In many ways, life is a wonderful thing.
In other ways, it’s quite sad.
We are born, knowing nothing beyond our instincts. We spend our early years absorbing vast quantities of information at an incredible rate.
Then, as we age, we begin to refine our learning, developing skills and expertise that make us the individuals we are.
Then we grow old and begin to lose that knowledge and those skills.
Then we die, and in most cases, it’s all gone.
As a species, we have tried, in several similar but contrasting formats, to give meaning to our short and pointless existence.
We class them as ideologies, or religions; all trying to convey their belief that beyond the simple function of sustaining our existence, our lives are in fact a precursor to something better.
I was brought up with one of those ideologies… Christianity.
The foundation of my inherited religion is the Bible, and the Foundation of the Bible is the Torah.
But two millennia have passed since the Bible was written, even longer for the Torah. People are so much more educated, wise and knowledgeable. What the Bible tells no longer rings true. So many stated facts are obviously incorrect.
It doesn’t matter to a larger degree. After all, those texts are stories told by ordinary people who simply want to convey a message. The fine detail shouldn’t be scrutinised too closely.
Nevertheless, scrutinise is what we do; and as an account of how the world developed and progressed to the present moment is no longer acceptable in the unbiased eyes of recent generations.
Some time ago I was considering this fact and wondered…
What if they were right? What if life here really is a precursor to something much better?
What if the Bible, both the old and new testament, were rewritten, updated slightly; pretty much the same story just with a little bit more of a modern twist?
So I wrote the book of Quantism…
The Book of Quantism 