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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (5343)	12/22/2000 11:42:30 AM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 28931

This seems to be similar to my view. As I told Solon, I think it is largely a semantical problem. I believe in the many reality theories and "our" reality is the one that gels from one moment to the next. We call this pseudo-continuity Time. To some extent I agree with the general characterization you provide. The limitation of our perception always makes us select some analog, but in that process we lose precision and understanding. That it is unknowable to us and always will remain so is relatively true. If we are all players in a game of Super Mario, do we persist once we see Game Over! I don't think "we" do but some record of us must. So if I give the real ownership of the Game and personalities to someone one layer up, I persist in some form. Do the Super Marios from one game to the next have any clue that they are just the latest in a line? Each tried to play the game, gave it the best shot, made their mark and were ultimately replaced. Would my Mario from yesterday understand that he isn't the same Mario in today's game? In my personal existence such a discontinuity exists between the cosmicforce of today and a rogue youth of 20 years ago. To you they'd seem disconnected, but to me they are as familiar as old blue jeans. Even in our world we live on in memories after we depart. This is not a personal existence as I understand it now, but a distributed existence. Is there still that spark there that is me and can I effect changes in this world after I depart? I'd say generally not.