User:EricSaumur — revision 6549

2012-02-26 17:57 EST Ottawa, Ontario I just joined SolSeed! What an interesting day. I have been reading four books by Freeman Dyson (the man for which the Dyson Tree was named) over the last few weeks. I got up the courage to email him to tell him how much I loved his books and to ask him whether he thought a new religion was required to achieve the goal of creating Dyson Trees. He replied that he once spent a day with Octavia Butler talking with kids in Chicago public schools and that her books described such a religion called Earthseed. A google search for Earthseed and two clicks later and I was on your site. I have been looking for you for a decade without knowing the right key word. I created a religion called Biospheric Communionism. Its goal is to create Dyson Trees and release them in the outer solar system. This will eventually allow life to spread from the Oort cloud to other solar systems as Oort cloud objects are ejected from the solar system by close passes with other stars and by hyperbolic passes through the central solar system. As life spreads out from our solar system we have faith that so too it will be spreading out from other star systems. When life from various biospheres meet it will unite into one more complex super-biosphere of greater diversity than its component parts. To me Diversity is the goal of TheDestiny. Biospheric Communionists celebrate Solstices and Equinoxes with special feasts and activities. The celebrations we have established are: 1) Half way between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox (about Ground Hog Day) we go skating and remember Ice Ball Earth about 600 million years ago when the Ediacarans (the first complex multicelular life forms) emerged from the melting ice and began the diversification of life on Earth. After skating we eat things that combine hot and cold like hot chocolate with whip cream or deep fried ice cream.