Not Knowing

Far down in South America are a tribe of people who have never seen television or even talked to people from our world.  Should I try to describe New York City to them they would have no idea what I was talking about.  Their world has no glass, or tall stone buildings.  They have never seen a gasoline powered vehicle, or bought bread in a building.

But they are not without intelligence or culture.  They are very familiar with their own world and its stories.  They are adept at providing for themselves and pass all these things on to their children just like we pass ours on to our children.

In our world of Internet and television we feel very sophisticated and well informed.  We think we know or have access to, almost everything that is.  And yet, in our own way, we are as limited as those people in South America.

We only know what we know.

We cannot know those things we have never been introduced to or seen or experienced.  We can imagine, but even our imaginations are limited by a certain degree of not knowing.

Thus the afterlife is only something we have been told about: by churchmen, or scientists, or people with great imaginations.  Honestly we don't know any more about it than those isolated people know of New York.

So I think it will be the last great adventure!  (And maybe not even the last!)