JUST SUPPOSE
These are some noodlings I came across while I was looking for something else. They were thought strands that ended up being woven into an idea for a story, a story about Eden lost and found, about mankind and what comes next.
Just suppose that time doesn't go from the past to the future through the present. Suppose it is unfolding from the future to the past through the present. Thus we are actually heading backwards in time to some fountainhead event that closed off one cycle and began another. Everything is endlessly repetitive cycle of destruction and rebirth in which the basic events are the same but some of the individual roles may be changed.
Just suppose that everything you could imagine was true. Or looking at it another way, suppose it was impossible to imagine something that wasn't true. True in the sense of being reflected in the reality of the world around you. True in the sense that whatever it is that you imagined has some sort of basis in the past, present or future.
Just suppose that there are three kinds of knowledge. The first is knowledge of things long past. The second is knowledge of things in the present or that are emerging into the present. The third is knowledge of things deep into the future.
Let's further suppose that we have access to all three levels of knowledge. Like anything else, the knowledge we acquire is in proportion to our ability to acquire it. We could not have gone to space if we didn’t have the capacity to imagine that we could do so. Our capacity to imagine that depended on the invention of engines and metals and fuels that could get the job done. But long before John Glenn lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Leonardo daVinci sketched helicopters and Jules Verne had imagined men in rockets launched into outer space from Florida. How did they do that?
Just suppose…
November 1, 2009
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