Bruce's Singing Cyclist Musings

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Before you go on, an article in the May 8 & May 22, 2021 issue of Science News ran with a cover "Awash in Deception:  How science can help us avoid being duped by misinformation."  In the lead article titled: "The Battle Against Fake News," Alexandra Witze presents five suggestions on how to debunk bad information.  They come from the News Literacy Project (see the above link).

How to Debunk:

1.  Arm yourself with media literacy skills, at sites such as the News Literacy Project (newslit.org), to better understand how to spot hoax videos and stories.

2.  Don't stigmatize people for holding inaccurate beliefs.  Show empathy and respect, or you're more likely to alienate your audience than successfully share accurate information.

3.  Translate complicated but true ideas into simple messages that are easy to grasp.  Videos, graphics and other visual aids can help.

4.  When possible, once you provide a factual alternative to the misinformation, explain the underlying fallacies (such as cherry- picking information, a common tactic of climate change deniers.

5.  Mobilize when you see misinformation being shared on social media as soon as possible. If you see something, say something.

"Misinformation is any information that is incorrect, whether due to error or fake news.  

"Disinformation is deliberately intended to deceive."

"Propaganda is disinformation with a political agenda."

Sander van der Linden
Social Psychologist
University of Cambridge

Source:  Science News/May 8, 2021 & May 22, 2021

In our struggle to restore decency and good back into the American psyche, it is important that we restore faith, hope and positive thinking back into our collective mindset. The restoration of these three essential elements are the keys for restarting America’s Constitutional engine.

I believe that we can all agree that those three things are good things. How do we, in these United States, get those things back?

I despise the co-opting of the phrase “Make America Great Again” in that it has been employed to imply that America was only great when straight wealthy white men held all the social, political and economic power. It has been used destroy faith, hope and positive thinking through a deceptive and destructive turn of phrase

The phrase, in its current iteration, makes my stomach turn. It makes my stomach turn because it sounds like it has the noblest intentions in mind when it has just the opposite intentions in mind. Keep the rich white oilagarchs in power, return American women back to “Susie Homemaker” and keep the middle classes blindly consuming while keeping the rich rich, the poor poor and ethnic minorities in their place. Oilagarchs is not a misspelling.

The phrase isn’t new. Ronald Reagan used it in his presidential election campaign of 1980. It was used at a time when the United States was reeling from the Iran Hostage Crisis and a 60% majority of Americans wanted a larger budget for national defense. Check out the link above to see other presidents that have invoked this phrase.

Let me get firmly back on point. My minister came up with an appropriate acronym for what I believe is the root cause of our national malaise:

F alse

E vidence

A ppearing

R eal

“F.E.A.R. ” is the opposite of what I will call “R.E.A.L.” (Rational evidence about life). F.E.A.R. has been used to confuse us, to divided us and promote fear. Fear is a powerful tool. Carry a gun because the country is being overrun by ethnic minorities, eliminate the woman’s right to choose what they do with their bodies because they belong at home barefoot and pregnant, deny climate change change because it is too “woke,” Democrats are baby killers.

Fear is a powerful tool used by those with the real power to keep their power. Those of us down here under the thumbs of the rich and powerful are fighting their proxy war. Divide and conquer. Keep us fight among ourselves while the real source of our national problems are sitting in their elitest mansions and corporate boardrooms enjoying the fruits of our labors. They have turned us against each other, red v. blue in order to save their own position of wealth and power.

We can get out of this mess if we work together and fight back against the forces that divide us. We can do that by overcoming this fear and uniting as people to take our country back again.

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Before you go on, an article in the May 8 & May 22, 2021 issue of Science News ran with a cover "Awash in Deception:  How science can help us avoid being duped by misinformation."  In the lead article titled: "The Battle Against Fake News," Alexandra Witze presents five suggestions on how to debunk bad information.  They come from the News Literacy Project (see the above link).

How to Debunk:

1.  Arm yourself with media literacy skills, at sites such as the News Literacy Project (newslit.org), to better understand how to spot hoax videos and stories.

2.  Don't stigmatize people for holding inaccurate beliefs.  Show empathy and respect, or you're more likely to alienate your audience than successfully share accurate information.

3.  Translate complicated but true ideas into simple messages that are easy to grasp.  Videos, graphics and other visual aids can help.

