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What is Heaven like?
Posted by Reality (more from Reality) on Fri, 6 May 2011 15:04:00
In Reply to: He won't answer, No Snaab , Fri, 6 May 2011 14:12:45
It's a question that can not be answered without omniscience, which none of us mere mortals have. Likewise, what an "ideal society" is like is not something that can be answered without merely proving the limits of our knowledge and imagination. "Land of milk of honey" was something the biblical crowd struggled 40 years in search of . . . today, $10 can buy enough milk and honey to cover your kitchen floor.

30 years ago, 4.77MHz was cutting edge technology for PC, and it cost $10,000. If the government had enforced an edict that every family with children should have a computer at taxpayer expense . . . we'd probably never have the 4000MHz computers that we have today for less than $500, as the innovative companies would have been taxed to support the dinosaurs in the industry.

Life is full of unknowns. It is the need to discover and unmask these unknowns that have given us the liberty and freedom as individuals to experiment . . . otherwise, if humanity really did know all there was to know, totalitarian regimes like the soviets would indeed have buried us. We simply do not know what the ultimate "ideal" is, aside from "death," when the Marxian goal of "to each his needs and from each his wants" is achieved in double nullity: none and none.

The real choices in life we face is between better vs. worse. In that case, less government/monopoly-control of resources is certainly better than more.



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