What and Who to Look Up To

 

People shouldn’t be awed by, pray to, or worship the lord. Nor the collective or the government. God and mankind collectively don’t really exist. There’s no evidence for a deity and humanity has no independent existence apart from its members.

Indeed, people should be awed by, pray to, and worship the cosmos and the totality of existence. Also the mystery, wonder, and priceless gift of life. They should similarly adore and dedicate themselves to the great individual and the magnificence inside themselves. These all exist.

Still another thing might exist: superior space aliens. We should keep these potential demi-gods in mind. These creatures of far superior nature, nurture, power, and ability are likely worth looking up to and impressing. Perhaps they'll reward any loftiness on our part.

People should also honor and pay homage to Natural Law and the inconceivable powers of the universe. And those persons who first harnessed fire, created stone tools, invented the bow and arrow, and domesticated plants and animals. So too those who discovered reason, math, science, and philosophy.

Practically everyone should be awed by, pray to, and worship Homer, Hesiod, Socrates, Aristotle, Thucydides, Sophocles, Euclid, Cicero, Lucretius, Virgil, Horace, Aurelius, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Bacon, Locke, Smith, Voltaire, Jefferson, Bastiat, Mises, Hayek, Einstein, Rand, Branden, Kelley, and Hicks. Especially Aristotle and Rand.

These people are worth following, serving, and obeying. Or, more accurately, respecting, admiring, learning from, and trying to improve upon.

People should be awed by, pray to, and worship the infinite and overwhelming world of reality. Still more, the good parts of yourself, any magnificent acts and achievements to your credit, and your noble soul.

You are god. Or at least the only one we have. And possibly the only one we need.

So be awed by, pray to, and worship the right things: our wondrous cosmos, the treasure of life, human heroes, noble ETs, and the Sacred Self.