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Republic Square

As a student of the third year of the Faculty of Architecture, I participated in the Yugoslav anonymous architectural competition for the arrangement of the Republic Square of Zagreb winning on that occasion one of the two equal second prizes, while the first prize was not awarded. The competition was highly attractive and this was the reason why the best architects of Yugoslavia took part in it, supported by their design bureaus. My victory was, therefore, a great sensation. Finally, the Square was arranged according to the other second prize winners who were the reputed Zagreb architects. It is fair to say that they arranged it well, however, it would have looked nicer if I had been included in its designing.

 

The following picture was published in the youth journal “Polet” in Zagreb.

Lectures

Lectures about my book “The Humanism”

1992 November    The Hegel Society

Belgrade, Former Yugoslavia

I delivered the lecture straight from the head so that I do not have a written sample.

 

1993 April 14         The Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory

Belgrade, Former Yugoslavia

I do not have the original speech any more but it was similar to Humanism in Brief

 

2003 November 1    Society for Utopian Studies

Twenty-eighth Annual Conference

San Diego, California, USA

Here is my speech: Humanism Clearly

 

2004 March 25       University of Florida – The Marxist Reading Group

6th Annual Conference: Catastrophe Now: The Wreckage of Utopia.

Gainesville, Florida, USA

Here is my paper: Humanism for Dummies.

 

2004 July 8            Utopian Studies Society / Europe

The 5th Annual Conference

Porto, Portugal

My paper Humanism Clearly was accepted but unfortunately, I was not able to attend  the conference.

 

2004 July 20           New Directions in Humanities

Second International Conference

Prato, Italy

My paper is virtually presented here International Journal of the Humanities.

 

2004 October 7      Society for Utopian Studies

Twenty-ninth Annual Conference

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Humanities are dying. My effort to revive them does not produce serious responses from scientists. I have tried to approach the members of the Society for Utopian studies for two years without success. The scientists are supposed to perform a completely new way of thinking in order to understand what I am talking about and it seems not easy for them. They also do not like the fact that their knowledge would not be worth much in the future.

To those who know nothing about my work I cannot bring the idea closer in 20 minutes of limited paper. Also, attending conferences is expensive and therefore I could not see any sense in doing it any more. The following paper I was supposed to read at this conference: Humanism is joy of living.

Comments

Mr. Aleksandar Šarović invested a great effort in this study to examine, by himself, the overall complex Philosophical-ethical, and primarily political-economic and social problems of the society, and to propose his own system of a socio-political order and development of the mankind that would finally – at the level of modern development of the production forces of the post-industrial revolution and the corresponding degree of the development of human consciousness and relationships, help materialize a century-long dream of the mankind, in an optimal satisfaction of human needs, elimination of all forms of exploitation and alienation of men – ensuring a general prosperity of a “healthy society” and happiness of all its members and associations.

Prof. Dr. of Philosophy Andrija B. K. Stojković

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Dear Aleksandar,

Thank you for the wonderfully humane, decent, sweet tempered, moral, positive, constructive, and intelligent post on SPM (soc.politics.marxism). It proves that we are capable of new work and fresh views and of refusing to re-live the past. I think of it of socialist in the best sense and to be a real contribution to the creative dialogue that the Left needs so badly.

I truly hope your book will be published.

Best regards

Hunter Watson

The basis of the author’s determination is his understanding of humanism as a deep democratic ideology and a philosophical-sociological-economic teaching.

Prof. Dr. of Sociology, Predrag Radenović, and Prof. Dr. of Economics, Milovan Stanišić

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Aleksandar,

Thanks for sharing your great book online. The world is a better place as a result of your actions.

Cheers, Jon Will

http://UtopiaNow.org

Excellent wonderful ideas, well thought out and insightful.

I wonder why the rest of the automats called humans don’t wake up and smell the coffee like you clearly outlined it in your book.

Congratulations! Bright blessings your way!

Sincerely, Apollo Comito
www.uevn.org www.condorhuana.org

Thank you for sharing these thoughts. You’ve clearly developed an important approach to creating a far better world.

David Krieger, President
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
http://www.wagingpeace.org http://www.nuclearfiles.org

Dear Aleksandar,

Thank you so much for directing me to your website: it’s fascinating & if you don’t mind, I plan on using it in my classes.

