ONE – A GLOBAL BELIEF SYSTEM
- Our hunger for peace and security compels us to launch a new era in human history. Our limitation is not technology, it’s primitive religious beliefs. Our religions, formed in the infancy of our intelligence, long before the Age of Science, retard and divide us.
- The religious mentality of my truth and tribe versus your truth and tribe has resulted in nothing but interminable conflict and chaos. Humanity needs a new compass.
- As Gandhi said, “Religious ideas are subject to the same laws of evolution that govern everything else in the universe.”
- We don’t drive vehicles that are thousands of years old. Chariots don’t run down our streets. Yet, we cling to religious beliefs thousands of years old. Many people exist in a supernatural world of fiction and fantasy.
- An obstacle to human progress, these primitive beliefs must be replaced by a nonreligious, reality-based, understanding of what is sacred in our world that we cannot, at our peril, violate, damage, dishonor, or destroy.
- This requires entering into a completely new understanding of the reality in which we exist. The window of opportunity to make this necessary and monumental shifts in thinking is small compared to the large obstacles in our current belief systems that must be dissolved. Yet, we must do this if we and all the other life forms on this jewel of a planet are to survive.
- Only then will we arrest and reverse our destructive and unsustainable momentum, end our needless suffering, find peace, sustain humanity, and advance our civilization.
THE BOOK
The 100-page book, ONE, For the Third Millennium, provides a nonreligious understanding of what is sacred in our world. Seven words replace all the world’s religions. A free PDF copy of the book is available at www.ONEitistime.com. The author’s bio (Harvard Divinity School and far more) and a sampling of testimonials are there.
The messages in ONE, For the Third Millennium, concise, years in developing, and many times audience-tested, have been very well received.
- "This was the clearest presentation of reality that I ever read. It could form the basis for a new world belief system." Ernie Kerr, South Bend, IN
- "….. the most thought provoking book I have ever read." Johnny Nugent, Sarasota, FL
- "I sent my 93 year-old Dad a copy of your book. Dad read your book three times in three days, comparing it to Tom Paine's Age of Reason which he has read many times. He said he agreed with everything you said which is a great compliment!!” Robert Chapman, Venice, FL
- "Simonetta has been able to see through all the garbage of the centuries like a laser beam and then state the obvious - TRUTH - in such simple, straightforward words." Mrs. Phyllis Leonard, Sherborn, MA
- "It is very daring. I think Joe is right on target for the third millennium." Beverly Russell, Los Angeles, CA
- “….. a revolutionary book, a sense-making body of thought for the next reality at a time when we desperately need new insights and understandings to wrench us from the world that is so dangerously at the brink. This simple little book may be the most profound read since the holy books of yore.” Suzanne Taylor, Los Angeles, CA
- "This is it!" Robert Beckwith, Boise, ID
- "…marvelous, succinct, right on target, the right message at the right time." Jean Mitchell, Ph.D., Annapolis, MD
- "A thousand-page book in a hundred pages." Joel Chudnow, Tampa, FL
- "Read it cover to cover effortlessly. It's clear to me the time for this message is now. There's a whole lot more in that "little" book than three simple rules. Joe Simonetta has written a masterpiece." Critt Jarvis, Hull, MA
- “Your book was the most rewarding reading of my life.” Daniela Pantazi Shiga, Japan
YOUR HELP IS INVITED AND NEEDED
This project began in the mid-1970s with my early concerns for the state of our world. In the early 80s, it was clear to me that we have created a destructive and unsustainable momentum that must be arrested and reversed if we are to sustain humanity and advance our civilization.
In the 1990s, I studied at Yale and Harvard Divinity schools. I went to these schools to study ethics, issues having to do with our global environmental problems, and our world belief systems.
In 1993, the year I received my Master of Divinity at Harvard, like all graduating students, I was required to write a thesis. At the thesis seminar where we discussed our projects, I said I would write about the need for a new global belief system to reduce ignorance and suffering and expand knowledge and justice. As you can imagine, that statement at that time startled those present. Now, the need for such a belief system is clear and beyond overdue.
- An extensive 2015 Pew Research Center study concluded that the religiously unaffiliated (also called the ‘nones’) now account for 23% of the U.S. adult population, up from 16% in 2007. For the generation known as the Millennials, those born in the 1980s and 1990s, those unaffiliated religiously jumps up to 35%. This is a very large and growing segment of the U.S. population.
- This book is for these people (the ‘nones’) and countless others worldwide who seek clarity and liberation from religious programming, nonsense, and violence. The book will help us reduce ignorance and suffering and expand knowledge and justice which is my motivation.
Now 72, I have worked alone and financed this project for many years. A number of books that I’ve written and talks that I have given preceded the book, ONE, For the Third Millennium. At this time, I seek the assistance and participation of others who share my concerns and vision. It’s those of you who recognize the need for a global reality-based non-religious belief system that can reduce ignorance and suffering and expand knowledge and justice.
To take this project to the next level requires greater exposure. I need your help to pay for the promotion of the project. Your funds will pay for a targeted Google Ads’ campaign. These ads will reach people all over the world, draw them to the web site www.ONEitistime.com, and spread the message globally.
Your financial help will make it possible to reach many people. You can also help by directing people to the web site, which I urge you to do. A PDF version of the book is available free there, as noted. A hard copy can be ordered inexpensively.
Thank you very much for your time, interest, and help.
Best, Joe