Beliefs of The Alberta Democratic Movement

## God

We are a movement of all the people irrespective of their belief or disbelief in a God or God. But we do take into account as well as respect the right of people to have and practice their religious beliefs, as long as it does not infringe on the rights of others.

### Agnostic Constitution

The constitution of the movement is agnostic, it did not take God into account when the constitution of the movement was formulated. The movement will not take God into account in carrying outs its business. This is not to mean that we are suggesting that God is out of the picture, but we believe that the provenance of God is in the hearts and minds of people, and not in politics or the legislature or the parliament.

## The time of life on Earth is limited

The Earth could be here for another billion years, but what will it hold? will it be thriving with advanced life forms, humans and robots? or will it be a dark and cold planet, with very few or no intelligent life? or will it be a blue rock just filled with rodents, cockroaches, virus, and bacteria?

God forbid, We believe that life on Earth could not be sustained for eternity and destruction of habitats is a high possibility.

### It's Unknown

However, we have no beliefs on when, how fast, or slow or whether it will be man-made causes or natural causes.

### Alert not Afraid

There are many scary and compelling people and narratives out there. Some are very popular which has made people afraid and confused. But we have to remember that for hundreds of years conmen trick people by making them emotionally vulnerable and weak so that they can penetrate into their hearts and finally land in the in minds of people so that they can destroy the "rationality" part of the human being.

Fear is a stone-age emotion which used to save us from tigers and snakes by taking all rustling leaves as a 100% threat (false-positive error). Fear has lost its utility to humans and replaced with "reason" and "information"

### Multi Planetary Species

Whether anything happens or not, it will be irresponsible for today's humans not to work on finding another planet for us to live. In fact, this should be the only goal and objective of all humanity and nations. If it is not us, then who is it going to be? forget about kids, and grandkids, that is too selfish, and humans are greater than they think. Do we have a moral compulsion to think about the future of all humans?

Some may not, but we the movement, believe that we have a moral compulsion to think about and work towards the existence of future humans. Because they are us, just like we, are our fathers and mothers and our grandparents.

## Humans

### Purpose of life

The believers may have a purpose of life defined by their faith. But the constitution of the movement being agnostic believes in its own definition of the purpose of humans. And this belief is arrived by philosophical debates, discussion, and analysis of facts by the founder.

**The purpose of humanity and humans is to explore and continue to explore space around them, in order to do this they have to,**
1. **Work to produce tools required for exploration.**
2. **Think to develop new and advanced tools.**

**Everything else is only contingent and secondary to the above-stated purposes.**

*"There are plenty of things to do on earth but there are lots of companies working on that. I think we're working on one of the most important things we possibly can, and that's to find another place for humans to live and survive and thrive..*.

*..If something happened on Earth you need humans living somewhere else...(applause)*

...*and this does not subvert making our planet here better and doing a better job taking care of it, but I think you need multiple paths to survival and this (what we are working on) is one of them..."*

- Gwynne Shotwell, Engineer, President and Chief Operating Officer at SpaceX. In conversation with TED curator Chris Anderson, May 2018.

### Human Nature

To serve the above purpose it is necessary to identify and differentiate human nature. This is not racism or differentiation. But irrespective of whether one is black or white Hindu or Muslim, certain types of human natures are found in any culture or background.

Instead of getting into the complications of identifying human nature, the movement will restrict to "human utility" which means, every human will be considered as,

1. **Ally:** People who help our stated purpose.
2. **Apathetic:** People who are indifferent to our purpose.
3. **Skeptics:** People who do not believe in our purpose and or our organization, but nevertheless is of no help or harm.
4. **Enemy:** People who are against our purpose, and would like to see us defeated.

### Human Utility

Every human is valuable to the mission, we believe in the utility of every human, irrespective of their beliefs, values, race, color, physique, intelligence. We have to identify people's grit, passion, innate talents and facilitate them to take up their naturally successful positions to help our purpose. A human can serve multiple positions, and no human should be "cast" in a position, but the movement will facilitate opportunity and mobility for humans to assume their interesting positions. These are the roles that we identify for people,

1. Producer
2. Provider
3. Protector
4. Developer
5. Informer
6. Consultant
7. Inventor
8. Builder
9. Advisor
10. Advocate
11. Healer
12. Aide
13. Leader
14. Educator
15. Critic
16. Soldier
17. Scout
18. Explorer
19. Artist
20. Entertainer

Last but not least, humans are not "consumers", or "mindless beings" whose only purpose is to generate profit for businesses by consuming their goods and services.

### Despicable Humans

The movement believes that there does exist certain people who do despicable acts. Though some may change their behavior, some may not, the movement hates such despicable humans and will not refrain from labeling them so,

1. Pedophiles
2. Violating other human's dignity.
3. Child abuse in all and any form.
4. Adult abuse in all and any form.
5. Causing hunger, disease, death, famine, destruction, and extinction of life and habitat.
6. Terrorism
7. Warmongers
8. Torture
9. Forced Conversions
10. Stealing, Cheat, Fraud, Misuse and abuse of trust

## References

1. ↑ https://youtu.be/Dar8P3r7GYA?t=1170
2. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/23/style/an-expert-on-the-roles-people-play-in-life.html
3. ↑ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4632406/