Reasonable Unreasonable Questions
© David Moorhead — August 2006
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Considering the global bickerings horribly impacting our global sisters and
brothers, I think a plethora of perfectly random reasonable unreasonable questions
is in order to glimpse possibilities into unknown futures together.
I’m stumped, though. How can we describe to each other our visions about
anything new, not least of which are global peace and empathy by using masculine
paradigms, philosophies, and vainglorious words that have been around for centuries?
Are alternative languages available?
Can you imagine learning, then using a language that’s compatible with
every other civilization? Can you imagine a world without dependences on empiricism
(assumptions gleaned from humans’ five senses)?
Can you imagine a world without imperialism? Can you imagine governments that
don’t map Earth into landscapes according to weather conditions, natural
resources, kingships, or ideologies? Can you imagine governments that disallow
poverty and starvation without economic regret, or use unlawful methods insinuated
as philanthropic programs to regain the money they’ve lost?
Can you imagine the church publicly denounced as a global travesty, a juggernaut
political machine? Can you imagine the three western monotheisms’ scriptures
requiring a loathsome rigorous rewrite?
Can you imagine a world without standardized quizzes to assess one’s
core characteristics? Can you imagine your physical heart and brain showing
who you are within intuitive, synchronous experiences? Can you imagine consciousness;
what is it, who is it, where is it?
Can you imagine women in roles yet knowable? Can you imagine newly born children
stunningly more intelligent and intuitive than their parents, one generation
after another? Can you imagine a world without necessities of medication, prayer,
or meditation?
Can you imagine the human species extinct? Can you imagine Sun being the only
ruler of Earth?
Can you imagine armed combats continuing without electricity? Can you imagine
a world consciousness lost to electronic money or robotics?
Can you imagine Universe always says yes? Can you imagine Universe undefined
by clocks or calendars? Can you imagine Universe caring for its creations? Can
you imagine Universe creates infinite differentiations in every species? Can
you imagine Earthlings coalesced into robot languages in which differentiations
get diminished or glorified?
Can you imagine an unimaginable undesigned plan being played out between Universe
and our species? Can I pose questions before you sense answers?
Are you now inside an intimate world of reasonable unreasonable questions mostly
without answers for plausible results? That was my intention. Worlds of diverse
unanswerable questions may be a head start for consciously acknowledging one’s
feelings and creative intuition rather than prizing our educations, earned credentials,
and celebrated cerebral skills. We will rediscover what’s really important
as Universe’s dense synchronous shifts recognizably press upon Earth and
its Earthlings via Sun.
Now, I am not a prophet. Thousands, nay, millions of people have the same access
to the same information and the same religious background as me. Having said
that, there’s always the possibility we Earthlings won’t extinguish
ourselves after prying behaviors from psychological systems inherent in shaming
traditions; disengaging addictions to financial one-upmanship; or braving to
challenge perplexing human trafficking systemic in humans’ matrix.
Not unlike industrialized nations, presumably, Neanderthals went extinct because
they made the same tools, planted the same seeds, hunted the same animals, and
even stole art from others until finally the species disappeared. Apparently,
Neanderthals weren’t staying awake to wisdom of reasonable unreasonable
questions; instead, uncreatively standardized themselves into a resting place
of oblivion.
Civilizations in decline are consistently characterized
by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.
~ Arnold Joseph Toynbee (b 1889), British historian of rises and declines
of civilizations
Our constant curiosity
is key
to watching what’s being created.
~ David Moorhead |