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The People’s Manifesto

I. The New People’s Party
We plant seeds for trees whose shade we will never enjoy.

We have stopped dreaming of the future. We have lost trust in our government. We see the direction the world is heading and we can no longer capitulate. This intrinsically depends on political, social, and spiritual cohesion. We appeal to the futurists, humanists, agnostics, the secular, the educators, the thinkers, those who gave up on the two-party system, and anyone who dreams of a better future.

To make our vision a reality we need political influence, we achieve influence through organization and community support. This small book will provide a framework through which people with secular beliefs can achieve political representation.

Our Call
The great cathedrals of Europe would have never been built without the spiritual motivation to spend a lifetime working on a building they would never live to see completed. This movement requires political capital that only human spirituality can provide.

Secularists need political representation. We need to organize before we can have representation. We know that we should never let our sense of morals prevent us from doing what is right, and we know that religion strongly influences our morals. Consider people who are opposed to gay marriage believe they are on the side of justice: their morality interfered with their ability to do the right thing.

We understand that if humanity is to survive we need law makers and politicians working on current relevant issues without having to appease a religious constituency. Roe V. Wane was passed 50 years ago and it’s been attacked for political gains ever since. We are tired of politicians wasting time and energy on this issue. We also understand the importance stem cells and cloning offers the medical field in the future, we are tired of ignorant politicians obstructing progress towards our great society for political points.

We will never claim to have a monopoly on truth or morality but we are unafraid to have our beliefs challenges, we know it’s more interesting to get an unexpected result. This book is fluid, but viscous. We understand that some answers will change based on new information, but we also understand some answers are always true – pursue knowledge and improvement, treat people well, think beyond yourself.

Our Message
Building a political party from scratch takes a tremendous amount of work: every opinion we have needs to be explained thoroughly, we do not have the benefit of established doctrine.

This party will be a major rallying point for the secular believers in America. A fundamental misunderstanding regarding morality, atheism, and the public exists and is a major reason behind nonexistent atheist representation. The word atheist has become synonymous with amoral, or degenerate, this book will address those issues and briefly explain our rationales for our beliefs.

We will start as a movement in the communities we live in. We will clean fields and schools, pick up trash along our roads, fix playgrounds, and build community buildings. We will start in the abandoned factories, the empty neighborhoods, and the desolate roads. These are places of cities that were left behind by the future, and a poignant example of what happens when society stops dreaming.

We need to be heavily associated with the communities we live in. We want press, publicity, anything that will get our name in people’s heads. We want to be known as the group who cleans parks, plants trees, and genuinely want to do good. 45% of people in Michigan don’t follow religion strictly, a huge demographic we need to strongly appeal towards. We also need to be aware of our message. We should go to church Easter and Christmas with our grandmothers, we should wish our friends happy Eid. Our movement isn’t coming after your religion, it’s removing religion from our government. We don’t think it’s a coincidence that the most educated countries are also the least religious, and we also know this change will take generations. We will die long before our dreams will ever be realized.

Spreading the texts online, printing it out and leaving it around campuses or workplaces, word of mouth. A movement happens because the times necessitate that movement, the time is right for this movement. Humanity has entered the nuclear age but our laws are written by men consulting the bronze age. This is a great test of mankind; will we move forward together or will we destroy ourselves? People are uneasy, we live in dangerous times. We need to look to our leaders and each other and ask for more. Think about tomorrow, think about the big picture, think of how insignificant we are alone but what a force we are together.

Our Morality
The moral character of a secularist is often questioned, often to detract from their reputation or question their character. Our morals are derived from the same tools that allowed us to deconstruct organized religion and form the foundation of the movement: rationality, logic, and curiosity. We define our morals as acting for the good of society and the good of the future, and by applying the foundations of our spirituality towards these goals we know we are good and moral people.

An interesting pattern emerges when we apply the same methodology of thought towards religion as we do society and the future: answers that satisfy our desire to do good and our desire for reason. Deriving solutions from a future and society mindset often overlap with established morals, from religion or elsewhere: killing and stealing is wrong, the golden rule is still valid, and other universal truths. It differs with complex social issues, tells us the solutions from transsexual rights to police brutality. Too often do we have to sacrifice good, reason or both because of antiquated morals and established doctrine.

The compass tells us to be good because for its own sake, we will be rewarded in how we are remembered.

