Philosophy:originally posted by Clifford Black

[hannaan joplin]

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[Aaron (Al) Lewis]

This is a pretty good essay of subjective thinking, something that can be a complex module to understand. I have often asked myself where does consciousness come from? It has been suggested to me that consciousness is the universe's way of seeing itself. Now if that is true, I am not saying it is or it is not, just if it were true then that would indicate that the universe itself is with knowledge of itself. There are other suggestions that consciousness is the universe's way of playing a joke on humans to make us think life really matters and has purpose. In other words if life was absurd in itself then what? I can see why some people would think that especially those that are disempowered.

I find it hard to accept that my experience in this plane of existence is just born from some chaotic event in time and space and I was just randomly created. By the same token I find it equally hard to accept that some anthropomorphic being placed me here for some meeting with fate and destiny. That being the case I could just order my existence by simply, asking or begging this being for anything I need.

What I do know is that I am here, for whatever reason, by whatever design. By being here I have a choice, I can choose to be or not to be. Either choice comes with a consequence. Being is a conscious decision and I wonder just how many people on the planet actually choose to be, instead of having the choice not to be made for them? However, at the back of my mind I still wonder if all this thing called life is but an illusion, just the God's way of tricking me into thinking who and what I am really counts. Now that's dissonance for you.

[Clifford Black]

Every now and then I do get a real TICKLE. Must be a trickster around here. (SHANGO)

[Aaron (Al) Lewis]

It took me a while to grok your response, but indeed there is always a trickster around. I have found the trickster is always embedded in myself. Once I disconnect that aspect of the tricknology being utilized as an agent of control I can then exert something all control systems are terrified of......... self control.

[Clifford Black]

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B.