The Universal Morality Project

Recently I have had this idea of cross hatching the 5 major religions into a consistent ideal. The main challenge has been finding experts of each faith to find interest in the project. Hindu and Buddhist faith lends itself much more freely then the remaining 3 religions do to the sheer thought of exploring the similarities. But I have hardly scratched the surface of this major project and I hope to find more interest through out the coming days. The underlying theme here is that the congruency between these 5 ancient faith systems is what could be the true path to spiritual and moral salvation. Offensive! That’s what many have said when I approach them with this theme. Blasphemy! And I feel highly motivated from this reaction. How can the human race begin to unify if we still cannot except that in three thousand years of progress we still find difficulty in accepting the faith of others as actual true faith. This is one key to the unification of the race and I will work towards it because it is relevant and interesting. All encompassing is the premises of universal morality and how we can come to define it. It is not a new concept at all and I take no credit for its conception or origination. I just find it to be an interesting area of study and exploration.

The Path of the Rightous Man

There is a fake bible verse from the film pulp fiction that Sam Jackson’s character Jules says to people before he kills them. The verse actually came from a Sony Chiba movie called “the bodyguard” It also is not in the bible, but was created as a form of presenting a code that one might live by to justify murder. Because god can strike down upon thee, the protagonist takes the form of god and brings down the furious anger to those who would try to poison and destroy the good, and the innocent. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Interesting that this line describes what it is to be a righteous man by setting the parameters and contrast of good vs. evil. The ultimate morality of what is good, and what is evil? Inequity of selfish is a direct reference to greed and envy. Tyranny of evil men is a way of lumping together, and creating a consistency between all evil beings. It allows for gods ultimate punishment because it is ultimate evil. Tyranny on its own is not evil, yet those who lust for power and ultimately become tyrants are seen as evil, yet at times many of their choices are for the better good, or what a leader may perceive or interpret as the greater good.

Is morality subjective or can we find some kind of congruent form of universal morality that would allow for non-subjective truly un-bias dissemination of facts and understanding?

Absolute Failure

Those who believe in absolute truth will only find absolute failure. Absolute concepts have no place in our universe, ever changing, always growing, and progressing. Once any ascertain to a concepts absolute truth is made, then the knowledge itself is corrupted, since all conceptual theory and discovery is only consistent as long as the current circumstances as we perceive them, remain constant. And they do not for eternity, because they cannot. The universe is too powerful a force to allow for stagnation. The ever progressing and evolving reality we perceive to be this universe will never remain consistent, therefore the idea or concept of an absolute, is false. The only absolute in our universe is the fact that there are no absolutes. The laws of physics for example, while relevant to scientific discovery and evolution, have no possible absolute parameters, because they are only applicable to our planet, and our solar system, and our fraction of the known universe. The speed of light as we understand it has an absolute well known definition and value, yet we have no idea how these calculations may figure into the speed of light, inside a black hole. How can we ever truly know the speed of light, if that value can be changed?

This idea is not just related to abstract scientific equations and calculations, but can be applied to life in general on all levels. It is why compromise exists and the reason the human race is so well suited to change. As we progress, learn of new ideas, concepts and realites, the new data will change all the understanding and knowledge that come before. The absolute understanding of any concept is failure. The absolute dependence on any knowledge is a extension of imagination. The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. When absolute truth is a necessity we destroy the process of discovery. To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood; It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. This is the fallacy of power: ultimately it is effective only in an absolute, a limited universe. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.