We desire to create a refuge and sanctuary for people who are pathologically kind-hearted and good-natured, and for people who need others. It is hard for such people to exist in a world filled with human piranha and sharks.

We worship empathy, kindness, love, compassion, acceptance, understanding, tolerance, forgiveness, patience and altruism. We are not pacifists. We are committed to building a culture free of violence, vengeance, anger, yelling, strum & drang. We try to be better listeners, givers, friends, cooks and lovers. We strive to be less critical, more understanding and more attentive to the feelings of others.

We endeavor to create a community, a large extended-family that rewards kindness. Our goal is to nurture the altruistic gene, and rein-in and diminish the influence of the selfish gene.

We believe it is up to humans to create Heaven on Earth, by creating communities where members care deeply for each other. We respect individualism. We believe in and we are COMMITTED to helping others--animals included. We are not armchair philosophers, we are doers. We believe actions speak louder than words.

We aspire to a diet that does not cause another creature to suffer. We worship laughter. We love nature, wildlife, and the great outdoors. We believe in and are committed to ecology, and living responsibly. We do NOT worship science, but we do encourage acceptance of the scientific method.

We believe in tolerance, free thought, freedom of expression, freedom of each human to choose their own personal beliefs, and their own lifestyle. Notwithstanding, we believe in taking moral responsibility for helping one-and-all to the best of our ability.

We have ONE basic moral law:

Taking our own interests and the interests of our community into account, and taking our beliefs into account, we try our best to treat others how we would want to be treated if we were in their place with their weaknesses, their desires, their distastes, their limitations, their strengths, and their assets. In following our one moral law, we give our own belief system primacy. In other words, we will not help another bring more pain or suffering into the universe, even if by putting ourselves in their shoes we suspect this is what they would want.

We recognize that every person is different. Therefore, we try not to generalize from our own experiences to others. We respect each person's subjective experiences. We realize we can't really know what it is like to be in another's shoes, or to know what other people have gone through. In fact, we believe one of the deepest hidden truths is we would behave exactly as others if we were in their shoes. This implies we each could be any human being. If so, we should love every human being as we love ourselves, because at our core, in some very real sense, each human is us.

We seek new members who rarely, if ever, get angry at friends or their mates. We seek members who rarely lose their temper, raise their voice, or insult fellow members of their community, or attempt to physically or emotionally intimidate others.

We seek new members who are gentle and compassionate. Nerdy is okay. Aggressive display is generally not okay. We like people who are easy-going going, relaxed, non-critical, non-judgmental and non-violent. We tend to avoid people with tempers and short fuses. We seek friendly, peaceful coexistence with emphasis on mutual cooperation and mutual caring.

We accept members of every religion, and we accept atheists. What we have in common is we are all good-natured, we all care about others, we all are dedicated to helping and comforting others, and/or we all aspire to these ideals.

Many people have a potential to be good-natured, but do not realize it, because they have never been in the right environment, and that switch has never been turned-on out of fear. Or that switch was turned-off due to repeated mistreatment. We want to create a community where a turtle would feel safe walking around without its shell, where vulnerability is not exploited, and no good deed goes unnoticed or unrewarded.

We seek to create a community that is one big family, where members love and care for each other more than most family members love and care for each other.

We would like to befriend people who feel alone, who are in trouble, or who only need people to be near them for friendship and company. We enjoy sharing our time with others and doing interesting things together.

Your money and your possessions belong to you. We do not condemn individual ownership. We seek a balance between individual rights, and social responsibility.

We don't believe we should isolate ourselves from former friends and family members. We don't believe the Feds are out to get us. We are not repressive or controlling. We have no stand on the existence of God. We do not believe in: end-of-time scenarios, UFOs hiding in comets, poison Kool Aid, collecting guns, an omniscient or infallible leader, accosting travelers at airports, or murdering famous actresses. We respect the law, and do our best to follow the law.

We want to be known for being exceptionally kind, generous, accepting, loving, high-spirited, practical and realistic. We want to be known for living up to our ideals.

We are not ascetics. We believe tasty food and comfortable living conditions can energize us, put us in a positive mind frame, and make our belief system more attractive to others.