Our Genesis
Our law makers have failed us. Both parties have become so corrupted that they have lost the mandate of the people. Democrats and Republicans have become so twisted and poisoned by special influences that it is impossible to implement any lasting change. That is why this party is necessary and why it must be built from the group up.

It has become clear to many that the current two party system is really two faces belonging to the same coin, split only by issues that they refuse to solve, or lack the will to fix. For too long have the people sat backseat to political ideologies and bipartisan animosity. For too long have people been forced to choose sides through what single issue means the most to them, for too long have we had to toe the line.

Our Vision
Our future is the colonization of space, the unity of humanity, a golden era of scientific and cultural achievements. We see opportunities for people to become rich, but a strong safety nets that ensures no one becomes poor. We see mass automation and basic income, we see humanity connect with nature and itself.

The current political parties are on an unstable trajectory with no certainty of destination, the NPP will reach the stars.

II. Politics
To be politically viable we need to be a community, to be a community we need to be unified, and to be unified we need a rallying point. This book is that rallying point.

Education
We believe first and foremost in the importance of education, democracy can only succeed if the populous is educated, informed, and motivated. The current school systems have failed us; they have failed minority communities, the gifted and the less capable, we find many students unfit for higher education, the work force, and life. We see how the current system exists as a glorified daycare, a factory of adults that can push buttons on a calculator but little else.

We propose an educational system like Germany’s, tailoring education towards student’s specific talents. We fail to see the merits of teaching calculus to a student interested in becoming an automotive mechanic. As children are developing they are evaluated: intelligence, personality, and unique skills are among the metrics used to determine what schools they will be most successful in. An additional benefit to this system is that teachers with different capabilities will also be better situated: no all teachers are created equal, it is unfair for an underqualified teacher to teach material they don’t understand themselves.

All schools will produce an educated populous, shared curriculum includes civics, personal finances, philosophy, basic math, chemistry, and sciences. A student can petition which school he is placed in and can appeal every 6 months, if a student wishes to transfer down no petition is required. All students will be given college evaluations.

Students with more spatial intelligence will go to the first type of school: this school focuses on hands on education, the arts, and skilled crafts. Glassblowing, mechanics, theatre, and music are just some examples of what will be emphasized. Mechanics and craftsmen

The second type of school will educate students on more rigorous subjects than school type 1, the sciences will be investigated further, math will be expanded, phycology, sociology, and economics will be taught. Arts, hands on learning, and skills will also be taught, but not to the extent of school 1. Therapists and nurses

The third type of school will focus on students who will achieve success in higher education. This school will focus on the hard sciences to a greater extent than school type 2, but will also have overlapping curriculum.

More money needs to flow into the school system, taxes are necessary. We can no longer afford to underpay our educators, underfinance our schools, or neglect the future. Long term goals state that schools need to be federally funded with all schools receiving equal funding. Poor schools in poor areas will produce less capable members of society than schools with a good tax base. We can no longer tolerate unequal education because we see the damage it does to society. We need suburbs to start paying for the amenities they enjoy in cities that are payed for by the taxes of those who work in that city.

We fundamentally reject any religious teachings in our public schools. Creationism has no place in school, prayer rooms have no place in school.

We need to educate our children on issues dealing with the internet,

Social Justice
We believe that a great society is only possible when people are treated by the sum of their experiences, not their skin color, gender, or sexuality.

We do not believe current social justice practices achieve any meaningful results. We do not believe in generalizing or blanket solutions to any complex problem, and we believe social justice is no exception.

We don’t believe in minimum sentencing; every case is unique with its own variables that need to be considered. Minimum sentencing separates judges from critical thinking, justice is not delivered with a rubber stamp. We don’t believe in unequal or unfair sentencing; black people without priors have longer prison sentences than white people without priors. A foundation of our ethos is our belief that congenital characteristics are useless metrics, it’s what you do that defines who you are. To correct this, we might suggest anonymous trials at first, where suspects identity is suppressed and judgements are made based entirely on evidence provided.

We don’t believe in current affirmative action; we believe preferential treatment should be administered in a case specific manner that is indifferent to congenital attributes. I was dropping a coworker off at his home, he lived with his mother in Detroit, a bad part of Detroit. He was white. He told me the difficulties his family faced not only being poor and in a violent neighborhood, but also an outlier in the homogeny of the demographics. He had a younger brother in high school. I began to wonder why his little brother wouldn’t receive preferential treatment from universities when he faced the same hardships as his black neighbors. Two people from the same broken neighborhood, going to the same broken school, living in the same broken system should be treated equally. We need to stop judging people by their skin color. We know a great society refuses to deal in generalizations.

