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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Frederick Smart who wrote (8514)12/5/2001 9:11:21 AM
From: Bill Fischofer  Read Replies (2) of 28931
 
Well, I think we finally may have a real point of disagreement here. It is correct to say that we create our own reality. It is also correct to say that all that ever was or ever will be is now, and hence nothing is "created". The reason for this and many similar paradoxes is that we live within the illusion of spacetime. It is natural for us to think in "either/or" terms, but such linear thinking cannot encompass the "both/and" nature of ultimate reality. This is why quantum mechanics seems so paradoxical because it is one of the "seams" that separate the relative from the absolute.

One really can't resolve such paradoxes to full satisfaction but analogy can help. One way of looking at this is that what we are "creating" is our pathway through the infinite matrix of ultimate reality. The simple analogy that CWG uses is that of a computer game on CD-ROM. The CD-ROM contains all the "outcomes" but we choose our individual path through it as we "play the game".
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