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Ten Reasons Why We've Pushed Your Buttons 

1)   Our job is to wake people up  --  to kick butt  --  to "shake the tree"  --  to "upset the apple cart" --  to "spill the beans"  --  to demonstrate that  life is not what we've been led to believe it is by those who claim to know!°    If we don't push any of your buttons, we haven't done our job.   

2)   Almost every major change on the planet has come from people who were considered, eccentric, outsiders, "on the edge," °   or even trouble makers or crazy people. 

3)   In an insane society a sane person would be considered crazy.   Any judgment of someone else  is simply a matter of perspective.   Because everybody considers their perspective to be normal, it's always the other guy who is deviant and strange.   

The bottom line is that nobody is wrong.   Everybody is right, but only partially right.   The missing pieces commonly lead people to draw erroneous conclusions.°   The inaccurate conclusion, in turn,  often precipitate some  very dysfunctional behaviors.

4)   Even though you're certain that you're right, you just might be wrong.   Have you ever been wrong?   While you were being wrong, did you know that you were being wrong?   Is it possible that you are wrong about something right now?  

5)   We've spent years studying and creating the projects, the proposals, and the concepts presented on our websites.   You can't expect to understand all of it without considerable study.   

6)   Even if some of what The Reasonables Team has to offer is wrong, ignoring the majority of it which is correct could be a very costly oversight on your part.

7)   If you pass judgment on us based on what you believe and/or on reading only what you agree with, and/or on instructions not to read or listen to anything that is contrary to your religion, then you're stuck in a dysfunctional belief system.    

8)   If you believe that you already know all there is to know about any of the topic discussed on our websites, then you're the one who's crazy.    

9)    Society is on a fast track to political, economic, social, religious, and environmental disaster.   If you don't wake up,  now, you could wind up facing considerable grief and misery.   Your complacency could even cost you your life. 

10)  You have been and still are making critical, irreversible life-altering decisions  based on false, incomplete, and/or intentionally deceptive information.   To see some easy-to-understand example of this, readers are directed to the page titled:    Some Alternate Perspectives°  and the page titled:  The Rapture.° 

11)  Our job is to expose readers to ideas,  proposals, and possibilities that are new to most people --  to examine the status quo in the light of any new information available --  to show that there's much in the universe that is as yet, still unknown --  and to allow those who choose not to listen to remain as they are.

NOTE:   Apparently we can't count, either because the above list contains not ten, but eleven items.   Readers can look at the eleventh item as our bonus gift or as evidence that we really are crazy.   We'd prefer to call ourselves  "The  ultimate whistle blowers."   The next section below  will tell you why.

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A  Truth Challenge:   

The N.V.P. team challenges you or anybody else to examine our websites and prove us wrong, either in website content or in the validity and the functionality of the projects and programs we offer.    

To those of you who take issue with anything on our websites,  please contact us° and provide us with proof that anything included on our websites is false, deceptive or misleading.  

1)  Be specific!   Show us exactly where and how any of our programs are dysfunctional.   Expose any places where we make hard-to-believe claims that are not backed up by evidence.   Tell us if you find us expressing misleading statements, ignoring vital truths, or offering unprovable beliefs as facts.   Tell us if you find us doing anything immoral, unethical, deceptive, or hypocritical.    Point out any flaws, errors or omissions. 

Attacking Christianity       Attacking Christianity          ...

The Accusation that We 
  Are Attacking Christianity:   

Some say we are attacking Christianity.   Actually we are pointing out the hypocrisy, the lies of omission and the dysfunctional behavior of a small group of ultra-conservative Christian leaders.      

We want to make a clear separation between the millions of loving, kind, well-meaning Christians and the minority of highly vocal,  right-wing, Christian-extremist leaders.   We honor and respect  the multiple millions (both leaders and lay Christians) who follow their heart and honor the teachings of Jesus, but, unfortunately, not everybody is open and honest.   Our objective is to bring awareness to the  distinguish between those with honorable intentions  and those few with very different intentions.  (See the page titled:   hidden agenda,°  the page called Creating a Christian Theocracy in America,° and the page titled:  The Rapture.°)   

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To Whom Do We Address Our Message?   

To Whom We DO NOT Speak:    

1)   We DO NOT speak to the closed-minded people who claim to already know all there is to know about God.   
(See Ecclesiastes 11:5,  1 Corinthians 2:14,   and Ecclesiastes 3:11)°  

2)   We DO NOT speak to those who ignore major significant Biblical passages such as  the three mentioned above  and Genesis 2:7,  John 14:12,  Psalms 82:6,  Luke 17:21, and  Ecclesiastes 3:19.   (See the page titled:  Relevant Biblical Passages.)°   

3)   We DO NOT speak to the ultra-conservative fundamentalist leaders and followers in every religion who will never question their beliefs.   

4)   We DO NOT speak to those to whom Jesus was referring when He said, "Give not that which is holy onto the dogs, and cast not your pearls before swine. . ."  (Matthew 7:6) 

5)    We DO NOT speak to those who worship a God so weak that he needs human  help to punish the unfaithful.  

6)   We DO NOT speak to those who think God has ordered then to use violence against non-believers.  

To Whom We  Speak:    

1)   We speak to the millions of devout religious followers who have accepted as fact and never questioned the veracity of all the stories being put out by their ultra-conservative religious leaders.

2)   We speak to the millions more who are not devout followers of any particular religion  --  people who have no idea what’s really going on in the ultra-conservative religious communities  and who, if they knew, would be appalled at the antics of  the ultra-conservative religious leaders.    

3)   We speak to the millions of impressionable young people who are in the process of claiming their own personhood  --  young people who are still listening to others and questioning what we call reality  --  young people who are deeply troubled by the world they see and wish it were different  --  young people who are desperate for adult role models to emulate.   

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For Whom Do We Speak  and on Who's  Authority