4.  When possible, once you provide a factual alternative to the misinformation, explain the underlying fallacies (such as cherry- picking information, a common tactic of climate change deniers.

5.  Mobilize when you see misinformation being shared on social media as soon as possible. If you see something, say something.

"Misinformation is any information that is incorrect, whether due to error or fake news.  

"Disinformation is deliberately intended to deceive."

"Propaganda is disinformation with a political agenda."

Sander van der Linden
Social Psychologist
University of Cambridge

Source:  Science News/May 8, 2021 & May 22, 2021

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Before you go on, an article in the May 8 & May 22, 2021 issue of Science News ran with a cover "Awash in Deception:  How science can help us avoid being duped by misinformation."  In the lead article titled: "The Battle Against Fake News," Alexandra Witze presents five suggestions on how to debunk bad information.  They come from the News Literacy Project (see the above link).

How to Debunk:

1.  Arm yourself with media literacy skills, at sites such as the News Literacy Project (newslit.org), to better understand how to spot hoax videos and stories.

2.  Don't stigmatize people for holding inaccurate beliefs.  Show empathy and respect, or you're more likely to alienate your audience than successfully share accurate information.

3.  Translate complicated but true ideas into simple messages that are easy to grasp.  Videos, graphics and other visual aids can help.

4.  When possible, once you provide a factual alternative to the misinformation, explain the underlying fallacies (such as cherry- picking information, a common tactic of climate change deniers.

5.  Mobilize when you see misinformation being shared on social media as soon as possible. If you see something, say something.

"Misinformation is any information that is incorrect, whether due to error or fake news.  

"Disinformation is deliberately intended to deceive."

"Propaganda is disinformation with a political agenda."

Sander van der Linden
Social Psychologist
University of Cambridge

Source:  Science News/May 8, 2021 & May 22, 2021

Graduation season is here and we have a graduate this year. Our grandson is graduating from high school. We have eagerly awaited this upcoming event with gratefulness and gratitude.

The joy of the season has been tempered a bit by the loss of my wife’s father and aunt last week. Those passings are to be grieved. Carl and Nancy made significant contributions to the world and they will be missed. Yet, their peaceful transitions are something to be grateful for and accepted with a spirit of gratitude. At 98 and 93, they had both lived long and productive lives and they were getting little joy at being confined to an aging, unresponsive and frail body.

At 18, Aydan’s healthy body and sharp mind are preparing for his next experience as a college student at the University of Oregon in the Fall. I am so proud of him. I am not his biological grandfather, but by virtue of marriage to his grandmother I became Grandpa Bruce. I couldn’t be happier than to have had the opportunity to watch this kid grow into a young man literally right before my eyes.

At 98, Carl was a veteran of WW 2. At 93, Nancy possessed her quick with and independent spirit until her last day. I’m glad that I had the opportunity to cross paths with both of them.

As Carl and Nancy leave and Aydan enters, I am humbled and grateful by their accomplishments and mine. The “Greatest Generation” as journalist Tom Brokaw called them, deserve a large amount of the credit for saving the world from the scourge of Fascism and white supremacy. Carl and Nancy both did their part to deliver us Baby Boomers into a world that was, for the most part, free from these autocratic, tyrannical forces.

Yet as Aydan moves on to take his place in the world, us Baby Boomers are now called upon to be the next Greatest Generation as we fight to hold onto and strengthen the democratic world that they fought and died to establish.

I accept the challenge proudly and hope to join them in that select group of heroes that placed democracy over self service.

Aydan and I salute you and give you our deepest thanks.

Godspeed and carry on.

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Before you go on, an article in the May 8 & May 22, 2021 issue of Science News ran with a cover "Awash in Deception:  How science can help us avoid being duped by misinformation."  In the lead article titled: "The Battle Against Fake News," Alexandra Witze presents five suggestions on how to debunk bad information.  They come from the News Literacy Project (see the above link).

How to Debunk:

1.  Arm yourself with media literacy skills, at sites such as the News Literacy Project (newslit.org), to better understand how to spot hoax videos and stories.

2.  Don't stigmatize people for holding inaccurate beliefs.  Show empathy and respect, or you're more likely to alienate your audience than successfully share accurate information.

