved in the way that he is. The Giver is not redundant or superfluous, but a necessary entity in the process for the refining or the Gibling into a condition of Gibhood which will ultimately occur on a transformed Seedland to be renamed Gibland.
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Chapter 28: Individualism vs. Unity Opposition is necessary and intrinsic in every facet of existence. Each feature of every component in an assembly must be what it is and must not mimic for the sake of unity. Many Giblings make the mistake that fitting into a famlia means to be simpatico with all, but this yields an insipid result. The strongest result is to be seen in the atom itself. Matter exists only because the opposition of the electron and the proton are in balance but oppose. So opposition holds everything together. The concept that unity is a trait that yields the best atmosphere for the creation of things is a false one. This exposition proves that the language on earth and on Seedland is flawed or as it has been said, confounded. So Gaston Whitsitt, oh Gibling. Dont give in to the power of Izhehtin to confound you, but sense for yourself your role in creation by doing the thing that propels you to create.
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negative Tirachic to positive charitic, from small to noble and great hope. The Seeds of hope or seeds of hope will always spring from the virtual to the actual forever in a mobius dance or rite of spring. To the faithful and hopeful Giblings, death is an illusion in the Gibbiverse. When hope is cemented into the consciousness of the Gibling, he is in flight when falling. He is not falling down. All is relative. He is in free flight, to be called up by The Giver to continue Gibbing along the mobius band with Gibly hope forever.
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Chapter 30: From Symbolism to Reality From ideas to actions, from seeds to fruition, and from hope to creation. These are the steps to eternal progression. The Giblings from planet Seedland cannot ever transcend their state of smallness unless they connect with Gib Himself. This is true because their arms cannot reach around the planet, and their ears cannot fully hear through the almost infinite vacuum between them and the distant realm of Gibland; and their hearts cannot pump nourishment except to their own bodies. Gib Himself knows how impossible eternal progression is even more than any Seedling or Gibling. The Gib Council made it clear to as many as would listen on Seedland, that 4 isms could facilitate the bridge to the infinite. Isms are concepts that have no actual substance. They have no life without actions to bring them to life and to fruition. Isms are symbols of language which can result in action, but if they do not, they are as dross.
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1. Givism - is being willing to pattern all doings after the principles taught by the Giver and recognizing the essential connection between that and being able to accomplish charity. 2. Regoalism is the ability to commit to changing away from the self centered behaviors that limit the ability to see and feel and serve others. 3. Beginnism is the belief that starting over is paramount, not just every year or even every week, but every moment. This is not only possible, but necessary in order to have a true direction toward the awesome eternal adventure. 4. Knowism is the belief that the Eloh Stoga is the only one who can verify any truth, no matter what it is: because truth is not relative but must be connected to even all the unseen entities in the cosmos.
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Chapter 31: No Time Limit? According to many of the Seedland philosophers, there is a time limit for the Giblings to regoal, because there is an end to a Giblings mortal existence on Seedland. We will not disappoint the reader. Luap Selim, Seedlands least recognized thinker, suggests that: Gib Himself and The Giver and The Eloh Stoga and the Gib council all have the kind of patience that comes with millions of years of experience with the evolution of things and the regoalance of Giblings. They know it can take a very long time; longer than impatient Giblings can understand. But The Giver can sense whether a Gibling will take hold of the truth of how the Gibbiverse progresses. The Giver will Forgive a stubborn Seed of a Gibling, but if the Gibling does not take hold of Gibly attitudes by the end of his sojourn on Seedland, it is unlikely that he will ever resound with charitable behavior. He will probably strip himself of hope and will parish into Tirachy. The Gib Council does not play percentages, so Selim says that conditions will always be favorable for charity, forever.
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Chapter 32: No Conclusion? According to the Seedland philosophers, there is no conclusion, because there is no end. Sorry to disappoint the reader. Luap Selim, Seedlands least recognized thinker, suggests that:
Our future is determined by our attitudes and our doings. Even our mistakes will teach us if we pay attention and take corrective action, but in The Lathe of Heaven, a science fiction novel written by Ursula K LeGuin on planet earth, there is a notion suggesting that our dreams alone can change the future. There is a strong thread of truth in the idea, because our dreams can become motives and reflect attitude and they can bring us to act. The crux of the difference between The Lathe of Heaven and A Taste for Gibbing is that Gib Himself is motivated by giving and the process of creation cannot be stopped. It is similar to the mathematical concept of the absolute value. The negative disappears as in this formula: l-Xl = X Evil is simply the absence of good. Tirachy is the bottomless pit. All Gibbing is positive. The force for good is forever accelerating in all of the cosmos and there is no conclusion except that things are endless 114
Chapter 33: Keys for Success? Guidance toward any goal requires sensors which can identify the proper direction and forces and ingredients. It is a common problem that Giblings have that they cannot sense exactly what to do toward meeting their goals. The goal of Gib Himself is to provide a way for the Giblings to become eternal beings dedicated as he is to Gibbing so that an outward burst of creation can shine with brilliance forever for them as well. There is no way that Giblings can picture such a vast and endless goal, so he provided keys which can direct the attention of the Giblings to the Gate to Gibland. The Giblings need permission to enter this gate into the realm of Gibland because Gibland cannot be corrupted by any Tirachic attitudes or it will not sustain the Gibly countenance required for continuance. Gib Himself has evolved to a level of understanding such that whatever presents itself can be turned in the direction of Gibbing and cannot be stopped; but newly converted Giblings must be protected from negative influence as they enter Gibland. So it is then, that Izhehtin is to be silenced for a 115
necessary period during which all Gibland dwellers can become accustomed to Gibbing forever. The Gibsight is an emblem and token for the Giblings to carry with them on their sojourn on Seedland until they will be able to proceed to Gibland itself.
Chapter 34: The Language of Gib On planet earth there is a book that refers to what is called the confounding of the languages. On Seedland there was not only an evolution of life, but an evolution of language among the Giblings just like what happened on planet earth. Certain things cannot be communicated until there is a point of reference or common ground or basis for understanding. Languages evolve as a result of matching observations with symbols. Until things can be observed, they cannot be described or named. The limited senses that Giblings have has led to ambiguous communications. Gib Himself has a language that eventually can be granted to the Giblings. Millions of years have passed since the Gib Council began the Goal of Gib with the plan for Seedland and other planets on Dromeda. The extraordinary senses beyond the sight and 116
sound and touch and three dimensions is called the spiralarity sense. It moves in a spiral around and through all the other senses to allow for a holistic and surrounding view of all things. The Gibsight is provided by Gib Himself until the Final Condition. Until then, the Gibliotheca and the Gibsight along with The Eloh Stoga will allow for progress on Seedland. On planet earth there is a parallel to The Giver. There is a record of his saying, He who has ears, let him hear. On Seedland and its neighboring planets on Dromeda, all the Giblings will have an opportunity to learn the language of Gib sufficiently in order that they can grasp the full concept of Gibbing so that they can decide whether to receive the Gift for Gibbing or receive nothing at all in the bottomless pit of Tirachy. Gib Himself has produced a full spectrum of possibilities between Gibland and Tirachy for those who straddle the fence of possibilities. The parallel to The Giver on planet earth said, In my Fathers house there are many mansions. This is essentially the same as the spectrum of possibilities on Dromeda.
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Chapter 35: Were We always Like This? Gib Himself and his counselors noticed that Seeds were all different in brightness and color and polarity, so, as they calculated the way that they would be born on Seedland, they had to account for this. They knew, too that the Giblings would not have the same experiences or features to propel them to Gibhood at any predictable rate, but they all agreed that they could instill any traits, rewards and features that would allow for any missing links. The council noted that some would not even know what the desire to know the truth would have to do with happiness. Gib Himself in his infinite wisdom knows that the seed of Gibhood is in the inclination toward unselfishness. But it is such a primitive beginning to being able to create anything of real substance that the Seed would die from discouragement without a boost to propel him to a state of happy usefulness which, ultimately is to be on Gibland.
