Thread: letter from god

Originally Posted by Merlock

Reality is what you make of it. You can do anything.

And I didn't say he has no goals. I said, and I quote, "Why would you allow anyone or anything to stop you from your goals?"

If someone you care for is dying due to an illness that can't be cured with medicine or any type of science...with that outlook, you will let them die because you allow the world to bend you.

Those that don't will put their want before their ability and bend the world to their needs, gain the ability they need to save those they care for, etc.
That being a good-natured goal, while someone ambitious to the point of utter greed and malice could also very well put aside "ability" and focus only on the "want" of attaining something priceless to them.


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First, you don't know what I can or cannot do. Don't make assumptions of others.

Second, to understand the essence of ultimate potential one needs to understand the difference between that very ultimate potential and physical sciences. Science in the modern day world allows for progress out of curiosity. Anything beyond the physical works on a completely different principle, the metaphysical, not the physical. Curiosity is never enough to achieve anything of true meaning.

And third, you can't soar from the ground and fly because you don't know how. As said above, we are conscious self-aware beings. That isn't a physical trait, it's a mental one. We have the infinite potential to learn. If you want to fly, you need to find out how, not cast it aside because it isn't public knowledge. And more so, you must not merely "find out" (curiosity isn't enough) but have a true purpose to figure out the path towards a certain goal and then nothing will stop you and that path will appear beneath your very feet.

You're right in saying that wishful thinking causes illusion. Hence all the various telekinesis sites and whatnot online, for example. They state things such as "focus on the object and move it with your mind"...they lack the quintessence: the world is constructive and requires mechanisms for anything to be achieved. Wishful thinking isn't a mechanism affecting the physical and thus is folly.
But it is incredibly unwise to throw aside the possibility of anything. Because anything is possible, because those with unique or great power (and thus great wisdom) aren't bent on the concept of mass media ("tell everyone and fast") and because in doing so you allow the world to overwhelm you instead of using your ambitions to shape it, you condescend yourself.

This sort of follows in what I see as- " one cannot manipulate what is seen as constructive subject and object by thinking from the point of view of being either subject or object". Toss aside such thinking and one then can then connect with what you call "ultimate potential".

The direct approach does not yield results, a measure of subtlety is required to make the connection. Fair assessment? Yes /No?

At least this is what I am finding myself...

Originally Posted by wendylove

You have the illusion of free will. You don't really make a decision http://youtube.com/watch?v=_VxQuPBX1_U

Also, I don't see how there is no free will, is a argument of ignorance. The point is from the video, we are govern by physical laws and they have no room for freedom. You either believe in quantum mechanics, where everything is probabillitic or Classical physics where everything is determined. Again, their is no freedom.

I think I see where this is headed. Just like the belief that everything we see, touch, hear, taste and smell can be an illusion, so is freewill.
But as far as the individual is concerned, and for the sake of living your life, these things are real. Illusion or not, it is something you experience as a part of your daily life.