ADORE-L CHARTER ADORE A Divine Operating Religion of Excellence. Copyright (C) 1985 Homer Wilson Smith All Rights Reserved Redistribution rights granted for non commercial purposes. DISCLAIMER If I speak with authority, it is only because I am author. Homer Wilson Smith homer@lightlink.com PREAMBLE. RESPECT means RE SPECT. SPECT comes from words like SPECTACLE, SPECTACULAR, and SPECTATOR or in other words TO SEE. Thus RE SPECT means to RE SEE, to SEE AGAIN. Specifically it means WILLINGNESS to SEE AGAIN. What we respect we are willing to see again and are glad we saw in the first place. What we do not respect we are not willing to see again and are not glad we saw at all. THOUGHT and ACTION. Thought IS action. It is action on the mental plane. Thought gives rise to emotion which is action on the emotional plane. Emotion gives rise to effort which is action on the physical plane. All of this is caused by personal responsibility which is action on the spiritual plane. Action means movement and change caused by you. Action arises from responsibility and takes place on the spiritual, mental, emotional and physical planes of existence. Thus the idea that we have the right to hold (think) ideas of any kind or nature, but not necessarily to ACT on them is self contradictory and denies that thought IS action of a very effective nature. People are responsible for their thoughts as well as their deeds, because THOUGHT IS DEED. The ADORIAN CREED. We have the right to decide for ourselves what is true and to try to act from those beliefs what ever they may be. In return we have the duty to accept challenge and counter efforts from our fellows around us whom our views affect. In this way right is balanced by duty. The THREE PURPOSES OF ADORE-L. 1.) To provide a forum for the discussion and criticism of the Adorian view. Adore is an operating religion open to analysis, criticism, change and improvement. Its only claim to fame is workability. If it don't work, it ain't true. What means work? Frees YOUR spirit from chains. 2.) To provide a forum for a wide ranging discussion from ANY point of view on any and all subjects important to life including but not limited to Religion, Science, Art and Business; Creation, Discovery, Expression and Trade; Body, Heart, Mind and Soul; God, Man, Woman and Child; Mimicry, Harmony, Counterpoint, and New Beat; and the Physical, Emotional, Mental and Spiritual planes of existence. 3.) To provide a forum where anyone can feel safe to say what they have never felt safe saying before on other lists or in life. You will not be censored either for WHAT you say nor HOW you say it. You may attack either ideas or the people who hold them. You may use rudeness, ridicule, irony, sarcasm, scorn or any other method that suits your feelings of the moment. Expressions of hostility, bitterness, anger, fear, sorrow or apathy are acceptable. You can even show people some respect. TWO CAVEATS. Firstly, do not treat others in any way that you yourself are not willing to be treated. Be willing to take what you dish out. You WILL get it back. Expect this to occur. Secondly please remember that the purpose of this list is CONTENT. You are not requested to send personal flames via private e-mail, in fact this is discouraged. We all want to hear what you have to say especially if it moves you so. Thus if you choose to flame some person or idea please keep the content-to-flame ratio of your communication greater than or equal to 50 percent. That is all we ask. If you increase the flame, increase the content. Make it meaningful. You are not mad for no reason. If you get the reason across, the anger is ok. Ok? If you absolutely can not stand people getting mad, or feel a compulsive need to stop people from venting their feelings through words of any kind, then you do not belong on this list. If you can not stand confrontation or direct and personal affrontery for the idiocy or correctness of your ideas, then you MUST stay off this list. The 50 PERCENT RULE. If you say, 'I hate Christians' that is 100 percent flame and 0 percent content. If you say, 'I hate Christians because 'They believe in Hell forever for some people.' that is 50 percent flame and 50 percent content. If you say, 'I love Christians' that is 100 percent flame and 0 percent content. You have a Right to balance your Duties with Rights, and you have a Duty to balance your Rights with Duties. Thus your Duty to deliver content, may be balanced with your Right to deliver flame. Your Right to deliver flame must be balanced with your Duty to deliver content. If you follow these rules, everything will be ok. HIGH CRIMES and HANDLING of SUPPRESSIVES. There are a few circumstances that might get you bounced off the Adore-l list. More likely, you will be roasted until you choose to leave on your own accord. However there are a few things that should not be tolerated. 