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Timebinder, v. 1, Issue 1, 1944
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vidual, if he worked hard enough, and planned carefully enough, and prayed earnestly enough, to build a Utopian world WITHIN HIS OWN LIFE! True, he would not be able to change, in any appreciable extent, his external environment, unless he were one of the world's great leaders, which I know that I certainly was not. But I know from my readings and my studies, that ever since Man first began using his brains and his imagination, he had been longing for his Utopia, his Blessed Isles, his Shangri La, his Pleasant Valley, his Heaven on Earth. These, you all know, are those mythical pleasant lands where all is peace and happiness; where everyone has perfect security and opportunity; where wars and fighting are unknown, and where no one wants for any material thing -- where food, clothing, shelter and all such necessities of life are his as a matter of right; and where labor is done in the pleasant companionship of his friends for the sheer joy of accomplishment. In these lands he would find that life was, in the best sense, spiritual and pleasurable and completely satisfactory. Many of our best authors have written stories of their own conceptions of what such a place would be like. They have invested the lives of their characters, and their surroundings, with all those things which, to the authors, epitomized the fulfillment of their own personal desires for a perfect life. For these things are the fundamentals of all truth -- the building stones of which are formed the foundations of the right, the happy sort of life. These fundamentals, such as Honor, Truth, Helpfulness to others, Ethical Treatment of others whether in business or in pleasure, a seeking for the best in others and in conditions, rather than a search for the worst -- these are basic of all true happiness. I presume I have read most of these stories, together with those hundreds of our Scienti-Fantasy-fiction stories, which deal with the lives and environments of possible advanced civilizations of the future. And I dreamed my dreams of finding such a Utopian world of happiness and unselfish companionship. Then came my great idea of building that world within myself. As I gave the matter more and more real, earnest, and planned thought; as I read more widely and studied more thoroughly, I slowly evolved in my own mind just how this Utopian world could be created within myself. I did not at first approach it from the purely religious angle, although I have since come to find belief that such a goal is the ammo of true religion. Not in form or ritual; not in any creed or denomination, but in the essence of deep, solemn religious living and the ultimate happiness. I have based my religious 9
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vidual, if he worked hard enough, and planned carefully enough, and prayed earnestly enough, to build a Utopian world WITHIN HIS OWN LIFE! True, he would not be able to change, in any appreciable extent, his external environment, unless he were one of the world's great leaders, which I know that I certainly was not. But I know from my readings and my studies, that ever since Man first began using his brains and his imagination, he had been longing for his Utopia, his Blessed Isles, his Shangri La, his Pleasant Valley, his Heaven on Earth. These, you all know, are those mythical pleasant lands where all is peace and happiness; where everyone has perfect security and opportunity; where wars and fighting are unknown, and where no one wants for any material thing -- where food, clothing, shelter and all such necessities of life are his as a matter of right; and where labor is done in the pleasant companionship of his friends for the sheer joy of accomplishment. In these lands he would find that life was, in the best sense, spiritual and pleasurable and completely satisfactory. Many of our best authors have written stories of their own conceptions of what such a place would be like. They have invested the lives of their characters, and their surroundings, with all those things which, to the authors, epitomized the fulfillment of their own personal desires for a perfect life. For these things are the fundamentals of all truth -- the building stones of which are formed the foundations of the right, the happy sort of life. These fundamentals, such as Honor, Truth, Helpfulness to others, Ethical Treatment of others whether in business or in pleasure, a seeking for the best in others and in conditions, rather than a search for the worst -- these are basic of all true happiness. I presume I have read most of these stories, together with those hundreds of our Scienti-Fantasy-fiction stories, which deal with the lives and environments of possible advanced civilizations of the future. And I dreamed my dreams of finding such a Utopian world of happiness and unselfish companionship. Then came my great idea of building that world within myself. As I gave the matter more and more real, earnest, and planned thought; as I read more widely and studied more thoroughly, I slowly evolved in my own mind just how this Utopian world could be created within myself. I did not at first approach it from the purely religious angle, although I have since come to find belief that such a goal is the ammo of true religion. Not in form or ritual; not in any creed or denomination, but in the essence of deep, solemn religious living and the ultimate happiness. I have based my religious 9
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