Who knows

 

Subject: Who knows.



It is in its totality lies the danger of religion, it’s all encompassing commitment and servitude. The function of religion has a clearly demarcated timeline, it has a specific beginning depending on the prophet or person who defined the specific teaching but before that, the faithful have little or no knowledge or interest in what lie before. Were gods children of the pre era simply excluded from the promised salvation.

It’s the all consuming totality of the teaching which absorbs the mental energy so that there’s no place for rational discussion. This unquestioned surety of belief is comforting for the faithful but baffling for those who don’t believe. It’s the placement of Adam and Eve on a specific timeline of an apocryphal story but only as indication that the human species came into being at a time unspecified. The stories within the fabric of the Old Testament, or the Koran formulate an envelope outside which it is pointless to speculate other than if you are not already tied to any specific teaching, the mind is required to cut itself off from any conceivable alternative and in this we do ourselves an injustice.

Imagine the complicated structure of Aztec society, the enormous and much more ancient Hindu system of explanatory supposition, the aboriginal dream world, each with their own surety and each blind to other sureties. Isn’t it best to throw your hands in the air and say I will never know, until death reveals there is probably nothing and we have spent a whole lifetime worrying about it unnecessarily . Perhaps only the Asian ‘self examinatory’ process which deal in self analysis and the examination of our actions amongst our fellow man and always asking searching question of why we behave so.

Of course this has the danger that it puts us right dead centre of all consideration and makes us blind to so much of the rest of the natural world that we become phobic.

The death hypothesis, signals both the end as well as perhaps a new beginning, but beware the comfort gained might evaporate once the curtain is raised.