Questions & Answers

    Story:  Forever is a long time.  As such, there is no doubt in my mind that any question asked by mankind can be answered using our vocabulary, mathematical systems, symbols, and musical notes combined collectively or in a fragmented format.  Fragmentation being the same answer in a different order from the answer, formatted in a way that is familiar to the receiver; therefore, recognizable and distinguishable from all other answers.  Many who do not recognize an answer frown on the speaker for not taking the time to find out who they are speaking to, as such, did not become familiar with a receivers limitations or eccentricities before speaking. It’s human nature.  An argument could be made for the receiver of a conversation not knowing the eccentricities and/or limitations of the person addressing them.  Degrees of fragmentation totally depend on an individual’s comprehension of symbols, inclusive of all non verbal communication symbols, I.e. a familiarity with those aforementioned eccentricities.   Point being, regardless of order, our vocabulary and associated communication devices simply need to be assembled in the correct grouping and order for a particular group of humans to ‘winkle out’ the elusive answers to simple or complex questions of a given period in our evolution.  The answers to any question we may ask, are there for the taking. They simply need to be arranged in an order we recognize and associate with a particular question. Confusion arises when one or more humans or creatures on the receiving end of communication do not recognize the speakers’ order of symbols and or mannerisms.  Answers to mankind's global questions are in front of us every day; we simply do not see them in a particular time frame because at any given moment the order and assembly of communication symbols being ‘seen’ by our eyes and being deciphered by our brain, or arriving in the form of distant sounds are not answering the particular question we are presently consumed with asking.  Think for a moment if you will; why would we recognize the answer to a question that hasn’t been asked?  Would we see and decipher or glean the answer to a question that has not been asked from a grouping of symbols?  Simply said, all answers have already been given.  They are in the dictionaries and encyclopedias, we just can’t see them because they are not written down in a logical (recognizable) order or format to answer the immediate question!  We don’t recognize the answer because we don’t know the question associated with it yet.  We must concentrate on the cipher. We must put our communication symbols in multiple orders and disciplines and glean every tidbit of information from a particular grouping before moving on to the next question.  Most often for simple questions, the particular question or problem which needs solving has already been asked and answered. Like a word puzzle, where complete words are hidden amongst hundreds of seemingly meaningless letters, we must ask questions before the puzzle will make any sense to the commoner.  Many times, and not until we find out what the ‘subject’ of the puzzle is do we clearly see the answers. We don’t recognize the answer because of the physical order of words, symbols, etc., until we know the cipher.  How many different languages could you ask the same question?  If you don’t speak that language, you will never see nor understand the answer even if it is right in front of you.  Even if someone is standing inches from your face and screaming sounds and syllables so loud, so fast, the spit from their lips strike your forehead, you will not understand a word unless you have the cipher!  Far be it from me to threaten; but what if that person is saying “you are standing on my toe, get off before I blow your head off!”  We need to know all ciphers.  Everyone and thing has some form of evolutionary or geographical dyslexia.  It is inherent simply by virtue of our differing tribes and geographical locations.  Every question needs the corresponding cipher and state of mind.  The Spanish language uses volume adjustment in conjunction with many words and phases; know the question and miss interpret the volume, and it could get ugly.  Not an oddity needing treatment; instead, accepting the possibility that through knowledge, understanding and mental experimentation there are more ways to decipher script and alternate forms of communication than many consider normal thought processes.  Without a second thought we mentally arrange text, symbols, mathematical systems, pictures, musical notes, scents, visions, etc., until they “fit” the way we interpret, decipher, listen, and read.  We instinctively go through this process until the order or combined orders and groupings of our communication tools answer a particular question. We ‘massage’ answers and questions to adjust for irregularities and/or variations in what we hear and what we ask.  Why do you think we are sent to school? The same questions have been asked for hundreds of years; the same answers given.  Society wants us to arrive at ‘their’ answer! Why is a student chastised for arriving at an alternate answer?  You will fail if 2 + 2 is not 4.  2 + 2 is also 3 + 1 or 4 + 0 or 1,222,999.000 —1,222,995.000! Exercise: try to fit a known answer to an elusive question, instead of fitting a question to the elusive answer?  