October 1991
1. Human being consists of doing: Be-ing.
2. Human beings assert themselves to fulfill desire.
Assertion: Any deliberate action (doing: Be-ing)
3. Assertion results in conversations.
Conversation: A series of interactive assertions and receiving of assertions with a partner.
4. The more and better conversations one has, the more be-ing one has.
5. Human beings have four different kinds of partners in conversation:
- a. Other human beings (who tend to be unpredictable).
- b. Nature: Everything physical which is not human. (Tend to be predictable.)
- c. God: Predictable, the source of all good and all truth.
Good is that which increases the long-term happiness of any individual. - d. Satan: Source of all evil, many lies and some truth. (Tends to be unpredictable.)
Evil is anything which is not as good as it could and should be.
6. No human being can escape conversing with all four kinds of partners.
7. Conversational competence: Ability to converse with a partner to satisfy one’s desires.
- One must converse competently with other humans to satisfy social desires.
- One must converse competently with nature to satisfy desires for food, clothing, shelter, location, etc.
- One must converse competently with God to satisfy desires for truth and good.
- One must converse competently with Satan to avoid doing evil.
8. Sanity is conversing to increase one’s quotient of be-ing.
- Insanity is self-destruction: conversing to reduce one’s quotient of be-ing.
- Quotient of being = One’s present ability to converse
One’s potential ability to converse.
9. Good conversation is sane conversation because in doing so, one advantages one’s partner, enhancing the being of one’s partner. But as the be-ing of one’s partner is enhanced, the opportunity for one to converse is enhanced. So as one enhances one’s partner, one enhances one’s own being as well.
10. Evil conversation is insane conversation because in doing so, one disadvantages one’s partner in conversation, thus diminishing the be-ing of one’s partner and their conversational ability. So as one diminishes one’s partner in conversation, one diminishes oneself, because one has diminished the conversations one may have with that partner.
11. Fostering conversation with God is the best way to foster conversational competence and sanity, for all good comes from God.
Lack of sufficient competent conversation with God automatically forces one to be incompetent and insane in conversing in with other people, nature and Satan.
12. Conclusions:
- a. Those who wish to be fully sane and fulfilled will do all in their power to foster more and more conversation with God, which will enable them to grow in conversational competence and good. Then they can converse with every kind of partner correctly and competently to fulfill every desire, which is to have a fullness of Be-ing. (Which is Eternal Life.)
- b. Goodness is conversational competence which advantages and enlarges one’s partners.
- c. Evil is built on the insane untruth that disadvantaging one’s partners in conversation will somehow enhance and enlarge one’s self.