What and Why
Except for the quotes at the bottom of this page, my website is largely static. The articles are summarized below.
My belief in extraterrestrials is based on the incredible number of stars in the universe. As described in Calculating the Number of ETIs, even if we are alone in the Milky Way, there are so many galaxies we can not expect to be completely alone in the universe. My explanation of why extraterrestrials have not openly contacted us is presented in story form as A SETI Allegory. It is an explanation of how contact with an extraterrestrial could be detrimental to our own development and why a more advanced civilization might choose to preserve the natural process of advancement here on Earth.
Consider where Earth civilization is likely to go in the distant future and you might agree with The UETI Model, a speculation about the ultimate stage of extraterrestrial intelligence. It assumes Earth civilization will survive its youth and become something new and different. The technologies proposed in The UETI Model might never exist and are open to dispute but the progress of Earth civilization is almost inevitable.
Given the hypothetical power of the oldest UETIs, I was reminded by my childhood studies of the Christian bible. At the time it seemed so much like stories of an extraterrestrial intelligence I couldn't shake it as I grew up. This has been proposed before but I have put my own spin on it.
As codification of my beliefs, I created a religious dogma which espouses the Ultimate Extraterrestrial Intelligence as God Almighty. It is described in Definition of UETI-ism. I have spent my life contemplating theologies, particularly the Lord's Prayer attributed to Jesus. UETI-ism's religious dogma is rounded out with the tenets of this prayer. As a correction to what I believe is fundamentally wrong with modern Christianity, namely people blindly following those who claim to be closer to God than others, the edict to have no clergy was included.
Once The UETI Model and Definition of UETI-ism were established, it became a short step to postulating both a Heaven and a hell that could be created by my God, the UETI. On the Possibility of Heaven and Closing the Gates of Hell are stories about mechanisms for resurrecting the faithful children of God as well as disciplining the unrepentant.
If you want to know more about me and why it is so important for me to believe in Heaven then read more in A Scientific God and About the Author.
"'And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?’"
Jesus
"The game is going to be called sooner or later, so why give up? Play and play hard until the end."
Daniel A Kenney
"Neither do people light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it gives light to all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before people that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in Heaven."
Jesus
"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle and the life of the candle is not shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
Buddha
"You are important. You are here for a purpose. You are loved. You are worthy of love. Let your heart overflow and spill your caring spirit onto the people around you. Strength is not measured by avoiding suffering. Strength is the ability to suffer. Power is not being invulnerable. Power is being vulnerable without regret. Strength and power together live in those who run towards danger because they want to help others. And yes, we suffer. But suffering grows our strength and power.
Daniel A Kenney
"To thine own self be true"
William Shakespeare
"Looking at Life, Don't condemn the world because you don't like what you see: Trouble and unhappiness, greed and misery... Certainly these things exist and cannot be denied - But don't forget that there is something on the other side: Courage and unselfishness and much that is good and kind. It really all depends on the focus of your mind. Don't let dark distorting shadows spoil the world for you. The fault may lie within yourself, so change your point of view. Instead of looking on the bad and dwelling on the worst- Try to get a broader vision, putting best things first Turn the camera round : a different angle strike. You will get another picture- maybe one that you will like."
Trisha Keecher
"The Ego of the Good dies young."
Daniel Kenney
"Time is your most precious gift because you only have a set amount of it. You can make more money, but you can't make more time. When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time."
Rick Warren
"The truth shall set me free. And the truth hurts. If you want to be free, you must pass through pain."
Daniel Kenney
"You will not be punished for your anger. You will be punished by your anger."
Buddha
"An easy life never produced a great person."
Unknown
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."
Marcus Aurelius
"No one has ever become poor from giving."
Anne Frank
"Only a life lived for others, is a life worthwhile."
Albert Einstein
"An easy life makes people weak. A hard life makes people strong. So the question is not whether you want an easy life or a hard life. The question is do you want to be weak or do you want to be strong."
Daniel Kenney
"I refuse to be a slave to lust. I choose to be a servant of Love."
Daniel Kenney
"It's all in the mind. I will control my mind. And that will lead me to control myself. And that will lead me to control my life. And that will lead me to shape my world. And that will lead me to please my God. It's all in the mind."
Daniel Kenney
"for as he thinks within himself, so he is."
Proverbs 23:7
"We are what we think, all that we are arises with our thoughts, with our thoughts we make the world."
Buddha
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
Rumi
"It's always darkest before the dawn."
Thomas Fuller
"I wouldn't choose what happened to me but I wouldn't change it either."
Unknown
"Tough times never last, but tough people do."
Robert H Schuller
"Only those who attempt the absurd, can achieve the impossible."
Albert Einstein
"We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them."
Seneca
"If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start."
Charles Bukowski
"The architect of the universe didn’t build a stairway leading nowhere. The greatest teacher of all, the carpenter from the Plains of Galilee gave us the secret time and time again, “As ye believe, so shall it be done unto you."
Grove Patterson
"Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek and you shall find. Knock and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asks, receives. He that seeks, finds. To him that knocks, it shall be opened."
Jesus
"I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given."
Muhammad Ali
"No man is free who is not a master of himself."
Epictetus
"If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way."
The Buddha
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
Winston Churchill
"Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead."
James
"True Love has Kindness for the other in the way the other wants, Compassion for the suffering of the other, Joy in yourself and with the other, and Freedom to grow for yourself and the other."
Buddha
"Reserve your love for only that which is alive."
Daniel A Kenney
"There but for the Grace of God, go I.'"
John Bradford
"Why do atheists ask 'Is there a God?'"
Daniel A Kenney
"I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone."
St Francis of Assisi
"The more time you spend in your discomfort zone the more your comfort zone will expand."
Robin Sharma
"Who would set a limit to the mind of Man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?"
Galileo Galilei
"What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?"
Jesus
"As you sow, so shall you reap."
St. Paul
"A gem can not be polished without friction nor a man perfected without trials."
Seneca
"Loving God gives meaning to our lives. Loving us gives meaning to God's life."
Daniel A Kenney
"If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists."
Blaise Pascal
"your Father knows what you need before you ask Him."
Jesus
"Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time."
Gandhi
"He, who by good deeds covers the evil he has done, illuminates this world like the moon freed from clouds."
Buddha
"But let your ‘yes’ mean ‘yes,’ and your ‘no’ mean ‘no.’"
Jesus
"Without Their love we would surely perish."
Daniel A Kenney
"God is shrouded in mystery because that is Their will."
Daniel A Kenney
"In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals."
Gandhi
"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."
St. Augustine
"Nothing can snatch you out of God's hand."
Joel Osteen
"Knowledge is better than mere ritualistic practice."
Vyasa
"No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket"
Jesus
"Three things cannot hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth."
Buddha
"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
Mother Teresa
"Wisdom is wisdom no matter from where it comes."
Daniel A Kenney
"Tolerance requires a measure of self-doubt."
Daniel A Kenney
"The first shall be last and the last first."
Jesus
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
Mother Teresa