The Lord's Prayer

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In New Jerusalem I was rich like Batman (or Bruce Wayne). My servants were trusted friends like Alfred (The Butler).

Unlike Batman (Bruce Wayne), I do not seek revenge but rather justice and mercy. Justice is sweet in contemplation, but is also nourishing in its execution when served with a side of mercy to complement it.

In the movie “Batman Returns”, Alfred symbolically serves Bruce a dish called “Vichyssoise”, which is a dish best served cold.

Wealth in an Eternal Society is different than wealth on Earth. On Earth people valued possessions and felt responsibilities to be a burden. In New Jerusalem people value responsibilities and excess possessions feel like a burden cluttering you life.

Wealth cane in several forms: (1) Honors and Accolades (2) Authority over minds and souls (3) Jurisdictions over certain responsibilities (4) Rate of data/resource usage (5) time.

Since all the citizens of New Jerusalem had eternal life, everyone was infinitely wealthy similar to the movie “In Time” with Justin Timberlake. However some citizens were more infinitely wealthy by having access to a larger rate of data/resource usage. As an analogy, you can think of it like a television where everyone was watching the same movie but some people saw the movie in higher definition. Continuing with the analogy, people with less rate of data usage had to wait for the movie to buffer if they wanted to watch the movie in higher definition, but the regular movie quality was so good it didn’t make much of a difference.

Since everyone had everything they needed and all their needs were met, recreation became one of the major industries.

The most creative people created new forms of art to entertain the population and earned awards and accolades for doing so. The new forms of art ranged from “mystery virtual reality games” to “new types of sentient artificial intelligence civilizations”. The awards were based on objective merit and were unrestricted in quantities rather than restricted in quantities based on subjective votes to make it a “win-win” cooperative awards ceremony rather than a “zero-sum” competitive awards ceremony. It was more like earning karate belts or merit badges than winning a popularity vote contest. It was more like than grading based on a fixed standard than grading on a bell shaped curve.
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