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Old 11-15-2006, 10:37 PM
eternomi eternomi is offline
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You gotta ask yourself the following:

"Do my cells make the decisions and move my body? Or do I make the decision and move my cells as a whole?"

If you were a cell inside a human being, would your I-M concept still work? If you are a cell within a larger body (a galaxy perhaps), does your will have any effect? Is there even such a thing?

You might say "Well, I am the only conscious thing around here".. At one point in time, people thought Earth was the center of the universe. That view is long gone. I think eventually "We are -or I am- the only conscious beings" view will be replaced as well.

If we take the "I control my body" approach, when you decide to drink a glass of water, your body has to move in some very intricate ways. The entire motion is coordinated in a complex way. If you were to look at individual cells at different parts of your body while your body is taking care of the "drink water" command, they might appear to be doing unrelated, independent things, but you know at a higher level, they are working toward the single goal drinking water.

Now if you zoom out, human beings are cells of the entity "humanity" working towards some goal that someone(?) set.. Who is that someone? I dunno.. Let's go back to the body: Which cell decided to drink water?

I also started a thread as to why IM, LoA and SR are broken. Take a look if you wish:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/forums/i...-r-broken.html

Last edited by eternomi : 11-15-2006 at 10:43 PM.
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