An Answer to the Question of Why Traditionally Religious People Become Atheists, Applicable to Some People

An Answer to the Question of Why Traditionally Religious People Become Atheists, Applicable to Some People 

We are born and grow up through the baby stages of nursing babblers (sucklings or sucklers), crawlers, toddlers and post-toddlers naturally not having a conception of magical divinity or such Gods and Goddesses or a solo God. At that earliest stage of our life and its development our learning is entirely mechanistic stimulus-and-response, action-reaction-interaction, situational, interactional and interpersonal reward-and-punishment feedback and correlated experiential and observational learning. Thereafter, our religious indoctrination and socialization training is that “the magic of” divinity or deities or the deity and other ghost beings “is the cause” of happenings and our and others' behavior, actions, experiences and destinies, with the deities or the deity being the prime or overriding agent of cause. However later in life, some of us determine on our own and others of us via our science education, or both, that inherent circumstantial and situational happenstance action-reaction and interaction cause and effect, and such cause-and-effect factors, are the default modus operandi of all of nature, our nature as organisms and complex human nature included, which can be figured out, sometimes shortly and sometimes over considerable time, and manipulated and give rise to the rules of all inventions, manipulation and production. In any engineer, scientist, inventor, medic, successful and enduring conqueror, military commander, ruler, helmsman or helmswoman, politician or merchant, etc., there is a mechanistic, atheistic frame of mind or thinking process in whole or situationally on the job. In other words, later in life, mostly during our adolescence or early adulthood, some of us default back to our objective reality pre-religious indoctrination and socialization mode of thinking or thinking process of figuring things out (innate human-augmented organismic objective, empirical thinking based on our objectively reasoned and attributed, vis a vis situationally natural feedback, cause-and-effect experiences, observations, experiments, [reality, truth, fact-determination] tests, etc.), but with a matured and more disciplined brain for normalized or systematic objective understanding.

To intellectual or philosophical atheists, there is no actual magic nor are there actual miracles sent to us from beyond the ultimately, or largely, explicable (through figuring things out, learning and knowledge) workings of nature, being the state, content and behavior of existence, or the state of being. Not even divinity, a fiction, and our fictional friends and enemies the deities and spirits (ghosts), all imaginative behavioral essences and informational identities, can theoretically, let alone, as an impossibility, actually, exist without or beyond existence and do anything without -- transcendent and pre-conditional to them and their thus oxymoronic omnipotence or almighty power -- energy and kinetics. As a matter of empirical fact, humans and the other living things have and can live without this or that deity and without any deity in mind and belief in any or all of them and without the Bibles, the Qur'an or this or that other scripture, but no biological thing can live without nature and the life support and sustaining provisions of nature. Deities are, or the deity is, in a singular such regard, good luck charms or talismans, or mojos for us to implore for good luck, help, forgiveness for our wrongs, rewards, gifts/givings or benefits we call blessings, as well as are, as declared by us, our supreme authorities and decreers of the arbitrary moral code or dictates that some of us humans think up, write for and preach to others to comply with, and follow and tithe or support us (who, as such thinker and writer authors and preachers, call ourselves, or are called by our believer others as, divinely inspired holy men and women, shamans, witch doctors, wizards, oracles, seers, prophets, clergy of various ranks, saints, etc.) as their worldly spiritual leaders, so as for us in consensus and concert to establish and maintain social order, or group or mass socially-psychologically internalized and publicly and societally exerted and enforced “good” social (initially and basically relating to family units, extended families, clans, tribes and communities of these or complex communities of tribes, etc.) and economic order, a community-wide ethos, or thought and behavioral set of morals and ethics in our interrelations for social or relative social harmony, stability and cohesion.  