Thanks & best,

-Andrew Jenkins
Alumni Fellow, Department of English, University of Florida.

Dear Aleksandar Šarović,

Thank you for your email and texts. They are serious, the attitude and approach are very close to me.

Sincerely yours,

Predrag Matvejevic
Writer and professor at Sapienza in Rome

Dear Aleksandar,

I was very pleased to receive your message and your vision for an alternative form of democracy. I think we are both in total agreement regarding the need for major reform in both the basis and implementation of a new people-inclusive way of achieving a radically new version of 21st century democracy.

Your reasoned form of democratic anarchy I think is a major step in this direction and I congratulate you beginning the process of putting these ideas into a thesis form. I think there is great potential to continue to build on this manifesto but I also understand the negativity confronting anyone who introduces new ideas that threaten the status quo – so it will take great courage.

I look forward to keeping in touch and know that whatever the obstacles in the path to true democratic reform your ideas will eventually be heard, understood and accepted.

Best wishes,

David Hunter Tow,

Director of the Future Planet Research Centre

http://www.theoriesofeverything.org/

Dear Aleksandar Šarović,

Sometime in the 70’s I had the opportunity to read The Green Book, by Muammar Gaddafi. Not since; until reading your Humanism, and so much more, have I read such a brilliant mind. I’ve often said that had men like JFK, Dr. MLK, and even John Lennon been allowed to live, Earth would be a better place to live.

Your writings form the basis of an enriched society that would be welcomed by the other civilizations our newly developed skills will be able to reach. As I go into a new year just this evening, I ask God, who lives in my heart and mind, to give me some role in getting your thoughts to the public’s ear.

Respectfully,

Joel Tolmich
ThisCouldBeYour.Biz/about.html

The Humanism

3              Humanism
3.1                  Study of the Process of Disalienation of a Commune
3.1.1                     Bases of the Policy of Humanism
3.1.2                     Bases of the Economy of Humanism
3.1.2.1                         Good Capitalism
3.1.2.2                         Good Socialism
3.1.2.2.1                              Labour Price
3.1.2.2.2                              Labour Division
3.1.2.2.3                              Commodity Price
3.1.2.2.4                              Money
3.1.2.2.5                              Working Capital
3.1.2.2.6                              Development of the Economy
3.1.2.2.7                              Income Distribution
3.1.2.2.8                              Use of Real Estate
3.1.2.2.9                              Collective Consumption
3.2                   Disalienation of Associated Communes
3.2.1                     Pooling of Policies
3.2.2                     Pooling of the Economy
3.2.3                     Association of States
3.3                  Expectation of the New System 

Radenović-Stanišić

Zajednička recenzija

Prof. Dr. Sociologije Predrag Radenović i

Prof. Dr. Ekonomije Milovan Stanišić       

Beograd 08.07.2001 

 

Kao nominovani recenzenti slobodni smo da prezentiramo recenziju studije autora Aleksandra Šarovića, Humanizam, filozofsko, etičko, političko ekonomska studija razvoja društva, koja obuhvaća materiju: 

 

I glava: Analiza prirodnog stanja, sa akcentom na čoveka i društvo, prevashodno obrađujući ova pitanja sa aspekta filozofije.

 

II glava: Proces otuđenja, sa naglaskom na aspekte psihologije otuđenja, ali i sociologije.

 

III glava: Ima tri pod-odeljka. Najprije se izlaže fenomen humanizma, koji ima posebno središno mesto u studiji, jer se daje ključna odredba i svi procesi humanizma. U daljoj studiji autor razmatra po vlastitim kriterijumima, osnove politike i ekonomije humanizma – prvi pod-odeljak (cena rada, raspodela rada, cena robe, novac, obrtna novčana sredstva, razvoj privrede, raspodela dohotka, upotreba nekretnina i zajednička potrošnja).

 

Potom se, u drugom pod-odeljku, analiziraju vrlo kompleksna pitanja: razotuđenje udruženih komuna, prezentira problem udruživanja politike, uruživanja ekonomije, udruživanje država. Najzad, se u trećem pod-odeljku vrlo ambiciozno projektuju: očekivanja novog sistema.

