(Im)possible extend

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

For eons, humankind has always been obsessed with immortality.

Why are we so obsessed with it? Is it because we don’t want to leave mortal world? Or maybe because the fear of death? Or fear of what will happens after we die?

Actually, the answer is so simple, it’s because immortality is something that we could not achieve..

It is because of our natural behavior and fact that reality isn’t as beautiful as what we sees in pictures, movies, books, stories, dreams, etc.

We always wanting something, and we always wants what we can’t have. It’s just like dream, dream is not a dream anymore if it’s become true..

This is something that I believed..

We actually can find a way to immortality, but God wouldn’t allow us to.

Remember, God create men in His own image. We are actually the personification of God.

God create the earth and the heavens. And we create our homes and machines.

God create us, human, and we create robots.

Maybe it’s just this simple, we are actually a system made by God, a very intelligent one. Just like in computers, we create a program, an intelligent program.

We could think creatively, because God made us that way. Just like how computer nowadays can think with it’s own artificial intelligence from programs we wrote.

We could heal ourselves from wounds, we could replicate ourselves and many more. Just like how computer programs could fix themselves if there’s any error in the system, and they could even replicating themselves (like computer virus and other similar programs).

That means, we are actually like computer programs to the user, God.

And this is the point..

We actually develop such technology that would theoretically made us immortal, or even bring people back to live. Bring people back to live? Is it possible? Maybe, since we are actually a consciousness system ourselves, then these consciousnesses might be exist somewhere after they leaves our mortal body after we dies, only God knows and have the power to access and do things to these consciousnesses (or system).

I believed we are able to gain the technology, but then, only God who able to decide whether these consciousnesses are allowed to return into mortality (if we’re attempting to revive), or maybe preserves our body and soul into immortality (if we’re attempting to gain immortality.

But then, Let’s just back to the relationship between God as the user, and us as the programs.

Remember ugly Window Vista security program that always ask us when we’re executing another program? It would ask us, the user, to allow or not for the program to run?

Then it’s up to the user to let the program work or not!

It’s up to God, whether He allow us to revive a person, or maybe live forever. We may have the ability to build the technology to do it, but the user decides.

Of course God can also do these things even without us, and our technology that are much inferior to God. It’s just like how the user or programmer execute a program or wrote a new program for the computer.

There are the examples,

Remember the prophet Isa (in Islam or Yesus in Christian, since the Moslem actually believed that Yesus is not God or maybe son of God, but a prophet), granted a miracle by God to revive a dead person?

Also Shaitan or Satan, whose wish is granted by God to live until the end of the day?

Why God wouldn't allow us to revive people? or gain immortality?

Because it will bring us the ultimate sin, which was done by Satan himself..

'The Pride'..

We will be too arrogant to accept that there is a supreme being, called God that has created us. Since we are able to live forever and revive a dead person.. We would think that we, ourselves is the God..!

Remember Dajjal or the Antichrist, the false Messiah who will come before the end of the day..?

He, who actually is a human that granted to live until the end of the day and given the power by God to revive a dead person.

The power has made him arrogant, 'The Pride' has born within his heart, and he refuses to accept God as his supreme creator..

Let's just wrap it up.. No matter how hard we try, if it’s without any allowance from God, we could never made it..

Even if we are made by His own image, we are just His creation. A creation can never beat the creator!

Just like us and our creation, I don’t believe that we, one day might be ruled by robots, by machines, just like in many science fiction stories with apocalyptic future..

Well, even in those stories, we humankind, are who in the end won against the machines, against our creations. Which also means, we can never surpass God, our creator..

note: I’m touching a bit about religion here, but I didn’t wrote this with any offensive materials or means to other religion. Because actually I didn’t wrote any of these, it’s just different names or terms (called by different religion) for the same thing.