We don’t believe in for profit prisons, and we don’t believe the current system focuses enough on rehabilitation. We want increased focus on therapy, life skills, and improvement in our prison systems. This means more prison therapists, better guard training, and a more rigorous psychological evaluation of how our prisons are organized.

We don’t believe drug users are criminals, and we don’t believe in sending them to jail. We want rehabs for repeat drug offenders. We also recognize that people will always turn to drugs. We know that by improving our education system the amount of people that turn to drugs will decrease significantly, but it will never be zero. That is why we will ‘decriminalize’ the hard drugs, offer clean needles and anti-OD medications freely, and have free rehabs for anyone who needs help.

We believe in the freedom of speech unwaveringly. Excluding the call for direct violence against another person, anyone should be able to say whatever they want. We understand that education will solve problems better than restricting our rights. We understand that as people become more educated using free speech with malicious intent will decrease. We will never solve our problems by restricting the rights of the people.

The Second Amendment
We believe the second amendment is an important right currently. Until the people can be safe from crime and safe from government tyranny it vitally important to maintain an armed an educated populous. We also believe the day will come when the second amendment will be antiquated and inapplicable to society, this book is an instruction set for building a society that’s largely crime free and governed by the people.

Gender and sexuality
We know homosexuality isn’t wrong, we know it is natural. We know that even though homosexuals don’t reproduce they still offer a benefit to society. Homosexual brains have different white and grey matter clumping’s in certain sub regions of the brain, we observe similar patterns in animals that display homosexual behavior, such as rams and dolphins. Homosexuals offered primitive societies support at home and flexibility for women, they are the midfielders of developing societies, able to fill in jobs for women and men.

We also know that transsexuals deserve rights as well. We understand that there is a biological basis for transsexuality, MRIs have revealed differences in the brains of transsexuals than those of cis-sexuality. We understand transsexuals don’t make active choices to be transsexual any more than we choose to be cis-gendered. We believe that studies should be done to determine exactly when brains develop transsexual characteristics so we can know when it’s safe to begin gender transitioning. If children as young as 5 can be identified we should start then, but if it can’t be identified until after puberty we should respect the data and our offspring enough to wait to make such monumental decisions.

We believe in having three bathrooms: Male, Female, and other. We ask that the other bathroom be used for those whose physical appearance would confuse people in male or female restrooms, transsexual individuals who haven’t begun transitioning or are very early in transitioning. We all need to be more understanding of other people’s social conditioning; a person with a male body in a female restroom could cause discomfort and hurt social cohesion. In the same vein, we believe in three categories for sports: Male, Female, and Transitioned. Male to female transitions have unfair advantages in women’s events, obvious because we know mentality and biology sometimes don’t align.

We believe in abortions free of harassing practices and accessible to all people. Forcing a mother to have a child will statistically end up being a bad mother, bad mothers won’t sufficiently nurture their children and they risk becoming a detriment to society rather than a benefit. Abortions lower crime rates, lowering crime rates by increasing personal freedoms is something we all feel is a very good thing. A human fetus is indistinguishable from a squirrel fetus for up to 15 days, human fetuses are identical to primate fetuses for 45 days. An acorn is not a tree, a fetus is not a person, and throwing away an acorn is not cutting down a tree.

We believe that mutually agreed upon monogamy is an honorable endeavor, and children are more successful in homes with two parents.

Environment
We believe in the importance of preserving nature and maintaining our natural ecosystem. We are animals, and like all animals we can only survive in our natural habitats. We must preserve our natural habitats or society will face insurmountable problems that will destroy us all. We must fight climate change by aggressively reducing harmful gases produced by our factories, cars, and companies. We believe in large scale efforts to research green energies and eliminate fossil fuels. We believe in fighting climate change and looking into new technologies that will help mitigate it’s impact.

We understand animals are conscious beings. We would never cause harm to beings with a lesser consciousness than ourselves. We will end cosmetic animal testing, and make sure animal testing for scientific projects are necessary and humane.

We understand the effects large farms have on our environment, and the inhumane treatment of livestock. We propose increased taxes on these farms for the damage they do to the environment and greater government oversight into the treatment of animals. We don’t believe the answer to this solution is vegetarianism, but we understand that we need to reduce red meat intake until it becomes a healthy cog in our system. We want increased spending on genetically modified organisms, including laboratory grown meat and fish. We want more responsible farming practices, including fishing.

