Dear Georgina,
I had forgotten that you said that you would put a comment on your paper page, so it took me awhile to remember that. You are welcome. I always like to work with those that I believe are somewhat ahead of the pack in understanding. Your sanctuaries are a good idea because they can separate man from the local environment and thus protect it from manmade pollution. At the same time it will require man to develop ways of producing things in such a way as to not generate that pollution because it would be obvious that it would be very detrimental to the functioning of the sanctuaries. I did notice that you were not completely separating the internal environment from the external environment in your examples because you mention air vents that would need to be protected and maintained. This connection would still allow a path for external contaminants to enter the sanctuaries and also could allow any internally generated contaminants to escape into the external environment. Either could potentially cause problems. I recommend complete separation of all systems otherwise there would be the temptation to just vent internally generated contaminants to the outside instead of doing the work to learn how to process them internally and when many sanctuaries are I place you would then still destroy the external environment. The technology to reprocess air and water systems is already developed and is already in use in the space station. It would be necessary that the society would be technological in order to develop all of the necessary life supporting systems needed in the sanctuary and to maintain them. This would mean that methods to mine, process minerals, fabricate finished materials, and then assemble them into complex structures such as computers, control mechanisms, and machines, etc. would need to be accomplished internally within the sanctuary. In order to continually improve sanctuary systems, it would be necessary to also support internal scientific research by building the necessary scientific apparatus structure to support ongoing experimentation. Once a new thing was developed to make life in the sanctuary better in some way it would be necessary to be able to gather and process the needed materials and make and distribute the device(s) internally. You are right that the crop production system would need to be designed to provide the best environment that is reasonably possible for the crops (whether animal or plant life) to maximize yield and obtain the best quality output. Although artificial synthesis of foods could be done at some time in the future, I would not recommend it until man fully understands the complete genetic structure of the life structure involved because detrimental effects could result by ingesting poorly structured foods. This is not likely to happen for some time to come. Properly oriented plants of certain kinds planted in the sanctuary could help maintain the proper oxygen content in the air and remove carbon dioxide, etc. A certain part of the crop growing structure could be set aside as a community garden area.
I do understand the concept and there could also be other things, such as a video display in each personal living area that would be made to look like a window that could display an outdoor scene chosen by the resident. It could also include an audible sound track that would provide the sounds associated with the scene. This could be set to display a whole day's worth of the scene to include both daytime and nighttime display, as an example.
People will still need to have clean clothes to wear and clean dishes to eat off of, etc., so devices to provide such things will still need to be provided to them in some form. Food storage and preparation devices and various types of furniture, etc., would also need to be provided and in addition water outlets and sewer inlets of the proper types would be necessary. The people would also need communication devices. It is true that any given sanctuary would not likely have reasonable access to all of the resources needed to make all things that it needed. Sanctuaries could be connected by underground tunnels so that there could be trade between them, so that all sanctuaries could get all of the materials needed. The most robust system would be to have each sanctuary able of producing all items required by the sanctuary from the raw materials and only need to import any raw materials that were not located near enough to the sanctuary to be locally mined, This way if a sanctuary were to be destroyed all that would be lost would be the source of any raw materials that were only available from the destroyed sanctuary. It would only be necessary to reestablish the mining facility at that location to restore full functionality to all remaining sanctuaries. The rest of the destroyed sanctuary could then be rebuilt as time permitted. In addition to an environment that would promote the cooperative sharing of new concepts, ideas, and theories, etc., it would be necessary to also include adequate facilities and the associated equipment to perform observational experiments to use as the basis to generate such new concepts, ideas, and theories and to check their validity, etc. These facilities would need to be changed as needed to continue to be able to do any new experiments that are required. Musical instruments, sets for plays, and the equipment to record them and the stories and to play them back would need to be produced in the sanctuaries. They should be produced as public events and broadcast for private viewing for those who preferred to enjoy them in their private area and also recorded for future playback as desired. Food should also be available both for public and private dining.
The idea that those who raise children will be doing so as an occupation is good because it will allow them to devote adequate time to give the children the proper love, care, and education that is needed. If you are talking about a man and a woman joining together in marriage, which would provide the strongest loving family bond, all of the families would need to produce enough children to keep the population the same. If all sanctuary residents participated in having and raising children this would mean that each family would on the average have to produce between two and three children. If only one half of the families worked to produce children each of them would have to produce between four and five children. It might not be desirable to have families larger than that, although if neither of the parents worked outside of the home it could support as many as seven or eight children. This would require about one quarter of the residents to be involved in having and raising children. This is based on the general requirement to have at least one care giver per four children when the children are of ages between zero and six years old. After that you can get by with more children per care giver as the children can do more for themselves. You are right that you cannot expect people to not have sex if they are not of God. The percentage of the people that would be needed to restart the population after a catastrophe would depend on its severity. If only one hundred people survived it would likely take a greater percentage than if ten thousand survived, etc. I have not preached that population growth is desirable at all. I have only said that it is necessary to expand to other places in order to access the materials that are needed to replace those lost here on this planet due to entropy and to also provide the extra materials that will be necessary to advance science to new levels and to produce the new devices that are invented due to that scientific advancement. Those places may be pretty crumby compared to this planet, but they still contain resources that we need and can use here. Once a base that is equivalent to one of your sanctuaries is built on each of them, those living inside them would have an existence that would be comparable to those living in the sanctuaries here because in both cases they would be separated from the external environment. People have just jumped to the conclusion that I am for population increase because I am emphasizing the need for expansion and the scientific advancement that would accompany it because the expansion is needed to allow the continued access to needed material resources and the scientific advancement that would be generated by it would also allow more people to live in a given area. The increased population density would not likely support an uncontrolled population increase due to man's foolishness and inability to control his own body, however. Man's behavior would also need to be changed. The way to do it that would result in the least suffering by all involved would be if they came to God and God came into them and ruled over them, and caused them to act responsibly, but I would not bet on that. Other than that, any control would require actions that would cause great suffering for many people and would also result in many other negative consequences, but there are plenty of people in this world that would be more than willing to do such things, so there is no need for me to get involved in man's foolishness. I just give the best way to do it and let people do it or ignore it. It is not up to me to force people to do what is right, but only to let them know, so they can make the right decision, if they will, or suffer the consequences if they won't. They have to have the freedom to choose. God only wants those who want him.
I saw your comment on the other page about my comment being too large to you, so I will try to make any new ones to you shorter, but this one is already done, so I will send it and hope you are not too offended by it.
Sincerely,
Paul
