An old rant I found. I don’t think the same things today, but am posting to demonstrate I’ve always thought about things divergently.
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There are hundreds of reasons why religions and culture views exist. We all have a sense that there is way more out there and more to be explained; we have an insatiable desire to learn and discover the universe and our place in all of this. We want to know more, but when we feel like we can no longer contribute to the cause, we call it god’s divine handiwork. But successors keep asking questions; successors keep wondering why these things are, and they do discover further and it is the duty of the next generation to further the work of the species’ work. There are several inspirations for these three hypotheses.
First: I was watching a Bill Nye the Science Guy episode on plants today when I made a realization (hypothesis) that life’s purpose is literally survive and reproduce. And evolution is like a species developing itself with new technology to live longer and understand the world. To that end, our purpose here is in fact not to war amongst each other but to love and desire to understand. I then watched Star Trek: The Next Generation. I found it interesting that the Federation no longer had the death penalty because they evolved to an understanding of criminal behavior and corrected the problem early. They completely mapped the brain and understand how to cloak the pain of headaches. We stopped warring amongst ourselves and simply lived as any other life form in the known universe (as opposed to the unknown universe, i.e. magic). (And with that, I question eating food but do not wish to publish this thought: is “eating feels morally wrong” a thing? The food chain exists for the simple reason of being the nutrient source for a predator. We will one day be the food for another, but we may never run into our direct predator but the predator of ours in that it would have no regard for us unless it finds us repulsive as we find bugs). We sought to further understand life.
Second: ghosts are just a source of energy that is left from humans. The questions are what that energy actually is and how do we seem to hear voices of people from some of them? This second hypothesis cooperatively with the first ultimately led to the third and most important one. I watched Ghost Adventures (and other ghost hunting shows) a lot with my family years ago, and I always found the idea of ghosts fascinating. I find it fascinating because it seems like the overall science community has been avoiding these questions. They clearly have instruments that detect anomalies and we can literally record the voices of this sometimes-visible apparition. So what is it? I will propose what the source of energy of humans is in the third hypothesis.
Third: the afterlife exists, but it’s not what we thought it was. It exists because of gravity. Inspired by The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries with Neil Degrasse Tyson, Interstellar, and a many (emphasis) other sources, gravity (i.e. space-time) is the fourth dimension which is the energy of our souls. We all have mass and have a force of attraction due to gravity on each other. There is this other thing, possibly made up of some or all of our notions of dark matter, dark energy, gravitrons, Higgs boson particles, and neutrinos. We’ve been aware and questioning what this other thing is for thousands of years. Civilizations and cultures spread apart across the globe having never previously interacted all seemed to have recurring themes, one of which is afterlife. In a way that satire brings ideas and issues to light, this firm belief raises the question of what an afterlife really is. I propose that an afterlife is merely our energy passing on to another form – of another dimension and evolution. And that energy is gravitational in nature. Our energy moves across space-time in various forms. We have materialized into humans and our energy will pass on possibly toward higher sources of gravity or through dimensions. This may be the reality of our existence.
Extra thoughts: Do we have a place mapped in our brain for stored ancestor memories? We know of memories as synapses, right? What if these inherited memories are stored as something more complicated or simple? I propose that these handed down memories are the essence of instincts. From survival skills and mating rituals to increasing tolerance of other persons, knowledge is acquired and laid on the foundation of his ancestors. Inspired initially by the Assassin’s Creed game series.