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THE question

Etzelaire

Etzelaire

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Here's a question I once asked myself and found an affirmative answer, I'd like my fellows here to mull over it a bit :) Imagine you meet some kind of God/creator thing and it tells you it/he/she/whatever will transfer to you all the knowledge that embodies the whole universe and assures you that you'll be able to synthesize it all; but it'll request you life. Would you accept?
Okay from my point of view it's clear that I should accept without hesitation, what about you? Maybe you'd rather wander about in this world or I don't know, have something you consider more important (I can't thing about something more important from my humble point of view :D) your turn.
 
Presumably "my life" means my earthly life, and it means that there is life after death. Because if losing one's life meant slipping into non-existence, then there wouldn't be any you to know all these things.
It actually sounds like this scenario presents a version of Heaven?
It does sound like it is worth the exchange.
 
Etzelaire said:
Imagine you meet some kind of God/creator thing and it tells you it/he/she/whatever will transfer to you all the knowledge that embodies the whole universe and assures you that you'll be able to synthesize it all; but it'll request you life. Would you accept?
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No need to accept a proposition for what we more or less already have IMO.

My spiritual beliefs already reflect that when we return to our primary plane of existence we pretty much get back a substantial understanding of the universe. Something intentionally denied us while we temporarily exist on this secondary plane to learn certain "lessons" as mortal, frail human beings.

A perspective we simply cannot experience while on our primary plane of existence. Where we accrue vivid experiences from those "lessons", yet bear no "scars".

When such lessons we need to learn are fulfilled, we return "home" and resume being something far greater.
 
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Judge said:
No need to accept a proposition for what we more or less already have IMO.

My spiritual beliefs already reflect that when we return to our primary plane of existence we pretty much get back a substantial understanding of the universe. Something intentionally denied us while we temporarily exist on this secondary plane to learn certain "lessons" as mortal, frail human beings. A perspective we simply cannot experience while on our primary plane of existence.

When such lessons we need to learn are fulfilled, we return "home" and resume being something far greater.
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With you on that, Judge
 
Thus for me, my ultimate question is likely to be this:

Did I as a magnanimous and eternal soul (on the other side) choose my autism, OCD and depression, to "enhance" my experience as a mortal human on this plane of existence?

That if one truly wants to learn and or experience something on this plane of existence, you can't simply be given the answers. You have to find them...with all the hurdles and hardships that go with the process.
 
I'm with Judge and Harrison. I believe we regain our universal knowledge when we leap from this mortal coil. So, I guess (in my case anyway), it would be a question of whether I want to go back to that state now or wait a while longer. :)
 
What reason is there to think our life as human beings is nothing but a trail and error version of life 2.0?
Are we playing a beta? If so, nothing I do has meaning apart from it being a lesson for the next version of life.
Is life 2.0 the final stage of life? What if 2.0 is just another beta for 3.0.
My answer would be no. We have everything we need to figure out said secrets and knowledge of the universe.
We may be limited by our senses, but we are literally creating our own senses with science and engineering.

We are only limited by what we teach ourselves and our peers.
In other words, we limit ourselves.
I think humanity has endless potential.

However, if a concious godlike entity were to reveal itself to me, I'd have to reconsider my stance.
 
Judge said:
No need to accept a proposition for what we more or less already have IMO.

My spiritual beliefs already reflect that when we return to our primary plane of existence we pretty much get back a substantial understanding of the universe. Something intentionally denied us while we temporarily exist on this secondary plane to learn certain "lessons" as mortal, frail human beings.

A perspective we simply cannot experience while on our primary plane of existence. Where we accrue vivid experiences from those "lessons", yet bear no "scars".

When such lessons we need to learn are fulfilled, we return "home" and resume being something far greater.
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It's a good way of picturing it, thanks.
 
Imagine you meet some kind of God/creator thing and it tells you it/he/she/whatever will transfer to you all the knowledge that embodies the whole universe and assures you that you'll be able to synthesize it all; but it'll request you life. Would you accept?
...No. If it was my current life in exchange to be a little ghost thing to wander and explore the universe for eternity, I would accept only on the condition that I die when I'm old and it's an acceptable time for me to go. I feel children are always best when left with their biological parents (if said parents are sane enough to keep children).
 
Omnipotence is over rated, I already know too many things I wish I did not know.

I believe this is where that old adage applies, "Ignorance is bliss".
 
Randomperson said:
Omnipotence is over rated, I already know too many things I wish I did not know.

I believe this is where that old adage applies, "Ignorance is bliss".
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Hi fellow! I'd like to ask you another question. Providing you have watched 'Matrix', would you be like the bold man that chooses to be inserted in the matrix with his memory erased? I am just trying to establish connections :D aw, and you insight is completely respectable.
 
No, there would be absolutely nothing to look forward to. I love learning. An existence where I already know everything seems utterly boring to me.
 
The only thing I want to hear when I meet my Maker is "Well Done, my good and faithful servant.", even though I can't do a damn thing right.
 
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