- By Bahram Maskanian - January 1, 2005

Humankind's success, surviving the elements and the destructive forces of our own making, up to this point in the year 2005, has a lot to do with our nature, which drives us to look forward in life's possibilities and future, to search for common sense, better and moral means of living our lives, to question and learn from our past mistakes in order to enhance our future. So, when and where did we deviate from the noble path of looking into the future and why should we - Go Back To The Future -?

Try to imagine what would have happened if we had never learned from our past experiences. All of our known sciences and knowledge of the world around us: our Planet Earth, Milky Way Galaxy and The Universe in which we live, would not have come to existence. Not so long ago, scientist and philosophers were burned alive for challenging the stupid dogma of religious doctrines brutally enforced by mullahs. But now that we know absolutely that the Earth is neither flat, nor it has hell at the edge of it or heaven above it and the fact that Earth is not the center of the Universe, shouldn't we, by the same token of wisdom and common sense knowledge, let go of all other related dogma created by such ruthless mythical religions?

We, the humankind, have a strong natural tendency, which is to live together in peace and form unifying bonds necessary for building communities and societies at large. This is precisely the reason that Adam & Eve based religions try so hard to drive a wedge between humankind and set us up against one another, - Divide And Conquer -. Humankind lived in peace and harmony, under the matriarchy system of social governing for a long time before the fabrication of Judaism, the first Adam & Eve based religion.

In the recent upsurge of religious dogma on Earth, life in all of its aspects has been horribly disfigured and forced to march backwards in time, ranging from immense destruction of our environment to the use of democracy-inducing bombs, bullets and depleted uranium weapons in order to establish religious dictatorships disguised as democracies. These activities are dominated by Imperialistic tyrannies of criminal capitalists supported by the three (3) manmade, barbaric, corrupt Adam & Eve based religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

The religious mullah's ruthless Mafia style preservation of their wealth and power is not a new phenomenon. The three (3) manmade, barbaric and corrupt Adam & Eve based religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam have slaughtered and caused unimaginable horror to humankind in order to maintain their position of power and wealth.

Obviously in today's futuristic space age scientific and technological advancement there is no room for tyrannical barbarism of religion now or in the future. The future itself has been under attack from every possible angle imaginable.

We have been diverted from the natural path of life's progression and forced into the religious dictatorial tyrannies. We are bombarded with fear, hate and threat of war and fabricated Armageddon by manufactured news and all kinds of horror movies about terrifying nonexistent horror movies' medieval figures.

Who do you think finances the production of propaganda news, horror movies and movies full of fear, hate and violence? It is public knowledge that the tax-exempt corporations owned by religious organizations have a big hand in encouraging and financing directly or indirectly the production of horror religious related movies.

The bread and butter of the three (3) manmade, barbaric and corrupt Adam & Eve based religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam come from painting a bleak picture of our future, full of misery death and destruction. We are told to leave everything in the hands of the so-called fictitious god. A god who, if we disobey, will kill us all many times over in a painful way in hell, by shoving a snake up our butts while a fire breathing dragon is tearing us apart.

We are told that to avoid the above hellish horrible death in the upcoming Armageddon, all we have to do is to pay these mullahs and join their cult in order to be forgiven. Doesn't that sound like the Mafia gangsters selling protection? That in essence, - - if you do not pay the mafia to protect yourself from mafia goons, the mafia will send their goons to break your head and burn your store, therefore you must pay the goons to be protected from the goons! - -

The truth is that our destiny lies in our own hands, humankind's. Our destiny is determined by our daily actions and deeds or lack thereof. What we do today will chart the events of tomorrow. Our decisions and actions today, maps our tomorrow, the future.

For example, if we, the humankind are stupid enough to pollute our living environment and use nuclear weapons, we will pay the consequences. If we are smart enough to use our futuristic sense by not polluting our living environment or using nuclear weapons, we will reap the benefits of having a clean, livable environment and a bright future. So you see, it is all in our hands. Destiny is in our hands.

- - We are punished by our misdeeds, not for them. - -

Inform the unaware and prepare, embrace the future,
Ignoring the hate and fear spewed by the preacher,
Cherish the knowledge and listen to Mother Nature,
Beware, don't despair, unite and end this nightmare.

In respond to my above article - Going Back To The Future - Daniel sent me the following song - A Terrible Beauty - click on it to listen and download the song, the song's lyrics are listed below.

A Terrible Beauty - By Daniel Patrick Welch

We hailed the New Millennium
The dawn of change had come
Our future lay before us bright and clear
But somehow now we've lost our way
The future's on the run
As we try to shed our past for one more year

A Terrible Beauty
The Irish poet said
The future and the past become the same
We cannot reach our future
So we live the past instead
Over and over again

The grim machine of empire
Churned out a year of war
A hundred thousand perished at our hands
The rules remain unchanging
Send the poor to kill the poor
All to grab the oil beneath their sands

A Terrible Beauty
The Irish poet said
The future and the past become the same
We cannot reach our future
So we live the past instead
Over and over again

The cold winds of November
Couldn't nudge the past aside
As people drowned in fear, and cash and fraud
The votes seem to be counted
To favor those who lied
A President who thinks he talks with God

A Terrible Beauty
The Irish poet said
The future and the past become the same
We cannot reach our future
So we live the past instead
Over and over again

And as the new year beckons
Come the tales of untold grief
As tidal waves deliver fear and dread
It happened without warning
Gave survivors no relief
with waters still receding, nearly half a million dead

A Terrible Beauty
The Irish poet said
The future and the past become the same
We cannot reach our future
So we live the past instead
Over and over again

So change we must or perish
At the turning of the year
We can stop the cycle if we try
Spend less on war than people
we can break the chains of fear
If we kiss the year--and kiss the past--goodbye

A terrible Beauty
The Irish poet said
Though when hope lives the past can surely end
Fight for the living
While mourning the dead
Our vow must be never again