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Notanism.Pdf !1 Notanism Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion, too Imagine all the people Living life in peace. The twenty first century is now well established and the world is still adapting to the fact that the end of the last century marked a significant historical change from the industrial to technological era. Just as the changes brought about by the industrial age led to revolution so do the changes currently taking place offer the same opportunities. This is the big one, it is hard to see a future major change where the people can really seize the world back from those who wish to control us or walk like gods amongst us, but the window of opportunity will not stay open forever. This revolution truly has to be for all the people, we must learn from history which has suffered control by the rich, uprising by the poor and oppressed, left wing dictatorships, right wing dictatorships, democracies controlled by lobbying industrialists, governments working for money not for the people in the middle, the so called apathetic majority. Yes, it is you I am talking to, the person who just wants to get on with your life without all the associated problems living in a society controlled by people with an ulterior motive. You are the majority around our planet whether you live in USA, Russia, China, UK, Australia, India or any other country you just want to live your life as best you can doing whatever it is you enjoy with no animosity to others. Seeing as we are the majority do you not find it’s strange that our governments seem to believe it is prudent to spend most of our resources pointing weapons at each other ? There is only one solution to the world’s problems and that is a revolution from the middle, people’s whose only wish is to enjoy life and give the opportunity for everyone else to do the same. This can very easily be a bloodless coup and if consideration can be given then perhaps even acceptable to all individuals (although possibly resented by many who hold that power and influence over the planet). You hear a lot of conspiracy theories about the New World Order and those three words always conjure up suspicion and fear. Surely a NWO is exactly what we should be striving for but one that is controlled by the people for humanity as a whole and not just a selected group of people or even a selected group of nations. Before we begin thinking !2 about solutions we should take a close look at how we got here and find out exactly who the Old World Order are and how they gained control of the planet we live on. I am of the opinion I was taught history backwards. Since having a lot more time on my hands, I seem to be only interested in history, but in school I could not wait to drop it as a subject. I opted for geography, a subject I could see to be a far more logical choice. With the geography of the world I knew the whole picture, I’ve seen globes, I know which bits are wet which bits are dry, which bits are hot, cold, mountains, desert, sea, lakes and if I did not know I could pick up an atlas and find out. A twelve year old had more interest in games and comics than current affairs, surely I should have understood how the world was before I was taught how it came to be, the problem is the truth about current affairs rarely comes out until current events have been consigned to history. I now have a good understanding of the importance of history, I can see beginnings of eras ends of eras and how things evolved and most importantly who were the winners and who were the losers as well as what happened to both parties. I always assumed our era began with the beginning of the 20th Century with the world only really taking shape after two world wars with all that happened before just being the warm up game. The biggest shame was that I and many other students left school believing that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand had everything to do with the world we live in, how wrong we were, the real first world war that shaped our lives appears to have been in 1756. The advances since WW2 have marked the end of the era which began shortly after the Seven Years’ war and provided the platform with which we can build a new era as the world is able to communicate with more people from their pocket phone than they could ever have imagined in an age where the transport was still powered by wind, muscle or that recently discovered phenomenon, gravity. Not wishing to go against the grain I shall continue to make the same mistake and start my look at history from the beginning (well the beginning as modern day religions like to view it conveniently ignoring our ancient evolution) but before you read this clear your mind and take a look at the world around you. If it seems unfair and unnecessarily harsh, it is, but it always has been. The main difference is education, this has given us a better understanding of our surroundings and given some of us the desire/ability to take control of our own lives. Let us look why we are where we are and then explore how technology could be used to cancel out the imbalance with the three weapons still available to us, education, democracy and a free and open internet. I am certain there will be inaccuracies in my individual assessment of events, I do not claim to be an expert historian but I like to think I am aware of the world around me so maybe if I do make mistakes by all means let me know but what I find interesting is what people have done with any power they have attained rather than why they did it in the first place. !3 So let’s go back to where it all started according to the bible (assuming the hundreds of thousands of years before “creation” never happened)….. !4 Religion, The two recurring themes that are going to resonate throughout these paragraphs are power and control so where better to start than with religion. Whatever flavour of God or gods you look at, the core lessons are always the same mix of morals, behaviour and lifestyle. The original purposes of organised religion was no doubt to assist with the protection and health of the followers of your religion, a way to unite a people in your part of the world for the good of living in that particular society. Order and high morale within your own society is essential otherwise people just cannot feel secure enough to be able to get on with their lives and become an asset to the community. In the ancient world there would have been no easy way to get a moral message across as there was no mass education, no chance of teaching people through logic and reasoning, a threat was required and what better threat than an all seeing supreme being which judges you in this world and the next. I am not going to analyse every religion, there would be just too much to take in and it is not the purpose of my journey through time. I personally do not have any religious belief and I see god purely as a creation of man for man, I do look at religions but from my point of view and I try to understand why their scriptures give instruction as opposed to taking any mystical meaning from the words. I have absolutely no desire to disprove your beliefs either but I will make one relevant observation and that is, if each religion believes they are the ones who are right, then quite obviously this must mean that the majority of the world are wrong. If you are a member of the right religion then congratulations, you hit the jackpot you have found the answer we have all been looking for. All I beg of you is that you keep it to yourself, by all means celebrate the fact that you are right but with righteousness comes the responsibility to respect everyone else’s right to be wrong. Judaism paved the way for monotheistic religion with Moses receiving the ten commandments on behalf of the Israelites, rules to be followed and the only words ever to have claimed to have been “written with the finger of God”. In reality it was one of many religious groups around the world. This particular one happened to be confined to a small area of the Middle East to the west of the River Jordan and would have probably remained there had it not been spread far and wide by a Roman empire which would go on to adopt one of it’s rebels to spread a religion, which would end up going global. I will pause here and this is an appropriate place to do so as the ten commandments is the one point where all three main monotheistic religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all fundamentally in agreement (although the Islamic version is slightly different) . If we omit the first four commandments which establish a supreme being and that you !5 should devote one day of your week to him, we can even convince most atheists and agnostics to agree to the validity of the remaining six.
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