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Chapter 36: The Allegorical Thesis Eternal Things are memories, connections, conclusions, and direction. Things are created or discovered. Atoms and energy are the tools of the Gibs who are living physical beings. A few Seeds became Forgibs and then Giblings and finally Gibs themselves. All things over the span of eternity will evolve for the good of all Seeds great and small. The Gift for Gibbing is unrecognizable by those who cannot make the connection between charity and life. Without charity, Tirachy or in another word, death is the result. If the Giblings would know that evil is the absence of good, then they would see that all there is, is good. Then they may graduate as Gib Himself has done and they may then be in line with Gib Himself their eternal Father in the Mobius Dance. This picture of Seedland was intended to be encouraging to the reader, but not toward any particular theology. What does life mean to you? Pondering what might be beyond our senses can yield hope for an eternal existence for anyone who hopes for and works toward something more than what their physical senses have recorded. Write 119
your own life; your own book; make it be your picture of memories, connections, conclusions, direction, and hope. Then, never give up in an eternal feast of Gibbing. On Seedland, the Giver Susej reminded the giblings through the words in the Gibliotheca:
When you leave Seedland in death, you will return to your helpless state of being Seeds again as you were before Gib Himself fashioned you in such a way that you could enjoy Seedland and experience physical life. You need to continually remind yourselves that the physical-ethereal composite will end and you will leave Seedland as a Seed. Remind yourselves by taking up your cross of sorrow from your limitations without us so that when you re-seed in death, you will recognize that Gib Himself gave you your faculties that only He and I can restore so that you can work charity into creation of many good things forever after the final condition.
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Chapter 37: Doubt is Necessary We are all prisoners of time here in this reality that we call our physical life. The future is never fully known in our mortal perspective, but there are hints here and there that can allow us to predict the future in some important but limited ways. During this life we can be quite accurate in our predictions on a theoretical basis. If certain measurable conditions are met, the outcome can often be predicted quite well, but sometimes accidents happen. There is a saying that discourages us from speculating or writing anything at all: Write what you know. and there is one which encourages a stab in the dark: Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Hope is the beginning of a stab in the dark because if you knew the outcome of any endeavor, it would not require any hope at all. In order to create, the wonder about the unknown and ability to recognize failure and the ability to persevere are the motives for success. Success is the progress toward any positive direction which is called charity by the Giblings of Seedland.
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"Where there is doubt, there is freedom" (Ubi dubium, ibi libertas) is an old Latin saying. If we are careful in our interpretation of it, we may be creative, but if any dogma prevents us from free thinking, we must be careful, too that we are not stilted in the interpretation to our real situations. Ultimately, charity is the only positive action, but judging what the outcome of our actions is would sometimes be a guess, but as we fail and take corrective action as we see negative outcomes, then we are on the positive path toward nirvana. Hope is eternal particularly because we do not know the future. Dreams are limitless. That is why many of us humans obey the ultimate principle of hope which is the hope for eternal life. Some make the mistake of hoping for a condition in which we do not have to do anything more than just enjoying pleasures from a heavenly father that gives infinite rewards for finite deeds. I dont think it works that way, but I do not know for sure. Some say that experience is the best teacher: it is the only teacher. It does not have to be your experience, but it has to be that something that presents a stage for something else to happen. Cause and effect remembered is knowledge / knowing the value of the effect is wisdom. There is no end to hope, so, there is no end to existence. It has been said that matter cannot be created or destroyed. Well, if that is true, the totality of everything must be constant, unless 122
there is a substance which is not matter which matters. Even our own thinking should testify that there is a god. SO, even if we make many mistakes; as long as we organize ourselves, we will all be able to recognize the truth of everything in our own minds and hearts when we are completely honest and when we are completely open and especially when our observations are not tainted by misnomers generated by our confounded languages. The expression: Ignorance is bliss, on the short term, is a shelter from disappointment from short term failures; but over the span of a full lifetime, patience and experience and failure is rewarding. The real Heaven must be painful because it would require sensitivity rather than numbness.
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Looking Outside the Box Some things are not knowable without considerable speculation. Looking as if through a mirror is not good enough for some. Some need to look through a fictional telescope into another galaxy far away in another part of the universe. Many things can be calculated, and can be understood by us humans based on our observations with our limited senses. We can know many things too that we cannot see by using reason along with analogy and extrapolation. Most of us want to believe that life has a purpose and that there is life after death; but we cannot prove that the future holds an eternity of possibilities unless we use our whole being to substantiate the overwhelming evidence. Many people only scratch the surface of the volume of evidence that we have an almost infinite potential. This book is written to shed some light on what agnostics say is unknowable and on what atheists claim is preposterous and impossible. Religionists often say that 124
many things must be taken on faith, and that only miracles account for the hidden truth that this book may well expose by a technique and genre akin to science fiction. We are all faced with one sure fate. We will die one way or another. It may be quite painful, violent and quick, or it could be peaceful; but after it happens, what will it be like? To some of us humans on planet Earth in the rim of the Milky Way galaxy, it seems presumptuous that we may continue after our mortal lives are finished; and to some it is a comfort to believe that we are eternal beings.
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The Destiny of the Seeds Chapter A
Looking Forward Right after Edward died, he found himself as if awakening from a long sleep. He felt well rested. He didnt sense any pain at all which was unusual for him because he had been on Seedland almost 70 years. In his last years aches and pains were almost always a distraction. He remembered though, that when he was young, he took for granted his youthful energy and lack of pain, and he remembered looking forward to a long life and didnt think that one day he would actually be done with his mortal life. Now he noticed almost right away that he couldnt really do anything couldnt open his eyes, or stretch the way he usually did after a long sleep. He wasnt 126
in a bed from which to arise either. There was a strange lack of sensation. He heard about this when he was alive, but he thought it was just wishful thinking that he might live forever, but now he thought, Live forever; live forever doing what, nothing? He was once again a seed, as he had been before he was born as a gibling on Seedland. (Giblings are a special type of perennial seedling.) He found himself being interviewed by a personage who was not recognizable in the usual sense, because Edward had no physical senses any more, but he somehow without a brain with synapses and neurons, was aware of his existence, but little more. His perception was that he was reviewing his life and what it meant to him. A pointed conversation ensued, but not actually in words, but thoughts entered what he felt was a new kind of consciousness not connected to the physical senses. The Steward suggested to Edward, You will finally have to make a choice of 127
what you will believe, looking forward. Edward asked, What I will believe? Whoever you are, what do you mean, believe? What I believe has nothing to do with where I am right now. I have no idea where I am and who you are. Is this some kind of parlor trick or a joke being played on me? Who are you, anyways? What is your name and why are you confronting me now? And, Looking forward? What do you mean, Looking forward? Im dead. When its over its over. I know that now. I cannot do anything anyway. I am stuck without a body. The Steward said, Well, if that is what you believe, I guess it will be very difficult for you to except any miraculous transformation that would restore you to a physical form the way you had on Seedland. Who am I? I would be your friend, but only if you allow it by accepting me and believing that I am who I am, and that I was sent to you to save you from your limitations. My name is Adonaison, but call me Steward. 128
So in the beginning of a completely nonphysical phase of Edwards existence, he was perplexed because he was still straddling the fence. Is there life after death or not? he asked himself or was he asking the Steward? The Steward said this. Edward, if you really want there to be nothing in your experience from now on; that could be arranged. I cannot make you believe anything, but on the other hand if you believe that you can become a valuable part of a new and awesome eternal adventure; I can also make sure that will happen. I will show you, Edward. The Steward said, I love my garden. It has foliage, flowers, and fruit. You might have a garden too, Edward.
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Chapter B Cause and Effect The Steward asked, Edward, looking back on your life, do you remember what caused things to happen, and do you remember the attitudes that stopped your progress? If you had hope for your future, you found a way to progress, so the hope was useful. That hope was not tangible; but it was a driving force the same way that light is an energy that transfers to matter an excitement that causes a change. The Steward continued, On the other hand, do you remember what caused things to fail. Whenever you failed, you may have known that it is inevitable that all corporeal substance collapses over time, so no matter what you accomplish, its physical part cannot stay, but your attitude and hope can last as long as you can hold it with your spirit. Whenever you cannot have a need met, that need remains a motive for action 130
toward reaching another goal maybe even higher. Whenever you lack understanding or insight, that void can give rise to a greater perspective when you are open to it. Whenever you realize that the end of the road is inevitable, another road can appear in your imagination. The end of the rainbow is often seen in a vision, but it is always ahead of you.