Why Conscience Hectoring of Space-Faring Billionaires Is Misplaced and a Waste of Effort

Why Conscience Hectoring of Space-Faring Billionaires Is Misplaced and a Waste of Effort

Given that Evidently Most of the Rich and Powerful People of Our Planet Will Not Donate or Devote All or Most of Their Discretionary or Disposable Money or Wealth to Remedy Humanity’s Social, Economic and Environmental Problems, the Same Goes for the Middle and Under Classes, and Anthropogenically Caused Global Crisis Climate Change Threatening Earth’s Habitability and Causing the Rapid Extinction of Other Species, then Realistically, Leading Environmentalist Space-faring Billionaires Can’t Be Expected to Do So Either, Yet They Have an In-Process Environmentalist Plan B Alternative of Their Own and to Their Own Preference for Tackling These Problems Their Own Way with Their Own Money

It is so much easier for a company owned and run by a small set of utopian, visionary entrepreneur engineers or scientists, and staffed and operated by scientists, engineers, mathematicians and sci-tech technicians to venture into interplanetary and cis-planetary outer space for benign human habitability development and settlement of them with peaceful and civil humans with conscience than to solely or primarily politically and financially struggle against the manifold competing, squabbling and tenacious financial, economic (industrial, business and labor, political), national, religious and racialist forces, overwhelmingly more powerful than them on Earth (indirectly and directly controlling the top-to-bottom large majority of government leaders everywhere, and thereby the militaries and police everywhere too, by their money, social networking, doctrinal, lobbyist, political and mass-media-communications influence) that put their self-interest and self-benefit, in the here and now, first, before everything and everybody else, including the habitability for life on Earth. They are trying to save the planet and the human species as well as other species by establishing their vision of a salvation world or salvation worlds, and maybe save habitable Earth itself, off of planet Earth, including by encouraging and making it attractive for environmentally harmful businesses and resource-extraction industries to relocate their operations off of Earth to the moon, Mars and its moons, the dwarf planet Ceres of the Mars-to-Jupiter asteroid belt and the approximately 800,000 asteroids of this asteroid belt and to rid the Earth of them permanently. Theirs is a credible and feasible solution to them and preferable and more pragmatic to them than the idea of their critics that they should spend their money solely on rehabilitating the Earth.

They choose to spend their own money as prudently workable, according to their own minds, on both domains, interplanetary and cis-interplanetary outer space and the Earth, at the same time. Their undertaking is also a hedge measure, an in-process plan B, for preserving a constructive and positive population fragment of our species and some other plant and small-fauna species on other worlds, maybe even copy and original collections of human civilization’s library and museum treasures, in the high-chance unfortunate event that the cast of characters governing and dominating or controlling humanity and Earth’s resources fail to save the Earth’s anthropogenically, industrially, commercially and unchecked human overpopulation, imperiled habitability and dwindling current regime of biodiverse species.

Were these space-faring billionaires to heed their critics and forego their interplanetary vision and projects and spend all of their money and time on attempting [futilely] to remedy the human-caused and maintained problems of world humanity and planet Earth, like the majority of the population and electorate of the USA, they would probably ridicule and denounce the USA for being shortsighted and incompetent in being non-competitive with PRC China, India, the EU and UAE in their interplanetary outer-space settlement and development and leaving these to their then established and thriving such interplanetary space programs on and in Earth's moon, Mars and its moons, the asteroid-belt dwarf planet Ceres and the many asteroids of the asteroid belt.

By the way, how does one spend one’s disposable money and time to stop the human forces that are the sources of these existential problems for the habitability of Earth and its species, including the human species (like environmental and atmospheric polluting fossil-fuels production companies, their user technology companies and the latters’ products and retail seller and mass-consumer customers, unchecked human overpopulation and overharvesting and resource and food over-extraction of Earth’s lands, forests, water bodies, and the continuous displacement of wildlife habitats and decimation and extinction of wild species for new human settlements, recreation and hunting, agriculture and industrial and commercial development and exploitation, nuclear power plant disasters' long-term radioactive contamination and poisoning of the environment (marine, terrestrial, atmospheric and biological), likewise radioactive fallout contamination and poisoning from nuclear tests, and war, international and insurgent power and land grabbing, crime and political-economic corruption overridden nations, and mass refugee migrations resulting from them, etc.)? By spending them on protest activism and politicians?

