Employment Guide for the Afterlife
by Tippy Gnu
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Everyone must have a livelihood, whether in this life or the next. Learn how to prepare for employment in the afterlife, so that after you reach the Other Side, you can land a job that will reward you richly, for eternity.
Explore the theories, precepts, and rituals behind my religion, and get started on a path that will allow you to grow and evolve spiritually, in your own way. Discover the meaning of life, how to expand upon your happiness, and how to develop insight and wisdom.
Have a sample of my book, with the following excerpts:
From the Introduction:
This book is about a new religion. It’s a religion I created, and that I currently follow. I won’t follow it forever though, and I advise the same for others. Whether you decide to adopt this religion, or if you stick with the one you’re currently following, don’t remain with any religion forever.
Religion provides a starting point. You adopt the various rules and rituals it prescribes, and you follow them for awhile.
When you start a new religion, your heart can be filled with joy, and you may feel exuberant about it. But no matter how exuberant you may feel when you first find your faith, sooner or later the excitement and thrill of it all is going to fade. And that’s when that critical thinking apparatus between your ears will start to kick in. This is when you’re likely to notice areas in your religion that you think need improving.
Some may call that apostasy. But I don’t. I call it a good sign. It shows that you are growing spiritually mature. Your spirituality is evolving.
If you adopt this new religion that I’m teaching, please keep in mind that I want you to evolve. And as you evolve, go ahead and change the rules and rituals as you see fit, so that they fit you better. And as you do, you’ll gradually develop a unique religion, all your own. Just like I have done.
From Chapter 1:
Religion is not about obtaining happiness. Rather, it is about maintaining happiness. Eternally. It assumes you already are happy, and want to stay happy. After all, why would anyone want to live forever, if they couldn’t be happy forever?
Because what good is a religion if there is no life after death? The whole idea behind religion is to get in good with God, the gods, or with whatever else it is that rules the heavens, so that when you die, you can go on to have a wonderful afterlife. Religion stamps your e-ticket to eternity.
There is no sport more bloodthirsty, cutthroat, and treacherous than the race to heaven. People kill each other over it, all the time. One of the most ancient anecdotes about this is the murder of Abel, by Cain. According to the Bible, Cain was angry with Abel, because Abel made a more pleasing offering to God than Cain’s offering. So in a fit of jealousy, he killed the unsuspecting sop.
And so it goes with things like religion, virtue, and morality. We do our best to impress others with our holiness, to one-up each other in virtue, and to present ourselves as the most righteous of all human beings. We do this because we’re worried. We want to go to heaven, and we fear the pearly gates will be closed to us, if we don’t win the race to those gates.
If anyone seems to lag in the race, we attack that person, because we like the contrast of our perfection against that person’s imperfection. And if anyone gets ahead of us in the race, we pretend to respect that person. But all the while, we search for any sign of moral failure so that we can quickly knock that person down and gain the lead. Just like Cain knocked Abel down.
From Chapter 14:
Here is the list of my religion’s six precepts:
1. I will live free.
2. I will honor the freedom of others.
3. I will be trustworthy.
4. I will protect myself from the untrustworthy.
5. I will avoid extremes and pursue the Middle Way.
6. I will cultivate wisdom. I acknowledge that these precepts can’t be followed perfectly. So I will rely upon my own wisdom for guidance on how best to follow them.
