Following the horrific vision of human extinction in the Covenant Prophecy, this is the third of a four-part abridged Conversation With A Covenant Emissary. This prelude to The covenant recognizes that human survival requires a new moral compass and a new covenant. It requires a change to a new civilized morality for a new people. Any Assumptions regarding the origin of The Covenant Emissary are neither alleged nor implied, confirmed nor denied.
W: Is that your prophecy? Don't prophesy for me. What can I do with that?
E: Do with it what you will. It is my vision. Accept it. Reject it. Ignore it.
W: A vision is not necessarily a prophecy. Do you declare that your vision is, in fact, a prophecy?
W: It is not for me to say. You tell me, human. Will it come true? Must it come true? Is your kind incapable of not making it come true?
E: I hope not. If changes are made and the behavior that led to the destruction and extinction in your vision are avoided, conceivably, the end can be avoided. If changes are not made, I suppose it could happen just that way.
W: Yes. It is that simple. Changes must be made. Unfortunately, your design is so flawed that it may not be possible. The human need to constantly experience the feelings you call happiness supply too many incentives for dishonorable, uncivilized, virulent behavior when you feel you are not happy. And your happiness monitor is almost always displaying empty, especially for the wealthy and the more powerful among you.
In addition, there is among you a pathetic group of unhappy souls who are awaiting and abetting "Armageddon" and "the end of time". In their lack of cosmic knowledge and their arrogance about their perceived superiority over the rest of creation, they believe that if humans become extinct that the end of the world is at hand.
They ignore the fact that, for all kinds of reasons, species become extinct all the time. but Earth and the rest of the universe. So what, if the human species go the way of the dinosaur? Does the world end? No. It does not. Perhaps Earth becomes a better place.
I understand the arrogance, but some of it is benign. I was a visitor once at a Sunday morning bible study group in a small strip mall church when one of the ladies asked the teacher: "Dr Williams, when the rapture comes and we are taken up into heaven, what will happen to the other people?" It was kind of arrogant of her to assume that only her and people like the people in her little strip mall church would be taken up into heaven and that the rest of humanity were doomed to something else. That she expected her teacher to answer her question was all the more disconcerting. But from all appearances she was a very sweet woman, with an air of naivete. But she did not sound maniacal or even aggressively arrogant.
E: You are right; not all arrogance is aggressive, suicidal, evil, or maniacal. However, the human design being what it is, what difference does it make?
W: I don't know. You haven't talked about The Covenant. If our design is so flawed that we are incapable of significant change, then your vision is a prelude to the inevitable. If that is true, what is the purpose of "a new moral covenant between Creation and a civilized people as you allege? What's the point?
E: Are humans ready for a new covenant. Are you capable of embracing a moral compass for an honorable civilized people?
W: We have to be.
E: If you are, you must be willing to embrace a different kind of morality; a moral compass based on what is best for the greater common good, not false piety, self-serving ethics, or self-effacing devotion. Under The Happiness Commandments humans become a new people, a more moral people, and an honorable civilized people who are motivated by the greater common good..
Creation's covenant under The Happiness Commandments is a promise to civilized men and women not to pretenders to morality and civility. Where is civility? Where is morality? I find it lacking even among those who claim to be the more moral and the most religious among you. However, you are right. We have not talked about The Covenant. So, let us talk about The Covenant, a new covenant for the greater common good.