What if—at our cores—we’re secretly parts of an all-powerful being that purposefully limited itself, so that it could experience the joy of rediscovering its own power? Then all of existence would simultaneously be the cruelest, most empowering game we ever decided to play.
Because collectively—at our all-powerful cores—we CHOSE to experience every atrocity, every triumph, every birth, and every death.
Wow, I am at loss for words. 🙂 Very deep and thought-provoking post, DirtySci-Fi Buddha. 🙂
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Thank You Carly! 😀
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No, thank you for your inspiring musings. 😀
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Thank the shower, lol! That’s where I think of em! 🙂
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Lol. 🙂
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Hey DirtySciFiBuddha, I have a quick question. I am just doing some housekeeping. Does it show you automatically following me or is it hard to find the button? I just see your likes on my end. There might be glitch with both of my blogs being linked up together. I am not sure. Please let me know. 🙂
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I just clicked follow but I thought I had before…wordpress is weird that way. Sometimes it sends me unreliable data.
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Thanks for checking up on that but you still aren’t following me. When you tried to follow me the first time it said, “unreliable data?” Is that what you mean?
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Yeah—like it shows I followed you on my page, but then you say it doesn’t. I’ll try again; it did that for a few others I’ve followed. It says I’m now following again. Let me know if it showed up on your end.
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No follow yet. May we continue this conversation through email? I didn’t see one on your site.
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Sure! My email is kentwayneauthor@gmail.com, I check it every morning. Just followed you again—if you want, I can send a screenshot to you.
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And all the world is unreality.
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I have considered something similar: Perhaps we are all immortal beings, and in our boredom we play “simulations”. And, if this is the case, the “Earth Simulation” will recieve a 3 star rating when I wake up.
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Hahaha! 3 stars…probably generous considering some other folks’ predicaments.
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Me and my husband talk about this a lot, we believe it but it is hard to hold into in day to day life.
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I believed this quite seriously for about six months as a teenager! Now I believe it’s one of an infinite number of descriptions of reality that might be true or partially true or at least thought-provoking 😀
PS. have you seen the film Annihilation? At least on my interpretation of the movie it relates to this in some ways…
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Not yet, but it’s on my netflix dvd queue. And yes, if existence is truly infinite, if every configuration of matter and energy exists, then every story and idea would by default be somewhere instantiated in the breadth of reality.
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I sometimes have thoughts like this too, like we are all eyeballs of a multi-eyed creature, able to look at each other but unaware of the connective tissue that binds us, except indirectly, or through speculation. Sometimes I think of the metaphor of a many-fingered hand, same basic idea. I think you are correct though, that we don’t yet understand the ways in which we are connected at the root. The tree is yet another metaphor. handy things, those 😀
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By default we live in an illusion; our five senses allow us to perceive an extremely narrow band of reality, but all too often we think it’s solid and all there is. 😉
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😀
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Sounds a bit like my memories of studying the philospoher Spinoza… but my memory isn’t so good!
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So great to hear someone say this. Me and my husband talk about this a lot, we believe it but it is hard to hold into in day to day life. And no one talks about it, or no one we know anyway, not in depth or seriously anyway. Thank you.
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No problem! 🙂
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I like the thought 😉
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What if the universe is a set of electrons and protons in a bigger set of electrons and protons in bigger set…..
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Then it doesn’t really change anything for me, haha!
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But then who are you?
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Just someone who follows the clues as to what will make him fulfilled. That’s all that seems practical.
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wow … or we wander along blindly …
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