the church of goodness

what we know is that we don't know.

No need to reject.

We want to do what's good for self. Who is the self? So long as we utilize the advantages of societal life, our selves are dependent on the structure of that society. Therefore, in our pursuit of self good, we must also pursue societal good. How do we define societal good? How do we define self good?

Churches have aided societal progress in their establishment of standards of goodness for members of society to abide by.

We should be living for self and societal progress. Therein lies goodness.

concepts of society always should account for environment since societies are dependent on their environments.

basically we should just do what's best for everything.

But what is that?

bibles let deities guide us to righteousness and the ultimate good.

We don't need to ask deities. We need to ask each other.

The church of goodness should exist for the good of the good.

Everybody wants to be happy. We should all respect each other's right to achieve the goals that lead to personal happiness so long as our pursuit does not inhibit the pursuit of another. This becomes cyclical so we set up societal standards to establish rights and guide action to avoid unintentional inhibition of the action of others.

the church of goodness should be the keeper of those standards that transcend local societies in universally guiding all intentional action.

Let's do it.

we need a new pronoun

i spend too much time thinking of personhood, consciousness, agency, and identity. when writing about agency, i like to speak of agents independent of their particular identities. this allows for a conception of agency generalizable to anything that acts rather than confining agency to persons or living things. the problem with this is that we have no pronoun to represent the general category that agency encompasses.

the man reacts to his environment

the dog reacts to its environment

the agent reacts to ___ environment

what word should fill the blank?

if I put the word "his" in the blank, then our template would prevent us from speaking of any gender-neutral agents. using the word "its" in the blank creates a template that doesn't acknowledge the consciousness behind a great deal of agency.

If there is consciousness without gender, then we need a new pronoun. There may not yet be the need for the pronoun because of a lack of apparent gender-free persons, but as computer sentience evolves, it will be silly to continue to arbitrarily assign gender to bots. We should just go ahead and realize that all of this nonsense "he/she" and "his/hers" has been a warning that we need to step back and create a concise pronoun label to encompass the identity of any conscious agent.

that is all.

as things are. things will be.

sitting in the seat of shame
knowing there's no one to blame
happiness is out of reach
but in our hearts it does beseech
why have things become this way
is this the way that they must stay
mysteries excite our selves
souls and bodies nymphs and elves
hearts and brains this isn't real
then why is it we always feel
we are we and they are us
no reason to make a fuss
love is tender love is mild
love is nothing without child
just because we want to be
something that the others see
something that makes me be me
proves that we can not be free
but why hold freedom as a goal
a way to please the heartless soul
freedom without love is fake
living just for your own sake
free from who or what she asks
free from you. menial tasks
freedom from the things that are
freedom from house job and car
freedom can never exist
this is a point that can't be missed
but who needs freedom antway
what do we call freedom today
something that freedom is not
something false missing the spot
the people will always hold
responsibilities untold
limiting free choice and will
guiding people to fulfill
purpose and truth until
all of existence becomes still
but this is not the way of good
it's not the direction of should
we must do what we must feel
we must be nothing but real
people are more than they do
people must do what is true
in doing that through and through
i am me and you are you