A Message to the Future Generations

[ThinkingSapien]

In one way or another this has been some what of an implicit topic in these forums. But if you wanted to deliver a message or something about yourself to people that lived several hundred years after your death given the technologies that are available today how would you go about doing it? What are the most important attributes about yourself that you would communicate? Your photograph, your voice, the names of the people you love?

 

[akka]

In one way or another this has been some what of an implicit topic in these forums. But if you wanted to deliver a message or something about yourself to people that lived several hundred years after your death given the technologies that are available today how would you go about doing it? What are the most important attributes about yourself that you would communicate? Your photograph, your voice, the names of the people you love?

Are you talking about praying to the Saints?
Praying to the Saints
catholic.com/tracts/praying-to-the-saints

In the above link also stated;

No Contact with the dead

Sometimes Fundamentalists object to asking our fellow Christians in heaven to pray for us by declaring that God has forbidden contact with the dead in passages such as Deuteronomy 18:10–11. In fact, he has not, because he at times has given it—for example, when he had Moses and Elijah appear with Christ to the disciples on the Mount of Transfiguration (Matt. 17:3). What God has forbidden is necromantic practice of conjuring up spirits. “There shall not be found among you any one who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, any one who practices divination, a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer, or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard, or a necromancer. . . . For these nations, which you are about to dispossess, give heed to soothsayers and to diviners; but as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you so to do. The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brethren—him you shall heed” (Deut. 18:10–15).

God thus indicates that one is not to conjure the dead for purposes of gaining information; one is to look to God’s prophets instead. Thus one is not to hold a seance. But anyone with an ounce of common sense can discern the vast qualitative difference between holding a seance to have the dead speak through you and a son humbly saying at his mother’s grave, “Mom, please pray to Jesus for me; I’m having a real problem right now.” The difference between the two is the difference between night and day. One is an occult practice bent on getting secret information; the other is a humble request for a loved one to pray to God on one’s behalf.

 

[ThinkingSapien]

Are you talking about praying to the Saints?
Praying to the Saints
catholic.com/tracts/praying-to-the-saints

In the above link also stated;

No, but here in there a statement works it’s way into a conversation about there possibly being a better way for God to have delivered his word to future generations. I found myself trying to think of time durable ways of doing that. But with the evolution of language (both written and spoken), context sensitive situations, and so on I’m at a loss for how some one would do this, at least in a manner that would communicate the same message to the common people. In reading older literary works I come across things that make little or no sense without being informed about the ethos in which the book was written.

I also thought about what form a message could take; written, photographic, video, audio. All of these forms of recording information can to some degree or another be fabricated. Before a certain time video evidence would be hard to fake. Now days, not as much. Though some one informed in the forensics of video analysis could distinguish between very good fakes and the real thing. If progress continues though this may become more difficult.

So if I were to make a message that I wanted communicated to future generations by the time those generations are around there’s some amount of uncertainty that could be introduced into what I was saying or whether or not I really said it. While it’s a problem frequently raised I’ve never seen any one suggest a solution for it.

 

[akka]

No, but here in there a statement works it’s way into a conversation about there possibly being a better way for God to have delivered his word to future generations. I found myself trying to think of time durable ways of doing that. But with the evolution of language (both written and spoken), context sensitive situations, and so on I’m at a loss for how some one would do this, at least in a manner that would communicate the same message to the common people. In reading older literary works I come across things that make little or no sense without being informed about the ethos in which the book was written.

I also thought about what form a message could take; written, photographic, video, audio. All of these forms of recording information can to some degree or another be fabricated. Before a certain time video evidence would be hard to fake. Now days, not as much. Though some one informed in the forensics of video analysis could distinguish between very good fakes and the real thing. If progress continues though this may become more difficult.

So if I were to make a message that I wanted communicated to future generations by the time those generations are around there’s some amount of uncertainty that could be introduced into what I was saying or whether or not I really said it. While it’s a problem frequently raised I’ve never seen any one suggest a solution for it.

I bolded some of your text. Are you reffering to the appearance of Mary in some places?
Here’s a link leading to the appearance of Mary in Akita;
newlifejm.net/
Here’s a Japanese link of it;
newlifejm.net/japan_top.html

About the words God passes to us through the Catholic Church. I personally answer this to you, I believe, (as one who follow the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church), the Church is guided by the Holy Spirit.
God reaching us through the Church.

 

[JRKH]

In one way or another this has been some what of an implicit topic in these forums. But if you wanted to deliver a message or something about yourself to people that lived several hundred years after your death given the technologies that are available today how would you go about doing it? What are the most important attributes about yourself that you would communicate? Your photograph, your voice, the names of the people you love?

While I cannot particularly think what I might want to communicate to the future about me…I can answer the method part. I would try to use the methods that have proven to be the most successful in the past…I mean distant past.

I would not use electronic means. The most reliable method over time seems to be writing on highly durable material accompanied by oral transmission through story telling…
So the surest method would seem to be to write down the information and then entrust it to those who will transmit it to succeeding generations.

Peace
James

 

[Marc_Anthony]

I agree with what JRKH said about means of transmission. My message:

“If you are reading this, congratulations on surviving the inevitable apocalypse! I’m going to assume you’re on Earth, although there is no guarantee of that, naturally, and that you speak English. Anyway, this is Christianity…”

And then I explain it. If possible I’d inscribe a full copy of the Bible, although I’d really need a team of scribes for that.