Archive for January 31st, 2010
What ifs
What if world population actually does continue to grow? What if we don’t figure out how to feed them all? What if a virus does overwhelm our world health organization’s best attempts to fend off a pandemic? What if we have enough food, but not enough medicine? What if greedy people and their schemes to get filthy rich at the expense of others, screw up global economies such that there is complete financial collapse? What if that doesn’t happen and world economies thrive and racial equity is achieved for all and then an asteroid destroys the earth? What if the shots missed Kennedy in Texas? What if Abraham Lincoln hadn’t been assassinated? What if Christians never killed anyone? What if every person on earth held the same spiritual beliefs? What if the Catholic religion focused solely on worshiping God, yet without any rules? What if none of the world religions had any dietary restrictions? What if every person was actually a double agent spy? What if, when the time comes, we forget to die? What if, regardless your religious beliefs, when your body dies, your soul lives on and communes with spiritual masters during the time between returning to another life in a human body? What if some of the souls that return are enabled to bring past experience and show up as child prodigies? What if we learn that our man-made religious organizations are dysfunctional and more often than not get in the way of ultimate spirituality? What if humans of Protestant faith and humans of Catholic faith never harmed each other? What if they practiced actually loving each other? What if no one ever mocked the type of music other people enjoy? What if rock bands never, ever, ever agreed to play Superbowl halftime shows? What if athletes never suffered injury playing their sport? What if no one ever took other people’s stuff? What if no one ever had more than they needed? What if no one ever had less than they needed? What if fresh water was the most valuable thing in the world? What if society completely breaks down after an apocalypse and all you have left is diamond jewelry? What if thought exercises turn out to be useless wastes of time?

