Re: The beginning, middle or End?.......or none of the above!

His books gave me the biggest, longest bellylaughs of my late teens
I remember sunbathin on the tar garage roof reading and weeping with sheer shocked delight!

Re: The beginning, middle or End?.......or none of the above!

Robert, it's a pleasure to toss about ideas. In short, you have my respect for coming up with ideas that some of the brightest minds out there have proposed.

Aren't we all hitchhikers...

Re: The beginning, middle or End?.......or none of the above!

Au contraire.

Re: The beginning, middle or End?.......or none of the above!

My theory has always been that we are part of something much, much bigger than ourselves. Perhaps our universe is a mere speck of dust inside a giant's pocket? If you think about a colony of insects living underground or under a rock, they could live their entire lives without discovering what's on the outside. Maybe we are the same.

Of course that doesn't explain a beginning, middle or end.

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Indeed we are you sassy frood who really knows where her towel is !

Actually for me, the radio series of Douglas Adam's HHGTTG was one of the things that set me off thinking about the larger questions of life. Books or films tend to do that. I'd always been a keen fan of Science Fiction so Adam's world plus the dry humour really got me hooked.

Then Dan Brown came out with the Da Vinci Code and all of a sudden we find ourselves asking key and challenging questions about Christianity and what people have been told for 100s of years. Was Jesus actually a man who had a relationship with a woman and had children and thus has a blood line even down to this current age?

Whether one believes the fiction or not, what these books do is get you THINKING which is the critical aspect of all. To be able to challenge what we have previously been taught/programmed with is not easy, but is very necessary.

Unfortunately the answers to our questions are not easy to come by because we live in a world in which one or more groups have long since mastered the human race and enslaved it. They don't want the secrets getting out but technology and the internet age kind of make it more difficult.

Ultimately it seems possible to me that they will be able to plug a cable into a person's head (dead or alive) and access all the stored material in the brains equivalent of a hard disk. Thus showing all the visual storage, all the sound recordings, the person's entire life, likely far more content than the person can actually retrieve (remember) themselves from that storage.

When we reach this point there will be no secrets. It will be possible to pick through anyone's mind. All crimes will be solvable if they get the right suspect, politicians will have to act truthfully and so on. Privacy laws will become somewhat complicated. Scary really.

This kind of stuff, to me, seems far more likely to be the correct interpretation of religious material that harps on about great judgement days and standing before God to make an account of one's life. Essentially, in the future, it will be possible to view someone's entire life in this way.

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Yes, indeed we are......

I am encouraged to be mentioned in the same sentence as "some of the brightest minds".

I don't always come up with deep thoughts, more like hidden shallows.

Previously I had limited myself to mysteries such as
"Did Eve have a belly button? "

and

Why was the green hill far away without a city wall?