 

Osnovna karakteristika studije jeste kvalitet suvremenosti i širina obuhvata, iako studija ima karakter prevashodno filozofske i ekonomske rasprave. Rukopis, mada se izlažu samo vlastiti kad kad i utopistički pogledi, – deluje celovito. Ovom utisku je doprineo logičan redosled u izlaganju humanizma, njegove suštine, pojmova i tumačenja društvenog razvoja, pri tom ne izlažući druge poglede saznajno verifikovanih istraživača. 

 

Na nekim mestima,u rukopisu ima i kratko datih karakteristika, što nosi opasnost pojednostavljenja. Ali osnovu autorovog opredeljenjja čini shvatanje o humanizmu kao duboko demokratskoj ideologiji i filozofsko sociološko-ekonomskom učenju.

Stojković

Review by  Prof. Dr. of Philosophy Andrija B. K. Stojković   

    

Belgrade,    September 15, 1992  

 

Mr. Aleksandar Šarović invested a great effort in this study to examine, by himself, the overall complex Philosophical-ethical, and primarily political-economic and social problems of the society, and to propose his own system of a socio-political order and development of the mankind that would finally – at the level of modern development of the production forces of the post-industrial revolution and the corresponding degree of the development of human consciousness and relationships help materialize a century-long dream of mankind in an optimal satisfaction of human needs, elimination of all forms of exploitation and alienation of men – ensuring a general prosperity of a “healthy society” and happiness of all its members and associations. The general title of this work: THE HUMANISM arises from such intent of the author, while concretized content of this notion is given in the subtitle.   

 

It is worth mentioning at the very outset that the author offered in the study the proof of his noble intentions, high intelligence and substantial erudition. It is understandable that in such a complex inter-disciplinary area the author did not manage to cope equally everywhere in terms of contents, structure and terminology. However, there is no sense or need to give him suggestions and offer criticism in that regard. The text is philosophical-ethical (with the notes of a scientific and social utopia) in terms of its practical purpose, sense and general results, and political-economic and social-sociological in general.   

 

Presentations are structured in three parts: The Analysis of the Natural State; The Process of Alienation; and the Process of Disalienation. The author does not understand the natural state of the man and society either along the lines of Hobbs or along those of Rousseau. He recognizes the man and the society as beings with natural needs, who aspire to their optimal satisfaction with the help of their knowledge and work by processing nature. In the man’s attitude towards nature, the author also finds the determinants of human always real and relative freedom. Aspiring to the “greater conveniences” the work brings, the man must overcome “the power of nature” by getting familiar with its structure and laws; the conveniences are “fictitious” and real; “what creates the conveniences has its value”, and “the value is actually proportionate to the needs” (Boža Knežević used to teach something similar). The work has its “usable value” to the extent it “directly brings the conveniences.” Like F. Bacon, O. Cont, and others, the author believes that “knowledge gives the man the power that is in its form unlimited to nature” and proportionately to the degree of the knowledge the man “can form greater needs because he can satisfy them. By satisfying the needs, the man “comes closer to freedom in the broadest sense.” The author applies the above premises to the society” although an independent “free biological individual” – the man is “simultaneously a social being,” and “the society as does the man, has identical reactions in the relationship with nature.”   

 

“In a natural society, the interest of the man arises from his needs, and the needs are inalienable from the needs of the society.” According to the author, the encounter of an individual and a society can be accomplished successfully for both sides: “The society that knows” ensures reproduction of a constructive orientation and is able to plan its own development and prosperity. “Such a society is a healthy society.”  

 

Mr. Šarović then passes onto the “Process of Alienation, and then to that of disalienation, as a way to a healthy society (as Erich Fromm called the disalienated society). Our author, Mr. Šarović, develops his concept: “subjectivity creates alienation,” and he tries to conceive an “absolute objectivity” that would “form an absolute naturalness that represents an ideal of the man’s living.” That process is regulated through politics and economy so that the “process of disalienation” materializes by way of democracy and a communal system.  

