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Cruel Nature

J.X. Mason January 21, 2019 No Comments

Carnivorous plant captures, kills, and digests an insect

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Part One: Intros and Guides

Table of Contents

Essay 1 - The Principles We Hold True

Essay 2 - Introduction to Nature's Path of Continuing Creation

Essay 3 - Overview of Nature's Continuing Creation

Essay 4 - Is Our Path a "Spiritual" Path?

Essay 5 - Is this Book For You?

Essay 6 - How to Read this Book of Essays

Part Two: Patterns and Complexity

Essay 7 - Nature Creates Patterns of Information & Beauty

Essay 8 - Mathematics Evolves in Nature's Continuing Creation

Essay 9 - Nature Creates Increasingly Complex Systems

Part Three: Evolution

Essay 10 - The Processes of Evolution in Biology, Culture, & Technology

Essay 11 - Answering Evolution's Critics

Part Four: Creating First Life ("Abiogenesis")

Essay 12 - Chemical Precursors to Life on Earth

Essay 13 - The Organic Molecules & Processes Forming Life

Essay 14 - Abiogenesis: Evolution of First Life on Earth

Essay 15 - Where Life Began: "Warm Pools?" "Black Smokers?"

Essay 16 - The Rise of Multicellular Organisms

Essay 17 - Mysteries of Modern Physics

Part Five: Evaluating Other Spiritual Paths

Essay 18 - Forerunners to Our Path & Practice

Essay 19 - Evaluating Taoism & Zen

Essay 20 - Evaluating Hinduism

Essay 21 - Evaluating Buddhism

Essay 22 - Evaluating Jesus' Teaching

Essay 23 - Early Christianity: From Jesus' Death to 312 C.E.

Essay 24 - Medieval Catholicism, then the Protestant Reformation

Essay 25 - Evaluating Islam

Essay 26 - Smaller Religions & Modern Cults

Part Six: Love & Sharing

Essay 27 - Is God Love? Is Creating Love?

Essay 28 - Radical Sharing & Universal Love Don’t Work

Essay 29 - Love’s Role in Our Lives & Practice

Part Seven: Suffering, Evil, & Death

Essay 30 - Suffering & Evil - Causes & Responses

Essay 31 - Dealing with Death on Nature's Path

Part Eight: About Our Future

Essay 32 - Cyborgs, Transhumanism, & Immortality

Essay 33 - Overpopulation Threatens Nature's Creation

Part Nine: Life Guidance: Ethics, Virtues, & Fulfillment

Essay 34 - Leading an Ethical, Moral Life

Essay 35 - Leading a Virtuous & Honorable Life

Essay 36 - Leading a Fulfilled & Happy Life

Essay 37 - Meditations for Nature's Human Co-Creators

Part Ten: Celebrating Nature's Continuing Creation

Essay 38 - Gatherings, Sayings, Songs, & “Stars”

Essay 39 - “4,000 Years of Christmas”

Essay 40 – “Primal Reverence”

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AUTHOR'S JOURNAL ENTRIES

Always Capitalize “Earth” and “Nature”
My Cup Runneth Over
(no title)
Stoicism, ~171 C.E. to Today
The Many Conceptions of “God”
Quotes About Death!
Hindu Morality – Pro and Con
Seven Questions for Every Religion and Philosophy
Nature’s Spiritual Gatherings
Cargo Cults of the South Pacific
Steady Energy Flows Can Create Patterns
Patterns Evolve When Energy Steadily Flows
Early Cells Engulfed Tiny Creatures!
“I Write the Songs”
Asteroid “Bennu” Has the Elements of DNA!
Human Beings Were Not Designed
Falling Down into the Grass
A Grove of Aspen Trees May be One Organism
Nature (including humans) Creates Increasingly Complex Systems
Love and Nature’s Continuing Creation
Complex Systems, Evolution, & Transcendence
Patterns in Nature
Naturalism and Baruch Spinoza
Heaven & Nirvana Would Get Boring!
God… or…”God”… or the things on my list?
What is Natural (or Secular) Spirituality?
Was Evolution on Earth Probable?
Evolution of the Eye
Nature Creates Patterns
Millions of Americans don’t attend church, but they do believe in “God.”
You Don’t attend Church, But You Do Believe in ‘God’…?
The Golden Ratio, Fibonacci, and Nature’s Spirals
Nature’s Path of Continuing Creation — in a nutshell
Bathtub Whirlpools & Hydroelectric Dams
The Probability of Life’s Natural Creation
The Role of Foods in World Religions
Nature Continues to Create Complex Systems
Patterns of Increasing Complexity
Why Humans Invented the idea of “God.”
Mathematics Evolves in Nature’s Continuing Creation
Evolution & The Constructal Law
The Purpose of Life: To Create or To Love?
Twelve Assertions About “God”
Frog Church & A Wilder Clay
The Purpose of Our Lives
Michael Dowd’s “Eco-Credo”
The Origins of the Christmas Tree
About the Song, “Blue Boat Home”
Characteristics of Modern Cults
What’s the Secular Equivalent of “Grace”?
Humans Were Not Designed by God
The Oak Tree is an Emergent Complex System
Heroes and Heroines of Continuing Creation
Brainless Jellyfish Demonstrate Learning Ability
What Is Nature’s Continuing Creation?
Why Is Hairstyle So Important in Religions?
Human Beings Were Not Designed
Eight Ways Humanity Could Become Extinct
No, I Don’t Worship Nature
Are Humans All That Special?
3 Ways to Find Meaning & Purpose in Life
Christianity’s Denial of Our Climate Crisis
580 Creationist Claims – All Refuted
Taoist Virtues
Creating by Combining
Emergence in Biological Levels
What to Do About Suffering
Buddhism’s Condition of Impermanence
How Old Is Planet Earth?
Level of Support for Evolution
What Do We Do If Disaster Strikes !?
Evolution and the Complexity of the Eye
Abiogenesis – From Lifeless Molecules to the First Living Organism
The Universe and its Processes
Evolution is Part of Nature’s Continuing Creation
A Broader View of Evolution
“All Things Are Cooperating Causes”
Professor Bejan’s Constructal Law
From the Book,”Lives of a Cell”
Genesis – Two Different Stories
God or Nature’s Continuing Creation?
The Processes of Nature’s Continuing Creation
Peak Experiences
When Wholes Are Greater than the Sum of their Parts
Constructive Living Is My Spiritual Path
A Riff on Walt Whitman
Do I Believe in God?
Warmed-over Pantheism ?
From Whirlpools to a Galactic Mind
Great Theories of History
From a Tree to Transcendence
Why Is There Suffering?
Buddhism vs. Transcendentalism
Why New Religions Arise
Beyond the Tonic of Wildness
The “One” versus The “-isms”
Pros & Cons of Taoism & Zen
The Patterns of Nature’s Continuing Creation
Earth-centered Spirituality
On the Business of Life

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