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Why isn't mankind provided with all the details of his existence?
Why are humans only allowed so much information at any one time? Then think about the reality of what time really is. Obviously, this existence would seem to serve no purpose if we already had ALL of knowledge.
So is existence unraveling at the rate knowledge is given to us? Or is knowledge a distraction on the journey through our existence?
László Szantor
This imbedded urge, this unquenchable thirst for knowledge may well be the central reason for our existence. Our short lifetime is but a blink, and yet.....we add pieces to the puzzle. Our descendants will, some day have the whole picture. It may take millenia or not. There is no telling what we could discover tomorrow.
And why would knowing the "ultimate truths" render our existence without purpose? I would still want to live and enjoy.....Earth could be transformed into Paradise. Utopia could become reality.
Meanwhile we must not be greedy but be content with our lot. Enjoy the Mystery.
This is our moment.....right now.
Benny boy
because you already know
have only to remember.
life is not a school
but hey i am only young so don't believe me.
just reminding you of what you already know.
Sidharth Hariharan
Prakar Jeevan
If we seperate what you said:
Knowledge Is an entity
It moves when we move - SO knowledge is seperate from us
It causes our mind to Move = So mind is seperate from us? Then who says "Our Mind"
dingle mcringleberry
But if people had sense they would realize that we can one day figure it out.
Colleen Steen 500+
Do you honestly think/feel that humans are "only allowed so much information at any one time"? Or, could it be that some humans choose to accept a limited amount of information? I think/feel it is the latter. Perhaps we recieve the information we are ready and able to recieve? We are not provided with all details of this existence, because if we had all the information, we wouldn't need to explore human form. The human form is not capable of carrying the energy vibration necessary to carry all the information. You're right..."this existence would seem to serve no purpose if we already had ALL of the knowledge"....which is why the human body is not structured to accomodate the energy vibration to "know" everything. It would be like plugging a 220 volt appliance into an electric outlet designed to service 110 volts!
I do not believe knowledge is ever a distraction, unless we choose it to be so. Part of evolution and the human life process is gaining knowledge....so let us continue to do it!!! :>)
Time, is one of the constructs, created by humans to keep track of ourselves...LOL :>)
Maranda Marvin
Colleen Steen 500+
Actually, it seems like many ancient cultures evolved at a similar pace in many of the same ways, even though they were geographically seperate. Perhaps certain things are important to different cultures at various times throughout history? Western civilization, in modern times, has embraced science and technology, and it seemed to forget individual development and growth for quite awhile. Now many people are looking for "themselves", and exploring more spiritual paths. I think/feel we need to find the balance in everything, and that is how we will evolve faster, peacefully and in conjunction with the whole. When we have balance, we are more capable of assimilating more information, and that balance begins with each of us as individuals:>)
Tom Hodge-Sellers
we are here simply because we are not elsewhere. as to why we aren't provided with details of our existence its because there aren't really any details we are things, objects in space and life is a by-product of chance.
Maranda Marvin
Frans Kellner 100+
Tom Hodge-Sellers
wasn't the extinction of the dinosaurs chance that gave life the twist into mammals?
humans obviously do make choices but the events around us are usually just chance.
by definition i just mean without fate or destiny or human action, surely all human life starts as a random possibility of which sperm will get there first?
Maranda Marvin
I could believe that everything that happens was purposed and there are no accidents, but then if that is the case then whatever decision I make doesn't matter because if I made it it was purposed and there are not accidents, right? I am going to have to take some time to think that one through.
I do believe the circumstances and situations of our journey through existence is purposed when we follow the natural laws that contribute to goodness of LIFE in all forms and when we seek for peace in our own individual hearts. But who knows, maybe the individuals that do not have peace in their hearts are apart of the formula/equation for the betterment of someone else's heart?
Frans Kellner 100+
Well you may think they're not aware of it, they just do and yes they do and not thinking over it. We do think it over and as we've put it into time we tell it to ourselves, we say: "Now I know."
In all research we end at the place we started from but now here to say: "for the first time do I know where I am".
Maranda Marvin
I completely agree with you that we have "loaded" into us the knowledge on how to survive and multiply. However, sometimes I am amazed at how much we don't know yet we parade around as if what we do know is anything at all compared to what we do not know.
Frans Kellner 100+
Humans however need to adapt quickly under whatever circumstances. To do so they need an image of things which we call knowing and use intelligence to apprehend cause and effect. With this they can outsmart game and anticipate events. That image is one big construction into which the relevance of all sorts of stimuli is known by their meaning.
After we learned to speak that information could travel over the generations and increased exponential. With it came also that information along that was outdated or incorrect.
This construct is our reference at any moment to interpret that on what we focus. This makes what we're aware of but in trusting on this construct alone to be the reality, we become deaf for all information that we could extract from our feelings as the singing bird does. This ‘feeling’ information we call subconscious but is available and accurate if we learned to listen to it without mixing it up with our thoughts.
So there are two kinds of knowing. One that's fractal and partly incorrect but we can speak about it and another kind that’s complete, correct, and available as we need it but we can't put this into words.
Our real desire is to transfer all information that our feeling has access to into our awareness and by doing this know everything. So the truth is that we know all even if we don't know.
Simone Lackerbauer 100+
In my opinion, our individual existence indeed unfolds itself and evolves as we learn more, because knowledge informs who we are, what we do and why we do it. I would not want to know everything, including the "purpose" (if there is any) of our existence, because learning new things satisfies me and makes me curious for even more at the same time. Do you think humans would be driven to do anything at all if they really knew everything?
Maranda Marvin
No, I do not think humans would be driven to do much if we "had it all". I see the slow progression of acquired knowledge and understanding as a pathway towards something, what that is I am not quite sure (it seems it has been buried under thousands of systematically induced delusions and lies over time). But no matter what, where ever this space-time continuum is taking us, I know for sure we won't get there any faster than we are suppose to.
Prakar Jeevan
Maranda Marvin
Prakar Jeevan
Also, why do you link existence with knowledge?
Maranda Marvin
You know, I don't know really why I linked them together. Maybe it was the input or insight of another posting, not sure. What are your thoughts?
Taylor Kendal
Maranda Marvin
Taylor Kendal
I personally don't see dreams as time travel. The subconscious is very powerful and I believe what you perceive as predicting the future (jumping ahead of the arrow) is nothing more than self-actualization of a previous perceived experience. It's pretty remarkable what we can convince ourselves of, but if you completely deconstruct these moments, I would but there is logic and science behind it.
Bertrand Russell if were speaking fairly contemporary, otherwise probably Descartes for his hand in the Scientific Revolution.
Maranda Marvin
Colleen Steen 500+
Have you provided some important information regarding this question?
You write..."...my brain puts up a wall...".
And in your next comment, you write..."The subconscious is very powerful...".
I agree with both of your statements, and I believe that often, our thinking mind/brain "puts up a wall" when we think we have an answer. We then fail to access the subconscious, which is indeed very powerful:>) Sometimes we allow what we know on a thought/logic level, to influence choices, and thereby prevent ourselves from having more information that may be available through our subconscious.
Chris Pavlis
Tim blackburn 30+
Chris Pavlis
Maranda Marvin