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believed in eternity. Then the Steward actually asked a question that for now was impossible to answer by a mortal who had just lost his body to death, Edward, how do you think that things are created? Are the materials gathered first? No! An idea comes to your mind. Is there any substance to that idea? No! All things are ideas first. No substance at all. Smoke and mirrors? No! Some of those guys on Seedland and on a planet called Earth call that idea, the spirit, but a lot of people dont believe in that sort of thing. They think its bunk, but no, Edward, if you have an idea, thats great, so go with it now! But wait a second; you have no body to implement your idea, but you will eventually, if you fulfill certain criteria. Many eons agone you were in the same hopeless state, and so was I, your Steward, but my Father millions of years ago discovered a way to connect us to the physical dimension. He met me and knew from my demeanor of spirit that I had a passion for sharing all of reality with you and with everyone. 132
And dont worry, Edward, about the bad stuff. All creation is good. Destruction is bad. Furthermore, creation for someone else is endless, but creation for yourself is an inward dead end resulting in nothing at all. This can be seen as true over the vast time period that I have experienced. Do things just happen, Edward? I have always known that I need to plan, before I start creating anything. All the life forces that I have found in our vast neighborhood of this universe are not the same. They are all different in intensity, in potential, in mood, and in every specialty. They are not equal, but every last one of them has value to me. My Father and I are fortunate to be able to enable all the seeds of life that we have found. Right now, you are in a seemingly hopeless state without a physical frame. You cannot do anything constructive but Dream with Hope, and somehow you can remember everything that you had experienced when you were in the mortal 133
state. You may eventually be able to Work with Passion to create something. Edward was unable to understand how he could ever be able to do anything again without a physical frame and senses to guide his frame to any action that could have any effect at all. He asked, How am I going to be happy if I cannot do anything again? The Steward said. I will show you, but first you need to be freed from the chains of your frustrations that came to you because you had a natural self centered perception. You couldnt help it. You didnt have eyes in the back of your head, so to speak. As you become cleared of your short sightedness, I will be able to add the New and Everlasting Sense which I was given by my Father and which I can give to you when the framework of your spirit has a fitting place.
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Chapter C The Tour of Eternal Perspective When you lived on Seedland, you were under the impression that destroying evil is what clears the deck for creation, but that is not the case. It is clear, but the evil ones want you to think that we need to destroy in order to create. The path toward creation is not a confrontation with evil, but an adventure away from it, not arguing with its supporters, but moving in the opposite direction demonstrating the positive or if possible moving at right angles maybe side stepping the effects of the mischievous destroyer. The Steward invited Edward to venture through a quantum accounting. Come along Edward, I will show you. The Steward said again as he led him on an odyssey that could only be done in Edwards current state in which the Steward had to be the eyes and ears for Edward Everyman. In this excursion, of course, time was 135
not a factor because Edwards physical heart was not there to count time, so he was not aware of how long it took; but the Steward brought him to one of the profits, Captain Xenox, written about in the Gibliotheca, the one who told his army to lay down their weapons so that the goal of peace might be satisfied. Edwards seed asked the seed of the captain, Well then, was it a positive result? Were you all slaughtered by the evil enemy, or did they just say, OK, we will stop now because you dont want to fight? Xenox answered Edward carefully, knowing that he was new to this seemingly ambiguous portion of his existence. Yes, many of us were slaughtered and it was more difficult for the ones who remained in the corporeal state on Seedland; but I along with many were killed. The part that was not recorded in the Gibliotheca was that we, the slaughtered, were almost immediately introduced to this phase of our existence, and when we were, we really didnt regret giving up our mortal lives, 136
because we knew that many of those on the opposing side of the battle were converted to the charitable way. You now know the peace that we can enjoy here if we know that we have done the right thing for another soul. Some of the ones who laid down their weapons under protest were there with Xenox, and they felt that they made the wrong decision because they lost the battle and quoted an expression all the way from planet earth: (Those from Earth were there too in the ethereal state waiting for a solution to their seemingly helpless condition.) The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke. The Steward explained, Xenox did a very positive thing in laying down his weapons, so until we are in Paradise waiting for the final solution, we do not have a true perspective of reality, and we will not have that completely until after the 137
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Abaddon said, It is my plan to destroy everything in my path because I feel the most satisfied when I have power over as many as and as much as possible. In his current state, it was obvious to Edward that Abaddon with his attitude will be on a downhill spiral toward self destruction through his selfish approach. How could just having a charitable attitude about everything give rise to this so called new and awesome eternal adventure as it was called by the Steward? The Steward said, I love my garden.
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Chapter E Point of View One must believe in himself before he can believe that his seed is capable of interpreting correctly any answer to any kind of prayer directed toward Gib Himself who is said to answer prayers from giblings on Seedland. The voice that Edward hears is his own seed translating the truth expressed by the Eloh Stoga. Edwards senses when he was on Seedland revealed things to his consciousness from the outside in. As he had experiences, he recorded them in his mind so that he could use the information as wisdom which could either be used for self indulgent purposes or to help in building someone elses character or his own. Edward learned early on that he could only give if he took first from things around him. That which Edward obtained from outside himself, he considered to be ingredients that could be processed so that eventually the product could be shared 140
with someone. Those ingredients are called blessings on Planet Earth. He developed opinions based on his point of view, and had to be careful not to inflict or impose his point of view on anyone else because he respected the right of those around him to have their respective different points of view which is what made them unique and precious as individuals. He had heard that doing such a thing as loving himself and his own point of view is selfish and narcissistic and just plain BAD. But, NO, he felt grateful in a way for his point of view. He knew that his point of view was precious to him because ultimately that is all he really had in his possession, his point of view; so he decided to cherish it. Of course, he knew that sharing his point of view would be a challenge because language would have to be used to describe it because obviously nobody can see things with someone elses eyes. The Steward said to Edward, In 141
order for you to have true wisdom, you have to stretch your senses and practice putting yourself vicariously into the shoes and the hearts and the minds of whomever you meet. Being a gibling on planet Seedland was the first step. It was only natural that you would only be able to have your point of view and no one elses. Now, you will be able to have that true wisdom by using the power of oversensing that you will have because you have followed and will follow forevermore, the rules I have presented in the Gibliotheca. Practice caution, honesty, self control, justice, prudence, courage, faith, hope, and above all, charity. When it becomes your first nature to perform all these virtues, you are ready for the everlasting eternal adventure.
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before he routed them for the repairs that were necessary. One day, when Twain went on break, he just sat at the lunch table with his head down. He never behaved that way before, but his behavior changed abruptly that day. Edward remembered being concerned about Twain, so he went up to him and slapped him on the back with what he thought was an affectionate gesture, but instead, Twain was offended that Edward would interrupt the secret train of thought, and said, Get off my back! It turned sour instead of what Edward intended. Edward could have sat next to Twain and spoke softly and said something like, Whatever it is, there is a bright side of your troubles. I am your friend and want to help you hold your head up again. I believe from watching you that you have no hope, but I will stand with you as you do one small thing every day to get out of your pit of despair. Twain committed suicide the very next day, and Edward really felt partly responsible because he was so thoughtless about what to do for Twain. 144
The Steward introduced the seed of Edward to the seed of Twain in the next subject of Edwards quantum recall. Twain said, Finally I get to thank you for your concern for me on that day just before I made the worst mistake of my life. My wife had just asked me for a divorce because she said I was married to my work. Actually, I loved her dearly, but I really thought that my working hard and earning money was my way of showing her that I want security and a comfortable life for her, but she thought I didnt care about her because I never bought her flowers and never took her out for dinner or on a vacation or anything at all. I just had no reason to go on living. I had passionately been pushing myself to do a good job at work, and my wife actually thought I was doing it for it. So my whole idea of how to love meant nothing to my wife Cynara. I was stubborn because of my inability to see it from her point of view. She needed to be framed by me with the features that reminded me of her wonderful qualities for which I devoted my life to her. She didnt even know how much I loved her even 145
when I ended my life. I ended my life, I thought, because I lost her. Edward confessed to Twain that if he had only been more cautious in how to offer a helping hand to him, he might have helped him to think of buying flowers for Cynara, but all Twain did at break was to put his head down. Throwing caution to the wind is always short sighted. A farmer plants his seeds carefully and sometimes with such precision as provided by complicated equipment such as that serviced by Buds Farm Machinery Service . That being said, every seed needs certain basic sustaining ingredients, but special care is needed for each delicate flower and sometimes even for each perennial seed. There is always a dichotomy. If one is too cautious he will never do anything. Making mistakes is part of life. Caution is a virtue, but its opposite is courage which requires action which may sometimes seem disastrous. The Steward loves his garden.