The Starlight-Power Utopian Prophesy Made Manifest, Dawning

The Starlight-Power Utopian Prophesy Made Manifest, Dawning

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tesla-stock-jumps-toward-another-record-after-hertzs-plan-to-buy-100-000-tesla-evs-11635166425 

Commentary by Lord Prophet, aka Luminous Workhead

Tesla Motors' stock-share value skyrockets, making Elon Musk the world’s richest person by far, now with a fortune worth $288,600,000,000.00 (increased to $311,000,000,000.00 on 10-30-2021), manifesting the Starlight-Power Utopian Prognostication (or Prophesy), the dawning solidification of the clean-energy electronic-photonic industrial and space age.  

Its Implication.

The underscoring functional correlation and indicated fueling market factors or forces of and for this are: 

1.  EV driving range anxiety is being alleviated with EVs on and pending on the market that have a driving range of 200, 300, 400, 500 and 600 miles, and gradations within these, per EV-battery full charge. 

2.  Public-infrastructure, private-facilities and residential EV-battery charging station are pending on the market that can fully recharge an EV battery in 15 minutes (ABB Company, Switzerland), confirmed, and 5 minutes (Desten Company, Hong Kong), pending confirmation, that will alleviate recharging long-wait anxiety and make them convenience competitive with internal combustion engine, gas-powered and gas-fill-up (gas-fueling) motor vehicles. 

     All electric-vehicle manufacturers, and possibly dealerships, ought to stock, sell, and, as they are able to, install these and possibly have recharging station networks or chains. Car-rental businesses, petro fueling stations, airports, hotels, motels, large restaurants, shopping centers and big businesses and condo, townhouse and apartment complexes should have them as well. 

3.  Large scale early environmentalist-minded, upper-middle-income, high-income and wealthy individual and business purchaser-adopters of EVs will drive their retail prices down and make them affordable for mass purchase and ownership as well as lease for the general working population in the midterm to near term.

Special Message of Further Relevance on This to My Fellow Environmentalists: 

To my environmentalist kindred spirits, our species, that of Homo sapiens sapiens (the wise, smart or clever one), at root is a technological species -- even primitive tribes in their all having, as inventions and innovations, fire making, cooking, brews, narcotics-intoxicants, medicine/s, spoken language, the mentor-protege or apprentice relationship (the forerunner of formal education), religion, music and musical instruments, dance, huts, tents, or the like, implements for manipulating things, tools for making and repairing things and weapons and gear for hunting, fishing, and defense and offense, drawing and object and body painting, other art and handicrafts and adornments, often hair fashion, woven fabrics and animal skins for clothing, clothing fashions or loin covers, sometimes also the keeping of domesticated cattle, goats, chickens, dogs, and garden plots -- and will never, in the vast majority of people globally, relinquish technology, creativity, innovation, venturing and adventuring. A centerpiece of special human intellect is universal survival and adaption related human problem-solving ability (along with language, conceptual, reasoning and memory, the basis of learning, abilities, together constituting the heart of higher intelligence), on the individual, group and species level, that can be used ethically or unscrupulously. Problem-solving ability is the home of natural analytical and strategic thinking, ingenuity, and discernment and planning abilities. We can and must pool our brainpower and brainstorm with and marshal our problem-solving ability to save, preserve and protect our magnificent, beautiful and wondrous planet of the living of all kinds and its life-sustaining and awesome environments, while refashioning ourselves as a species to benignly live lives of technological enjoyment and comfort and improved standards of living, and psychological and material adventure and advancement for the whole of our species, and in harmony with the natural environments and wild nature and other species of our planet. By venturing into outer space, our species can relocate environmentally problematical but societally valued and essential business operations and industries to settlements on and in the barren moon of Earth, and on and in barren Mars and its two moons and on and in the barren dwarf planet Ceres of the Mars-Jupiter asteroid belt as well as to super-tech research and development scientific and engineering, and business production and industrial orbital space stations around these other worlds, and more in the future. And resource-extraction companies can mine and extract from these other worlds and the approximately 800,000 asteroids of the same asteroid belt, in the midterm or near term, instead of relentlessly and ruinously so, on a large scale, on our planet Earth. 

