The Heavy Stuff

Hello, welcome back to The Heavy Stuff (THS) - the one blog on the net dedicated to speculating (with thought exercises) about the mysteries of reality - and, today’s post - Life After Death - one of the ultimate mysteries. You can also see from the title the other issue; if the government actually stumbled upon the `answer’ - would they feel any obligation to share that info with the peons of society. After all, it is often said that the very reason the government has been so resistant to confirming the existence of `aliens’ within the Earth’s biosphere - is the fear of total society collapse (supposedly supported by some study decades ago).

Actually, this is just one of several `disclosure’ type issues THS has blogged about before: as we have covered Ufo Disclosure, Asteroid Impact Disclosure and now - Life After Death (LAD) Disclosure. After-all, what would be the potential downside to LAD disclosure? (Probably more important to a world government would be `what would be the UPSIDE’?)

Certainly, the downside is more than `disappointment’ in the Atheist and Agnostic camps - right? (Even if in some countries this represents a significant part of the population.) After all, THS doesn’t think the atheist or agnostic camps are saying `no life after death’ - they are just claiming that there isn’t a God or that if there is - who cares or could really know.

Or, does disclosure depend on `how much’ may be able to be found out about `the afterlife’? After all, if what is discovered is that LAD is just a temporary `going on’ (subjectively brief, say minutes or hours) - or - a `going on’ that isn’t generally in contact with the reality of our living now - would THAT even be `worth revealing’?  Would the religions of the world rejoice, or recoil, upon the revealing of what the afterlife would be like if it was minimal?

Or, would the religions of the world need to `re-group’ with a new emphasis?

However, what if `the authorities’ discovered that the `afterlife’ was incredibly GREAT - free of pain, debt and remorse - and abundant in freedom, bonding and pleasure? (And with no governments…..lol). Would the authorities worry about `nutcases’ doing the unthinkable - knowing that the consequences are none or minimal? Or would governments worry about a lethargy settling into the populace - or - worse yet - a lack of respect for `higher authorities’?

Likewise — what if `the authorities’ knew that there was a HELL? Or that it, the afterlife,  was `mostly like hell’? What then? Can you think of one reason to make sure that the information is available to the general public? ——– Why be good if in the afterlife the devil wins when it comes to `judging humans’?

Or, even worse. What if `the authorities’ - found out - for sure - that there was NO AFTERLIFE - at least none with personal intentionality’s? None, zilch, nada. (Beyond a few flickers of `light’ at the outset?) ———- Certainly, `they’ wouldn’t `destroy’ any of the Great Religions to reveal that info - would they? And, again, just like the afterlife with nothing but wonder and enjoyment - then, with NOTHING being the afterlife - it would again do little to discourage poor `citizen’ behaviour in the here and now. Governments have `bigger roles’.

Then again, if `the authorities’ confirmed - just the basis of the idea `we know the spirit goes on’ — without any details (they can just say they don’t know the eventual outcome of the afterlife) - the result could be interesting - and possibly be of help to society. The idea of a `possible’ to `likely judgement’ - could temper much violence — even at a nation level. (Especially if the `leaders’ knew that their personal outcome was affected.) Could encourage the golden rule. Could convince skeptics of the value of human consciousness and even encourage compassion between strangers.

But, are those positives a chance that `leaders’ would take - when the negatives above seem so real too? Is the human condition too fragile to really know such information? Would some of the mystery of life be zapped by such knowledge?

So, what do you think, will the typical man ever know this info – or, is this yet another example of the type of information that is generally forbidden for consumption for the human condition - leave a comment with your opinion. Please.

Finally, do you believe that anagrams might contain truths? If so, see my latest post on Squidoo at http://www.squidoo.com/anomalies#module18229202 . This will take you directly to a link with anagrams for the `word’ 2009 - Two-Thousand-Nine.