a world? He obviously hasn't succeeded in achieving much. Humanity hasn't made any real accomplishments (I'm not talking technology...I'm talking about discovering anything that would lead us to understanding why we are here at all). What's in it for him, to be our celestial babysitter? Is it to see the reward of us succeeding, and being 'at one' with ourselves? If that was it, then when will somebody please explain to him that that's impossible, unless he renders us all as vegetables. Humans have been given a mind that allows us to think, to ponder, to contemplate. If we are in a thinking state, don't you think SOMETHING will come across our minds, in the period of existing and experiencing that will trigger off a thought of not being, so 'pleased-as-punch' with ourselves? Highly likely, I would say. Maybe God wants us to 'learn' from our mistakes, and that is the challenge/point of life? If that's the case, God is not as wise as we all thought. The lucky people that do learn their important lessons through life, all inevitably die, and so too, does their knowledge and experiences. Ah, but what about history text, you say. I don't know about you, but I've noticed that we, as a people, tend to only 'really' understand the importance of lessons until we've learnt them ourselves. First generation learns, profits from that information, then dies. Second generation, does the same thing. Nothing gained in the big picture there. You might say the answer to this 'going around the mulberry bush', might be for the young people to simply take heed of what their elders say, no questions asked. That would take away the time period of the second generation re-living what the first did, but then you'd have a bunch of experience-less people, with no curiosity or incentive of their own. That's no good. It would be even more worse that what's going on now. At least now, we experience and learn for ourselves, instead of simply doing what we've been told...