https://m.mic-led.com/news/full-battery-in-15-minutes-this-is-the-worlds-fastest-electric-car-charger/  (ABB, a Swiss company) 

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3025341/researchers-move-closer-to-charging-an-ev-as-fast-as-filling-a-tank-of-gas.html 

https://www.financialexpress.com/auto/electric-vehicles/five-minutes-for-500-km-range-hong-kongs-desten-introduces-ultra-fast-charging-ev-battery/2352942/ (Desten, a Hong Kong company) 

https://www.newser.com/story/312604/elon-musks-wealth-grew-by-36b-in-one-day.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_top

Quantum Entanglement Phenomena between Entangled Quantum Particles Empirically Exemplify and Prove the Law of Cause and Effect

 Physics insight of the moment, on quantum entanglement:

When a behavioral trait, such as the spin direction of either of two entangled partner quantum particles, such as of microwave frequency photons, changes in one of the two entangled quantum particles, it instantaneously, across any length of space and time separating the two entangled particles, registers, or instances, an opposite, corresponding behavioral trait in the co-entangled partner particle (For instance, if particle A spins to the left, then its partner particle B spins to the right, and if particle A spins upward, then its partner particle B spins downward, and vice versa.), exemplifying, manifesting and empirically confirming the law of cause and effect at the fundamental quantum microcosmic state of existence and cosmology -- perhaps, arguably to some physicists, it evidences a linear, 100%-functional correlation in behavior between the two entangled particles. The definitional law of cause and effect states that for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction.

What’s Up with the US Congressional Inquisition of Facebook and Instagram and Possibly Other Social Cyber-Electronic Communications-Content Publishing and Sharing Hosting Media?

What’s Up with the US Congressional Inquisition of Facebook and Instagram and Possibly Other Social Cyber-Electronic Communications-Content Publishing and Sharing Hosting Media?

If some folks object to the particular US Constitutionally protected right of freedom-of-the-press (with its own related first amendment right of freedom of speech and subsumed right of social freedom of association in thought and values) media, channel or publication and its contents, those folks can, as applicable, shun, boycott, unsubscribe to, turn off or switch the channel or station or abandon or disuse the media or publication (including online publication platform). Users, consumers or customers of mass media or communications-content publishing platforms are not compelled to use them, but use them of their own volition and initiative. If they find one or more objectionable to themselves or hurtful to their self-esteem, by these effects on themselves as individuals or classification of persons, they have no right thereby to censor or banish someone else's communications content media, be it of a person or persons of an organization or enterprise, that they visit, view or use.

Major online social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, have features associated with all posts on their platforms that allow users to block content and persons to which they object. Users can also use these features to accept or reject follower offers and can unfollow or unfriend others for sharing communications content or terminate others who have theretofore followed them and thereupon stop sharing communications content with them, making insincere and illegitimate complaints of unavoidable, unevadable psychologically harmful communications content on these social media.

(By the way, anyone can find communications content in or on any publication media, paper, broadcast, music recordings, etc., or cyber-electronic, that is offensive and harmful to some quantity of people, that nevertheless is not subject to censorship by government or any size of the population as a matter of US Constitutional Bill of Rights' irrevocable and unbreachable first amendment rights of freedom of the press and freedom of speech granted to each individual citizen or assemblage of citizens of the USA -- unalienable individual or collectively-individual truly democratic rights that cannot be overridden and curtailed by [the prevailing caprice of] government and citizenry majoritarianism. The US Congress, the sole law-making branch of the federal government, is barred specifically by the US Constitution, the supreme law of our nation, from restricting freedom of the press, being all communications-content host-publishers and otherwise publishers, including newspapers, magazines, books, comic books, films, audio-video, audio recordings and records, stage productions, broadcasts, social media information and expression content social-networking and sharing hosting platforms, etc. Though Congress may limit, as an anti-monopoly/antitrust act, the number of publication media companies a publication media company, in a generic regard, may own, it cannot restrict or deny the size of customer patronage of a publication media company or shutdown or break up a media company because of its grand-scale patronage by customers.)