Trash
Humanity has dealt with trash in the same manner as we have for thousands of years, it is time to evolve. Landfills are monuments to our shortsighted policies, and a testament to human stupidity. Recycling technologies need to be researched further and legislation needs to be made which holds corporations responsible for recycling.

We purpose a new system in which trash is disposed of responsibly. A system that efficiently isolates and sorts recyclable materials, composts organic materials, and disposes plastics and other harmful products. A recycling system needs to be self-sufficient, profitable, and national. Once trash is solved our system will be distributed worldwide, another way America will make the world great by making itself great.

Future Research
We believe the biggest gift we can give the future is that of education. However, we believe social programs and budget priorities can be shifted today and have dramatic advantages for the future.

Stem Cell Research, cloning, and other technologies need to be funded and supported. Laws that limit research aren’t founded in reason, and appeal to outdated morals.

We can increase spending for NASA and other research organizations. We want funding and subsidies for companies like SpaceX, or companies working on green technologies. We want increased spending on improving, maintaining, and fixing our infrastructure. We want public work projects that will unite communities, provide jobs, and get people optimistic for the future.

We understand that large scale automation is inevitable, and we believe this is a great thing. We want to increase our spending on automatized technologies, artificial intelligence, and the applications of these. The elimination of many jobs is only a few decades away, we must start acting now as a society to prepare for a time of work scarcity but labor surplus. We see the future of automation as a new era of human renaissance, free from capitalism’s chains man can choose to focus on arts, music, and expressions of the human condition. Basic income will be a necessity, we need to start putting together how a system like this would work.

Healthcare
Health care cannot depend on someone’s ability to pay for it. A great society would never let its poorest citizens go untreated. Healthcare should be provided by the government. We advocate for better mental health services that are accessible to all people. Mental health education should be required in public schools.

We want ant vaccine science thoroughly investigated and if found to be harmless we want the publishing of such information made criminal. This aligns with our freedom of speech because refusing vaccines directly hurts our children and our society.

We want healthier food options for our poorest citizens, we want to eliminate high fructose corn syrup and other additives that are ruining the health of our people. We want fresh foods available to our poorest citizens, by merging automation of vehicles and food delivery service we can set up a system where good foods can be supplied to the most marginalized citizens.

Homelessness can largely be addressed by increased mental health services and a system that ensures everyone has a bed to sleep on. Similar to dormitories, buildings in cities need to be built which contain many small rooms with a bed and shower. Each floor will have a supervisor that ensures that all valuables except cell phones and wallets are checked in and out, antisocial behavior is controlled, and the system isn’t being abused. Therapy will be offered to all residents, including mental health, job prospects, drug addiction, and other pertinent areas affecting the homeless.

Police
We want better police integration with the communities they serve, we want body cameras that are constantly on. We want the communities to be more aware of what officers must do to keep order, and have understanding. We want community liaisons working directly with the police and we want the police to recruit more heavily from the communities they serve.

We suggest legislation that will limit the militarization of our police forces and their ability to infringe upon the rights of the people. Also proposed is legislation to improve police training programs, which includes mental health education, deescalating techniques, greater emphasis on nonviolent conflict resolution, and reducing dependency on lethal weapons.

We are aware of the challenges law enforcement faces in America, we are an armed society with underlying mental health issues. We purpose therapists for our police officers to mitigate a buildup of biases that naturally occur in a stratified society.

Immigration
We recognize the value immigrants can have on our society. A strong society with a strong safety net cannot sustain open border policies until the world reaches an equilibrium. Until that time our immigration policy focuses on selecting the most people who most reflect our values: educated, skilled, secular, and community centered. Until we effectively solve homelessness and poverty we must afford to be selective; we make the world great when America is great, when we solve these problems we can relax the parameters that define the immigration policies.

We cannot tolerate illegal immigration but we can fix some of the problems in their countries that make immigration so compelling.

Economics
Capitalism has failed the people and must be replaced. However, this is not something that will happen overnight, or even over the course of our lifetimes. We will make the case for why capitalism is incompatible with our future goals and what we plan on replacing it with. This will be a slow and thoughtful change, capitalism has brought our country unparalleled riches, but it has also brought unprecedented wealth inequality. We will replace our current system in a way that minimizes wealth loss and wealth inequality. This section will be further expanded when more knowledgeable people join the party.