We don't believe it is always necessary to repress or eliminate our primal nature. We don't believe it is inherently immoral to indulge our animal side, so long as we respect the rights, feelings and sensitivities of others.

With three exceptions, we believe in balance and moderation. The three exceptions are, of course, empathy, love and kindness. On the other hand, we believe there is nothing wrong with dedication to one's work or to any constructive activity or goal.

We worship people who are kind, good-natured, altruistic, slow-to-anger, self-sacrificing, patient, understanding, empathic, accepting, comforting, caring and loving. These traits unite us and make us family.

There is strength in numbers. United we stand, divided we fall. We each have our own strengths and weaknesses. Organized we can accomplish, more than we can each accomplish alone.

Is this cult? Yes. We are a cult of kindness that believes in humans caring more for each other. We don't have an authoritarian charismatic leader or a dictatorship. We don't believe in isolating people from their friends and family. We don't believe in conformity. We don't have any esoteric religious beliefs. We don't have an inner circle. We don't believe in any apocolyptic, end-of-time prophocies. If we could brainwash people to be kinder and more forgiving, we would. We don't believe in poison Kool Aid, sex with minors, guns, murdering attractive movie stars, or "the Feds are out to get us." Now, unattractive movie stars are another matter . . . just kidding! Oh yeah, we have a sense of humor, and don't take ourselves too seriously. Finally, we don't claim to have sole possession of any truth. All we care about is kindness, camaraderie, laughter, helping others, and lessening human and animal suffering. If this causes us to burn in Hell, so be it.

Is this a utopia? No. There will always be disease, death, mental-illness, disagreements, differences of opinion, financial issues, conflict, and so forth and so on. The difference is the way we deal with adversity. Whether we become angry and antagnostic, or whether we try to be compromising and flexible. Whether we face adversity alone, or with the suppport of an entire community.

All we strive to achieve is something better than that which exists. "Perfection" should not be the enemy of "better."

But I personally believe we can create something akin to Eden on Earth, if only we cared more about each other, and loved each other like we love ourselves.

Right now, there is no community. All there is is just my dream. If you would like to help me establish this community and help make it a reality, please contact me.

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With infinite love, unbounded

kindness, and a great big hug,

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michael / menachem dovid

PS. It is tough to have empathy and live in the real world. It is easier to become bitter and stop being so kind-hearted and trusting to protect yourself from humans who give sharks a bad name. Most people take kindness for weakness. The more you give, the more most people take.

We live in a society, where no good deed goes unpunished, and people harden their hearts because they need to in order to survive. I've always been stubborn. I refuse to change even if it leads to my own destruction because it is obvious to me that there is just not enough love and caring in the world. Some people take pride in being a survivor. Well, the greatest survivor of all is the cockroach. The butterfly is fragile and lives only seven days, but I'd rather live seven days as a butterfly than a hundred as a cockroach.

But I have learned one thing, people like us can't survive alone in the world. In a predatory environment we are quickly devoured if we stand alone. In predatory environments where it each man and woman is for themselves, the selfish gene is going to proliferate. On the other hand, I believe the altruistic gene can flourish and proliferate in cooperative, caring societies where people help each other and reward kindness.

According to Darwin's evolution, "survival of fittest" does not imply the mean, lean and strong always prevail. It means those who fit their environment best will have the best chance to reproduce. In a sea, filled with fishing nets, smaller fish have a greater chance of survival than bigger fish. In totalitarian societies, those who are distrusting and paranoid have the greatest chance of survival. In lawless societies, those who are aggressive and anti-social have the best chance of survival. In super competitive societies, those who are obsessive-compulsive have the best chance of survival. In a cooperative, caring, loving societies, those who have empathy and love have the best chance of passing on their genes.

Time and again, I have helped the homeless, drug addicts, and anyone I could. There was little appreciation. Just about everyone I tried to help stole from me. I could have changed. I could have concluded, no good can come from helping strangers. Instead, I realized, some people are just unappreciative, and it is hard for one person to do enough for them to get them to change who they are.

I realized people who are loving, caring and filled with empathy need to band together, and first and foremost need to help each other. Helping selfish, evil people can just lead to strengthening the force of evil in the world. I still believe in helping and loving everyone, but I realize I can't do it alone. Those people have to learn, it is in their own interest to be kind. And this is not something one person can teach. This lesson is most effective coming from a thriving community. Otherwise, people just look at you as fool. People need to see a whole eco-system, a whole community where kindness is an asset, not a liability.

