>>13659111
Reminds me of the following:
- someone wealthy wants to learn about magic.
- they go put and study all the magic in the world at every location and point in history.
- then they gather it all up and look for commonalities.
- at first they find none, all magic shared absolutely nothing in common they all disagreed on everything.
- but then the man realizes the common properties of all magic was stating right at him all along.
- they all worked when and where people believed they did, and stopped working when people stopped believing it.
- then he does a thought experiment, he imagined an omnipotent being, who was able to make anything happen without only his mind.
- in the beginning this being was all that existed, but not for long, as with his power he made other things come to exist.
- one of these things was a being exactly like himself, with identical power.
- at this point where there are two omnipotent beings, one can imagine everything in reality being like a weight suspended with two ropes, each one in the grip of one of the two omnipotent beings, and what happens to reality itself is determined in the same way as what direction the weight is pulled by the two beings In their tug of war game.
- upon the creation of a third being, the nature of existence is now being pulled by three ropes instead of just two, and the same rules apply.
- so then we can imagine ten thousand omnipotent beings, ten thousand gods, each one a being of absolute power, but with that power diminished by one another's presence.
- so then, as you may expect, this story ends with the reveal that the gods described in this story are us, each of us is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and eternal, except for the interference of everybody else, and their power.
- it also frames power as being used unconsciously and unintentionally on a constant basis by those who have no awareness that they possess this power.Post too long. Click here to view the full text.