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children, or doing anything at all for them: buying clothes, meeting their friends, asking them what they would want. Because he was not honest with himself and that now he had no choice but to be just that because of the interview with The Steward; his eyes were opened, (so to speak although he had no physical eyes at this stage.) He began to understand that without truly loving his family, he had no real motive to create anything for them; but only a motive to feel good within himself only a motive to please himself a dead end road. He knew that now, but was it too late to be honest? No he began to change away from the natural man at that very moment. This was true only in theory because his life on Seedland was over. There was no time left to prove to himself or The Steward that he really loved his family. The Steward did say to him, There is no 148
substance to an idea, but ideas are the first part of creation. You will have a chance to show your family if your idea is genuine that you love them in the New and Everlasting Preview. Sometimes honesty especially with self uncovers undesirable traits that when exposed seem to destroy, but actually change for the better can only happen when these things come out into the light of day.
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Chapter H Self Control The opposite of restraint is freedom. Freedom is a word revered by many as a precious right and privilege, especially in The Allied Territory on Seedland, in which the founding principles that made it possible for that country to flourish were liberty and justice for all seedlings and giblings who were citizens of that great land. The Steward said to Edward, Restrain yourself to do what is right. If you would like to hear it said another way: put yourself in shackles and chains to protect yourself from your own natural tendency to be selfish. You will free yourself from your selfish beginning and then may become worthy for Gibhood, a state in which you can create endlessly for all whom you touch. 150
Edward said, Do you really mean that I will be free if I put myself in bondage. That doesnt make any sense at all! The Steward brought Edward to General Patton. Many things dont seem to fit. Patton has a certain nobility in his determination. He is not refined, but he helped win the Great War on planet earth so that freedom could be enjoyed by millions of people who lived after that war. Patton said this: When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.
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of the predicament. In order for there to be freedom for the people on any planet where there are enemies to freedom, the enemies must be dealt with in a very unpleasant way. Patton knew this, but most on Seedland and Planet Earth are sheltered from such truth in a way that paints them in a corner as ignorant. So be it, Edward.
The seed of Patton, still there with the Steward and Edward said, I believe that if things were done MY WAY back in the great war on planet earth, many more lives would have been saved and freedom would have been a blessing for the west for an even longer time; but my life ended before I could tell my story. I am telling you now Edward, that freedom is more precious than all the tea in China and all the gold in South Africa. Sometimes, killing the enemies of freedom is the noblest alternative. The Steward took Edward to the next stop on his quantum journey. He let Edward ponder the contradictions between Pattons and Xenox opposing points of view. 152
Chapter I Justice It all seemed to Edward like a game was played in life on Seedland, and now this is the tally or the scoreboard at the end of the game, or maybe not the end of the game, but a juncture to the next level. Justice has been said to be a mean or balance between selfishness and selflessness. Edward felt entitled to a reward of some kind because he thought he had fulfilled certain requirements that he had read about in the Gibliotheca, so, selfishly, he was inclined to expect a stipend for his good deeds. Feeling that way about what would be a reward administered by The Steward was even troubling to him, but he wanted justice. The Steward asked Edward, Who is the centerpiece of justice? Is it you? Is it me? Is it everyone else? Is it all relative, which side should have the advantage, or 153
should things just gravitate naturally toward the luckiest vantage point? I want to show you what appears to be injustice, but you may see when we are through with this journey, you will be at peace knowing that when we just think beyond ourselves, we can be justified by our response while realizing the charitable way. Here is the story: Justin Gentry was a hard working carpenter who was employed by a contractor Peter Farley in the small town of Coreville, Kernel County, Seedland. The two of them worked side by side for many years building houses for the workers and their families who needed to live in the town where Buds Farm Machinery Service was. Buds had become the main source for the farmers for miles around, but after years of development, Petrock Farley had to move on to another part of the country if he was to continue building homes. His construction company was good at it, but he thought that maybe he could get enough business doing repairs on the houses that they had built over the thirty years Justin Gentry and he had worked together. 154
Petrock thought he could get plenty of work doing plumbing, heating, air conditioning, decorating, landscaping, masonry, and roofing; but not much carpentry. There was not enough work for Justin to support his family. Justin was a carpenter. He was the best at putting up walls and framing houses, but he did not have the skills to do other types of work for Farleys Framers and Fabricators. Peter had many other employees besides Justin who all lived in town. It was all a perfect setup except for Justin and his family. The Steward continued, Peter decided to stay in town and just service the homes that he had built over the years, but that meant Justin would just be let go. And so it was. Justin had to either move to another place, commute to another area, or find a job doing something for which he would not be paid as much. His children were all in their twenties and had moved on to live their lives in other parts of the plains territory. He decided to stick around and maybe get a job at the Gerards General Store. 155
He got a job there, but he felt like everybody else on Farleys team had better luck than he did. Actually, Justin had been developing arthritis, and it was timely and a good thing that he would be now working in the tool department at the general store. The Steward tried with this story to show that things happen in sequence, and all things pass away after a period that is never clear in time on Seedland, so He said, Edward, justice is never seen until after the final condition is met which you cannot see now. I will take you now to hear from Peter Farley who was your friend for many years. His seed is now waiting with millions who lived their lives on Seedland. He is not as if in a place, but in a potential condition with no real position, but only a direction, which was determined after I interviewed him and took him on his quantum journey. After what seemed like an instant, The Steward said, Peter Farley, let me introduce you to your old friend Justin Gentry. Will you tell him about your direction now and something about your quantum journey with Me? 156
Peter started, Justin, you are here just in time. I never got a chance to tell you that you were the one who made it possible for the 3F company to prosper, and I felt so bad when we had to stop building houses. Those were my best years. After you left, we just didnt make as much of a difference as we did for those years that you and I worked together building the company. Now, I see that it wasnt the houses that we built that was the important part, but it was that you and I actually built Coreville where many families could have a meaningful experience on Seedland. The Steward said to both of them, It is my justice that your reward will be this memory that you both have will establish a pattern of great things to come on Gibland when you are ready. Edward, overhearing this knew that he could expect a similar experience meeting some of the ones instrumental in his life on Seedland. What would be The Stewards Justice for him? Will he be able to enjoy a new and awesome eternal adventure someday? He was beginning to become anxious, because he couldnt think of a great experience from which to draw that was as great as Justin Gentrys. 157
Is it just that a man can be fortunate because of his abilities and talents to be able to accumulate wealth, and then not share it with those who are so much less fortunate that they suffer a miserable life because of their lack of talent? Is it just that a healthy young married woman can have an abortion because she doesnt have time to deal with her baby while in another sector of Seedland, a young poor woman dies in childbirth? Is it just that we are free to do all the selfish endeavors that do not lead to happiness? Is it just that we are forced to contribute to supporting those who dont believe that they need to work hard to support themselves?
To be virtuous requires a holistic approach. There are no hard and fast rules that meet out justice. Vengeance is not Justice. Cause and effect is the rule of law in all the cosmos.
