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Originally Posted by Radical  If that was the case, then how could we ever form a belief in the first place?
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The answer to both questions is choice. That's all a belief really is. You're free to make whatever choices you desire, including the option of believing that you have no choice.
The only choices that matter are those you're making right now through the application of intention plus attention. There are no past choices, only present ones.
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I'm sure you don't really believe that your entire past is just a fabrication of your current present beliefs, and that if you truly believed you were president at some point, then you could radically alter American political history... do you?
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The past doesn't exist at all. It's merely a formless concept. Only the present is real.
If you change your beliefs about the present, the past doesn't need to be altered since it isn't real to begin with.
Referencing the past is a convention of communication which has its uses, but the past has no actual presence in physical reality, no more than Santa Claus or the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Try your hardest to show me the past, and all you'll do is show me part of the present. The past is purely in your imagination, a mental delusion you're choosing to subscribe to.