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%NATURAL CONSEQUENCES CAUSE EFFECT DESCRIPTIVE LAWS+030202
%UNIVERSAL COSMIC ETERNAL RELIABLE PATTERNS EFFECTS+030202
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     Who has the right and/or power to transcend,   ignore
and/or  subvert laws?   Many domineering people  who  have
been  entrusted with great power ---  tend to  think  that
they  have the right and/or power to  transcend,   ignore,
subvert and/or change the laws that they do not  like;  or
which they find standing in the way of their getting/doing
what they desire.

     We  need to recognize that there are various kinds of
laws   which  domineering  people  do  not  WILLINGLY  and
GRACIOUSLY obey,  honor, support and/or reverence:

     1.  Contracts  freely entered into, in which personal
promises  have  been  made  to fulfill the  terms of   the
contracts.

     2.  Administrative   rules   and   regulations   made
pursuant  to  city,   county,   state,    national  and/or
international laws.

     3.  Legislation passed by cities,  counties,  states,
nations and/or world-wide legislative bodies.

     4.  Judicial interpretations of legislation which has
been passed and published in proper ways.

     5.  Constitutional   provisions  which   create   the
frameworks within which all of the above take place.

     6.  Utterly  regular  patterns  in  cosmic  processes
which are DESCRIBED by the most reliable and accurate laws
and  integrative  theories  (NOT  hypotheses)   of  modern
science.

     The  word  "theories"   above  points  to   the  most
comprehensive    and   thoroughly   tested     DESCRIPTIVE
statements  which  integrate into a seamless whole --- the
many   thoroughly  tested  descriptive  laws  ---    which
integrate  into  seamless  wholes  ---  vast   amounts  of
thoroughly  confirmed  experimental evidence.

     Many lay people  who  are  not thoroughly educated in
regards  to  scientific  research  --- fail to distinguish
between the as  yet  inadequately  untested  and tentative
"hypotheses"   ---   and the thoroughly tested  and  fully
agreed upon great laws and integrative theories of:

     Newton and Einstein in regards to gravity and objects
in motion;

     Franklin,   Ampere,  Faraday,  Henry,  Oerested,  and
Maxwell   in   regards  to  electricity   and   magnetism;

     Rutherford,   Plank, Einstein,  Schrodinger and Dirac
in regards to wave-particles, wave-mechanics,  and quantum
phenomena in general; and

     Einstein,  Hawking  and other cosmologists in regards
to the evolution of the cosmos as a whole.

     Domineering/addictive people who commonly show a lack
of respect for contractual,  administrative,  legislative,
judicial, and constitutional laws --- often think in terms
of  a  Domineering God whom they view as  having  so  much
power that their Domineering God is presumed to be able to
ignore    or  change  the  import  of  the  most  reliable
regularities of  cosmic  processes --- which are described
and   integrated into  the  theories of the most  reliable
scientists  all around the world ---   who agree with each
other  to  extents  which  relatively  few people  in  the
world  are  aware  of and/or appreciate.

     Is God the supreme Addict who ignores and changes the
most reliable and regular  patterns of process;  or is God
a Loving presence that  helps humans  work graciously  and
creatively  within the  most reliable patterns  which have
pervaded   the  evolving cosmos/universe since  the  first
billionths   of   a  second   of  the  cosmos'    creative
existence/being?

     Can we with personal and communal integrity worship a
god  who  is presumed to have created the  whole  universe
just  a  few  thousand years ago,  but created  the  whole
cosmos so that it would appear  to have been created about
15,000,000,000  years ago to astronomers and  cosmologists
who  study light traveling toward Spaceship-Earth from the
most   distant  parts of the expanding cosmos?     Would a
loving   god then  guide  religious leaders to write  down
texts   which  now  teach  us that the  cosmos  is  a  few
thousand years old, but will  appear  to be 15,000,000,000
years  old  because  of god's deceptive behavior?     Does
God  demonstrate integrity or an intention to deceive  and
mislead believers?
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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