 

The author’s understanding of the commune is broad and all-inclusive: it involves even the most minute cells of social reproduction, those from, for example, one thousand members up to the entire mankind. By developing his own model of communal organization of the mankind, the author also includes the solution of all productive, economic-financial and other problems, particularly the problems of the work price, commodity price, money, accumulation, income distribution, real estate and collective consumption, coming to the crown of his system that associates with Marx – to the “association of the communes” and a possible realization of “free-of-charge economy and consumption”, i.e. the communist work to the benefit of the society as a natural need. 

 

On the grounds of his own understanding of the results and possibilities of the “science of science”, and of the total computerization of the productive and overall social process – the author gave his solutions of the relationship of the private and stockholding-social ownership and entrepreneurship, the formation of a new work organization according to concrete and prospective needs of the society, the measurement of the quantity and quality of labour productivity and the corresponding reward for the performance achieved; the instruments of a permanent compensation of the production process, responsibility, evaluation of the contribution of each individual from each individual; he included a noble labour competition and a human distribution of workers according to their abilities, knowledge and performance. In short – the author tried to find efficient free competition instruments together with the necessary human correctives that will allow the overall development of human consciousness and civilization. 

 

The author is convinced to have found the key for the solution to the creation of a “healthy society.” In the system, he is developing, and whose creation he is proposing, he believes that “the man will be finding new interests in the outer world and in his own spiritual development. The man will then have a vast quantity of leisure time, which he will dedicate to himself, the society, nature, art, science, culture, philosophy, sports, entertainment, relaxation. A new ethics will be formed “that will likely exclude the need for mutual evaluation of people” (already supposed by H. Spencer); the more the man will be able to know himself, “the abler he will be to build harmony with the environment, to become closer with another man, more able to find the easiness of living, peace, brightness, joy, love, wisdom, more able to have a long and good-quality life”.   

 

Once the reader has finished a difficult but valuable reading of this study, what is it that he could recommend to the author? The most appropriate recommendation could be that the author presents his results in a discussion within the Hegel’s Society and the Sociological Society of Serbia, and to use the results of the professional criticism for his further work. As to the practical implementation of his concept, this issue has to be left over to the social practice.

 

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Am I Jesus Christ?

Am I Jesus Christ, Messiah, Krishna, Maitreya Buddha?

I am a scientist who has applied for the work position of Jesus Christ. Why? Jesus Christ is supposed to make heaven on earth, and I have defined how to do it in my book Humanism.

 

I have created a new social system, which provides security, stability, and a good life for all. The most important part of the new system is establishing equal rights among the people. Equal rights have actually never existed because individuals have always taken power over others. Privileged powers are the reason the history of humankind was so evil. Therefore privileges must be put to an end. Now I will explain how to do it.

 

We must participate in making all decisions affecting our interests. For example, we can directly decide what percentage of our salaries we need to pay for taxes and what is the best way to spend it. Today, leaders of countries allocate most of the tax money for armies. Once people decide about the allocation of tax money, armies will cease to exist and waging wars will be impossible.

 

I have invented democratic anarchy. What is this? This is a system where each person gets an equal right to evaluate any other person. A positive evaluation should bring a grant of let’s say one dollar to the assessed person, and a negative assessment should carry a one dollar penalty. In that simple way, each person will get real power in society and therefore will be respected. This measure will direct people to produce the highest possible conveniences to others and to abolish making inconveniences. That means bullies will not harass children at school anymore, bosses will not abuse employees, politicians will not lie to people. If the president of a country does not follow the people’s needs, he might get millions of bad evaluations, which will cost him millions of dollars. Everyone will be responsible to all and that will eliminate the evil of privileges. In such a system human beings will become values, and that will form a good society.

 

My system offers more market than capitalism could afford. The market for public work posts will be specially developed. A worker, who provides more profits, produced goods, better, cleaner, or cheaper production at any time for any job in public companies, would get the job. I am a genius who has developed the idea for almost 30 years, and I am confident it would work correctly. No economy can be more productive than the one where the best worker gets each job. Such an economy will quickly become more profitable than the capitalist one so that capitalism will be forced to recede. Private enterprises will join the public companies, and the owners will be adequately compensated. The new economy will bring security and abundance to all.