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These measurements are nontransferable. Many communications can be standardized, but these most precious truths can only be discovered by what is called inself detection. As a matter of fact, virtual sounder streams have been received by many Giblings. They have described them as a kind of burning at the heart of their seed, and it has been said that the source of the VS streams is the one called Eloh Stoga. See for yourself. See if you can detect the sounder stream of which I write here. Look past your nose, Mr. Selim. I t has been taught to me that it is charity itself which provides the power to understand ethereal matters like the ones about which you have asked in your circular questions. Sincerely, Gaston Whitsitt PS: I have heard some lings say that we can understand and know that we understand all we need when we see the answers to all of our questions fitting into a jigsaw puzzle, and fitting perfectly. That is not true Mr. Selim. You need to understand that that puzzle is pictured in two dimensions. Your questions do not fit in one plane, but you can find the answer to your questions by holding the solved puzzle up to the light of The Eloh Stoga and aim your attention outward toward the lings and upward toward the I deal Way with patience, hope and a peaceful 159
attitude. Gib Himself knew almost from the beginning that even though He loved all the Seeds, that as he invented their path, that many would choose the Tirachic path toward inward nothingness.
Chapter J Prudence
Restraint is a word used to describe a certain economy in behavior, but the question arises: Why restrain yourself when Expedience should dictate action toward a goal? The Steward wanted to teach Edward about the virtue of prudence. In order to do that, this is what he said before he took him on the continuing Journey. Edward, if you have no goal, you are motionless and dead; so you must in order to remain alive, work toward a positive goal which is creation which is charity. Moving away from the goal is counterproductive, but tempting sometimes. The natural tendency is for a 160
gibling to do things for pleasure and not for any creative purpose; so, restraint should be employed in order to point in the positive direction, charity. When a thought comes to mind for the advancement toward the charitable goal, it is expedience which dictates what is to be done. Prudence is a combination of restraint and expedience toward a positive fruition which makes it possible for creation to occur. Restraint: The Steward then escorted Edward next in his quantum journey to a Seed who was filled with regret because he did not use restraint in his life on Seedland to the extent that his life was shortened greatly and was narrowed because of his self indulgence. The Steward presented the seed of Jonas Cage to Edward hoping that he would understand the fallacy in that selfish perspective. Jonas confessed to Edward, I knew all along that something like constantly tasting chocolate would not strengthen me or give me any kind of happiness, but it was so tasty; but it is over now and I cannot taste anything but regret in my sorry state now. Brother Edward, I know it is too late for 161
you now as well; but if the Steward were to somehow atone for your stupidity and short sidedness, would you accept that? Edward hesitated, but finally came around and admitted that he too was self indulgent during his life on Seedland; not all the time, but enough for him to feel as if he had wasted much of his life not improving his time there because of his personal form of self indulgence. He said, Yes, Brother Jonas, I get it; but it is too late now. Its over and I have no senses anyways and no ability to improve my time anymore. So, the Steward was able to teach Edward about the now obvious lesson about the value of restraint and that self indulgence is a dead end road toward Tirachy. (In the Seedland thesaurus: Tirachy is the opposite of Charity.) Edward had been taught on Seedland that restraint was like a cage designed for the purpose of safety, but he didnt realize that it was to protect him from the regret that he was feeling now as a Seed. Expedience: Whenever there is a goal to be met, the only way to get there is to do 162
something toward the fruition of that purpose. The Steward wanted Edward to understand the drive necessary in achieving a goal, so he brought Edward to the seed of Duncan Dewey. Dewey was nicknamed Brother Dew It because he had developed a great system of working toward a goal by not just wishing, but doing. The Steward introduced Edward to him. Edward, meet Brother Dew It. He wrote a book entitled, How to Dew It. Brother Dew It started right in, Edward, this is what you gotta do 1 st ) clean up your messes, 2 nd ) do your chores, 3 rd ) do what is right. Edward asked, How do you know what is right? Brother Dew It said, That is where Prudence comes in. The Steward said to Edward, I have given your seed a feature that will always be with you as long as you know that charity is the only way to happiness and the only way to create. I promise you that if you give away whatever I give you that will be your Everlasting Eternal Adventure. 163
Chapter K Courage
It didnt take courage for Edward to live in the moment when livin was easy, but when he lost his job working at Andrews Hardware, he was forced to, either take courage, and look hard for work at every opportunity; or be content with begging for money near the grocery store and scrounging through the garbage can for things like day-old bread or out of date Twinkies. He tried the easy route at first for a few days, but he wised up. He knew that there were no jobs out there for him because he tried so hard to get the job that he just lost, and of course he heard on the news like everybody else, that jobs are scarce. He remembered being told by his Father many years earlier that he should stop at every store in the mall, and ask if they needed their windows washed or their floors swept or dishes washed or stock organized, so he 164
took courage knowing that he would fail and did it anyway the way his Father said he should. He had faith in the words of his Father, but did not believe in the success that might follow. He knew his Father loved him, but he felt that practically, his Father was wrong. Edward knew it was hopeless. This was what is called blind faith; blind to the hopelessness of temporal failure, but open to feeling that his Father knew what was the best course of action not for temporal success, but for the enhancement of a larger concept of hope taught by the Father. It wasnt hope that Edward would have a job, but hope that he would prove his Father right in the long run however long it would be. Edward would learn that what he obtains for his efforts is not the job but the building of character.
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Chapter L Faith
The Steward said, Many giblings on Seedland say that all things are not knowable. They say this because they believe that the brain and the senses of sight and sound and touch are all that they have to allow them to experience a confirmation that a principle, an idea, or anything is true. Edward, you have none of those things right now, but you can hear me speak. What you have right now is what you had before my Father and I gave you your senses. You have yourself, which is more profoundly important to you than even your senses. You have the power to know that you are and that I am, but it is by your own will that you may know me or that you may know yourself, or that you may know my Father. Believe it or not, Edward: my Father and I over two billion years ago were in the same state with no body and no senses, but we had faith that somehow we could reach 166
out for some kind of power that would allow us to create something for others in the same seemingly hopeless state. To you, you do not remember even as much as five decades of experience. That calculates to one four hundred thousandth of a percent of the time that has transpired since my Father presented me with a plan that we could use to see to it that you could experience what we call the Joy of Hope and Improvement. The Steward went on to explain, Edward, my Father actually became aware of over a trillion perennial seeds of the same kind as you and me and all the other Giblings on Seedland right now and all of them who have ever lived there who are back in the state in which you are right now. He chose me to be his son because he knew that I would always do all that he asked in order that the Destiny of the Seeds could be an everlasting eternal adventure. He taught me his prime axomia of Charity. Over a one billion year period He taught me that all applications of the prime axioma lead to creation which is the ever positive direction. Although charity makes 167
sense to you theoretically, it is clear to me that in every case, it cannot fail over a period of a million years. You cannot see that many years even in your slightest imagining, but I know it because I have seen it over and over again. If you believe what I say even though you cannot see it; that is Faith. Furthermore Edward, right now you have absolutely no ability to understand how it is that my Father has made it possible for you to have lived with a physical body on Seedland or that looking forward, you will be able to again have a three dimensional frame to use for making things happen in a physically real sense. You can, however, with the method of extrapolation be able to actually know that my Father is as real as anything else that you have ever seen with your eyes or that you have ever known in your mind and heart. The Steward went on to outlay a series of phenomenon to be used in an important extrapolation for any skeptical atheist,
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Consider these phenomena, which have occurred or were invented on planet Earth in the rim of the Milky Way Galaxy. 1. The airplane: not fully realized until the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk. This would have been considered a feet only Gods could accomplish. 2. The internet: a known entity that 100 years ago would have been considered even more preposterous than telepathy. Now it is taken for granted, especially by the under 20 crowd. 3. The flash drive: a very small item with no moving parts that it would seem can contain all the information about almost everything ever known to mankind. 4. The 3D printer: a way of producing objects from information stored on a flash drive. 5. The transporter: fictional teleportation machine used in the Star Trek universe. Transporters convert a person or object into an energy pattern (a process called dematerialization), then "beam" it to a target, where it is reconverted into matter (rematerialization).
