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A modest proposal for a school of thought for interpretation of The Urantia Papers, the fifth epochal revelation.

• [try arranging all Halvorson writings in a logical order]

The Halvorson school of thought

• There is ALWAYS a lens.
  • You need a lens to focus ideas
  • Can The Urantia Book be your lens, instead of evolutionary religion and ghost cult frameworks?
  • Don't assume it's easy.

• Is this the "Yes, yes, but what does The Urantia Book say" school?
  • Is that fundamentalism?
  • Is this Halvorsonism? (-ism Oh No!)

• Without a system there is no understanding
  • See Episode:Jesus Goes Public—Precursor and Prelude (Part 9) ca. min 45
  • A science is a system of ideas
    • A logically consistent way of interpreting the 5th er
    • That's what a truth seeker looks for, as well as scientists
    • Interpret every sentence in the context of the whole.
      • It's a philosophic text -- designed for a fully philosophic mode engagement
      • Not just a pile of ad hoc associations, but a system of associations
  • Even Jehovah's Witnesses know a valid interpretation of the Bible is a systematic one.
    • They don't skip the race papers, for example.

• Systems abound. It's the way of the cosmos
  • You can't rip a liver out of a body and understand it. It's part of a body.
  • Atoms aren't isolated things, they're a system
    • Carbon is purposed energy for functioning in a system)
  • "I don't like how it feels to think about the earth going around the sun."
    • "the universe doesn't care what you feel"

• I have a system of interpretation. Do you?
  • Tell me your interpretation. I'll tell you if it's in agreement with a system.
  • Is Chris a Pelagianist? It was heresy that lost to St. Augustine! No free will, says Augustine? Enter the dark ages.

• PhD's teach in the context of a system.
  • Doctors (of philosophy) have doctrines (which is just a synonym for teachings).
    • Teachers have teachings. No judgement innately. Teachings.
  • Only a wholehearted, systematic approach. "Half-hearted approaches are of no avail."
    • "halfhearted, partial devotion will be unavailing." [1:6.5] WHY? Don't just believe it.
    • [see all half-+ words.]

• Rational, reasonable, and logical
  • Are you studying The Urantia Book...
  • Rationally?
    • not arbitrary disembodied feelings here and there as you read (POPULAR!)
    • not "how does that make you feel?"
    • A good start, but not nearly enough, because there is...
  • Reasonably?
  • Logically?
    • This is what to strive for
    • Valid critique statement: "You're putting everything together in a self-consistent way, but I content yours is a false logic"

• WARNINGS
  • This school is not for those timid souls
  • You've likely been schooled in skeptical approaches
    • Deconstructionism
    • Relativism
  • You're likely stuck in one or more unconscious ghost-cult frameworks. Magical thinking.
    • Even if you're a scientist. ESPECIALLY if you're a so-called scientist today.
    • "What's your system of ideas?" "huh?" "exactly. youre 'system' is self-righteous and nature and nurture"
    • Paper 87 is crucial to a proper understanding of how hard changing your concept frame is.
    • Are you ready to stop just fleshing out your natural concept frame?
  • You probably think we should be nice
    • That word never appears in TUB. WHY?
    • These days it mean a self righteous approach to the world. A human standard, not a divine one.
      • see Jesus telling the Cynic

• THE IRONY: The non-school school
  • Think for yourself.
  • Grasp truth for yourself
  • Don't submit to the tradition and authority of a "school."
  • Simply learn what it takes for true reflective thinking (be not deceived by your own "clever species of self decption")
  • Simply learn what courageous and independent cosmic thinking looks likes, and strive to realize it in your own life.
  • WHY is the exact question
    • "God is spirit." WHY?
    • This is how I've gotten to where I am. I ask WHY for each sentence. and i recognize the system I'm in

"Most great works receive a new light from a new and original mind. But whether these new lights are true or only suggestive, will depend on their agreement with the spirit of [the work's author(s)], and the amount of direct evidence which can be urged in support of them. When a theory is running away with us, criticism does a friendly office in counselling moderation, and recalling us to the indications of the text." --B Jowett, intro to Plato's Gorgias