3.  Translate complicated but true ideas into simple messages that are easy to grasp.  Videos, graphics and other visual aids can help.

4.  When possible, once you provide a factual alternative to the misinformation, explain the underlying fallacies (such as cherry- picking information, a common tactic of climate change deniers.

5.  Mobilize when you see misinformation being shared on social media as soon as possible. If you see something, say something.

"Misinformation is any information that is incorrect, whether due to error or fake news.  

"Disinformation is deliberately intended to deceive."

"Propaganda is disinformation with a political agenda."

Sander van der Linden
Social Psychologist
University of Cambridge

Source:  Science News/May 8, 2021 & May 22, 2021

While my wife Meredy navigates the care and transition of her aunt, mother and father, I stroll merely along with the occasional blog post, middle school track coaching and even the luxury of an every-other-week-or-so golf game, she is the ever on call care giver/organizer/planner.

Just now, she was called by a paramedic at Belmont Gardens to sign off that a trip to the hospital for her Mom was unnecessary. She had taken two falls out of bed over the course of the evening and they suspected that she had hit her head. But, she was currently sitting up and playing her ukulele. So, Meredy got dressed, hopped in the car and drove five minutes over to Belmont to sign a waiver saying that Barby had been offered the cursury trip to the hospital to get checked out by a doctor, but no thanks. Considering that her POLST form has a “do not resuscitate ” provision in it, there isn’t much that the doctor or the hospital could do to provide care.

This is her world right now. Our neighbor and friend suggested a few months ago that we hire an agency that specializes in elder care to help with the myriad of doctor contacts, coordination of care at Belmont and the dozens of decisions being made each day for Barby and her husband Carl, Meredy’s Dad. That has been a Godsend.

Meredy is ever the problem solver, but the range, scope and sheer number of problems was becoming overwhelming even for her. Thank goodness for SAGE and Craig.

I started with the intention of using my experience as a golfer (hacker?) as a metaphor for life. One day you feel like you’ve got the game figured out and the next time you play like you’ve never had a club in your hand. Such was the story with my game yesterday.

I’m a person that believes that everything is connected in all facets of humanity and nature and that even shooting a 104 on the golf course has meaning in the greater sphere of the human experience.

We will never have anything totally figured out as my golf game clearly exemplifies. Yet, just because we are destined to not “figure it out,” we need to be willing to share our ongoing attempts to “f.i.o.” and hope that in so doing that we can reach out and touch each other in the tenderest and sincerest of ways. The world comes down to simply that.

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Before you go on, an article in the May 8 & May 22, 2021 issue of Science News ran with a cover "Awash in Deception:  How science can help us avoid being duped by misinformation."  In the lead article titled: "The Battle Against Fake News," Alexandra Witze presents five suggestions on how to debunk bad information.  They come from the News Literacy Project (see the above link).

How to Debunk:

1.  Arm yourself with media literacy skills, at sites such as the News Literacy Project (newslit.org), to better understand how to spot hoax videos and stories.

2.  Don't stigmatize people for holding inaccurate beliefs.  Show empathy and respect, or you're more likely to alienate your audience than successfully share accurate information.

3.  Translate complicated but true ideas into simple messages that are easy to grasp.  Videos, graphics and other visual aids can help.

4.  When possible, once you provide a factual alternative to the misinformation, explain the underlying fallacies (such as cherry- picking information, a common tactic of climate change deniers.

5.  Mobilize when you see misinformation being shared on social media as soon as possible. If you see something, say something.

"Misinformation is any information that is incorrect, whether due to error or fake news.  

"Disinformation is deliberately intended to deceive."

"Propaganda is disinformation with a political agenda."

Sander van der Linden
Social Psychologist
University of Cambridge

Source:  Science News/May 8, 2021 & May 22, 2021

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As a writer, I view life in two ways.

One. You write about life.

Two. You live life.

The past three plus months have been largely focused on being support staff for my wife as she coordinates and provides care for her 98 year old Mom and Dad and her 93 year old aunt. Her parents live in Assisted Living that is a 10 minute walk away. That’s a positive in that it is easier to provide the necessary care. That’s a negative in that it’s easier to provide the necessary care. Like I said, I’m support staff.

