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Old 05-09-2004, 04:48 PM   #21
Dalamar Stormcrow
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Originally posted by The Hierophant:
I think that every instant of the universe's existance, from it's instigation to it's destruction, to it's re-creation, is condensed into a single instant. The illusion of life and consciousness is produced by time (itself a 'dimension' of existence) flowing over particular configurations of physical matter, ie: the particles that make up an organisms brain/sensory receptors. Everything has already been, even as it is yet to be. You are not really here, just as you have been here forever. Everything bangs around inside a jar of predetermined spacetime. Thus, there is no choice, just as there is no real thought. Your consciousness is the miniscule representation of a destiny that has already been played out to it's conclusion. This life you perceive is a hiccup of time reacting with physical matter. You are everything and nothing simultaneously. Death shall dissipate the fabric of your physical body, and thus negate the illusion of 'life' and existance'.

So, in short, 'causality' [img]smile.gif[/img]
Yeah. What that one said.
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Old 05-13-2004, 01:25 PM   #22
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Old 05-13-2004, 01:35 PM   #23
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Originally posted by The Hierophant:
I think that every instant of the universe's existance, from it's instigation to it's destruction, to it's re-creation, is condensed into a single instant. The illusion of life and consciousness is produced by time (itself a 'dimension' of existence) flowing over particular configurations of physical matter, ie: the particles that make up an organisms brain/sensory receptors. Everything has already been, even as it is yet to be. You are not really here, just as you have been here forever. Everything bangs around inside a jar of predetermined spacetime. Thus, there is no choice, just as there is no real thought. Your consciousness is the miniscule representation of a destiny that has already been played out to it's conclusion. This life you perceive is a hiccup of time reacting with physical matter. You are everything and nothing simultaneously. Death shall dissipate the fabric of your physical body, and thus negate the illusion of 'life' and existance'.

So, in short, 'causality' [img]smile.gif[/img]
Wow; very profound, Hierophant! And I couldn't agree more...
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