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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