As a hypothetical social media information-analyst columnist myself, you who are offended by my analyses and interpretations or opinions in my writings, cannot bully me into changing the communications content of my posted or published writings because they bother you and injure your self-esteem or have a likewise effect on your children, under our federal [US] Constitution and universal citizen Bill of Rights democratic-republic form of government. In such a circumstance, if you and your daughters are obese or overweight and feel humiliated, oppressed and depressed by the sight of photos of beautiful slender or otherwise physically fit women and teen girls posted by them on Instagram, you don't have to visit Instagram and view them. (Even if you visit Instagram, you can use the postings blocking or hide feature to not view the bothersome images and their like and love tallies and flattering comments to them that grieve your sense of comparative low self-image and self-esteem or you can just go elsewhere to a different social media platform or start up a social media platform of your own, at your own expense, and fashion or conform it to your communications-content tastes and preferred audience of obese women and teen girls to mutually emotionally compliment and assuage, or console, one another -- or form an exclusive group on Facebook or Instagram to do the same thing.). Furthermore, you have no right of freedom of speech in or on "my" publication product, forum or platform, other than that I grant to you under my terms of guest-user service as your host on my service. Your right of freedom of speech resides with you in your own abode or private social sphere or in the public commons.

There are control freaks, young and old, rich, poor and in-between, and on the political left and right, who want to massively control others and the lives and things of others, but, hypocritically, they tend to want this control to be one way, their way and not of themselves and what is theirs. The US Congressional inquisition of Facebook and Instagram stinks of fault-finding to justify imposing [and wielding] its and their control over others' resources and power, the power of enormous social and financial reach and influence, social and financial power and reach and influence some paper and broadcast news, information and entertainment media would also like returned to themselves. Their criticism of Facebook and other online social media communication-content publishing platforms' use of methods and means to attract, secure, increase and keep customers (user-customers) are commonplace in business for business survival, success and prosperity, and are a staple in big business, which got big by being successful by growing to a large size their customer base, their steady customer population, and habituating customers to their products and services, customer-cultivation methods and means that are called trade secrets or formulas, secret sauce, customer PR practices, etc. Simply, that's business and capitalism in a social democracy.

Where is and has ever been Congressional and mainstream paper and broadcast news media public outrage and inquisition of the socially and politically blatantly dishonest and/or inflammatory podcasters, and web platforms and broadcast shows like those of Fox Media, OANN-AT&T (right-wing One American News Network, primarily funded by AT&T), Newsmax, QAnoners, swindler broadcast media preachers, Alex Jones, Steve Bannon, Storm Front or its update, Coast to Coast, the stolen-presidential-election big-lie Trumpian Republicans, etc., and the traditional covert and overt white-supremacy and anti-Black/Afro people racist print media and advocacy organizations and groups pervading the USA? And where is the inquisition of the civilian guns and ammo industry, and their PR advocate the NRA, in view of the constant toll of gun violence throughout the USA, also regularly striking schools and youth, families and sometimes houses of worship?

Our constitutional democratic republic permits all views and values in freedom of the press and speech except for those that specifically express, entreat, advocate or incite sedition, insurrection, threats of physical injury, crime or social disturbances or public panic. Also, people, businesses, organizations and institutions can impose standards of decorum in dress, conduct and speech on other people who are on their property, premises or venues and, as applicable, can legally evict, banish, bar or fire, etc., non-discriminatorily (for retail businesses, consistent with the same standards for all), from their premises or venues anyone who violates their such standards of decorum.