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riVeRraT
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Message 19 of 33 (353091)
09-29-2006 9:40 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Christian7
09-27-2006 9:29 PM


I cannot grasp the fact that they are conscious beings such as myself.
Have you ever been mugged?
Hire Mike Tyson to punch you in the head, maybe it will all change for you.
(RAZD water balloon theory)
all the evidence seems to point toward the notion that I am all that there is, and that reality is based entirley upon some component of my consciousness.
Both me and my cousin have felt this way, it is understandble. Because when it comes down to it, there is no objectiveness really, because everything we view is through our subjective minds. Might have something to do with God, not sure.
If my mom is not conscious, then I cannot love her, and she cannot love me, because she is a robot, or simply an illusionary construct created by my imagination.
Love conquers all. If you love your mother, and she loves you, then what is the problem? Isn't that enough. Jesus loves you too.
I've tried to use arguments such as, "Well, I can see myself in the mirror. Light is bouncing off of me, hitting the mirror, bouncing back, and going into my eyes. Thus I see myself." but this could all be part of the grand illusion.
Matrix reloaded.
1. If I am the only conscious one I am the universe, thus I am God.
2. Therefore if I am God, there must have been some point at which I was all powerful and all knowing and chose this life style.
3. But if I was all knowing, I would have known that by doing this, I would grieve myself.
answers:
1 If you were God, you wouldn't be having this problem.
2 See #1
3 Exactly.
So your not God, then.
1. However, I would have had more insight and would have possibly known that this would happen, but found a greater reason for this.
You might be more in touch with God than you know it. If you ever decided to be Christian, I believe your gifting would be in the prophetic, and as you view people as God views them, your gifting would expand to other areas.
We are all born with the feeling of something more. Some convince themselves that it is not true. You are desparately seeking the answer. However being by yourself is not a peaceful thing, and is a hell in it's own right. Examine why you even have these thoughts, and what is generating them. Ask God (even if you don't believe) to reveal the answer to you.
You are describing hell. If it was all your universe, why would you create this setting for yourself? It is plainly obvious that you cannot control others from your mind, yet there are people here who genuinly care about you, and your thoughts.

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