Example:  “blue”.  Consider it, how many questions would the answer “blue” fit/answer?  Answer #1:  “what color are his eyes? “blue”,  #2-What color are Levis ? “blue”, #3-what color is the ocean in Hawaii ? “blue”, and the list goes on! An astronomical number of routes and combinations of symbols to arrive at the word/answer ’blue’ is available.  Exercise:  Look for random word groupings and see how many questions they answer:  Fill a hat with words written on small pieces of paper.  Pull the pieces blindly from the hat and line them up in the order they came out.  When lined up, does this arrangement or grouping of random communication ’words’ “answer” any questions you can think of?  Can you think of any matches for the grouping?  Do any of the words either alone or in combination answer any question you can think of? Now remove one, then another, and so forth; until you cannot ask anymore questions of the words left in front of you. Now, go back and count how many questions you answered with the same answers you pulled from the hat. Most often when we speak or write we arrange symbols/words/notes/pictures to “say” what we want them to say, what we want the collection of symbols to convey to someone else!  I am not writing these pages so I can understand what I am thinking.  I am writing these pages this way because I do not know what you are thinking! I am trying to be as simplistic as I can and yet tell a story or interest.  An obvious sign to you at this point, is that I put a ‘comma’ in a sentence every time I take a breath; frankly, I could care less if you like it, do you understand what I am saying?  If the answer is yes, I have chosen the right arrangement and combination for you. If not, please put the book back where you found it.  We as authors already know the answers and subject. Most often while we are talking to you, the thoughts and sentences in our minds are a jumble of electrical signals lacking any semblance to visual communication symbols. I do not ’see’ the sentence I am typing before I type it unless I condition my self to close my eyes and display my thought process on that wonderful screen your dreams use to communicate with you, and only you . If I were to say to you ‘how are you today?’ you most likely would give me an answer, fine, not well, etc.  If I said ‘today you are how?’ the question uses identical symbols and requires the same response from you; however, the order is different.  Most people would ‘see’ the obvious answer while deciphering the jumbled sentence.  Keep in mind, the only reason the second sentence seems jumbled is we were trained as students to ‘see’ it and speak it using the arrangement our tutors forced upon us to garner a passing grade.  The same way they too were coerced and bribed into submission and linguistic obedience by their peers.  They needed a passing grade, teachers needed a quota.  During our adolescence we were trained to only see questions and answers as our teachers taught us or as authors have taught us.  We are products of our environments, including our unique minds. From the beginning to this juncture in our existence, no two minds have ever, nor will ever be identical in structure nor thought processes.  For a moment consider your existence, and think for a moment there are two of you.  There is the listener and you the teller with respect to your mind.  It has been proven scientifically that your mind is always thinking,  working equations, multitasking, and other various tasks it has given itself simultaneously while you are awake, and also while you are sleeping. An individual does not know what their mind has been doing without them, in the background as it were.  Your mind never stops processing information.  Even while you are in deep sleep, your mind is thinking and working without you.  That is, other than the obvious input from what we have labeled ’senses’ (smell, hearing, touch, etc.), that which you are keenly aware.  Therefore, it is my contention, altered communication states can exist simultaneously, and do. Doesn’t the same previously stated example test question exist in two different or altered states simultaneously simply by virtue of their varied order of symbols and their obvious existence on these pages?  How many combinations of those four words (4 words = 3+1 words = 2 + 2 words = 60—56 words / etc.) can be made to ask the same question? Any and all variations are altered states from the original, yet require the same response.  Who asked the original, and how long ago did this occur is impossible to tell.  The original author of “Hi, how are you today?” must be thousands of years old.  When he/she said it, the symbols he/she used most likely did not look like the ones above, nor did they sound like the ones above; however, what he or she did say in symbols others could understand and decipher at that particular time in our evolution required the same response as today:  “I am fine, thank you”, or “what the hell business is it of yours”, or “who told you to speak to me”, or “beat it flake”, or “what did you call my mother?”, and the list goes on.  The author had to have known the receiver had access to the same cipher he was using to communicate, or as you can see above, it could have gotten ugly! As with any thought, the universe can never be the same. As an example, you are holding matter; you picked it up from where it rested; this book.  