 

So then if I am so smart why has nobody recognized me so far? Two years ago Google opened a competition calling for good ideas to change the world. I participated with my project along with more than 150.000 others. The winner has not been declared after more than a year. Why? Google has difficulties accepting my idea because it presents the end of capitalism, the very system Google is built on. Google also has problems rejecting my idea because my system will one day completely change the world and make it a beautiful place to live. I think Google has dropped the competition and my project is the reason.

 

I wrote thousands of letters to social scientists, but they didn’t respond to me. Why? Social sciences are so useless today for proposing a good society , that nothing can prevent them from going down in history. Everything will change. The economy I have proposed will be so simple that people would be able to master it without attending schools. All people will become good economists, psychologists, judges, philosophers just because they live in the system I have proposed.

 

I wrote the screenplay Heaven that presents the bright future of humankind, but I could not get support to make the movie. Also, I do not have access to media. Why? Antichrist is here. He rules the world by secretly possessed wealth his family has been gaining for centuries. His name is Jacob Rothschild. He controls banks, corporations, governments, NATO, media, and all of us. We depend on him everywhere. He takes our freedom by using the power that should belong to us. But my idea will prevail. Six years ago I offered him to give up from ruling the world and save his wealth. If he refuses it, he will lose everything. Once you people accept the system, I have proposed you would gain the power to live without him, but he will not be able to live without you.

 

My system is the only reasonable solution for humankind, but it is still not recognized. We are approaching December 21, 2012, and I will try to make it a day of the recognition of my work. I question whether I am Jesus mainly to bring attention to my work. I can do the same by asking whether I am Messiah, Krishna or Buddha. I might be recognized as all of these saviours, but I feel pretty good as Aleksandar. My teaching will save the world from all human evil and improve it beyond the wildest dreams today.

 

April 30, 2010

————-

Seven years ago I wrote:

 

Am I Jesus Christ? 

 

Christians await the return of Jesus Christ, who according to the Bible resides in Heaven next to God the Father. I must say that I didn’t hear nor see God the Father and that fact says that I am most likely not Jesus Christ. However, when Jesus Christ returns to Earth, He should create paradise on earth. I have defined the only possible way that will unconditionally and unavoidably achieve it. This fact says that I still may be Jesus Christ.

 

***

Twenty years ago I was very disappointed with the world around me and therefore decided to find a way to create a good society. It took me ten years to define a new socio-economic system that would make a good society and the same amount of time to get a clear vision of how the future of mankind would look like. I have presented the results of my research in the book Humanism. The system I have proposed is entirely different and much better than all known models and will, as time passes, replace them all.

 

Three professors of philosophy, sociology and economy from the Belgrade University were very kind to read my book on my request. Their reviews of my book basically say that I am not crazy, that I did not write stupid things and that I offer a significant change and improvement to society. They were not able or not willing to analyze my work deeply because my book turns everything they knew upside down.

 

The system I have proposed is much simpler than the one used today; however, it still requires a lot of time for its understanding because it is entirely new. For getting used to the new way of thinking and taking a good picture of the new system, besides reading the book it is necessary to perform a lot of time in its analysis, and that is something that I was not able to initialize with anybody so far. Someone might guess that scientists receive many new systems daily so that they do not have time for studying my work. That is not a case. Besides, there is only one irrefutable study in the history of humankind that promises Paradise on Earth and that one is mine.

 

In the last ten years I have sent thousands of letters to University professors, social scientists and researchers; presidents of countries, corporations and various societies; editors of journals, newspapers, publishing houses; online magazines and newsgroups; political parties, foundations; to ordinary people all over the world and got some responses but actually, I have not made any progress.

 

Authorities have been mentally oppressing you people from the ancient time so that you have not developed an ability to find the truth in you without their influences. To build a better world, I do not use “rocket science” in my book but straightforward and logical conclusions that are strange to you. That is the reason I have to build a big authority on me myself so that you even consider accepting my ideas. Unexpectedly, it seems that the Christian religion might help me in that.

 

***

At the beginning of this year (2003) I found, through the Internet, significant similarities between what I wrote and what Jesus Christ is supposed to do. I will talk about the main points that I found in the Holy Bible and which are accepted among religious people as the absolute truth. I quote here important verses from the Bible and from religious articles from the Internet:

 

When Jesus came the first time it was to settle the problem of sin. He did not come to settle the problems of government nor the social dilemmas that harass our world. When He comes again He will solve all government problems, and political and social ills. Source.