1. Violating the spirit of wide open, high content communication (which includes EMOTION) with frivolous filibustering, or direct efforts to suppress (STOP) WHAT someone says or HOW they choose to say it as long as they stay within the 50 percent rule. Also included are efforts to get someone to not express a viewpoint by claiming how much you have been offended, insulted or hurt by it. We really don't care. You can try to change the offenders mind, you can let them know you hurt, if you must you can even try to hurt them back, but NOT with the intention to STOP other's communication or expression. You can try to CHANGE people's minds, but as long as they believe what they believe, they are allowed to express it. 2. Direct threats of imminent physical violence or other illegal activity. It is ok to say 'You should have your head blown off for that idea.' It is ok to say 'I wish I could blow your head off for that idea.' It is NOT OK to say 'I am going to blow your head off for that idea.' If we are going to play this game of fire, we gotta have a fire extinguisher. THIS is it. The main reason, besides legal considerations, is that killing people does not change their minds. They just come back in their next life mad as hell with a tendency to do to others (YOU) what was done to them. PEOPLE WHO SHOULD NOT JOIN ADORE-L. Adore-l is open to all people of any race, creed, color, religion, sex or affectional preference. However, you join the list in order to have your position scrutinized, torn apart, analyzed, criticized, detested, flamed and maybe even agreed upon. If you wish to change other people's minds, you must be willing to have your mind changed too. If you feel that your positions are not ones that you would be willing to change regardless of what evidence was presented then you do not belong on this list. Those who feel that a debunking of their faith would present a perilous danger to their life and their stable data should go elsewhere for their socializing. On the other hand if your faith can stand self correction and improvement through observation and logic, then of course you are most welcome on ADORE-L. If you take offense or find hurt easily in ANY matter then you do not belong on this list. You are not on this list to have your views respected. That is for whimps. You are here to have your views torn apart. If they survive the trial by fire then you will be all the stronger for it. So will the others who came to see things your way. There should be no respect given to tradition, deeply held beliefs, heart felt views, life long commitments to any given lifestyle, majority views, or any other kind of sacred cows that can be imagined. You have a right to your views, others have a right to attack them. If you chose to express your ideas on Adore-l you elect yourself FAIR GAME. If you elect to do this, your duty is to accept and deal with what ever comes your way and your right is to return in kind. You can always sign off and get lost. RESPECT. Respect should be accorded only to CERTAINTY and WORKABILITY. Certainty is not measured by your ability to PROVE your position to someone else. It is measured only by your ability to prove it to yourself. This is personal integrity. You can never prove to another that you have spoken to God. You can only get THEM to speak to God. If they do not have the confront for this, this does not invalidate the possible truth of your own encounter. Certainty is measured against a standard of PERFECT CERTAINTY. An example of a perfect certainty is the certainty that YOU have that YOU exist and care. If you doubt that you exist, then you doubt that others exist, and you also doubt that they can feel pain and can be affected by your actions. People who doubt they exist are soon weeded out of society by those who have a grip on reality. (If you doubt that you exist, do you doubt that you doubt? Are you SURE you DOUBT? Good. Then certainty exists and so do you.) LIFE IS A HOLO-DECK. One common false certainty that most people are walking around with is that the external universe of Matter, Energy, Space and Time is not a Dream. Life is a Holo-Deck. And although the external universe of Matter, Energy, Space and Time is a convenient explanation for the Consistency and Horror of this Dream, it is none the less wrong and a gigantic escape from the responsibility of having created your own existence in this Universe. It is also an escape from your own Solo Operating Cool. Consciousness is real. Matter, Energy, Space and Time are idols of stone before SOURCE. They are a DREAM and we dream together. Workability is measured against total freedom. Total freedom is having what you want and not having what you don't want. If you want to have things that you don't want (so you don't get bored) you should be able to have that too. An end result of working on the ADORE-L list should be a realization that the world you are in is the best of all possible worlds. A world that you CHOSE willingly and with full awareness of the consequences, including choosing forgetfulness of your choice. (Forgetfulness is cured by re-operating it.) "Have you chosen to forget a choice?" You could have chosen a namby pamby sweetness and light everything is fun all day long kind of world. And you HAVE chosen this kind of world a million times, but THIS time you chose a world called Killer Pit. You CAN change your mind. With this realization should eventually come the ability to leave this universe at will. However you came here willingly in the beginning, so once you can leave, you will probably decide to stay for a while. You do have a few friends scattered around the wasteland you know, who might appreciate your help. You help them by teaching them that the WAY