Which means that writing has taken a backseat to life. I’m writing today with one hand as the other hand is attached to an arm that is donating platelets into an Apheresis machine at the Stanford Blood Center. There’s not. much much else I can do at the moment!. My mobility is somewhat limited.

My thought/writing project in recent months has been to write down my beliefs and then seek to rationally justify or defend each one of my nine stated beliefs. I’m still thinking and researching semi-actively, but not writing very much. I’m learning that this project requires more depth of thought and research than I expected.

So, I have put that writing on the back-burner.

What I can’t seem to put on the back-burner is my concern for Democracy and my country. When I started this blog, I wrote a 20-part series based on Dr. Timothy Snyder’s book, “On Tyranny.”

Since Democracy and it’s institutions have been figuratively and sometimes literally in the crosshairs of actual and would-be tyrants since at least 2016, I have been fixated on identifying and sharing my thoughts on the subject here in this blog.

This subject has been , after my family, Priority 1 since 2016. Because it remains a high , if not the highest priority for me right now, I put the 20 posts into a folder or category for you to revisit and linked it in the small shaded block above.

I too am going back to read my own work in order to remind myself how tenuous and how important Democracy is. I urge you to read my posts or read “On Tyranny for yourself.

Peace.

https://newslit.org/

Before you go on, an article in the May 8 & May 22 issue of Science News ran with a cover "Awash in Deception:  How science can help us avoid being duped by misinformation."  In the lead article titled: "The Battle Against Fake News," Alexandra Witze presents five suggestions on how to debunk bad information.  They come from the News Literacy Project (see the above link).

How to Debunk:

1.  Arm yourself with media literacy skills, at sites such as the News Literacy Project (newslit.org), to better understand how to spot hoax videos and stories.

2.  Don't stigmatize people for holding inaccurate beliefs.  Show empathy and respect, or you're more likely to alienate your audience than successfully share accurate information.

3.  Translate complicated but true ideas into simple messages that are easy to grasp.  Videos, graphics and other visual aids can help.

4.  When possible, once you provide a factual alternative to the misinformation, explain the underlying fallacies (such as cherry- picking information, a common tactic of climate change deniers.

5.  Mobilize when you see misinformation being shared on social media as soon as possible. If you see something, say something.

"Misinformation is any information that is incorrect, whether due to error or fake news.  

"Disinformation is deliberately intended to deceive."

"Propaganda is disinformation with a political agenda."

Sander van der Linden
Social Psychologist
University of Cambridge

Source:  Science News/May 8, 2021 & May 22, 2021

This belief is proving to be surprisingly nuanced in my attempt to rationally defend it in a persuasive way. I’m wrestling with the idea of “best interest.” Who gets to decide what the best interest is?

"In egocentrism, you're unable to see someone else's point of view; but in narcissism, you may see that view but not care about it. Going even one step further, people high in narcissism become annoyed or even enraged when others fail to see things their way."  

Source:  Apr 7, 2012/Psychology Today.

It’s not enough to label someone as simple selfless or selfish. Someone who is egocentric can also exhibit qualities of empathy when given the opportunity. One the other hand, a narcissist knows full well what they are doing and continue to do it anyway. According to the Cleveland Clinic about 5% of all people have what is known as Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD).

By the Cleveland Clinic’s numbers, 95% of us are capable of at least some degree of empathic behavior. The main question then is , if we are capable of thinking of others, is it a good thing to be good to each other?

"However, recent studies show that caring for others is good for us. It's beneficial to our well-being. Giving support to others out of choice leads to “reduced stress, increased happiness, and an increased sense of social connectedness.”  Jan 21, 2019/World Economic Forum Agenda.

Since choosing giving to others leads to “reduced stress, increased happiness and an increased sense of social connectedness,” I conclude that acting in the best interest of each other is a valid and supportable belief. Furthermore, we should all do it and be quick to point it out when they see anything short of it happening in their own lives.

https://newslit.org/

Before you go on, an article in the May 8 & May 22 issue of Science News ran with a cover "Awash in Deception:  How science can help us avoid being duped by misinformation."  In the lead article titled: "The Battle Against Fake News," Alexandra Witze presents five suggestions on how to debunk bad information.  They come from the News Literacy Project (see the above link).

