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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot  It's just a little ... noteworthy ... to me that while you shy away from the notion of a universe that magically reacts to your thoughts, you don't shy away from the notion of an invisible, all-powerful, omnipresent deity that magically responds to your prayers. |
Just to be clear, I don't think of God as a genie or someone who's sitting in the sky saying Yes or No to prayers. I'm not exactly sure what God is. At best, I just consider God to be some type of "Higher Being." My prayer habits are something leftover from my Christian years. If I'm being intellectually honest (and I always try to be), I really don't know for certain if I'm talking to a God when I pray, or if I'm talking to myself. Either way, I feel good about it, and it seems to help bring results into my life.
Does the universe magically react to our thoughts, or do we magically react to our universe? Did Steve create the opportunity for himself, or was there always an opportunity for a personal development blogger and Steve came in at the right time to fit the bill? Are our thoughts creating brand new realities or are our thoughts bending our own minds to see opportunities that were always there? At the end of the day, I suppose it doesn't matter, but it does matter when we're trying to explain
why or
how it all works. But as I've said in the past, I think we could come up with many theories, but I'm more interested in turning on lightbulbs than discussing the inner workings of electricity, if you know what I mean.