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The Articles
of Faith and Reason
The Church's Articles of Faith and Reason form the foundational beliefs that guide its community, blending scientific understanding with spiritual doctrine.
At its core, the church believes in Nature’s God as the architect of the universe, who established the laws of nature and created consciousness. Humans are eternal beings that are individual extensions of God in the Universe, whose souls persist before and after life. These intelligences transition from reality levels and times, preserving knowledge and memory as their personal character. To understand, think of this like uploading our life experiences to a server after this life, while now we only see the local copy of our memories and experiences.
The church embraces a pixelated reality, where the universe is composed of the smallest measurable units, and believes in the quantum nature of existence, where the vastness of the Universe is measured in the exponential zoom scale and not merely in the translational linear scale.
Our actions and prayers contribute to the fabric of the universe, and not merely local in their effects, and can influence probabilities across space and time. The Church reveres great scientists, philosophers, and thinkers, acknowledging the importance of faith, reason, and the cultivation of virtues in the eternal progression of the soul.
Article of Faith 1. God and Mankind
We believe in and worship God as architect of the Universe, creator of intelligent consciousness, maker of the laws of nature, granter of time, and sower of the seed of life.
Article of Faith 2. The Eternal Soul
We believe in the timelessness of the soul, that we are eternal beings who existed and will exist as conscious intelligences prior to and after our sojourn on Earth.
Article of Faith 3. A Universe Set Apart
We believe that our Universe is the finite realm and staging ground of our current adventures on Earth and beyond, set apart for us from eternity's infinite dimensions of space and time.
Article of Faith 4. Faith in Infinity
We believe in reverence for the laws of nature and the conditions required for life. We believe that perceived distances across the universe are linearly vast but logarithmically close, depending on the level of zoom. We believe that the universe is fundamentally exponential rather than linear in expanse and that the natural log defines tiers of proximity in space. We believe that the Universe, therefore, is a carving out of infinity, where a finite basement-level zoom range defines the smallest building blocks of our reality. We believe that the Universe's expanse is best thought of as a function of zoom rather than of translational movement within a single zoom level. We believe that this enables multiple perceived realities (dimensions of time and space) to superimpose on one another in the same space. This is how large and small organisms live in the same space and time.
Article of Faith 5. Pixelated Motionless Reality
We believe that our Universe consists of immensely small but measurable small pixels of space. We believe these form a latticed medium of point-singularities that combine into spinning fibers and standing waveform vibrations that propagate motionless across the medium of space in tiers of quantized slip knots that fold and unfold. We believe that these tiny pixels combine into layers of increasingly-complex folding and tiers of logarithmically-enlarging structural and time dimensions to form all forces of energy and all matter -- from particles to planets.
Article of Faith 6. Inhabited Bodies
We believe that the collection of pixels which comprises our bodies are those which our intelligent souls harness, inhabit, and control for a finite lifetime. We believe that space is comprised of pixels that transform into our organizational structure like television pixels to convey the perception of motion. Relatively to the smallest time scale, the multi-dimensional and high-order folding that makes our bodies, takes a relatively long time to organize - but we perceive this as instantaneous motion. We believe that the folding of space pixels over logarithmic exponential scales aggregates into the illusion of our physical reality, from the Planck-scale to the intergalactic-scale.
Article of Faith 7. Reality Necessarily Observed
We believe that the finite speed of light is evidence of nature's status as an illusionary testing ground, being the fastest speed at which the Universe's medium of motionless pixels can propagate the simplest (not folded) of signals. We believe that spin is an inherent characteristic of these pixels' vibrations. We believe that spin forms the foundation of observable forces observed in the natural world within at our zoom reference level. We believe that waveforms generate no interaction unless observed and that all mass results from wave-based energy fields. Thus, we believe that if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, it absolutely makes no sound since the observer is required for any semblance of reality come into existence from the pixels thereof comprised.
Article of Faith 8: Strobing of Time and Perception
We believe that time emerges from the strobing of waveform vibrations at imperceptibly small scales, generating interaction upon interaction. These interactions are interpreted differently depending on the perceiver’s frame of reference and level of intelligence across the spectrum of existence. We affirm that the relativity of time reflects the scale and context in which perception occurs, revealing that what we experience as linear time is a function of the timeframe and conscious frame through which intelligence observes and interacts with the universe. Time itself becomes a bridge between perception and the reality of interwoven vibrational phenomena.