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least conjured over a period of less than 500 years of experience. Over a period of 1 billion years, my Father and I have come up with a way for us to make our plan possible. We have actually made this happen. It has been proven. Edward, my Father and I have had two million times as much opportunity as man on planet earth to invent and accomplish what is called regeneration. You cannot possibly understand the process, and furthermore, most people dont really understand how the internet works or how so much information can be contained on a flash drive or how a 3D printer could possibly work. You should be able to have faith that it is possible to do almost anything because you may understand the concept of extrapolation.
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Chapter M Hope The Steward sensed this quantum journey that Edward was traveling with Him was not appreciated enough, so he asked, Edward, what is it that you hope for? I know that you would say that you hope to know the truth, and that you want to know what is going to happen now in your realm; so, I can show you, but you need to be specific. Your future is mostly up to you. What do you want to believe; what do you want to accomplish; what do you want for others that you can bestow on them by your efforts? Edward gave pause to consider. He finally said this. To be completely honest, I want to be happy forever, plain and simple. The Steward said, Exactly, Edward. My goal is the same. I have been trying to teach you what you need to do in order to be happy forever. I wonder if you can fathom that here in this Universe, the one that I call My Fathers Gibbiverse, that on 171
the planet Gibland in the center of this domain, you will be able to time travel. You will be able to go back and actually be with your children again when they we little and relive precious moments in time and not just remember them. You will be able to plan something, start doing it, and then be able to be there at the time of the fruition of your doings, not just predicting, but living within that fruition to know the full effect of whatever you plan. Then you will be able to return to the present and alter it and perfect it. So it will be like being omniscient. As I told you, though, that you will have to meet certain criteria in order to endure the powerful flux of eternal knowledge. My Father has told me that if Abaddon ever came close to Gibland, he would provide an opposition that would stop happiness in all this region of the Universe. Gib Himself will preserve this Galaxy for at least 100 billion years. He can only do that by insisting that all his Giblings who will dwell there are pure in heart. Edward knew then how important being pure in heart is, but really what he 172
hoped was not that everyone else would be happy but that he would be happy. He knew it was a charade pretending that he cared about anybody but himself because he admitted that he was concerned about his happiness and not anyone elses.
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Chapter N Charity
The Steward was impressed to bring Edward to two very different individuals who were in the ethereal state. Rockefeller Johns and Oliver Turner had completely different perspectives, but they both had an attitude to be considered. Mr. Johns worked his whole life on Seedland to accumulate wealth. Oliver Turner was poor his whole life and was exploited by his employer if he was working and was just down and out if he was not working. The Steward wanted to introduce Edward to these two individuals because the principle of charity was actually more basic than sharing wealth and more important than giving from an excess. The Steward introduced Edward to the seed of Rockefeller who said as Edward appeared, How are you now after your life on Seedland is over; I learned a lot there about how people often dont understand 174
charity. Some thought I was a selfish capitalist who took from the poor in order to get rich. They did not understand that, from the beginning when I was a boy, I wanted to get some money so that I could buy my mother a Christmas gift; so I got a job selling newspapers in the city. I learned how to sell things, and applied that skill until I was the wealthiest Gibling on Seedland. I gave away 500 million dollars near the end of my life, which I wouldnt have been able to do had I not accumulated so much wealth during my life. I hope you understand that my motive was to be charitable until I died when I was 97 years old. Now I hope that someday I can continue working and giving forever as the Steward promised me. Edward thought he knew now what charity is and that he could promise the Steward that he could certainly do the plan of working and giving forever. The Steward said, Edward, now I will take you to Oliver, who also has a charitable attitude, but he had nothing to share the way that Rockefeller did, and he worked on Seedland, but he never was 175
compensated for his work, but was exploited by many his whole life. Edward asked as they came up to Oliver, How could you forgive all those that took you into slavery during your whole short and miserable life on Seedland? Oliver told Edward, They were troubled souls, themselves, that forced me to work for them, but they were needy too as I was. They didnt have much sense or ability to do much, but they were hungry and cold as I was. What else could they do when they didnt have much strength or where withal. I was a victim and so were they; victims of circumstance. I gave to them knowing they were no worse than I was in my suffering. In the end, we all perished because we were vagabonds, not by choice, but by unlucky position on the large and diverse planet of Seedland. After meeting these two individuals, the Steward asked Edward, Do you understand now that giving things is not the root of charity, but it is treating other Giblings as if they are entities with potential worth that can go on forever? 176
Chapter O The Time on Seedland The Steward asked Edward, Is it possible that Seedland could be a better place because you were there for 70 years? What did all that time there do for you, and what did it do for those around you? What was gained what was learned what was lost what was earned? Somehow Edward could remember everything that happened when he was on Seedland, and now in contrast, nothing was happening except retrospection. It was a powerful lesson to learn that every event had a consequence during the moments that passed away on Seedland, but the result of those events all became completely nonphysical. So, every moment seems as if it lasts forever, but on the other hand, all things vanished from Edwards physical senses. 177
The Steward reassured Edward that the past will not prevent change in the future when he said, The past is your schooling for what can be your new and awesome eternal adventure. Your experiences can only have value if your perspective is completed by humility and an understanding that you are not the center of the universe although your senses do and will always present the illusion that you are. Edward asked the Steward, Where am I as a seed, now? I dont have any frame of reference. All I have is all these memories and all these questions from you.
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Looking Forward Again Right after Edward finished his interview and quantum journey with the Steward, he found himself awakening from a long sleep. He felt well rested. His whole quantum journey was a dream, a good dream which woke him up to the infinite possibilities. He sensed a little pain because he had been on Seedland almost 70 years. In his last years aches and pains were almost always a distraction. He remembered though, that when he was young, he took for granted his youthful energy and lack of pain, but now he was at last committed totally to the plan that the Steward reviewed with him. Now he knew for sure that if he remained true and faithful that he would someday be able to be a part of an everlasting eternal adventure.
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Chapter 38: The Actual Conclusion Mortality is a fact. Eventually, adversity conquers the mortal body, and physical death is the result. We humans are equipped with an ability to perceive abstract features of reality, not just the three dimensions and time; but the fifth element. Maybe we even perceive spiritual features which may be what holds reality so that it can exist forever. When our minds carry us to a more full understanding of things, we can see that many things cannot end. We see patterns in nature that must apply to the unseen universe of eternity. But we usually learn that we are powerless to join an eternal world physically, so we just hope that a higher power can transform us to heaven or whatever place that does not ever end. Some say that we have made up God so that we can hope for life eternal; but I say that we have discovered him because of our ability to see eternity just by gazing on such as the mobius band which does go on forever. I have found what has been discovered by many lucky people. Joy can be tasted by any giver. It is hard to give, because the senses are attached to the giver. Communication is never 180
complete without something more than language. It is my goal, my friends, to think beyond the grave and to hope beyond human logic and reason; and communicate to you that hope is what causes progress and success. It is my hope that all of you search for whatever causes you to get up and do something more than dream. I testify to you that flowers are beautiful, that the universe is large, that variety goes on and on, and that human beings are the most wonderful creatures unless there are gods, in which case they are the most wonderful of all. I just want to thank somebody for all of what I can observe and for all of what I can imagine. I believe we are all limited in what we can imagine; we can only imagine a variation of something that we have already seen or experienced with our limited senses. We cannot extrapolate with dissimilar triangles. It is not blasphemy to wonder and to think there is more than what we can see. For all we know, every galaxy has a god, and there could be billions of galaxies. Back in the 1950s the question was, Is there life on other planets? Now it is, Are there gods on other galaxies? There is a record said to be dictated by God himself in which he said that we should not put any gods before him. It is almost like his saying 181
that there are other gods, but that he is our creator the same way that Gib Himself is the creator of the Giblings on Seedland. All the more for us to feel a love and kinship for our Heavenly Father. The point of this book is not to define god, but to convince me, the author that selfishness is ungodly, and that it is like getting out of my skin to sacrifice my comfort for someone else unless I get some reward in heaven or something like pie in the sky or the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. I believe that the ultimate example of giving is all around us. Our Father in Heaven must be so humble that He does not show off by literally telling us that he is the master builder. My wish is to see through a glass darkly to see and feel the hope that our god has for all of us: that we will take hold of the eternal concept of charity. On earth there are three expressions that when put together show that it is worth speculating and observing as much as possible.