How to Debunk:

1.  Arm yourself with media literacy skills, at sites such as the News Literacy Project (newslit.org), to better understand how to spot hoax videos and stories.

2.  Don't stigmatize people for holding inaccurate beliefs.  Show empathy and respect, or you're more likely to alienate your audience than successfully share accurate information.

3.  Translate complicated but true ideas into simple messages that are easy to grasp.  Videos, graphics and other visual aids can help.

4.  When possible, once you provide a factual alternative to the misinformation, explain the underlying fallacies (such as cherry- picking information, a common tactic of climate change deniers.

5.  Mobilize when you see misinformation being shared on social media as soon as possible. If you see something, say something.

"Misinformation is any information that is incorrect, whether due to error or fake news.  

"Disinformation is deliberately intended to deceive."

"Propaganda is disinformation with a political agenda."

Sander van der Linden
Social Psychologist
University of Cambridge

Source:  Science News/May 8, 2021 & May 22, 2021

Here is what is surely only the beginning of my personal theology or for the less religious or atheists among you, my stab at answering those ethereal questions: Who am I, Why am I here and Where the hell am I going.

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What I Believe

I believe that all people regardless of race, intelligence, religion, age or anything else that other humans may create to try and divide them, are created equally in the eyes of the divine.

I believe that the divine is the sum of all souls and matter that are or that have ever lived or been a part of the Universe or the Multiverse that currently exists or has ever existed.

I believe that it is the responsibility of each individual being to think and act in the best interest of each other being, human or otherwise.

I believe that there is good and evil and I choose the side of good.  I acknowledge that there is evil in me, but it is my work to feed the side of goodness.

I believe that my small existence has a greater purpose than I can comprehend.

I believe in living my life in service to other beings, living and non-living.  It is through that service and thoughtfulness that makes me whole and is my path to personal enlightenment.

I believe that when our bodies die, our souls live on.  They find another body to reside in and continue on the path toward enlightenment.

I believe that “human” is a title that needs to be earned.  Just by virtue of being a member of the species Homo sapiens doesn’t automatically designate that person as being a human being. There are no “bad” human beings.

I believe in acknowledging my own weaknesses and frailties and in using them to become a better human being.

I believe that the mind of every individual should be developed to the highest and greatest possible level

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Before you go on, an article in the May 8 & May 22 issue of Science News ran with a cover "Awash in Deception:  How science can help us avoid being duped by misinformation."  In the lead article titled: "The Battle Against Fake News," Alexandra Witze presents five suggestions on how to debunk bad information.  They come from the News Literacy Project (see the above link).

How to Debunk:

1.  Arm yourself with media literacy skills, at sites such as the News Literacy Project (newslit.org), to better understand how to spot hoax videos and stories.

2.  Don't stigmatize people for holding inaccurate beliefs.  Show empathy and respect, or you're more likely to alienate your audience than successfully share accurate information.

3.  Translate complicated but true ideas into simple messages that are easy to grasp.  Videos, graphics and other visual aids can help.

4.  When possible, once you provide a factual alternative to the misinformation, explain the underlying fallacies (such as cherry- picking information, a common tactic of climate change deniers.

5.  Mobilize when you see misinformation being shared on social media as soon as possible. If you see something, say something.

"Misinformation is any information that is incorrect, whether due to error or fake news.  

"Disinformation is deliberately intended to deceive."

"Propaganda is disinformation with a political agenda."

Sander van der Linden
Social Psychologist
University of Cambridge

Source:  Science News/May 8, 2021 & May 22, 2021

I was inspired to look for the source of the goodness in me through a workshop offered by our Interim Minister at the First Unitarian Church of San Jose, California.

The workshop was an invitation to write a personal theology. Theology can be defined as “the study of the nature of God and religious belief.” I committed to myself and anyone who gives a rip that I was going to heed the call and embark on the hard work of basically explaining why I am motivated to do good things in the world.

This is important to me in that clearly goodness is something that doesn’t just automatically happen. The flip side of goodness is on the approximately 2,000,000,000 inch 3D TV screen that is the world we live in today.

So, being able to explain the source of my personal goodness will give me some insight into what goodness is and how to spread it. Clearly I believe that goodness should be spread and have a pretty clear idea of what that goodness looks like.