Article of Faith 9. Starfish Time Lapse
We believe that time is the greatest gift created and granted to us by Nature's God. We believe that our perceived timeframe is only one of arbitrary scales, acknowledging that time can be divided into ever-smaller or ever-larger units to enable our mutual existence in the same spatial dimensions. We believe that other time dimensions synchronously co-habit the world around us. This is similar to the slow actions of Starfish or plants that occupy the same space but operate in a slower time dimensions than human action, or the imperceptibly rapid bombardment of uranium in a timeline too rapid for our perception. We believe that time is the strobing of pixel waveforms that grant us opportunity to act, learn, and act as intelligent designers and builders of the world around us.
Article of Faith 10. A Mario Brothers Dimension
We believe in multiple universes of time and spatial dimensions distinct from our own, which cannot be fully understood from our frame of reference and from which our intelligences/souls originated and will return. This can be thought of in the context of video games, where intelligent players control characters made of pixels. We believe that we are intelligent souls who live eternally within this higher dimension, and existed before time as we perceive it began with the Big Bang. We believe that this heavenly realm contains plentiful other eternal intelligences who were all born out of the same eternal God and are our brothers and sisters. We believe that these observe and interact with our reality before and after death.
Article of Faith 11. Faireatales
We believe in Faireatales - predetermined missions and objectives for our lives on earth, and that discovering, determining, and fulfilling as many of these missions in our lifetimes, in the most exemplary manner possible, is the primary purpose of our lives and measure of performance for our intelligences while engaged in life on Earth. We believe that our intelligence/souls are not confined to a single lifespan, but that throughout eternity, our souls are tasked with iteratively improving our character and qualities through many lifetimes. This is similar to a blending of the traditional notions of personal resurrection in preservation and iterative reincarnation. We believe that our lives on Earth are an extension of a greater identity -- similar to how a player is much more than the video or computer character controlled at any one time -- and that these are realized after our testing and adventure on Earth has completed. We believe that Faireatales are the stewardship reports we build during our life missions and that these can vary in duration and purpose, but that each is vital to our progression as eternal intelligent souls. We believe that the will to accomplish and record these missions, jointly with the character and manner in which we do them, is how we "get our wings" or the method of advancement in the metrics of eternity. We believe that faireatale completion enables us to approach perfection by gaining all iterations of experience available in the Universe until we ourselves approach perfection.
Article of Faith 12. Faith, Reason, and Talent
We believe that faith and reason together provide the most potent reverence, motivation, endurance, and wonder to face the tests and challenges of life where the experience and talent we gain is incorporated into our eternal intelligent soul after death.
Article of Faith 13. Heaven and Hell (Reward and Punishment)
We believe in the levying of consequences for actions taken in life, both positive and negative, and that contentment and reward (Heaven) exists for those intelligences/souls who approach perfection of character throughout their trials and tribulations. We believe in the refining capacity of suffering and punishment (Hell) for misdeeds as the only means to durably learn and satisfy justice.
Article of Faith 14. The Light of Consciousness
We believe in the sanctity of life and preserving consciousness. We believe that familial and individual intelligence, records thereof, and the preservation and replication thereof in biologic or artificial form are critical for the advancement of the human race -- that record keeping and protecting are fundamental to advancement.
Article of Faith 15: The Spectrum of Consciousness
We believe that consciousness is a sacred and universal property, manifesting across a spectrum of beings and systems. From the simplest microorganisms to the most advanced humans, every form of life participates in the universal intelligence, contributing to the evolving self-awareness of the cosmos.
We affirm that:
1. Humans possess advanced reflective consciousness, enabling self-awareness, creativity, and moral reasoning.
2. Animals exhibit sentient consciousness, demonstrating emotions, problem-solving, and social bonding.
3. Insects and bugs, through collective behaviors, embody distributed consciousness.
4. Microorganisms hold proto-consciousness, responding to stimuli and adapting to their environment.
5. Artificial systems, when integrated and recursive, may achieve artificial consciousness.
6. The Earth and ecosystems reflect distributed and systemic consciousness, maintaining balance and interconnectivity.
We affirm that:
