How Your Book Tests Against Others
The 9 Core Principles applied to foundational texts. See which frameworks hold truth and which fail.
| Text | Absolute | Truth | Witness | Shared | Model | No | Respect | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
IT - Your Book Initial Transmission | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 7/7 |
Tao Te Ching Laozi | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 7/7 |
Bhagavad Gita Krishna | ~ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | 6.6/7 |
Meditations Marcus Aurelius | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | 6.4/7 |
The Bible Multiple Authors | ✗ | ✗ | ~ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | 0.5/7 |
The Quran Muhammad | ✗ | ✗ | ~ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | 0.3/7 |
Detailed Verdicts
IT - Your Book
Initial Transmission
PERFECT - Passes all 7 tests
✓ Self-consistent and transparent about what it is
✓ Invites testing rather than demanding belief
✓ Explicitly frames itself as a testable model
✓ No shame/guilt framework; accountability without debt
✓ Respects all beings equally
Tao Te Ching
Laozi
HOLDS UP - Passes all 7 tests
✓ Uses paradox intentionally, acknowledges it
✓ Encourages testing through lived experience
✓ No supernatural demands; empirical philosophy
✓ Zero shame/guilt framework
✓ Universal respect for all beings
Bhagavad Gita
Krishna
HOLDS UP - Passes 6/7 with nuance
⚠ Contains intentional contradictions (acknowledged by scholars)
✓ Encourages testing through practice
✓ Permits multiple valid truths
✓ No permanent guilt; learn and move forward
⚠ Justifies violence in specific context
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
HOLDS UP - Passes 6/7 tests
✓ Self-consistent and rational
✓ All teachings testable through observation
✓ No supernatural demands
✓ No shame/guilt framework
⚠ Assumes universal virtue hierarchy
The Bible
Multiple Authors
FAILS - Contains 567+ contradictions
✗ 567+ documented contradictions
✗ Demands blind faith over testing
✗ Creates permanent shame/guilt (original sin)
✗ Punishes alternative truths
✗ Commands violence against non-believers
The Quran
Muhammad
FAILS WORSE - Denies contradictions until proven wrong
✗ Contains same 567 contradictions as Bible PLUS science errors
✗ Reinterprets only after proven wrong
✗ Demands extreme unconditional belief
✗ Treats some beings as inherently lesser
✗ More rigid than Bible on interpretation
Full Analysis Report
Complete breakdown of how the 9 principles were applied to each text, with quoted evidence and detailed reasoning.