You have altered the universe.  The article in your hand was in one state of rest; therefore, you altered the previous state of this matter. Again, by turning the page you have altered our universe forever!  The universe will never be the exact way it was before you changed it, never!  Even if you put this book back on the rack! Your presence on the world and in the universe has moved air, molecules, atoms, ions, and electrons! Simply said, you’re a very special one of a kind entity. You have moved every atom in existence simply by the molecular thought process you used to read this sentence! Everything is interconnected.  I call it the marble bag theory.  You cannot move one marble in a bag (the universe), without moving them all! You cannot move one atom, electron, molecule, etc., in the universe without moving them all.  Your thought processes are moving the molecules which create your structure, your existence!  You are powerful beyond your dreams, perhaps beyond your imagination. As I have stated, many times a question is simply not asked the same way and therefore reflects a different order of vocabulary, symbols, and/or mathematical equations to answer.  As such, in the beginning, we humans possessed a simple yet powerful innate directive; survival.  The first of our kind were not taught to survive (assuming there was no one there to teach them), this was an innate desire; a prerequisite to longevity and life. In my opinion, this original directive was not taught, it was inherited.  The most effective way to accomplish this directive did have to be learned and then with communication, taught and passed on to future generations and evolving over thousands of years. Practice makes perfect. We have learned to protect ourselves, our friends and that which we deem valuable for one reason or another.  We have learned to ‘war.' We have learned to produce and hone doctrines to control the masses. Instead of compassion and kindness, man uses myth, lore, and fear to frighten and control the weak. We may never shed the killer instinct but we must, at least, temper it with compassion.  We have felt the harsh breath of famine as it blew across the ice fields of the north splitting our skin only to freeze our blood on ignorance. Ours was not a blind directive.  We learned quickly. This directive gave us the ‘jump’ on the rest vying for the earth.  Not that we possessed traits or directives they did not; but the way we deciphered the question and problems into workable solutions was key. We asked the questions first! We recognized the cipher and shared the answers we garnered from our primitive communication with the multitudes. Our brethren shared our goals.  Not by chance, by communication with one another. By putting the questions and answers in an order the majority of the masses could decipher.  We ‘tweaked’ the way we communicated so all knew the answer.  We would be extinct otherwise.  We physically ‘created’ what we needed and were lacking.  We created communication within groups/tribes.  As an example; we sought shelter or built shelters to protect ourselves from the storms. Seems simple enough, but not if someone hadn’t ’worked’ the problem! Many creatures simply evolved physically to the extent the storms did not hurt them physically. Woolly mammoths, long fur, thick hides, lizard like scales. The same question was asked of them that nature asked of us. Different creatures and interpretations of the same question equal differing solutions and results.  Those different results to the same questions produced differing evolutionary paths. Another example; creatures need to eat.  We ate to survive, to have fuel to burn, endurance to fight.  We killed that which we feared, and ate what we killed!   Many creatures also ate to accomplish both; however, and without giving it a second thought, they hunted down and ate their enemies regardless of their need for nourishment!  With this logic they would eventually have no enemies; albeit, they also would have starved to death for lack of food.  They eventually would have to resort to cannibalism of their species.  So, where the hell are they you say?  Same question, differing order of answers produce differing solutions and ultimate results.  Ask yourself this question:  Why would any creature kill another?  There can only be four answers, protection, food, didn’t understand the question, didn’t understand the answer.  I believe much of our vocabulary has evolved because we could not answer our questions with the limited sounds and thought processes we originally possessed.   Education is the key.  Without education we could not have included the rest of the tribes in our thought processes. We could not discuss our fears and therefore our solutions waned.  Collaboration is key to knowledge and creative solutions in the same life time. In the beginning, the life span of humans was too short to arrive at the correct answers or many of the answers needed to affect global consequences amongst human beings. An agile species with an innate directive specifying global survival and domination over all they survey was being created through language, regardless if that language was sound, mannerisms, speech or combination of everything.  