Looking forward into climate change we can propose massive public works projects that will help alleviate some of the challenge climate change will present. Included would be infrastructure maintenance projects and renewable energies initiatives. In addition to providing jobs and strengthening community ties it would be a physical symbol of our greatness, something that will give people hope for the future.

Social media
Like everything, social media deserves moderation. We want our education system to prepare our children for the online world, including bullying, addiction, and separation from online worlds from our own. We want accountability from social media companies, including a set of ethics they must abide by. We suggest legislation that would provide transparency into social media.

Social media companies can suppress or disseminate information to an entire population instantly. It would be a natural desire for these companies to use this power in a way that is contrary to the morals of the NPP, who understand the power of information.

Voter ID
It is vital for a democracy to have one person with one vote, voter identification cards will make this possible.

A system in which voter identification is equally distributed to the public needs to be established. When a person comes of legal age to vote a voter ID will be sent to their place of residence, and a picture will be kept on file. During voting events, a database with the areas registered voters will be present in the event of a lost card. Citizens will be automatically registered to vote when they turn 18, any US citizen can vote. In addition, any valid US identification is considered valid voter ID.

In addition to voter ID laws, felons should also have the right to vote in national elections after their time is served. Disenfranchisement is unfair and an unusual punishment, as a policy it speaks to correctional systems failures to rehabilitate, and serves only as further vindictive punishment.

Foreign Policy
We lack the information to currently speak on any specific foreign policy, but it will be determined using the same principles that formed the party.

We see a far distant future free of borders and national barriers, but we understand that is not the reality currently. We want less American interference in other countries, and more cooperation with other regional powers. We see the not too distant future as a world of regional powers, with no one superpower dominating the geopolitical landscape. We see great cooperation between regional powers united toward the future and against war. We want to see the gradual transition of America back to America.

The middle east is a problem that will require global cooperation and patience. We understand many problems the region faces will only be fixable over generations. We want heavy cooperation with China, Russia, India, and the west. We understand that some middle eastern countries are unsustainable in their current form, and minority groups need representation. We suggest studying the idea of redefining some of the borders of middle eastern countries.

We sympathize with refugees but understand that current solutions aren’t working. We need to establish protocols where refugees have safe spaces near to their home. The idea is that refugees can return home once the conflict ends, it is only in this way that countries ruined by war can reestablish themselves. We need to develop better technologies that assist people living in desert areas, this will benefit our country when we must deal with dramatic climate change. We can put pressure on regional allies to allow us access to unused land to establish modern refugee camps. We can fund this using western funds already allocated to foreign aid.

III. Spirituality
 

This is not just a political movement but a spiritual one as well. Secularists and atheists specifically have long had their sense of morals questioned and their opinions disregarded because they lack a unified ethos that specifies what they stand for, only what they stand against. Abrahamic religions predict the world ending in an apocalypse, and is a good thing. These religions represent much of the world’s peoples and dominate political landscapes. We must firmly reject leaders who subscribe to this ideology. We need leaders who look to the future and see greatness, not the end of times.

“If there is a god, and he is a good god, and you are a good man, he will reward you with heaven.

If there is a god, and you are a good man, but god sends you to hell he is not a good god and doesn’t deserve our worship.

If there is no god, and you are a good man, you are rewarded with a good life and you live on in the lives of people you influenced.”

Agnosticism seems to be the most logical choice for religious orientation. Agnosticism is the understanding that it’s impossible to know for certain whether god exists or not, but will be the same good people in either case. We start to understand that it’s entirely possible god exists but the major religions have it horribly wrong. You begin to think that a good god wouldn’t send every unbaptized brother or sister to hell, or every person who does not follow the teachings of Muhammad.

What drives many to agnosticism is the idea that someone can be eternally punished for simply not accepting that religions prophet or belief system: the absolute nature of religion means an eternity in heaven or hell, this is an idea that many people disagree with. They don’t understand how a god would send people living in isolated societies to hell when they’ve never heard of Jesus or Muhammad. They don’t understand why a god would want us to mistreat our LGBT brothers and sisters, nor do they understand why he doesn’t want us to eat pork or wear clothing with two types of fabric.

