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belief and subjective reality
If you believe in something, it is real to you.
(Whether it is real to others is unimportant, it's your reality that matters to you.)
Therefore, you can make anything become real in your world, if only you can figure out how to believe in it.
Anything can cease being real, if you stop believing in it.
You can create a God by believing in it. You are a god yourself in that way - you have the power to create something out of nothing. *If* you can figure out how to consistently believe in it.
But if the thought only comes from within, how can one believe in it?
I want my god to be real without my having to create zir myself. I want my god to be real regardless of any belief. But if I don't believe in zir, then ze is not real to me.
Unless of course, I experience indication of zir reality, without having to imagine it up myself.
People who believe in gods seem to experience indications of their gods' reality. What makes people who don't believe, start believing? They have some kind of mystical experience, which fuels their initial belief, and then their belief fuels the rest. Unless they are skeptical, and can explain away / dismiss the original mystical experience and the rest.
I am my own higher power. I am everyone I've ever imagined and believed in.
But my god doesn't know the answers either. We're stuck in the same boat. Drifting.
(Whether it is real to others is unimportant, it's your reality that matters to you.)
Therefore, you can make anything become real in your world, if only you can figure out how to believe in it.
Anything can cease being real, if you stop believing in it.
You can create a God by believing in it. You are a god yourself in that way - you have the power to create something out of nothing. *If* you can figure out how to consistently believe in it.
But if the thought only comes from within, how can one believe in it?
I want my god to be real without my having to create zir myself. I want my god to be real regardless of any belief. But if I don't believe in zir, then ze is not real to me.
Unless of course, I experience indication of zir reality, without having to imagine it up myself.
People who believe in gods seem to experience indications of their gods' reality. What makes people who don't believe, start believing? They have some kind of mystical experience, which fuels their initial belief, and then their belief fuels the rest. Unless they are skeptical, and can explain away / dismiss the original mystical experience and the rest.
I am my own higher power. I am everyone I've ever imagined and believed in.
But my god doesn't know the answers either. We're stuck in the same boat. Drifting.