An important note before we begin. Everything comes out now. We will rebuild this over the next few weeks with what should be there. But for now, we need to be intentional about thoughtfully clearing out the clutter from our belief system.
So let’s begin with cultural beliefs. These are beliefs that we accept from family, places, groups, media, books, radio, teachers, textbooks, politicians, civic leaders, etc. all around us as we grow from infancy up through childhood, teenage years, young adulthood, middle age, old, ancient, and on. It is what informs our background, shapes our subconscious perceptions and decisions. We rarely know or understand all of how culture has affected us, but today we look at that a little bit. Even your language is a product of your culture, and affects how you think and what you believe. So let’s begin thinking through this.
Let’s start with scientific advancement. Every culture has some degree of this. Humans, from the beginning of our known existence have been fashioning tools to enable us to do more with what we have. A recent name for this is scientific advancement. We research, find out why things happen as they do, and develop technologies and tools based on our new understanding. And each culture has particular technologies and tools that arise from where and who they are as a group of humans.
Some examples for the sake of this post will include the internet, which fosters the spreading of all kinds of ideas, information, and affects every other aspect of culture. We also include such theories as evolution and such.
Within our belief system, these all need to go, at least for the moment. All tools that we build to serve us are under us and should not be in the belief system. And, for the moment, explanations for the origin of life need to be removed, so that we can intentionally and thoughtfully work through these issues in a way that works with other parts of our belief system, when we get to it.
That’s it for now. We will look more at culture next week.
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