IN is the WAY OUT. The WAY IN is the WAY OUT. To COME in, you have to BE out. Thus practicing coming in, puts you out. The universe is like a door that once PUSHED closed, needs to be PUSHED closed AGAIN to open. PULLING on the door to open it is an endless trap. Eventually ALL learn to open the door by pushing it closed again. However for some it may be a long time between now and then. CHRISTIANS. Although I was born and raised a Christian, Christians are my favorite subject for target practice. People of all religions, denominations and faiths whatsoever are welcome on this list, however some Christians and other Purveyors of Damnation will not find a warm welcome nor a fertile ground for their efforts to undermine serious religious discussion. Adore holds that we are ALL Immortal Sons of God (SOURCE). Anything less is a lie. There is a Devil, MILLIONS of them in fact, as most of the public doctrines of present day Fundamentalist Christianity well evidence. There IS however a Christ, and there is Christhood. Other religions call it other names, it doesn't matter what you call it, Christ consciousness, Nirvana, or whatever. There are many paths up the mountain, all of them different, but most of them are going around in circles on the slopes a the moment. Adore has its roots in Christianity, Buddhism and Scientology. But ALL religions are a path that can lead up the mountain for those who are pure in heart and willing to see the enormity of the light, themselves as a facet of Source, at the top. All men strive for this state of consciousness, and will one day re-attain it. Yes, you had it once. You CHOSE to leave it. Your leaving it was not an act of deceit as some would have you believe. It was an act of FAIR CHOSEN ADORATION. The FALL was self chosen with full awareness of the consequences. However in our view the person of Jesus did NOT die on a cross of wood at the hands of men. This is a fairy tale invented by Christian monks trying to encode what really happened. Adore says Christ died on the Cross of Pride and Shame. Christ died in the flesh and was reborn in the flesh AND the spirit, so that YOU do not have to die in the flesh to be reborn in the spirit. There is magic to it. He learned a few tricks which if you pay heed will save you from killing off your body in your efforts to go free. Adore says that not everyone needs Christ, only some do, mostly Christians. They have killed twice in the His Name. But it is only by their own hand and their own choice that they need Him as Savior. Further Adore holds that there is no Hell forever for non believers. This is a doctrine of the fallen and not of the Almighty. There are Heavens and there are Hells. People go through these both after death and before death. For the perfect but undeveloped and irresponsible spirit they are preparation for the soul's continued existence in another body on Earth or elsewhere. The existence of both Heaven's and Hells can not be said to be GOOD for the soul as they BOTH rob the soul of the idea that he/she is both Perfect and Responsible. They turn respsonsibility into accountability, reward and punishment, which further degrade the soul into lifetime after lifetime of living evil. However all Heavens and Hells and involvement with bodies end one day. (When the soul learns to CREATE them and hand them out for free.) Only Peace and People are forever. Adore considers Marijuana to be its Sacred Plant and the ingestion of cannabis in any form to be a most Holy Sacrament to be done ONLY WHEN NEEDED solely for spiritual gain, vision, revelation and advancement. Adore considers Alcohol in most forms to be the brew of the Master Demon reserved for those who wish to grow cold and die. THE ADORIAN VIEW. The Adorian view is that we all are Immortal beings, responsible through DIRECT CHOICE not only for our own existence in this universe, but for the universe as well. Those that believe in DEATH FOREVER or HELL FOREVER for ANYONE, or who can see no personal prior responsibility for their existence on Earth and the circumstances of their birth, will find themselves very much under scrutiny as the source of the problem rather than as the solution to the problem. Death forever, and Hell forever are both lies. They are lies born of MAJESTY and SELF CHOSEN FORGETFULNESS. Forgetfulness can be cured by practicing it, by making it self chosen again. This will be discussed at length on the Adore-l list. Adoration is the only Truth. Yes even adoration of lies. But the Truth always wins out in the end. It is the ADORATION that makes it so. So let's get down to business. Keep the content to flame ratio greater than or equal to 50 percent, keep it important, and keep it from the heart. OPENING FRUIT for DISCUSSION. SOUL SPIRITUAL GOD RELIGION CREATION NEW BEAT MIND MENTAL MAN SCIENCE DISCOVERY COUNTERPOINT HEART EMOTIONAL WOMAN ART EXPRESSION HARMONY BODY PHYSICAL CHILD BUSINESS TRADE MIMICRY SOUL CAUSE CREATOR SPIRIT SCOPE PRIDE MIND THOUGHT MASTER MALE SPAN MAJESTY HEART EMOTION APPREHENTICE FEMALE DEPTH MAGNIFICENCE BODY EFFORT CREATURE BABY FIELD GLORY SOUL TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY GOD I AM COOL/CLASS MIND MASTER OF OFFENSE MAN I KNOW HALCYON HEART MASTER OF DEFENSE WOMAN I WANT SIN-SONG BODY TOTAL NO RESPONSIBILITY CHILD I DO THRILL/ROMANCE