Omniscience Theory

An Impossible Quest, unfortunately

The quest for truth, enlightenment, mastery, and knowing god.  For an immortal, or a speed-reader, or maybe a computer.  Or someone who can stop time, or anybody in heaven, or who doesn’t age.  This is impossible for a mere mortal like me.  I am resigned to ignorance.  At least I know some of what I don’t know, which is a kind of self-knowledge.  Read all of Wikipedia.   Britannica.   World Book. Read the daily news, stay current, say NYT, Economist, CSMonitor

Read all the books, the library (!), trivia questions, J! Archive.   reference works like dictionary (OED), thesaurus, Spanish.   rhyming dictionary, conceptual dictionary, visual dictionary.  Read all the scripture of the 4300 religions on earth.   Read all the lawbooks and forensics and true crime and mysteries.   Watch all the movies, listen to all the music, eat every dish at every restaurant.   Master all the martial arts, and make yourself a fearsome warrior.  Of size, strength, agility, speed, preparation, readiness, athleticism.   Understand all of science, in all fields, be current on advances, present state.   Read all the award-winning literature, Newbery, Hugo, Pulitzer, Nobel, etc. Read all the recommended literature, say those of Bill Gates’, or the 1001 book, or 501 book, or the Bloom Canon.   Or, to be less academic, you could read all the best-sellers, too.  Or you could just be yourself, and try and learn by writing, researching any questions that naturally arise, which may be a more natural and easy way of learning.  One thing at a time, with all your attention, not scattered by a quest for omniscience, everything all the time!  It’s all theoretical, anyway.   And you can train yourself to know answers.   Test questions.   All the SATs and IQ tests, for exam-pull.  Keep yourself challenged.  Maybe factual questions could be added to, a part of, wikipedia?