The light went on when humans/tribes realized communication between each other and longevity provided the answers and interpretations of communication previously missing because of very short life spans. Simply, the more people working the problem the shorter time span/life span needed to derive a much sought after answer to a particular question. Without education, if we had a new thought, who the hell would we tell if we could not communicate?  Although there were hundreds of thousands of humans sharing the earth; an individual was intellectually alone, or worse an outcast without interaction.  There was no one to tell unless the listener also possessed that same level of education and shared the same lessons learned in life by the story teller.  The odds of this mutual mental ability occurring were staggering. Someone realized without communication and education this would be a very rare occurrence. Humans needed to create gatherings, groups, meetings, and discussion sessions. These meeting places may not have been called “schools”; but more than one human or creature meeting at the same time and in the same place discussing the same thought and life processes were in a school of thought.   Just as with armies, when waging war, more soldiers, increased odds of survival.  The same with thought; more people working the problem, more possibilities, more solutions, quality and variety of answers from which to choose the correct solution.  Justifiably our vocabulary has grown to accommodate that same needed growth.  Keep in mind by using the word ‘vocabulary’ I am denoting all encompassing thought.  ‘Vocabulary’ includes everything; every form of stimuli, not just speech or vocal sounds.  Just to name a few: sound, facial expressions, physical expression, hand movements, gestures, laughing, calling, yelling, talking, etc.  Unless otherwise noted, ‘vocabulary’ includes everything, every sight, and every sound.  All mental stimuli.  As with the army, the odds of success increased tremendously with the rise in ranks; so is it with the evolution of our vocabulary and the use and creation of nouns, verbs, adverbs, etc.  These are the tools of mankind and all creatures.  It was assumed creatures other than man used only sounds and body language to communicate. Or so it would appear, until a dolphin came out of the water and looked at us while talking in his/her native tongue and some smart person realized the dolphin was trying to communicate with us! They are trying to communicate with a different species and we don’t have a clue as to what they are saying!  Not yet anyway.  While most animals are hell-bent on individual survival, immediate protection (the young, eggs, etc.); we on the other hand learned early on that numbers increase odds and odds increase survival. It appears more and more species we share this planet with are realizing the same answer.  They have stepped up the stakes.  They are trying to communicate with humans; and with the advent of mechanical thought (computers) we will certainly decipher their language much quicker, and in a shorter life span.  Yes, we protected our families and young; furthermore we protected our species, our ’clan’, our tribe.  In my opinion, the human race wins only if it includes the entire human race.  Manipulating third world countries/tribes through starvation is barbaric.  Only a fool would starve a tiger and then enter the cage.  We need all mankind looking to the future, not exhausting intellectual resources shipping grain to under-educated, under-assisted countries in a global effort to control the ignorant masses through disinformation, dysfunctional programs designed not to succeed but rather  provide just enough relief, and at just enough inflated interest to enslave those peoples needing it most  to unethical and unreasonable financial debt.  Education being more valuable than money is the key.  Unfortunately because of manipulation of species, in third world countries food has outpaced education in value; and rightly so, survival of our species being our first innate directive.   Our innate desire to survive dictates food and knowledge is shared equally. This is not always so.   Imagine for a moment we have always possessed the answers to everything!  The Pharos had a vocabulary; we simply have a ‘vocabulary’ ‘washed’ through thousands of years of evolution!  Consider for a moment the ‘way’ they wrote their ‘text’.  The pyramids and what is inside is a clear indication they expected future peoples (receivers) to be able to read it. How is it, they knew what and in what order to create their messages knowing our generations and ‘vocabularies’ would naturally be altered from theirs?   Our interpretation of what they left us to read is only what it is because we read the clues in the most obvious order, an order we use today.  An order they must have used then.  What if they wrote their information to be interpreted as we think and speak today; not then?  What if that is not the order of symbols they used then, but an order they theorized we would be using now, thousands of years later?  What if all our questions are answered on the walls of pyramids and on parchments, we simply are not reading them correctly?  Is it too far fetched to think our vocabulary has evolved to such an extent as to falsely interpret information written thousands of years ago?  Is it possible that since ancient texts and writings were not found until recently (in evolutionary terms) the evolution of our vocabulary may have missed an evolutionary time period which would have altered the way in which we interpret, read, record, and decipher that which Pharaoh has left us?  