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These following addenda are the authors journal that he writes to share with the readers if they so desire. Addendum 1 After each chapter of a Giblings sojourn on Seedland, he may draw different conclusions based on the evidence of his experience. What becomes more frustrating is that he sees less and less, the more experience he has because he becomes more aware of his limitations; but he goes on none the less so that he may feel as if he is making progress in terms of his understanding of things. On earth, humans stumble because they think they are wise because of their experience, but they had a profit who tried to explain to them that the way to understanding was through simple procedures that could enlighten and uplift the soul forever. These procedures are: service and thanksgiving. We humans and Giblings alike should ask, Who do I serve and who do I thank?
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Addendum 2 Giblings do change by noticing the examples that are set by others, when those examples are a fitting analogy. A candle that has three wicks immersed in wax in a glass where the rim of the glass is above the tops of the wicks will burn quite well. If one of the wicks is blown out it cannot stay unlit for long. It will reignite spontaneously as long as another wick is burning and there is an ample supply of air to fuel the flames. This analogy supports the saying from the Bible: Matt. 18: 20: For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the middle of them. It is my hope that with careful matching and fitting of analogies and experiences to the Gospel taught by Jesus Christ, the puzzle will eventually fit into a picture of the Masters Plan for happiness.
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Addendum 3 The direction toward a positive goal is progress even when there is no finite distance traveled. It is hard to keep going, but it is easy to change direction. The effort is in the doing of things, not in the turning around, but ones direction is more important than the distance traveled. If the direction is changed, though, the progress is stopped toward the original goal. The ideal is to know in the beginning, what direction is the best, but that is, of course, impossible. Perspective is obtained by going the wrong way and discovering that it is the wrong way by observing consequences. Addendum 4 Trying is the beginning of failure and the beginning of success as well, so never give up. Addendum 5 Evolve by striving. Failures teach and successes propel to the next level. An eternal round grows with charity. 185
Addendum 6 The patriarch in the home often feels the responsibility for the decisions that those in his family make when they are the wrong ones for the welfare of the individuals in his quiver. It grieves him when his wisdom allows him to see the mistakes that his family members make when they do not listen to him, but mock him. He has to remind himself that it is their decision that they make without sufficient foresight to see the consequences; but in time, a long time perhaps, they will be able to move in the right direction. He needs to be patient, perhaps beyond the grave in order to enjoy his family completely. It is his prayer that his posterity will bask in the Gift of Gibbing. That is the hope, even though he himself may fall short of the goal.
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Addendum 7 The goal of my brother Grant was to do as little as possible. His life ended with an overdose of cocaine in 1987 when he was 44. His wife Margie died of cancer about a year before that. Grant had an amazing 200 IQ, but he chose the path of least resistance, the path of Tirachy. He seemed to believe that when it is over, it is over, and that it is pointless to create or to accomplish anything because as has been said, Ashes to ashes and dust to dust. Some say that we should live to be entertained or to become important. I want the hope for life eternal to be in the hearts of my posterity, because nobody, in my mind can ever be happy unless he can catch on to the idea that charity is the way to eternal life. We must know it by doing it, and that is the ultimate conclusion of this book, but the main problem after knowing the truth of the principle is knowing how to apply it to every situation: When someone is being stupid, should you squash him when he mocks you for pointing it out? Should you try to turn all his mistakes around? Should you ignore him until he destroys you or himself? When someone is being selfish, 187
should you give all you have to him to show him charity, even when he mocks you by just absorbing your generosity into his selfishness? Should you publish your knowledge of the supreme value of charity, when your efforts are ignored because of the barrage of negative stimuli? I believe that even charity has an opposite side which must be part and parcel to it, but I dont know what the balance is between giving to someone and then his saying no thanks to a gift. Addendum 8 The expression, Love overcomes defeat, suggests that even when loved ones of the human kind are defeated, there can be an uplifting aspect of the relationship which cancels the negative aspect of the defeat. Perhaps over a span of 50 to 100 years, this may not be observable. Maybe the soul resurrected can repair defeat somehow. Perhaps hope itself is the engine for progress and for happiness and positive direction.
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Addendum 9 When I see the earth and its beauty and the animals and plants in their variety and splendor, I am at peace even when I see the so called defeat of death and destruction that occurs in nature, because I see the so called circle of life that is replenished; but as a human, I see a wider gamut of motive in me and my brothers. We are sometimes self serving and at other times, philanthropic. I also want to live on personally whereas when I see nature, it is an impersonal observation for me to see the circle of life. So is it just wishful thinking for us to hope that we are immortal?
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Addendum 10 Some religions believe that this life is a test to see if we humans can endure the rigors of eternal creation as if there will be a mantle placed on the ones who pass that they may continue forever in charity, but it seems to me that if one catches on to the way things happen, according to this book, he will automatically reap the reward of his doings anyway without a necessary boost from the creator. So, could any of us create even a gnats whisker without the support from The Creator? Maybe it should be included in the puzzle where everything fits, an emphasis that we humans are really less significant that we had hoped. Maybe he is a pompous ass who thinks he can do anything, ever, without support from the greatest of all who pulls the strings and holds everything together.
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Addendum 11 Here is an analogy of what I believe our Heavenly Father has been up to for the past several thousand years or so: He has seen many seeds of almost infinite variety in his immense purview, from those which he saw could become plants and animals to those which could become humans. He has had hope that all those seeds could reach the full measure of their potential. In other words, he loves them all: He saw a bottle cap, and said, I will fashion a physical housing for it so that it can become a useful way to seal a bottle. He saw a series of components which could potentially become a hand held calculator, and said, I will fashion a physical housing for it so that it can be useful in helping humans calculate their doings. He said that he knew that the bottle cap could never be a calculator and that the calculator could never seal a bottle.
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Christ himself, we might like to consider that we can access all that the Father has, but not necessarily have the power to even do such a simple thing as seal a bottle without assistance from a real bottle cap.
I believe that humility will be required if in the end we could only succeed because we are humble enough to know that we cannot do it alone - ever. Otherwise, why should we need to be humble or learn humility in order to end up in a heavenly place?
Addendum 12 It seems that many people dont know what they are doing, but they hope that the pie in the sky will come upon them with rapture anyway. Are they just wishful thinkers whose hope is really a complete falsehood? Why cannot we see enough for us to know the direction to travel for a positive trip into what would be the real heaven? Maybe we can see through a glass darkly by an allegory constructed by a mere mortal who has stretched his beam of understanding by doing things suggested in the age old scriptures supposedly sent 192
from God to man. It is my dream to be able to stretch and see enough to feel the benefits of doing charity so that it will eventually come back to reward me with the happiness that will help me to endure all things forever. Addendum 13 It just may be true that as we do what the Master suggests, we can just appreciate more what he has done, and that in and of itself is the complete embodiment of heaven; and that is why humility is the first and last component of our makeup that will allow us to be happy. We will be eternally grateful for our talents, borrowed from Him. Many are blessed without doing anything at all to earn the pleasure of having talent that can be appreciated by others, but some are without any glorious abilities or talents at all. There is great pity for them, but as they are humble, that in and of itself is their joy, so for this life I believe that the 4H slogan is important to accept. Humility, Hopefulness, Helpfulness and Happiness are in order and the most important traits for all Giblings and humans alike. It is my prayer that we can all accept that most important concept now while we are alive here on this beautiful earth. 193
Addendum 14 It is your decision what is important and what you will do next. Change is an essential part of progress and creation. You decide what the next step is, or you are only a puppet. There are stepping stones in place only up to a point where there are no more until you place them for your footing and direction. If you do not put them down as you decide what to do next, you will either fall forward into reckless oblivion or backward with retrogress or stop dead in your tracks.
