聽神談【什麼是生命運作原理之「功能性」？】: 2/2
讓我們把「功能性」的生命運作基本原理和「道德」的思維結構一並討論，會較容易被理解。
例如，若你們在美國國內開車往西朝著太平洋方向走去，而你們希望到北方的西雅圖（Seattle）。這時如果轉往南方，朝聖荷西(San Jose)方向走的話將對你們毫無幫助。若你們果真這麼做了，就會被說是方向「錯誤」。然而，如果你們將「錯誤」的標籤等同於「不道德」的話，這樣的標籤就會誤導你們。
往南朝聖荷西方向走，和「不道德」完全無關。只是那並非你們想去的目的地。那並非你們本意想做的事，也不是原訂的目的地。
想到北方西雅圖卻往南朝聖荷西走，這是「功能性」的失誤，並非「道德」上的失誤。
一個思維、話語或行爲是不是行得通，鑒於你們意圖要成為(be)、做出(do)、擁有(have)的是什麼。若它行得通，就是「正確」或「對的」；若它行不通，則是「不對」或「錯誤」的。
你們所謂「錯誤的」和道德不彰無關，也和「神的旨意」受挫無關，是你們自己的意圖受挫了，是你們沒有達成原先意圖要成為(be)、做出(do)或擁有(have)的事情或東西。
你們社會若是能對不接受世俗準則的選擇或行動，不扣上道德批判大帽子的話，會運作得很好。高度進化的社會只會注意他們的選擇與行動，對於他們共同想獲得的，是否能帶來他們想要的結果或後果。
在你們自己的人生當中，藉由將「道德價值」(“moral value”)從你們的選擇中移除，你們也就移除了「道德權威」(“moral authority”)（反正， 所謂的「道德權威」從未曾真正的存在過 ，你們不過是自行杜撰虛構了關於它的一切）。
摘自《與神對話之新啟示》第22章
So let’s bring the discussion down to a level at which “functionality,” the principle, can be more easily understood as it relates to “morality,” the mental construct.
Supposing you are driving westward in the United States, heading toward the Pacific Ocean, and you wish to go to Seattle. It would do you no good to turn south to San Jose. If you did so, you would be said to be going the “wrong” direction. Yet that label would be misleading if you equated the label “wrong” with the word “immoral.”
There is nothing immoral about going to San Jose. It simply is not where you intend to go. It is not what you wish to do. It is not what you chose as your destination.
Trying to get to Seattle by driving south to San Jose is a lapse of functionality, not a lapse of morality.
A thought, word, or deed either works or does not work, given what it is that you are trying to be, do, or have. If it works, it is called “correct,” or “right.” If it does not work, it is called “incorrect,” or “wrong.”
When it is called “wrong” it has nothing to do with a breakdown in morality, nor with the thwarting of “God’s will.” It is your will that has been thwarted. You didn’t get to be, do, or have what you wanted to be, do, or have.
Your society might do well not to place moral judgments on alternative choices or actions. In highly evolved societies, it is simply noticed whether choices and actions “work” or “do not work” in producing the result or outcome that is collectively desired.
In your own life, by taking the “moral value” out of your choices, you remove the “moral authority” from them. (They never had moral authority anyway. You have been making this all up.)