 

Jesus Christ will return to earth to spiritually transform its people and establish utopia, a paradise on earth. The combination of removing Satan’s influence, giving humanity God’s Spirit and teaching the world the laws and ways of God will produce 1,000 years of peace and a society blessed beyond its wildest dreams. Source. 

 

The ideals of happiness, peace, freedom, justice, and prosperity, all of which have been merely dreams of most of the world’s people throughout the ages, actually will be realized during the Millennium. The millennial reign of Jesus Christ will be a transition government from the inept, corrupt rule of mankind to the orderly, perfect rule of God, the Father (1 Cor. 15:24-28). As impossible as it may seem now, all evil permanently will be detached and disunited from all good after this period of 1,000 years, the Millennium, has concluded. Source. 

 

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, the lion shall eat straw like the ox. (Isaiah 65:21-25)

 

And He shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid; (Micah 1-4).

 

“I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them” (Ezekiel 36:22-27).

 

Jesus’ reign will bring: Abundance, prosperity, stability, restoration and security (Amos 9:13 -15).

 

My book describes the system that will fulfill the achievements of these quotes. Please find what it is about in these short articles here: Humanism Shortly and here: Essential Thoughts.

 

In the new system, I have proposed, evil in society will not exist anymore. Paradise will be established on Earth, and as it is said in the Bible, everyone would go from here to Heaven. However, I doubt those quotes above are supposed to be understood entirely literally. For example, if I were Jesus Christ, I would neither like to be the President nor the King of the World. I value my freedom. However, my absence from power will not be missed because I made a better solution. I have created a system that will allow you people, to take control over yourselves, following the will of God.

 

I am sure that the realization of the system I have proposed is an inevitable process. The system will work because it follows the nature of society. The nature of society is, in its essence, straightforward but so far it was not defined accurately, and the history of humankind has been proving it by social instabilities. I am also sure that there is no other reasonable choice for society because it does not have more than one nature. If Jesus Christ comes after me, He would not be able to find a better solution for humankind in the existing nature. The system I have proposed may be tested in a few years in a small community, and that would give the answer, whether I am right or wrong. If the system I have proposed proves that it may make Paradise on Earth where “lions and antelopes will eat together,” where state’s laws will not be needed anymore while the people will live in perfect harmony, am I then Jesus Christ?

 

Another essential fact in the Bible is Judgment Day.

 

Quote: Romans 14:10-12 – We shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. Every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess. Every one of us shall give account of himself to God. In this life people often fail to keep appointments, but no one will be absent for this appointment, and no one will be tardy. No excuses will be accepted. No amount of wealth, influence, or power can prevent your appearance.

 

That cannot be taken literally otherwise I would pity Jesus Christ. Every second about 5 people die around the world. Jesus Christ would have to work non-stop on it and judge each man in 1/5th of a second. That seems to me unlikely. For that purpose, God must have some kind of information technology that collects information about each man. I have simulated a similar process in my system. Such a process might show the people what they should expect when they die while they are still alive. Please pay attention to the value of the productive power of man from the article Humanism Extensively for example. If a man at the end of his life possesses a positive value of his productive power, he would probably go to Paradise, and vice versa, if at the end of his life he would have a negative productive value he would probably go to hell. A man with a negative value of productive power will certainly not have a pleasant life in this world. That will force people to be very responsible for everything they do, and that will contribute to building Paradise on Earth.

 

I’ve found, in the Holy Bible, some similarities between Jesus Christ and me but I will not talk about it anymore because many people can satisfy these criteria. Besides that, the Bible gives too many choices for all kind of interpretations. Also, I question the total accuracy of the verses in the Bible because men wrote them for two thousand years. A man is very inclined to imagine, invent and add onto things and events and that is a reason there might be exaggerations and controversies in the Bible. That is a reason I would rather talk about simple facts that might contribute to being considered as Jesus Christ.

