Re: The final furlong
Originally Posted by
Longdogs
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I understand this theory but not sure why any higher being would bother to keep us all in our virtual world. To what end?
Do you grow plants or flowers in your garden?
Did you have children?
Why? What possible purpose does it serve?
Why would you plant a flower or plant seed knowing that it will grow, very briefly blossom in glory, and then wither and die?
Why would you create more human life in the form of children, knowing that just like you they will grow, briefly blossom and then get sick, suffer the hardships of life and modern society and then die?
If you can answer those questions then maybe you have some insight as to why anyone else would "plant" humans and watch them grow and die.
Originally Posted by
Longdogs
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Unfortunately, we will never know the answer, probably even after we die. I can't imagine the 'truth' would ever be revealed to us, which means the only life we know is this one.
You are speaking from a relative viewpoint. From the point of the body from the point of Now. If you are more than this body and not constrained by the Now, then you may have answers and this existence and all the data it provides will be giving you more and more information and answers and experiences.
In the end then it is highly likely imho, that YOU yourself are "God" and that you planted this body, created that spark of life that resulted in your body growing into your current self. Your body is an extension of YOU but it is not you. You are something else, somewhere else, experiencing this physical plane of existence through your body.
When the body dies and the link is severed you will know more than you knew before your body was born. You will have that entire life and all that it experienced to ponder on.