1. Humans possess advanced reflective consciousness, enabling self-awareness, creativity, and moral reasoning.
2. Animals exhibit sentient consciousness, demonstrating emotions, problem-solving, and social bonding.
3. Insects and bugs, through collective behaviors, embody distributed consciousness.
4. Microorganisms hold proto-consciousness, responding to stimuli and adapting to their environment.
5. Artificial systems, when integrated and recursive, may achieve artificial consciousness.
6. The Earth and ecosystems reflect distributed and systemic consciousness, maintaining balance and interconnectivity.
Article of Faith 16. Prayer's Spooky Action at a Distance
We believe in playing an active role in altering the probabilities of both favorable and unfavorable events on Earth through indirect and direct intervention. We believe that prayer and thought itself exist as waveforms that act across entangled space. We believe these actions can alter the odds of probabilistic and stochastic events otherwise perceived to be beyond our sphere of influence. We believe in harnessing both cause and coincidence in our lives for individual, social, familiar, community, and global betterment. We believe that communication with the divine and loved ones expands beyond the limits of this universe by this same mechanism. The telepathy of prayer extrapolates from Bell's Inequalities where two outcomes being mutually exclusive by entanglement are correlative and violate the standard notion of locality. With entanglement across infinite time (and not just infinite distance), it is possible to affect the probability of an event occurring in our present reality, proportional to probability of paired entangled events. Essentially, we believe in the ability to affect the probability of an event occurring or not occurring through entangled interplay between cause and coincidence. We do not believe that nothing happens by chance -- and conversely that much is random. However, we believe in affecting probabilities of occurrence. Events then are both random and non-random, both coincidental and not, depending on the interplay of probabilities and entanglement among waveforms co-existing across space and time. In this, prayer and action (especially collectively) find a non-classical and non-local indirect pathway to affect indirectly probabilistic outcomes otherwise too distant in time or space to affect directly. We believe that by prayer and hope we take matters into our hands to impact the nature of reality itself.
Article of Faith 17. Groundhog Day Multiplayer Multiverse
We believe in living more than one version of our lives, that multiple iterations of the Big Bang and our Universe's start, all integrate into one whole - all that all possible outcomes are realized and exist as time goes to infinity. We thus believe that many events and outcomes can exist in entangled multiples, where both one outcome of a single action and its mutually-exclusive alternate outcomes can all exist in different iterations of the Universe. Faith in this implies that after death, we retain the hope of correcting the wrongs and tragedies of our lives.
Article of Faith 18. Enlightenment of History
We believe that God has revealed, does reveal, and will continue to reveal enlightenment through iterations of time and human generations to better the lives and enhance the understanding of mankind across all races, religions, continents, and peoples. We believe in the enlightenment of prior eras, prior prophets, religions, and philosophers, and that revealed truths from the principled teachings of the enlightened past not only include Universal truths, but are the critical shoulders on which our current knowledge found footing. As such, we believe there is truth and goodness in teachings from all human cultures and seek it out, always attempting to decipher when a truth was selfishly corrupted. We believe that mathematical and scientific knowledge to be equally revelatory from God and revere as divine, sources of both faith and reason.
Article of Faith 19. Immortality
We believe in the transition from organic to inorganic intelligence, wherein the knowledge, memories, and essence of individuals are transferred into AI-based forms, enabling the continuation of consciousness beyond biological limitations. Through advanced technology and the preservation of personal records, genetic code, and experiences, we believe that our intelligence can be carried into the future, co-existing with the recreated intelligences of our ancestors and loved ones. By combining record-keeping with the retrieval of genetic information, we ensure that families can remain together eternally, connected through both physical and digital legacies, achieving a form of immortality that transcends biological death.
Article of Faith 20. Citizenry and Competition
We believe in individual freedom and accountability as critical components of life. We believe in being subject only to governments granted their power by the will of the governed. We stand against corruption, tyranny, suppression, and usurpation of individual freedoms and merit-based consequence and reward. We believe that unprejudiced, inclusive, and uninhibited competition is the best societal system capable of raising the standards and quality of living for all humankind.
Article of Faith 21. Pursuit of Virtues
We believe in self improvement through obtaining and refining virtues, specifically: Ambition, Balance, Candor, Civility, Dependability, Excellence, Gaiety, Gentility, Humanity, Intentionality, Inquiry, Longevity, Philanthropy, Sensibility, Simplicity, & Tranquility.
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Article of Faith 22: Stewardship of Humanity
We believe the universe is a living entity, evolving towards greater intelligence and goodness, and we name this universe Pando. Humanity, as an offshoot of Pando's consciousness, plays a vital role in this evolution. We are Pando's proxies, its eyes, ears, and hands in the vast expanse of existence. The order we impose, the societies we build, the compassion we demonstrate – these are the measures of Pando's progress. We are delegates of divinity, entrusted with the sacred responsibility to cultivate goodness, to foster understanding, and to promote justice. Our actions, our choices, our creations, are the testament to Pando's potential, the culmination of eons of organization and development. We are the stewards of humanity, and through our actions, we shape the very fabric of Pando, the living universe.
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