In the midst of my quest to assemble this personal theology, my wife and I moved her 96 and 97 year old parents into a nearby Assisted Living facility. That act of goodness has taken precedence over writing about goodness while we actually do goodness. My personal theology would have to wait.

But, maybe it wouldn’t have to wait. I thought that I would dip my toe into the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for a sneak peak at what this theology of mine might look like.

So, I went to the Internet and found Chat GPT. I wrote two prompts to see what AI would do with this topic. The first prompt was: “Write a personal UU (Unitarian Universalist) theology for Bruce Halen.”

The results were not surprising to me. When I actually get around to writing my own Goodness Statement I will incorporate some of the wording that the machine came up with.

The real Personal Theology for Bruce Halen will be real and human and better than the examples that Chat GPT gave me. But, as a bit of entertainment written for a Blog post, I give you the machine’s words on the source of my goodness.

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As a language model developed by OpenAI, I don’t have personal beliefs. However, here is a possible personal theology based on the principles of Universalism, a belief that all people will ultimately be saved and reconciled with God, for a person named Bruce Halen:

Bruce Halen believes in a loving and all-encompassing God who desires the ultimate happiness and well-being of all people, regardless of their beliefs or actions. He sees the universe as a continuously unfolding process of growth, learning, and redemption, in which every person has the potential to develop into the best version of themselves and be reunited with God.

Bruce understands sin not as something that separates us from God, but as a manifestation of our ignorance, fear, and confusion, which can be overcome through self-reflection, self-discovery, and spiritual growth. He believes that everyone has the potential to overcome their limitations and evolve into beings of light and love, through a journey of personal transformation and spiritual awakening.

Bruce recognizes that this journey is not easy, and that each person may face challenges and hardships along the way. However, he sees these difficulties as opportunities for growth and learning, and as a way for people to develop the strength and resilience needed to overcome their limitations and become the best versions of themselves.

Bruce’s theology is centered around the idea of love and compassion, and he sees these values as the foundation of all spiritual growth and personal transformation. He believes that by living a life guided by love and compassion, we can help to bring about a world in which all people are treated with dignity and respect, and where everyone can experience the joy and fulfillment of a life lived in harmony with God and each other.

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Chat GPT response to prompt:  Write a personal UU theology for Bruce Halen

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As an AI language model, I don’t have personal beliefs. However, I can write a Unitarian Universalist theology for Bruce Halen based on the principles and values of the Unitarian Universalist faith.

Bruce Halen’s Unitarian Universalist theology is centered on the belief that every person has inherent worth and dignity, and that all people should be treated with respect and compassion. He believes in the power of love and connection to bring people together and create a better world.

Bruce recognizes the inherent interconnectedness of all things and seeks to live in harmony with the natural world. He views the universe as a complex and mysterious system, and believes that all religions and spiritual traditions offer valuable insights into the meaning and purpose of life.

Bruce embraces a non-creedal approach to spirituality, valuing personal experience and intuition over dogmatic adherence to a particular set of beliefs. He believes that the search for truth and understanding is a lifelong journey, and that each person must find their own path.

In his daily life, Bruce seeks to live out his UU principles by acting with kindness and fairness, working for social justice, and protecting the environment. He recognizes the importance of community and the role it plays in supporting and enriching the lives of individuals.

Overall, Bruce’s UU theology is one of love, compassion, respect, and continual growth and discovery.

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As an AI language model, I cannot create a personal theology for an individual as religious beliefs are deeply personal and shaped by a multitude of experiences and individual perspectives. However, I can provide some information on Unitarian Universalism (UU) as a religious tradition.

UU is a liberal religion that emphasizes individual spiritual growth and the search for truth and meaning through personal experience, reason, and intuition. UUs believe in the inherent worth and dignity of every person and the interconnectedness of all life. The tradition is inclusive and encourages individuals to explore their own spirituality without dogma or creed. UUs often draw from a variety of religious and philosophical sources, including but not limited to Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, humanism, and earth-centered spirituality.

In UU, there is a focus on social justice and taking action to create a more just and equitable world. Members are encouraged to work towards equality and the elimination of oppression in all its forms.

In summary, UU provides a framework for individuals to explore their own spirituality and beliefs while also emphasizing the importance of social justice and the inherent worth and dignity of every person.

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