 

I was born in Zagreb, Croatia, former Yugoslavia on April 30, 1955, at 7:30 PM. Immediately after my birth, the salute roar of cannon fire thundered throughout Zagreb and all major cities in Yugoslavia, together with fireworks in the honour of May 1, the socialist Labour Day. In the socialist countries, the 1st of May was as important of a public holiday as Easter or Christmas in the Western world. The doctor who helped deliver me then said to my mother that a prince was born. Isn’t this an interesting sign? Can this sign indicate the birth of Jesus Christ?

 

In socialist Yugoslavia, religion was not very popular. I was baptized and used to go to church once a year. Until this year I was barely religious, better said I was neither a believer nor an atheist. If I were a strongly religious man, I would have developed sensitivity to the signs that God has probably sent to me and would be much more aware of who I am. But, I am still new to religion, do not know much and do not want to make a mistake. However, I think there is a chance that I am Jesus Christ and it surprised me. I know, I as Jesus Christ is supposed to be the highest authority in the Christian religion, but unfortunately, I missed all of the courses about that, or somehow I do not remember anything. Take my excuses, and I will try my best to make up the omitted knowledge.

 

When I decided to find a good solution to change the world, I got the basis of the vision (see Humanism for Dummies) about the future of mankind almost instantly, and that vision has given me the strength to be persistent. Might it have come straight from God? Or must it? It is not a rarity that a young man wants to change the world. I am probably a unique person because I was persistent over developing my system for the last twenty years while the work has been mostly hard and I have not received any recognition for doing it. However, I did get small support from people. This support is presented here: Comments.

 

I was proclaimed as one of the best architects in Yugoslavia even before I graduated the faculty (see The Republic Square). Soon after my graduation, I gave up from a successful career as an architect to find more time for defining a good solution to change the world. Whoever knew me, suggested to give up from changing the world with a comment that it was impossible and a loss of time. But I knew I was on the right track right from the beginning of my work. On the other hand, you people have the fully defined system in my book available now, and you still do not know what to think about it. Isn’t it strange?

 

I delivered two lectures about my work in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1992 and 1993 while there was a war. Ten years later, on November 1, 2003, I had my first public appearance at a conference of the Society for Utopian Studies in San Diego, South California. At that time, there were massive, furious wildfires there. Before my departure to California I joked to my wife Dušica: “If an earthquake occurs in California while I am there, I must be Jesus Christ.” I spent only one night in San Diego. When I woke up the next day (November 2) in my hotel room and turned on the TV, the first message I received was: “San Bernardino Mountains (close to San Diego) was shaken this night by two earthquakes with a magnitude of 3.5”. Coincidence?

 

Jesus Christ is expected to make miracles by which He is apparently supposed to be recognized. Jesus Christ should, for example, be able to walk on water. I saw the magician, Criss Angel, walking on water on television. So why has nobody considered him as Jesus Christ? If I learned how to make such an illusion, would I then have a chance to be accepted as Jesus Christ? However, I think that I have made a far greater miracle than walking on water. I have defined how to make the world a beautiful place to be, how to create heaven on earth. This is something that nobody has ever managed to do. Now, one could complain that my theory has not been proven in praxis yet, and it might be wrong. Also, one could suggest that Jesus Christ would make a paradise on earth and that would make Him recognized. I would have to respond that even the Lord Jesus Christ is not expected to force people to go down the correct path, but the people are expected to embrace the way of Jesus Christ. People will one day accept my path because they will not have any other choice. My path is the only right path.

 

Dear people, the terrible situation in the world pressures me to act vigorously. I believe that the situation is much worse than you might think and that must be changed. Besides it, crime, rape, and killings have come to my neighbourhood. Evil has never been closer to me than now, and that must end. On top of everything, I think that the Antichrist is here among us. He must be stopped, and the system I have proposed will do it.

 

All my life I’ve wanted to do something good and important but I hesitated to announce a possibility that I could be Jesus Christ because I cannot even imagine in what kind of trouble I would be getting into. If I am not Jesus Christ, you will tease with me, but I would not care much about that. If I am Jesus Christ, I might be in danger from anyone who would not like it. The only thing I can do in that case is hope the Bible is right about my destiny and that God will protect me. Unfortunately, I cannot entirely rely on it because I do not know which part of the Bible carries the authentic God’s words and which part presents the creative imagination of writers through generations.

