Lethal Beliefs - Wetherill

Reality makes clear how people’s beliefs are causing their deaths. Consider the deceased motorists who believed they could “beat the light.” What follows will present data to contrast the deadliness of beliefs with the safety of conforming to nature’s law of absolute right.
Most people freely express their beliefs, no matter how unproven and incorrect those beliefs might be. In this country, beliefs are made legal by the Constitution, so as long as such concepts are stated as beliefs, they are authorized by human laws. But what of the laws of nature? Whoever or whatever is the creator has endowed natural laws with their own authority. People do not believe they can leap up and hover un­assisted five feet above the earth. They know the law of gravitation unbidden will quickly return them to the earth—no belief to the contrary prevents that result. However, the belief area that begs for people’s attention is the conflicting beliefs regarding people’s codes of conduct. The most crucial is the belief that they have freedom of choice. As a result, some persons are helping the needy with food and clean water, providing proper housing, and improving education—generous acts to address society’s proliferating problems. At the opposite end of the spectrum are persons who behave however they believe will be to their advantage. So, they kill, lie, and steal. In between are those who engage in other lesser wrong behaviors. But, people’s noble and ignoble behavior ends when they die, and death occurs so consistently that death is believed to be inevitable. What follows explains why death need not be inevitable.
During the centuries, learning about the laws of physics has allowed society’s thinking to change from false beliefs about natural phenomena to recognition of nature’s reality. In his youth Richard W. Wetherill noted a previously unidentified natural law operating in human affairs. After decades of his talks and papers on the topic, the law was ignored by scientific, educational, and religious groups. Wetherill called it the law of absolute right, and he taught it as a natural law of behavior for all mankind. It states: right action gets right results and specifies right action to be rational and honest. Thus it imparts to all people the same correct code of behavior. When action conforms to natural laws, the action suc­ceeds. People know they cannot ignore nature’s laws of physics, but when they hear of nature’s law of absolute right, they ask, “Who defines what is right?” Natural law defines what is right. When problems and troubles happen, they are not seen as contradicting a natural law but are blamed on other causes—rarely on self. But since people still die, death is believed to be unavoidable for Homo sapiens. Let’s dispel that belief and the future reality unfold! Join those who are applying the law of absolute right as best they can—the same as they apply other natural laws as best they can. When people stumble, gravity lets them recover without harm if they regain their balance. Behavioral mistakes are also correct­able. People correct those mistakes by being rational and honest in what they think, say, and do. That is creation’s way to change what is wrong un­til everything is made right: perfectly behaving people on the one planet in this universe that supports life as we know it!