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Wednesday, 9 October 2019

The reaches of tomorrow

Everything that we experience on earth comes to us as a knowledge claim (not necessarily accurate knowledge) and in these forms come the numerous kinds systems that by their nature make arguments about what the truth about meaning is or who God is.
 
These arguments about belief come to us with their various claims. They are all dependent on a multiplicity of organized, structured, distinct ideas put together persuasively over time and location that are influential on all thought in different ways. These ideas are passed down across time after moving through the generations and after being continuously and persuasively shared to whoever hears them, regardless what the claims are, wherever anyone in the world is who hear them.
 
Therefore what this really means for us is that thought regularly effects many individuals unfairly. If only one claim of a belief is true because of this only some of the people in the world can hear that specific belief and its specific thought that is said to be the real truth.
 
The reason that thought effects us unfairly like this is because by these terms we can’t all possibly embrace the same ideas about the truth. If therefore we can’t just all know the “same” and supposedly the “right ideas” by any  use of our will what then does that mean. If all of us are not part of an experience where a “freedom of will” is universally available across earth to us all then who gets the ability to recognize by the use of an accurate free will truth and who doesn’t get that free will to know “truth” in the wider world.
 
Are these terms not uneven and arbitrary. Also to be considered then because of these assumptions we might draw too easily is the idea God is blotting out entire regions from His love. Are such assumptions not really a gross distortion of the love that He has for us all everywhere in the world.
 
It seems we are forced very simply to think that by our personal using of a will toward our own belief that us knowing what we know correctly simply satisfies our own eternal future alone and therefore is personally satisfactory and conscionable despite all other peoples eternal future in question all over the planet elsewhere.
 
Yet how can someone else simply arrive at the same decision we do in India or Pakistan or China by any use of a will. Is this an inability on our part therefore to fairly decide the worth of other people in God’s eyes. Despite when our illusions reassure ourselves in our own faith communities that such thinking is all justifiable and that others everywhere our held to account by our own scriptures how reasonable is it to think this way. 
 
Ideas, claims,  religious systems, or atheist accounts of reality, they all guide our thoughts in our place in time by persuasively leading us through history to the present day. We are easily lead by one argument of these persuasions in one form or another. The many numerous accounts of reality argue out for us, we the imperfect interpreters of truth, us the imperfect human beings, the numerous arguments of supposed truth. By these truth claims in our vulnerability we “all of us everywhere” are easily won over and shaped into various kinds of beliefs using this magical “free will” to embrace compelling evidence of “numerous” kinds of belief in various cultures.
 
What the reality really is that “supposedly” these ideas clearly decide for us inevitably is very questionable. If our vulnerable impressionable and interpretative capacity is a terribly flawed way of interpreting truth, where commonly, not uncommonly, we can’t accurately decipher one way over another, good from evil, truth from falsehood, then what we then will embrace is then chosen often naively.
 
After we are forced to choose out of this chaos of ideas that certain guiding idea, that is usually just the doctrine and system of thought present in our immediate location, then that particular thinking then will presumably decide for all of us our future. No matter if we have it right or wrong, what destiny will ultimately be decided for us in where we will end up with God or without God forever we often think is decided in this way.
 
This terrifying human construct of hope, or lack there of hope, is so scary, arbitrary and even grossly unfair to billions of simplistic people on earth though. By it’s terms it arrives to us impressionable minds driving our experiences in hopelessly disorganized terms leaving it up to us, the world’s people, to decide requiring us to choose correctly or incorrectly in a chaotic world and once decided on a truth to distance ourselves from others truth.
 
For people thoughts, through different ideas that appear in so many varied forms, our arguments that appear as claims to what the truth is and appear in so many different ways. This means that for so many people truths terms, whoever has the truth among us, are really terms of “truth” that offer only some people hope, by the strict archaic nature of the terms, and only despair inevitably for the rest of the world.
 
If God is love however, which is how I choose to see God, then in spite of ideology, despite all people by necessity being aligned to the accurate belief, what If ultimately God’s plan exceeds such limitations and really offers understanding and compassion to the other religions. As a Being of transcendent love might He God more fairly then we can foresee offer the world a better hope then our terms allow. Might Gods mercy extend beyond the condemnation fueled judges of this worlds knowledge.
 
If the knower of all consciousness, of all states of mind; as the reader of all interior lives meaning all our thoughts; as the compassionate investor in others that we either have knowledge of, or don’t have knowledge of; if He really knows us people what might He on His terms really end up meaning for us in our future.
 
That Being of goodness and perfect love is why we're here some think , is why we get to know and love people, why we have experiences and He is the reason for many that we hope that we'll see our loved ones again.
 
Beyond our darkest anxieties, our worst state of skepticism, in our sometimes inability to see hope in life, what if eventually what will be meeting us after this life is over will be the fullest and grandest possible state of experience beyond measurement. What if that experience for us is a future  where what we now see in part as good on earth is really only a foretaste of an relinquished geniuses existing beyond our imaginations ability to predict because out there what there is God hasn’t given us the complete ability to envision by reading His mind.
 
Even If Heaven is simply a reordering of the natural world, which it is far more then that, in a way where we then see life in more hospitable terms. Even if Heaven seen in this way, as a reordering of the natural world, can be seen as a kinder gentler nature, a painless, deathless, worry free existence free from melancholy, gloom, disappointment, mistreatment or boredom. What’s seen as a glimpse of Heaven in this way in eventuality will end up being a fathomlessly far better and greater state of existence then merely the earth simply improved. Heaven is God’s creative genius unrestrained, free, lovingly and unfathomably unleashed and it will therefore end up being something larger and far grandeur then this to enjoy.
 
We will then look on in awe at the majesty of all things known and far greater the things unknown. The place before us and it’s possibilities exhaust previous optimism greatly transcending it and traveling beyond all creative pondering and wishful thinking. It’s reachable for us, and soon enough, waiting to be explored is it’s terrain infinite and inexhaustible in mystery and joyful discovery full of reassurance of a good that transcends all reality here or anywhere else.
 
Heavens duration too is eternal, the terms of it’s nature only good, it’s ways just, kind, it’s discoveries endlessly interesting and beautiful and above all fair. Here is God and here real knowledge will come fairly untainted by current error meeting all of our senses in love and understanding.
 
It’s here in Heaven that I really want to meet all my relatives that I love and miss. It’s here I hope I meet Jesus. I wish as well to meet the just of all the worlds other religions and to know all good people everywhere who sought after fairness and struggled and searched for truth.

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