The Core Tenets

---

I – Those Who Muse profess an absolute and unquestioning belief in God.

II – Those Who Muse accept that our understanding of God is temporarily flawed and incomplete. 

III – Those Who Muse accept that a complete and true understanding of God exists.

IV – Those Who Muse accept that through the proper application of Theology, Philosophy, and Science the complete and true understanding of God will be found. 

V – Those Who Muse accept that their views and beliefs will necessarily change as our understanding changes.

VI – Those Who Muse accept that once a complete and true understanding of God is reached, this understanding will become the foundation of their belief.

VII – Those Who Muse accept that once a complete and true understanding of God is reached, this truth and understanding will be self-evident. 

VIII – Those Who Muse accept that due to our current imperfect understanding of God all existing religions can be simultaneously valid or invalid. 

I – The purpose of Musings is to create a religion and philosophy that will work to bridge the gaps between different peoples and religions in increasingly complex world. 

II – Most religious canon cannot be challenged or changed as they are often said to be divinely derived teachings or are the result of traditional learnings. 

III – Because most existing religions teachings cannot be challenged or changed their relevance to modern humanity has decreased as humanity advanced.  

IV – Musings accepts the wisdom of the past but embraces all learning be it old, new, or yet undiscovered.  

V – Musings beliefs and morality will necessarily change as our understanding advances.  

VI – Musings will provide humanity the philosophical and moral structures that will be required to preserve humanity into an ever increasingly complex future. 

VII – Musings will provide faith and understanding to humanity in an increasingly complex world.  

VIII – Musings must be a collective work of many learned individuals brought together for the collective advancement of humanity.  

IX – This collective work must be thoroughly tested and simply rendered.  

I – Because I can perceive I exist

II – Because I exist the universe I inhabit exists.

III – Because both I and the universe exist underpinning laws which govern existence necessarily exist.

IV – Human understanding of these laws is incomplete and flawed.

V – Humanities understanding of these laws has become more refined and complete over time.

VI – If humanity persists, and if we continue to advance, our understanding of these laws will continue to become more refined and complete.

VII – If humanity persists and our understanding of these laws continues to become more refined and complete humanity will come to know the author(s) of these underpinning laws.

VIII – Said author(s) would be what we now consider God(s).

I – Science and Religion are not mutually exclusive. 

II – Religion is the search for comfort, understanding, and truth which is found in belief. 

III – Science is the search for knowledge, understanding, and truth which is found by careful testing and observation. 

IV – The existence of God does not dispute the underlying laws of nature on which science is founded. 

V – The underlying laws of nature as defined by science do not disprove God. 

VI – Those Who Muse accept the necessity of both God and science. 

VII – Those Who Muse accept our beliefs and morality are informed by both God and science. 

VIII – Those Who Muse accept that without both God and science the continued persistence and advancement of humanity is improvable.    

I – Each individual should worship its God with truth, honesty, and integrity. 

II – The concept of God is immense where each individual’s understanding of God exists as part of the whole. 

III- Each individual should honor other individuals’ Gods as it would honor its own. 

IV – Honor all those whose faith advance the cause of humanity regardless of any perceived or actual difference. 

V – Condemn all those whose faith hinder the cause of humanity regardless of any perceived or actual difference.  

VI – knowledge and understanding are not the enemies of faith and religion but instead show the path to purer belief. 

VII – Embrace new learning and ideals with a critical eye and allow them to guide them into the future. 

VIII – Never forget the lessons and wisdom of the past as they are the foundation on which the future is built. 

IX – Being One Who Muses does not necessarily preclude one’s faith, belief, and adherence to another religion except where said faith, belief, or adherence stands in direct conflict with a proven tenet of Those Who Muse.  

I – Faith is an unconditional belief in a person, idea or principle where there is not necessarily a way to prove, justify or confirm the existence or validity of said person, idea or principal. 

II – Faith does not limit itself to only matters of God and religion but extends to any strongly held belief(s).  

III – Faith is fundamental for the survival and happiness of a given individual, society, or species.  

IV – Faith does not necessarily provide truth, but it does provide comfort. 

V – The loss of faith by an individual, society, or species is destructive to said individual, society, or species. 

VI – the loss of faith in a person, idea or principal is destructive to said person, idea or principal.  

VII – A lack of faith by an individual, society, or species will cause a great amount of hardship in said individual, society, or species.  

VIII – The acceptance of the tenets of science and their results is a form of faith (perceptual faith). 

I – Prayer is the action of addressing a power external to a given individual or group in an effort to affect or change a yet undetermined outcome. 

II – Prayer can be directed or undirected, that is to God, Gods, Spirits, Universe, or to nothing. 

III – Regardless of the validity or existence of the prayers recipient the act of prayer can be beneficial to the individual or group who issued a given prayer. 

IV – Prayer by an individual or group is a form of catharsis to said individual or group. 

V – This release is mentally and physically beneficial to said individual or group.  

VI –The act of prayer can in some cases actively affect outcomes as individuals might consciously or unconsciously act on a given prayer. 

I – Humanity has been able to advance to its current state due to its ability to collect, use, create, and transmit information. 

II – Humanities most common method to express large quantities of information in easily usable ways is through shared stories. 

III – To date most of humanities’ shared stories were presented as familial stories, religion, naturalistic stories, and scientific explanation.  

IV – The existence of these shared stories allows individuals who have no other social bonds to interact and cooperate.  

V – The mutual understanding and cooperation created by shared stories is the basis upon which mass mobilization of humanity is based. 

VI – Due to the increasingly complex information, situations, and problems that humanity faces mass mobilization, understanding, and cooperation are increasingly necessary.  

VII – Therefore commonly held stories will be vital to the continuation of an ever growing and ever more complex species. 

VIII – Musings is an evolving shared story.  

I – Our ability to know is necessarily limited by our ability to perceive.  

II – There are known knowns, those ideas, concepts, or principles which are known to be perceptually true due to close observation and rigorous testing. 

III – There are known unknowns, those ideas, concepts, or principles which are presumed to be true but cannot yet be perceptually proven true. 

IV – There are unknown unknowns, those ideas, concepts, or principles which have yet to be presumed. 

V – The nature and purpose of a given question must be clear in its composition for it to be answerable in a meaningful way. 

VI – As our understanding increases our ability to formulate and answer complex questions increase. 

VII – Some questions can be answered in perceptually certain terms at this time while others exist in a realm of pure thought separate from perception. 

VIII – As our understanding increases our ability to move questions from the realm of pure thought into the realm of close observation and rigorous testing increases. 

IX – It is empirically vital to imagine many sorts of questions as even a ridiculous question proven to be perceptually false is valuable in its elimination of an incorrect possibility.  

I – The identification of a new idea, premise, or antecedent or the revision of an existing idea, premise or antecedent. 

II – Review, then accept or reject the need to revise or add a given idea, premise or antecedent.  

III – Once accepted focus or refine given idea, premise or antecedent. 

IV – Test given ideas, premises, and their associated antecedents for logical inconsistencies.  

V – Create or modify narratives based on the new or revised ideas, premises or antecedents.  

VI – Test given narratives for logical inconsistencies. 

VII – Repeat above as necessary. 

VIII – Render all results into clear and concise language.