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Thread #59418 Message #2805076
Posted By: Little Hawk
06-Jan-10 - 02:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Beautifully put, Donuel.
We constantly shape our perception of "reality" by how we shape our thoughts about it. As our thoughts change our perceptions of reality change.
As soon as a group of people develop the concept of a "God", then that God exists as a thought-form-energy and becomes part of their reality...but NOT part of the reality of some other person who doesn't think about that God or believe in it.
Anything you think about affects you, specially when you also believe in it. Thus it becomes real...in its effect upon you. It may have no effect at all on someone else, but it affects you because you are thinking about it, and your own thinking affects your being at many levels.
Every fictional character I've worked with in stories has affected me...and often to a far greater extent than many of the so-called "real" people I talk to on this forum! The fictional character that I create is closer to me and in my thoughts more often than most of the people I talk to on this forum. So despite the fact that the fictional character isn't physically in this world, he or she takes real effect upon my consciousness, and that affects my life.
I can, for instance, more easily dispense with (or forget about) Amos than I can dispense with or forget about Chongo Chimp! ;-) Amos doesn't get this, so he frivolously decides to kill off Chongo and knows not what he does. Heh! Well, I guess that's not surprising. He is, after all, the most important (or central) person in his own drama, just as I am in mine.
I know Chongo better than Amos, and I would miss him terribly if he were gone. I'd miss Amos a bit too....but...well...you know. He can't compete with the child of my own imagination. After all, I've never even met him, and I've definitely met Chongo since he resides within my own mental and emotional being. I know him as well as I know myself, and I certainly can't say that about Amos.