I can
envision great halls of learning where the masses of humanity will assemble to
hear the greatest lecturers and teachers the Universe has ever produced.
Our minds and intellect will be greatly enlarged, such that we’ll retain
in memory all that we hear and learn. All will be invited to sit at the
feet of the masters and absorb the flow of knowledge that will emanate from
them.
This will include the obscure slave laborers who toiled to cut
stone blocks for the Egyptian pyramids; the Vikings who were slaughtered on the
shores of England as they sought to conquer the wily English; the multitude of
Chinese laborers who perished building the Great Wall of China; the untold
numbers of African slaves who died aboard slaves ships, bound for the New World
and were cast overboard into the shark-infested waters of the Atlantic Ocean;
and the brave soldiers who sacrificed their lives in the Charge of the Light
Brigade. All will be invited to drink at the fountain of eternal
knowledge.
The list
of subject matter to investigate and study will be endless; consider just the
sampling of known earth topics below, then try to imagine what we’ll learn when
we’re exposed to celestial topics; subjects we can’t even comprehend at the
moment, for we have no foundational knowledge upon which to build. In our
current mortal state, trying to understand celestial laws and protocols would
be like trying to explain to a goldfish, which has spent its whole life in a
watery environment, what winter and summer is like. The following is just
a sampling of the fascinating subjects we will have all eternity to learn about.
Music
composition and choral conducting; applied linguistics – along with etymology;
syntax, semantics, and public speaking; chemical and nuclear engineering;
critical pedagogy; condensed matter physics; distributed algorithms;
cybernetics, star formation, and stellar evolution; black holes; gravitational
astronomy; biochemistry; comparative anatomy; cell biology; molecular genetics;
inorganic chemistry; atomic, molecular, and optical physics, etc.
All will
be invited to learn; none will be denied the opportunity. This is the
eternal view of humankind.
What
would you call a person, what title would you give an individual who has
spent millennia mastering the laws of gravity, relativity, and everything
related to nuclear physics; who has a complete and thorough understanding of
star formation and stellar evolution; who understands how to communicate with
intelligences – both seen with the naked eye and those that can only be viewed
with an electron microscope; who comprehends and understands all knowledge, all
laws as related to the universe; who is full of charity, compassion, and love;
who is benevolent, kind beyond all mortal understanding and seeks only the
well-being of his/her associates? What do you call such a person; what
title does such a person acquire upon graduation from the last conceivable
class at Universe University?
How about
the Most Reverend Augmented Reality Architect or the Most Holy Avatar
Relationship Manager or the Supreme Chief Experience Officer or Global Sourcing
Manager or Global Systems Manager? (Bromstein)
Would the
title of god, with a small letter “g” be appropriate?
Eternity
is forever, and learning never ceases.
To Brave
Heart, Track Meat, Feather, Lt. Dan, Band Leader, Runs with Elk, Brownie,
Laptop, Trout, Ranch and Biers, Puddle Jumper, Dinner Time, OTC, Happy Feet,
Thirsty Boots, Dingo and Mudd, Lotus and Hermes, and Hiker Box, I’ll see you in
class. I’ll be coming in late, but save me a seat.
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