Addendum 15 There is a great deal of symbolism in Jesus Christs carrying his cross to the hill at which he was crucified. It seems that, if he is the son of an all powerful god, that if he had to die for us, he, at least could get his disciples to carry it for him. I think Jesus was teaching us, not only that we should accept our mortality as the inevitable, but by his carrying his own cross, he was showing that working hard toward putting away the things of the flesh was a positive effort toward the next level of the existence of his soul which would 194
materialize in his resurrection; a positive effort toward perfection and away from the importance of earthly doings and pleasures. It is toward what? We do not know, for we are mortal. If we could see through the veil, then we could see that earthly pleasures are no match for the joy that is in store for us if the part of us that is a slave to earthly pleasures dies, and we are born into a clean slate fit for eternity doing charity forever.
Not only does charity never fail, but everything other than charity fails. A great test to see if one is on the right track toward doing something like what Jesus would do is this: The answers to these questions must be yes. Can the thing that you are doing potentially be shared in a constructive way with another? Can the thing that you are doing encourage someone else to do likewise? The things of the flesh are all things that are only for yourself and for the enhancing of your senses. If you ask yourself: Can I keep it?, you will surely lose it in death. If you ask yourself: Can I share it? You may just carry it until the opportunity to share arises, even if after physical death; and then your efforts might come to fruition. 195
Ultimately we can only have joy if we do charity and if we never again do selfish things. That selfishness must die the way that Jesus died on the cross. He worked hard carrying his cross the same way that we can work hard to put to death the natural man in us. Continuing the metaphor the way Jesus presented it: Baptism is like drowning and burying not the physical body, but the natural tendency to be selfish and then coming out of the water, ready to do charity and nothing else.
Addendum 16 Many humans are skeptical about the idea that truth encompasses both sides of an argument. If people are dogmatic, I believe they are wrong. Some would say that an open minded person talks out of both sides of his mouth. Well the mouth has both sides. Be at peace, and accept that opposition is an essential part of everything, every idea, and every experience everywhere except in hell.
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Addendum 17 The most challenging part of trying to have a wide enough perspective to be selfless in this physical life is denying self satisfaction from the pleasures of life. It often seems unavoidable to be motivated by what seems to be comfortable or pleasurable in some way. This is true because our senses, our physical senses, are attached to our bodies and we are alone in our perception of such senses that seem to satisfy. We learn over time, though, that these senses fail to be a record of our doings after all. We should learn this then and deny ourselves in order to better see the bigger picture which can include everyone but our own self awareness seed. If there is a loving god who has put us all here on this earth, he must have done it because he has mastered the ability to deny any self aggrandizement by leaving us alone here without much evidence of him. He has not done it for himself, but for us who do not deserve to be here anyway. Our God, then, would be the ultimate example of how to be.
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Addendum 18 Many events that occur on this earth are full of contradictions. That is par for the course, considering that there is opposition everywhere according to the theme of this book. In spite of all the hate and evil and injustice and unfairness that apparently taints the value of Gods creation here; light always, eventually triumphs. I believe that we humans are encased and inhibited by time. The adverb couplet, always, eventually, applies only to us mortals, so we are frustrated and do not see justice satisfied in mortality. Well we will see, eventually and then feel at ease that God really does take care of things, or really just watches the inevitable cause and effect of all things, which is the ultimate justice.
Addendum 19 What seems to be a paradox is that God actually is said to love all of his children even though we are not really good enough to be valued as we are. Maybe He does something like holding up a lump of coal while He says, This may become a diamond with the proper forces applied to it. We will see. 198
Addendum 20 Are justice and freedom both essential in the cause and effect universe? Swiftness is seen by us humans as a necessary part of justice, but perhaps effects do not materialize on the term short enough to satisfy what we as humans call vengeance. When one commits an obviously evil act such as murdering an innocent little child, we say that he should be put to death for his heinous act. On the long term of a million years, the perpetrator will punish himself and the victim may live again if life after death is actually a reality. If the victim lives again, then maybe there was no crime anyway against the little one, but only against the perpetrator by himself. So, we are free to do the wrong thing, but the consequence is our own doing in the long run. We should be free to damn ourselves by our misdeeds or to be uplifted for the positive things that we have done. If we are not free, we would deserve no reward at all for doing something that is positive.
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Addendum 21 Whenever you fail, remember that it is inevitable that all corporeal substance collapses over time, so no matter what you accomplish, its physical part cannot stay, but your attitude and hope can last as long as you can hold it with your spirit. Whenever you cannot have a need met, that need remains a motive for action toward reaching another goal maybe even higher. Whenever you lack understanding or insight, that void can give rise to a greater perspective when you are open to it. Whenever you realize that the end of the road is inevitable, another road can appear in your imagination. The end of the rainbow is often seen in a vision, but it is always ahead of you.
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Addendum 22 My understanding of charity has evolved. In the beginning, when I first learned about the concept, I was caught up in the need to give something up for the greater good, but it was often pretence because my senses are attached to my body which receives no direct satisfaction from giving. Eventually after considerable practice, vicarious sensing by my soul of the feelings that the one receiving feels; the senses are expanded. Empathy takes over as I widen my perspective to include more and more real individuals with real trials and real frustrations belonging to those around me. The pretending to care, in itself does not transform me to a godly state, so a gift from God himself is necessary for that ultimate joy which should be felt by godly giving. I hope for and expect to be given the gift from the Master Altruist. My potential is and will never be as great as his, but I believe that if he truly is that Master, he can create a way by which I can enjoy doing charity. We have been told that charity never faileth. If that is true, that would mean that if any endeavor fails; it is not charity. In the short term, many things appear to be failure, but perhaps with an incessant follow through, positive directives do not fail.
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Glossary of terms: Agibist: One who believes that Gib Himself is not a reality. Beginnism: the belief that starting over is paramount, not just every year or even every week, but every moment. This is not only possible, but necessary in order to have a true direction toward the awesome eternal adventure.
The Eloh Stoga: The one who asked to be an influence on the Giblings on the ethereal level while on Seedland. Final Condition: A misnomer to describe the end of a chapter in the eternal round, implying that we can always move forward forever, but true natures and true potentials are identified at this final condition, and cannot be changed. Forgibs: Seeds with a longing to serve others The Gibforce: Difficult to define, but it is a force of caring. It is a force for happiness from knowing the value of building, creating, striving for excellence, beauty and order. Gibbing is enhanced Charity. It is charity with a Final 202
Condition platform of peace, focus and upward direction. This force can be administered by Giblings only under certain conditions because it is a force greater than any Gibling can apply without the support of the Gib Council. Gib Himself: The one who gathered countless Seeds and planned for them to dock on Seedland for them to learn about the connection between charity and creation. Giblings: Potential Gibs who have docked to Seedland. The Giver: The son of Gib Himself, the one who went to Seedland to present the message of the value of charity to all the Forgibs who would dock there. Givism: Being willing to pattern all doings after the principles taught by the Giver and recognizing the essential connection between that and being able to accomplish charity.
Knowism: the belief that the Eloh Stoga is the only one who can verify any truth, no matter what it is: because truth is not relative but must be connected to even all the unseen entities in the cosmos. 203
Oversensing: Seeing reality in its fullest sense. This requires a pure heart and an open heart which only comes when the Steward issues the features that will allow for the everlasting eternal adventure. Parallelables: Logic which employs extrapolation, which allows a Gibling, Seedling, or Seed to know that Gib Himself and the Steward are the master builders who constructed Seedland and are the ones that can give the oversense to the Seeds so that they can over millions of years arrive at Gibland where they can give forever. Reflect: The process of removing anomalies when the essentials of the practice of charity are followed by a Gibling. Regoalism: the ability to commit to changing away from the self centered behaviors that limit the ability to see and feel and serve others.
Seedland: One of the many planets designed for the docking of countless variations of Seeds to the physical realm, the highest form being the Giblings. Seedland itself has a seed of self 204
awareness, so it too will have the opportunity to become Gibland. Seeds: Beginnings of life, the substance being self awareness.
Spiralarity: the measuring of phenomena outside the senses of sight, sound, physical dimensions and time.
For the Reader from the Author
It turns out that in the end, it not only isnt the end, but it begins again, The quest for knowledge, that is. I have concluded that no matter what I experience or surmise, I will never know the truth of all things because all things are a work in progress. Hope for improvement is the motive for all creation. Hope for vengeance or justice or equality or equilibrium is not a positive hope. Dream with Hope Work with Passion.