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    TekARK Book Three: Our Existential Purpose
    TekARK Book Three: Our Existential Purpose
    TekARK Book Three: Our Existential Purpose
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    TekARK Book Three: Our Existential Purpose

    By Richard T. Adams II

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    TekARK offers an alternative idea on religion, one that's shaped primarily by the modern world. Aided by scientific theory and fact, it draws together the notion of the divine with the idea of the Simulation Hypothesis. At the same time, however, it also holds that all ancient major religions are in fact real and true, having come from the very same divinity in order to spark differentiation in our world.

    Here in the final book, Book Three, we move ever onward, trying to answer the idea of our existential purpose in this world. The book relies heavily on the fundamental importance of individuality and expressing our uniqueness in this life. We look at how none of us are mistakes, and that all of us have equal worth in the eyes of our Creator and God; equally so, the fact that God created our existence primarily in order to drawn upon that fantastical degree of uniqueness across the sphere of humanity. Finishing off this portion, the fact that there is indeed also inherent, irreplaceable value in our cooperative togetherness.

    Then, we explore just what the afterlife might mean under the idea of a simulated reality made by God... including the form of punishment/Hell that would most likely exist under a simulated Creation. We close off the work and trilogy with chapters that analyze just how literal the modern miracles that are technology truly are; how what we might achieve through our technological wonders so closely mirrors the miracles Jesus Himself was best known for. Next up, we explore the concept of polarity to explain just how and why bad things happen in our lives; how the most terrible of lows lead only to the greatest of highs. Finally, another look at just how critical prior sacred text are in our lives, provided as they were by the very same, true divinity/God.

    Lastly, a closing word on the dangers of cults and faith exploiters, seeking to prevent those who are themselves seeking out potential systems of belief from becoming prey to vile and wicked sorts.

    This work is primarily intended for those who have been searching for their faith, yet have always come up empty thus far; those of a realist/scientific bent, who seek to explore their own faith whilst still retaining their core principles and understandings; or merely the curious and inquisitive sort, who are perfectly content in their beliefs but are always desiring to continue expanding their minds with new knowledge.

    TekARK sprung out of my own beliefs, consisting entirely of them, when I myself found that no existing faith adhered to exactly what I saw and thought of this world. Since my beliefs evolved to become so markedly different from anything else "out there", I committed to writing them down and sharing them with the world at large that others in my position might not have to craft something entirely from scratch in order to express and understand their faith. Likewise, they merely are my own beliefs, and nothing more than that - whether others should find them useful in their own lives or not, I cannot say, only that this is what "worked" here for me.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard T. Adams II
    Release dateApr 27, 2017
    ISBN9781370934805
    TekARK Book Three: Our Existential Purpose
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    Richard T. Adams II

    Born just outside of our nation's capital in Falls Church, Virginia in 1983, Richard has always been told he possesses a considerable gift for writing. Having always found immense intrigue with assorted religious ideas and exploring them thusly, over the past several years worth of time he arrived at a set of relatively unique religious beliefs that fit his own personal beliefs and worldview about life. Choosing to commit himself to applying said talents toward those very ends by delving into such an unusual perspective regarding the shape his own personal faith ultimately evolved.to become, it's precisely this endeavor which he finds himself working toward completing just now! Facing many a considerable health problem that have plagued him since his early childhood, Richard has turned to his writing primarily as a means of escapism from the grim realities of his own personal life. Furthermore, as an avid fan of countless many supernaturally based horror, thriller and sci-fi works (coming in any number of different mediums - from the written word onward to films, television and video games), Richard has also found himself writing the occasional piece of fiction on top of his various non-fiction based works - whether in short story form, or else as full blown novels! An as of yet unfinished novel about the original horror film aficionado, Tod Browning, is still in the process of its very earliest of stages, whilst a full length fantasy novel about Jesus Christ's most infamous apostle, entitled The Reckoning of Judas Iscariot, is just now nearing its own completion here today!

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      TekARK Book Three - Richard T. Adams II

      As Written By: Richard T. Adams II

      Dedicated to my beloved mother, Elizabeth Adams, who tragically passed from this Earth as I finished writing much of the contents of this work. Her assistance, although sadly cut short as it was, proved invaluable – truly an incredible treasure, just as she herself was throughout her life.

      I love you, Mom, always and forever.

      TekARK Book Three: Our Existential Purpose, by Richard T. Adams II.

      Published by TekARK Press: 2240 Beacon Lane, Falls Church, VA 22043

      Smashwords Edition, Published April 2017

      www.tekark.org Richard.Adams@Gmail.com

      © 2017 Richard Adams II. All Rights Reserved.

      19: The Reason Why God Would Create Our World (In A Simulated Existence)

      20: The Inherent Value of Individuality

      21: The Uniqueness of Our Uniqueness

      22: Natural Equality of Consciousness

      23: Importance of the Individual: Free Thought and Expression

      24: The Value of Cooperative Togetherness

      25: Of Fate and Destinies: The Individual as Part of a Larger Puzzle

      26: The Afterlife: As From A Simulated Perspective

      27: Modern Day Miracles: The Many Blessings of Technology

      28:Why Bad Things Happen: Polarity, Acting On Highs and Lows

      29: The Immense Rewards as Comes Out of ‘Divine Lessons and Teachings’

      Epilogue: On Cults and Exploiters of Faith

      Chapter 19:

      The Reason Why God Would Create Our World (In A Simulated Existence)

      Why create such a world to begin with, whether or not ours is something of a technologically simulated existence?

