Re: Endings and Control
You can't know 100% what happens when you die. Of course, you can't know 100% about anything, because appearances are deceiving and naturally, you don't know it all. So the only thing you can do is theorise, even though you can never know for certain what happens. That's true for everything, not just the afterlife. Being that you are here to create your story, you can do as you wish. You can also believe what you wish. Still, the best method is not to have a concrete belief, but a flexible idea. Ideas are always mutable, they can always be updated when new information comes your way. All you can really do is establish how likely something is to be true, by testing it under controlled conditions, as scientific method does. Try not to make too many assumptions, or if you must, always remember you can be wrong. People always will do selfish hurtful things. All you can do about that is try to educate them or punish them. Some of them will respond, some of them will not.
I do not propose that you disband your police force, as that would lead to anarchy. There are too many people in your world who do not care enough about it for that to work for your society. Of course, an ineffective police force is almost as bad, as evidenced by the level of crime currently. Sooner or later though, people might get the message, create a better political party than those available and change things for the better. Of course, the current probability is that it will get considerably worse before it gets better.
Do not forget though, that there are no 'bad things' for me. The universe has been designed such that a species that would be as unstable and potentially threatening on a large scale such as yours would destroy themselves, or would be destroyed by those more advanced than yourselves. In other words, if as a society humans want to survive, they'd better grow up before they start travelling beyond their solar system. Many species don't, but they inevitably end up extinct before they do any real damage.
For those that care about humanities fate, this is the reason to act. This is the fear you should have if you do not. There's a lot at stake, the universe awaits you and you have the potential to unravel its mysteries, to evolve beyond what you are now. This will only happen if you stabilise as a society. With the development of nanotechnology, you're closer to this point than you think. Advanced nanotechnology offers the potential to make materials that are lighter, stronger and sharper than any other material. It can eliminate all disease, it can directly alter genetic code, it can even make people live forever (naturally). Used by a society in control of its people and technology it can advance them to no end. Used by a society that isn't, it can consume them and their entire planet can become nothing but "grey goo" as the theory is called.
Children are embarrassed about sex because adults are, it is not a failing of theirs. Children are intelligent enough to understand the function of sex, and reasonable enough (surprising as that may seem)to take account of the dangers. This is all they actually need to know about it. When you begin restricting them on its use in ways that tell them it's wrong (such as by teaching the insane idea that a small bit of dried blood is something special, even sacred), then they start to worry about it. Then it becomes something to be hidden away. Of course, it's a natural instinct too, so they have an internal battle going on as to whether or not to do it by the time they reach their teens. This creates confusion, and a huge increase in the likelihood of a "heat of the moment" event.
People are going mental because they repress themselves. This is self evident by the fact you see people drinking, having unprotected sex, beatings in the street etc. The way to stop the problem is through improving your laws and (especially) your enforcement of them. Simultaneously though, better education and a change in attitude is needed. Some more transparency is what your leaders do might be a good idea as well. The expenses controversy is an obvious example of this. Yet, despite people being angry, nothing is really being done about it. All this actually accomplishes is leaving the people who shouldn't be in charge in charge.
Violence is already in Zimbabwe, it's own people are being tortured and killed by its own people. Yet, even as drastic and horrifying as it is, the world speaks of sanctions rather than invasion. People are afraid to take action, even when it is obviously the right thing to do. It may not need to come to that though, the murder of Mugabe himself may go a long way towards stabilising the country in the long term. and your intelligence services certainly have the resources to do it.
I think it makes sense to get enough sleep. Different people have different energy needs, so find a compromise with Jack, it won't do you any good to be shattered all the time.
-----Original Message-----
From: Complaints Department [mailto:Address removed by anti spam software]
Sent: 29 June 2008 19:34
To: God
Subject: FW: Fear and Consequences
If I'm just too depressed to notice the good things, well that's exactly the same as nothing good happening really.
I can't remember why I choose it, angels usually don't. I suppose my soul is probably interested in what it's like to be completely without hope... Certainly choose a good way to do it if it was. Or maybe it just felt like giving everyone else a bit of a laugh, since that's how most people react, at least until they just feel so sick of me they actually are sick on me.
Choices are closed to angels much more than they are to humans, that's the purpose of being an angel. The probability of an event happening to me which is anything other than depressing is reduced to nothing, which makes it a certainty that I'll be this way until I die. You know it's very rare, one in a million kind of thing, but sometimes when angels die they vibrate in such a way that causes extreme pain for several days. I've no doubt it'll happen to me.
If I went out to have fun, no matter where it was, you can guarantee someone would have me killed just before I actually started enjoying myself, which just makes me even more depressed. Some humans feel like just when they're happy it all goes wrong. It goes wrong before that for me.
Love and light are things that affect other people,
Camael
Signature - I'm not always this depressed... Except when I feel, think or do anything really...
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