One kind person is like one radioactive atom. Their kindness radiates outward until they have nothing left to give. If you have a small group of kind people, their mutual kindness may be enough to keep them going for while. But what we really need is a concentrated group with a large enough critical mass of kind people. This could lead to a chain reaction strong enough to change a large area.

There is a book called "Women Who Love To Much." I think the book is misnamed. I think it should be called, "Women Who Over and Over Again Love the Wrong Kind Man Too Much." The book advises these women to love less. This is the natural response from someone who doesn't have a lot of love to give. They can't understand in the first place why so much love is necessary. Or maybe, they too got

burnt from loving the wrong people too much and decided the answer was to love less. I don't think it is possible to love too much. I just think it is possible to love the wrong kind of person too much. I don't believe you can love good men and women too much.

Some people melt when they are loved, and try to repay love and kindness tenfold. If we lived in a community where everyone tried to repay love and kindness tenfold, we would soon find ourselves living in a kind of heaven. There would still be disease, natural disasters and death, but there would also be great mirth, laughter, empathy, and there would be an abundance of caring and loving-kindness. And this I believe would make all the difference in the world.

I can't do this thing alone. If this was just about me, I wouldn't care as much as I do. I see the need to create a refuge for all kind people. A place that will nurture their kindness. If somehow we can create this thing, we can produce a life raft for hundreds, if not thousands of empaths. There is even a small chance we can change the world and the destiny of mankind. All successful movements have started with just a few people. The success of this movement does not entirely rest on our strength, but on the truth and validity of it premises.

Perhaps, the fate of hundreds of loving, caring people living today and in the future depends upon what we do or don't do. If we fail to act, helpless fellow empaths will drown. If we do act, we will be a life boat to fellow empaths drowning in the middle of the ocean, a beacon of light to fellow empaths lost at sea, an oasis with fresh spring water to fellow empaths dying of thirst in a parched desert.

Short Biography:

My heritage is Jewish. My majors were mathematics and physics. I left university on the advice of the Lubavitcher Rebbe to study full-time in a Lubavitcher yeshiva. I studied Chassidus and the Talmud for seven years.

I left Lubavitch. I took two failed hotels and turned them into major financial successes. I joined Mensa, and other high IQ societies with much stricter requirements. In Mensa, I met a failed commodities trader and helped him make his first million dollars trading S&P 500 futures. I consider myself a gourmet cook, and a talented photographer.

I learned to love nature, animals and wildlife. I made friends with a wild alligator. I've rescued cats, dogs, birds and turtles. I've helped the homeless, the mentally-ill, drug addicts, and alcoholics.

I believe in balance. I don't believe in blindly repressing physical desires. I don't believe in asceticism or rejecting the material world. I do believe in the most important things in life are non-material. I believe friendship and love, and simple pleasures like enjoying nature have much greater value than physical possessions.

An essential teaching of Buddhism is repression and elimination of physical desires. That is why Buddhist monks are celibate. I believe in Paul MacLean's triune brain. Each part of the brain has its own set of needs. I don't believe in rejecting the id (the R-complex, the reptilian brain, the archipallium, the animal soul) or demonizing it. Christians call the human id, "the devil." I believe it is part of who we are. I believe it can be controlled, that there is no inherent sin in indulging it, so long as we do not allow it to control our lives, so long as we do not allow it to side-track us from our main mission in life. That mission is helping the poor, the orphan, the widow, the sick, the mentally-ill, the disabled, the lonely, and the down-trodden, that mission is lessening emotional and physical pain, that mission is lessening injustice, and that mission is transforming the world into a single loving family.

I don't believe in worshiping any human being or putting any human being on a pedestal. I don't believe in infallible ancient, primitive texts. I believe it is the moral obligation of every good-natured, kind-hearted person to transform the world. I believe ***YOU*** need to be a Dalai Lama. The world cannot survive with just one Dalai Lama. To conquer as much pain, anguish, greed, hatred, and selfishness as there is in the world, we need an army of Dalai Lamas.