They even killed every person alive who knew what was written and sealed them in those same tombs.  Is it too far fetched to consider, we may have blinked! Perhaps if the pyramids were found, entered and deciphered earlier in our evolutionary cycle, our vocabulary may have been altered and changed for ever.  The order in which we write, read, interpret facts, pictures, symbols and music may have been in a totally different order of interpretation and evolution. The evolution of our vocabulary has symbiotically changed when we needed it to do so to match our mental state of mind and manipulation of logic.  Perhaps the science and interpretations of the pharos is late!  Is it possible we are using a futuristic vocabulary and order of symbols and text to read and interpret ancient communications when the original authors did not envision man’s evolutionary communication speed, or our futuristic vocabulary?  Then again, perhaps our ‘vocabulary’ has stagnated?  If you really think of it, we are a long way from the pharos; yet doesn’t it seem odd considering we are just now finding temples and shrines and entering them?  In evolutionary terms, where the hell have we been?  With all our species, dialects, and tribes; why did we take so long to find pyramids?  Even if I were wandering aimlessly on the earth, how do you miss those massive pyramids?  How did we end up so far from them when they were supposed to be the first, intelligent ones here?  How did we all (and I do mean ALL) end up geographically so far from the greatest civilizations?  We are still excavating ‘ruins’ under great cities and across great plains.  Why would someone who had the powers to create anything, build great vaults or safes with communications housed in them, only to seal them in such a manner as to mechanically and architecturally prohibit entry from the same society that constructed them? They even sacrificed and put to death the construction workers! You were hunted down and put to death by massive armies for attempting violation of these vaults of communication.  What did they know was coming that they feared would annihilate their race?  What was so powerful only a pyramid/vault/safe of this magnitude would protect the teachings, writings, and descriptions of life for the future to read?  Did they foresee a massively destructive environmental event? If not environmental, could something enter the ‘vaults’ and alter the text, or did it simply wipe life from the face of the earth and leave?  Could it be as simple as all followers perishing without their leaders?  Did the ignorant masses truly believe that without the links (pharos) to the ‘gods’ they would surely perish?  Could their demise been as simple as mass hysteria or a tremendous mental dependency of their leaders?  As with all the questions, all the answers are here with us.  The answers to every question humans will ever ask are still here.  We just have to slow down for a moment and start looking at the possibilities of simultaneous answers to the same questions, both answers being correct.  The assumption there is only one correct answer is the luxury of the wealthy, for they can make it so in their confined, limited world.   When -in -fact the correct answer is wholly dependent on who is asking!  Many ask many answers.  We need to add to our innate directive; we need to ‘enhance’ the survival directive.  We must agree we won the earth, for now.  Our species has survived.  Remember, there is no other species on earth that needs the human species to survive for their own survival. We as humans think we are presently the stewards of earth.  Are we really? Or have other species simply learned to evolve around us?  Are we the ‘cancer’ they are controlling?  The protection of the earth must be added to our innate directive, for it is us that need them in order for us to survive.  The same instinct which led to conquest and survival must also include the survival of all species inclusive of the earth itself.  We need to slow down, reflect, and save what is good; discard the mistakes and retain the memories of both in high esteem.   We need to mold future generations around all which is just, and all which is in the collective good for all mankind, inclusive of all existing species.  Only the future knows if our manipulation and obliteration of destructive species of disease and malignant growth will be for the collective good.  Many assumed if it was here, there must have been a need or the particular entity would not have evolved and survived evolution.  By eradicating that which we deem unhealthy for our species; are we really saving ourselves through genetic and evolutionary species manipulation?  Is it really as simple as ‘we can’; therefore, ‘we will’? Where is it written?  Who or what gave us the OK?  Do we need the OK from another entity other than ourselves? I didn’t get the ’Conditional Use Permit’, did you? Do us all a favor, never stop asking questions, and never stop looking for answers.  It may be good for all of us to remember something Carmody once said to a group of travelers warming bar seats " the ignorant and genius both cast shadows in the glare of stage light" All the best. RJ  

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