[RascalPuff]

An ineradicable record of every past universal event?

Everything visually perceived is an extension of where it originates. Every seeing experience occurs as a result of quantifications of whatever is seen, traveling across space to make contact with the sensory facility of the eye. The incoming light energy is literally an extension of where it came from. Whether we visually see things or not, all physical entities are emitting EM energy at all times. All physical matter in the universe is absorbing and emitting incoming and outgoing energy in the currency of Planck’s quantum h constant.


If these exchanges of energy were back tracked indefinitely, the record of events that occurred in the past is available to whatever facility is able to carry out the - perhaps endless - back tracking in a real space and time of the past which is permanently recorded in past space-time.

That’s the physical premise this concept of every event being permanently recorded, is based on. The philosophical and theological implications are that there exists a permanent, quasi holographic record in three and more dimensions, of every event that has ever occurred, and that such record is permanently manifest - at any given moment - in past space-time.

(In accordance with the proposed scenario & outline, the future is correspondingly unfathomable because it resides where events have yet to unfold.)
The theological implications include that this is how ‘God sees, hears and knows all’, having access to all past portions of the ongoing continuum of events in the entire history of all universal events.

Several people I’ve talked with about this, recommended that I post it in a science or philosophy forum and see what the forumites have to say about it. What do you think? (In this scenario, what you think may be permanently projected on the universe also, along with all of your physically manifest actions..)
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Theological Implications?In the course of conversations concerning the above issue, notable interpretations emerge in a theological context as much or more as in the scientific or philosophical. Some of those introduced to this consideration show an apprehension regarding how those who’ve escaped justice in their mortal lives may be brought to account and punished in any ‘hereafter’ that mortals may pass on to.

For this reason, any proposed ‘passing to the other side’ is rejected by some, out of fear that they will be revealed for serious trespasses not previously revealed. That is to say, these particular kinds of people, don’t dare believe in any kind of day of reckoning, as it were... This is not at all to say that all atheists or agnostics are particularly guilty, but only to review that some of them certainly are.

Allowing for the sake of discussion, a scenario such as that described, where all souls continue as individuals in ‘the hereafter’, and everyone there represents or is aligned with a Godhead that knows every action and thought of all mortal people in their temporal lives - this record does not so much contemplate any punishment,, per se, that may ‘catch up’ with previously fugitive mortal offenders.

A theological concept of ‘heaven and hell’ in such a context might not so much entail a belated punishment so much as what would be the revelation of all the right and wrong behaviors that each person in mortality was responsible for and which baggage they carry with them as a soul in the hereafter.

Everyone is a sinner to some degree, whereas, some of us are more and less sinners than others. Some of us redeemed what mortal sins we committed, some of us were appropriately called to account for our mortal sins, while living as mortals - so you go to the hereafter with your major sins already having been aired out and resolved.
Relatively minor sins are not a source of much concern here, since everyone is guilty of a lot of lesser sinning, and the immortal audience to those kinds of trespasses is accustomed to and generally disregards ‘breadcrumb sins’.

Predominantly honorable, self redeemed baggage is - more or less - heaven. Predominantly dishonorable, unredeemed baggage is hell.

What would be a source of serious concern is mortal trespassers such as those guilty of capital or particularly heinous crimes, who ‘got away with it’ in the mortal realm.

‘Punishment’ in such a context might simply mean that in the hereafter, everyone knows everyone else’s mortal ‘movie’ and no one is fooling anyone about anything, anymore.
One interpretation of this mortal to hereafter cycle is that, since the wrongdoings of people who escaped corporeal justice are known to all other souls in the hereafter, no further injustices or deceptions can occur, and the soul arriving in the hereafter finds itself in a place where they are either more or less comfortable with what ‘catches up with them’, and are correspondingly more or less able to bear their exposed responsibilities.
The serious offenders may be ‘punished’ only in the sense that they are inescapably found out for what they were responsible - and not previously accounted - for, in the mortal realm.

Buddhist Science?Some contemplations of this hypothetical plot lead to a quasi Buddhist wheel of karma, where the unredeemed soul in the hereafter has the choice of existing in that realm, without any punishment save that of no longer being able to conceal their former trespasses, or, to rejoin with mortality on the ‘wheel of karma’ and ‘make a better, more improved, less sinful movie (personal history)’, which allows them to be more comfortable when they pass on to the realm of immortality.

There are other theological and/or philosophical connotations to the proposed congregation of all souls into a Godhead (atonement - at-one-ment) that knows - but is not necessarily responsible for - every minor and major event in the universe, in and out of the anthropomorphic realm.

Incidentally, there are more living people - mortal coils - on the planet in the present, today, here and now, than have ever accumulatively occupied this earthly realm in all of past history. Hence, per capita, there is probably more ‘good and bad’ being done in the present than ever before in the history of human kind. Unfortunately, it appears that unredeemed wrongdoing - until further notice - is, by far, the dominant paradigm (That is to say, in the mortal realm, evil apparently maintains a high rate of success and temporal reward - Re. PEOPLE OF THE LIE, and, ON A ROAD LESS TRAVELED, by Dr. Peck).

Best regards,
- RP