This movement is driven forward by universal truths: truths that do not require preexisting knowledge to understand. A thought experiment is useful to explain this further. Imagine: Every man-made object on earth instantly disappeared. No more buildings, cars, books, roads, all signs of human civilization have instantly disappeared. Everything we knew we forget, language, counting, farming, eating. All 7 billion of us are wandering around naked and confused, trying to make sense of our world. Overtime we will make sense of our world again: we can describe it with language, we will build houses. Consider all the information humanity will learn again, exactly the same: we will learn 1+1 =2, we will learn triangles are the strongest geometric shapes and we will build bridges out of them, we will reconstruct the periodic table of elements, and while they won’t be called the same name, the number of protons, neutrons, electrons, weight, and weight will be exactly the same. Pi will always be Pi.

But what will we never learn again? We will never know of WWII, the moon landing, that Barack Obama was the 45th president, and we would never know of the teachings of Muhammad or Jesus. All our religions would be wiped out forever. This is because religion and religious teachings are not universally true. What we teach, putting society above yourself would be rediscovered. We would learn the benefits of farming for more than just yourself, we would learn how to work together to successfully farm rice fields. We would learn that life is better if you treat people well because it increases the chances of you being treated well in return. We would observe that societies grow great with increased social cohesion. Our beliefs are built around universal truths, truths that will outlive our species.

Secularists understand this life is the only conscious experience we will have, we have one life and then nothingness. With this understanding comes the realization that we must make this life count; we need to enjoy life but also create a better life for those coming after us. Those who truly understand this life is the only life also understand the profound immorality of making it unpleasant for others to experience. This is why secularism and futurism are so compatible and why this movement is political and spiritual. The great cathedrals of Europe would have never been built without spiritual willpower, no one would spend an entire lifetime building something they would never see completed otherwise. In the same way, this movement is bigger than ourselves and will take generations to realize. We need to be spiritually connected to this idea if it is to survive.

Questions Secularism Answers
What Happens when we die

The rational response is that we don’t know, but most good men accept that when we die we cease to exist and experience the same nothingness we occupied before we are born. This thought can be frightening initially, permanent nothingness makes any man uncomfortable. We don’t like the idea that we as a complicated consciousness could disappear entirely, that this one life on earth is all we get. It seems like a tease. But this information suggests that we should live our lives vividly and with purpose: we have one life, we should spend it wisely. Being a good man is the only way to spend a life worth living.

'''Why are we here, what’s the meaning of life'''

We are here because our parents procreated and there is no fundamental meaning of life. In a basic sense, the meaning of life is to continue life. We are programed to reproduce, it is the engine that drives our world. Even if we don’t procreate, we find meaning in planting trees for a younger generation to enjoy, and by making the world better for future generations we are continuing life.

'''Where did life come from?'''

Over billions of years simple molecules formed into more complex molecules which formed into amino acids. Billions more years and those amino acids are now single celled organisms. Fast forward another billion years and those single celled organisms now resemble what we would recognize as life.

There was an experiment done where water, a few basic gases, and static electricity  were combined and observed, amazingly, amino acids began to develop in a matter of days.

Do we have free will?

We are machines following our programming, but we have observing overwriting the hardware: Uncles sacrificing themselves for nieces or nephews not related by blood. Our actions are the outcome of a statistical probability. Another way to think about it: can free will exist if we are unable to life our finger without input from neurons? In other words, our actions are expressed through a chemical reaction that originated in our brains as a chemical reaction. We have absolutely no control over the reaction that is occurring. Free will doesn’t make sense to us, we are fleshy robots executing our programming.

'''Is there other life out there?'''

It is very likely that life exists outside our solar system, lack of evidence worryingly suggests intelligent life’s inability to sustain itself. As a species evolves it will face certain hurtles it needs to clear for society to progress. A hurtle we are facing now is whether or not we will destroy ourselves with nuclear weapons, it is unclear if we’ll make it or not.

Dealing with Death

The death of a loved one is one of the hardest pains a good man will experience. He will often lament his lack of faith, he knows how comforting it would be to know he will see his loved one again. Periods of nihilism are common. Grieving and sadness are natural and should be embraced, we can take comfort in how strongly the departed makes us feel, knowing that a real connection was shared. Death is natural and inevitable, and just as every book needs an ending every life needs a conclusion. We should celebrate their life and remember that by building a better society we offer people better lives, making death a less tragic event. 

Dealing with Hardship

We do not expect life to be a never-ending source of pleasure and joy, we will have to deal with hard times. We also know that we can improve ourselves through trials and tribulations, it is through the crucible of dysphoria that we forge ourselves. We also know some hardships are too much for any person to handle, it is for this reason that we believe in strong social safety nets and accessible mental health.