Unexpected Revelations and Living in The Past

I think about unexpected revelations…

How there are no colours in the world.

No audible sound.

That we live in the past: our consciousness lagging behind actual events.

Humans do not know how conscious awareness arises.

A large amount of our brain circuitry comes from social interaction and language is an imperfect construct formed from those interactions.

If I time travel into the future I will die in the vacuum of space.

If ice was denser than water the world’s lakes and perhaps even its oceans would freeze solid.

Time will flow faster for you ontop of Everest than at sea level.

And I think about how I feel when I am told by many churches that they have beliefs which they refer to as “closed handed” and others that are “open handed” beliefs. They explain that closed handed beliefs are ones that they will not budge on. There is no room for negotiation.

And I wonder at it all.

There is no room for negotiation?

Strange for a creature that isn’t sure how it is conscious, that is always living in in the past and is hurtling through space with its brain floating in darkness and silence can be sure of anything? A creature trapped within a closed system that we call the Universe with no way of looking in from the outside.

We can make a guess at things. Test those as far as we can.

We can have faith, we can choose to believe.

But there is always room for negotiation.

There is no closed hand.

And if you really believe there is a closed hand for you, then you really are living in the past. Faith is dynamic and changing, you should always be open for the unexpected revelation.