 

In the end, I have decided to take the risk and to stand firmly as much as I can behind my book. If I successfully advocate my book, you would accept the system I have proposed much sooner. In fact, it is just about whether the system will be implemented before or after a series of catastrophes. When you accept the system, I have proposed it will undoubtedly save you from all the social evil without matter what race, nation, religion, class, age, or gender you belong to.

 

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My book “Humanism” has been available free of charge worldwide since the year 2000 when I published the Serbo-Croatian version at my web site www.sarovic.com. The English translation was released the next year. In the last three years, about 200 people have downloaded my book, but I received almost no responses from them. The silence follows me all the time everywhere, and I do not know why! However, so far I have exchanged opinions with individuals who have read my articles but have found out it was pretty much a loss of time. The system I have proposed could not be understood enough without reading the book. Therefore, I will avoid further talk about my book to anyone who would not previously read it.

 

Dear reader, if you believe in Jesus Christ and allow just a little possibility that I might be Him, I would like you to read my book. It is written in such a way that everyone who gives a small effort is supposed to understand it. (Don’t worry about technicalities; it’s the job for scientists and me.) I want to distribute at least 200,000 copies of the book in the next three years. Do not listen to anybody but yourself when contemplating whether this book is good enough for changing the world. There are millions of authorities around you that prevent you from finding the truth in you. You indeed may and should discuss the book with other people but, in the end, make the final opinion on your own. When you form your opinion, I would be grateful to you if you write to me in up to 50 words whether you like the book or not and why. That would tell me a lot. If you don’t want the system that only means you would need more time to start loving it. “I guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.” (Back to the Future – Part I:-)

 

The book is actually not religious so that I feel like I need to give a conclusion about my view of religion. Not one theory ever has been convincing in presenting how to make something from nothing. This is actually the most significant jump and the greatest enigma for philosophers and scientists. The Bible says that God did precisely this when He created our world. The Bible does not elaborate technical details of it, or we are too imperfect to be able to understand. Maybe just our ignorance is the reason why is the presentation of God in the Bible very simplified. The Bible probably presents the will of God, but I doubt it does it very accurately because men certainly have difficulty to receive and understand the words of God.

 

The theory of evolution states that natural selection develops life from the lower level towards the higher one. The stronger being survives and there lies the foundation of the development. But is it enough? A deep logic and miraculous harmony exist among atoms, molecules, genes, nature, and space, without which we would not exist. Does something protect us? Most likely, there is some kind of supernatural power-up somewhere, which somehow, contributes to the development of nature and of course of us, people. I have accepted it as supernatural because I cannot imagine it anyhow. I have recognized the name of It as God. I have not seen nor heard God, or I am not aware of it. I accept the existence of God also because the Bible predicted 2000 years ago the coming of Messiah who should lead people in the right way and establish harmony to society. My book completely fulfills it, and that is the reason I am applying for Jesus Christ’s position. One may claim that the result of my work has been just a millennial aspiration of people who lived in injustice and evil. Well, if that was the case, then the prophecies written in the Bible are really fantastic coincidences. I firmly believe one day, far from now, science will get to know God whatever It is, and then we, on the planet Earth will really find out something about Him.

 

God might have had full control over the “Big Bang,” or maybe He left some independent influences in the process to the natural laws He had created. We do not know. God might have created the whole evolution process, or maybe His natural laws did something independently. Or maybe, in both cases, something completely different happened that we could not even contemplate. We should accept that we do not know it. We do not need to argue about who is right or wrong when we cannot prove anything. Finding the solutions to mentioned dilemmas is far more difficult than finding solutions to all other questions that bother us today so that the full answer in these dilemmas will be found much later than answers to all other issues today. I believe God has influences on us but also, we have our choices and He encourages it. He is good.

 

I would gladly discuss the issue with decent people as much as I can through the discussion forum at this web site. Also, I will write more about religion as soon as I find something new. But do not expect much more from me even though I would like to find answers to many questions. God will not put the answers into “my dish.“ It never happens that easily and that is good. What would we do if already have answers to all questions? Life would lose one of its most important senses. Discovery is actually a beauty of living.

 

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Aleksandar Šarović

November 29, 2003

 

Continues on: God’s Will