      This is a question that has stymied us, for pretty much as long as there’s been an us who might ask: Why?! Indeed, it almost goes without "question" here to say that it is a question for the ages, themselves!

      For starters, why –exactly– would God even create us, to begin with? What reason is there for making our world, universe and reality – something separate, distinct and brand new from whatever that Maker already knew for itself? Why is it that we’re here… at all?! And just what is our purpose as such, in simply being a part of this crazy little thing otherwise known as life?

      These represent the weightiest of matters, without a doubt! They appear to be quite complex questions, ones that assuredly must require answers equally as convoluted – if indeed there are even any answers to be found there… at all! And yet, it is my firm belief here that the answer to them all is one and the same; no less, it’s also something that’s almost deceptively simple!

      No matter what your own personal idea is about the form or basis of divinity, even so we should all be able to agree on some basic facts surrounding things thereabouts: That God is an advanced and nearly incomprehensible being, absolutely! But also, the fact that He is a conscious entity – something that is intelligent, sentient and self-aware. Those particular traits…? They’d undoubtedly be necessary to decide on Creating thusly, let alone for being able to wield whatever tools are needed in order to Create us and our world.

      It’s precisely there, with that divinity’s own consciousness and sentience, that we may find the basis for our own purpose. Because, coincidentally enough, those same things are also something we ourselves possess!

      We can make no mistake about it: This quality of self aware intelligence is the rarest of the rare, sitting at the very apex of all things both known and unknown. Can some sentient thing have more advanced or superior qualities to it in comparison with other sentience? Absolutely!

      However, there is simply nowhere else to go beyond the point of being able to look out and ask oneself, Why? Interestingly, the grand culmination of this trait is also the one thing capable of transcending tangible, physical form – able to be moved across realities, existing in a realm of pure thought and consciousness: Something utterly nothing else can so claim. Anything (and everything) else is singularly tied to its own matter and material nature, while the priceless rarity of conscious intelligence is able to exist outside of all such things!

      With this universe and reality of ours, we have come as the ultimate result – conscious, sentient beings able to ask those very questions of ourselves. Just as much as this form of being stands at something of an existential apex above anything else, it is to other sentient and self-aware entities where these qualities would be even more priceless still!

      All the more, the fact we were created by that form of being is most telling: While the decidedly literal concept of loneliness and isolation should be well beyond such a divine entity, we can indeed envision something related to those very ideas as forming part of the reason for our Creation: Making brand new, entirely distinct sentient consciousness… ultimately joining with that divine Creator upon the completion of our development and transcendence to its plane of existence with our death in this mortal plane of ours – albeit as far inferior individuals or unequal beings when held in comparison to its own impossibly advanced state of majestic perfection.

      Sure, one might easily question why there’d be a need for such an intricate and elaborate affair, creating a whole reality -our entire universe- simply to produce other, new sentient consciousness; why not just go directly to the desired outcome, deliberately creating other intelligent entities?

      I’ll be raising this later on, but we can also find clues to this aspect littered across our own existence: The grand differentiation of our beings, each one of us utterly unique as individuals. Furthermore, that uniqueness presently numbers in the several billion… and still counting! Just try to imagine it by stepping back for a moment: Something as complex as a self aware intelligence, yet coming in billions and billions of different flavors – not a single, solitary one of which is even remotely similar to another!

      With our entire existence being what it is has given rise to the most perfected of ways to create new, distinct conscious beings; just the same, through the process that divine Maker developed, it also led matters to being almost entirely effortless on its part… sitting back and watching those individual entities unfolding all but organically, on their very own in other words.

      A more specifically involved and intentional creation of consciousness? It’d all but mean some cookie cutter affair wherein true distinctions from one another would be far more difficult and time consuming to produce, if it were even at all possible to reach anything approaching the inconceivable magnitude yielded by our own process for differentiation: Those several billions worth! Instead, through this organic way that has led to/continues leading to our existence, we find a natural proclivity towards uniqueness and differences in individual sentient beings – truly, as wondrous and impossible of an affair as could ever be imagined!

      This particular simulated perspective of ours also presents us with many unique attributes, exploiting various properties involved with that consciousness being developed: Namely, allowing a realistic means by which that mind -our identities and person- can be preserved upon death, along with moving it (transcending) from our own reality -in this mortal realm- when we should inevitably meet our demise. The reason for that demise, in and of itself? Envision our death on this plane as signaling that specific consciousness as being done or finished with its initial stage of development.

      Later on I’ll be exploring this idea in considerably more detail, but by viewing matters much the same as computer files (think of that as though consciousness containers) moving across different machines (meaning other realities; specifically, joining our divine Maker wherever it is that It might be found), we can find particular insight into the nature of our

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