Illusion

EVERYTHING YOU SEE IS ILLUSION. Even if you don't believe me... now you know.

The future is that part of the past that, in the present, hasn't happened yet. Time is only one small part of the larger illusion.

Why you see what you see: light bounces off of an object, strikes your eye, sending a signal to a part of your brain that doesn't "see," but interprets the electrical signals it receives, transforming the interpretation of those signals into a mental vision representing the external object. YOUR MIND SEES, NOT YOUR EYE! It's an illusion!

So ultimately YOU SEE WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE, not necessarily what's really there.

All five of the RECOGNIZED senses are as subject to mental interpretation as eyesight. What does or doesn't taste good depends on a person's preconceived ideas about taste. Somebody loves bananas, someone else hates them. It's the mind, not the taste buds that make that decision.

Beauty and ugly are "in the eye of the beholder." The mind of the beholder fabricates sliding scales of physical attractiveness to decide who's attractive and who isn't. A woman might use Antonio Banderas as a subconscious model for comparison. When she sees someone who looks somewhat like him, she thinks he's "handsome." If she sees someone who looks nothing at all like him, he's "ugly."

An attraction to a personality can also be influenced by subconscious comparisons, positive or negative. The Hollywood "bad boy" fictional characters have shaped the minds of women from childhood, helping them discern the difference between a "sexy" personality and a "wimpy" one. Unfortunately, in REAL LIFE, a "bad boy" is a male with no self-control. Maybe he drinks too much, drives drunk, drops a little acid now and then, picks fights, has a violent temper. Unfortunately, the qualities that separate "bad boy" from "good boy" are also the very qualities that make a so-called bad boy the WORST POSSIBLE husband, father or even lover. The difference between a "good" or "bad" person, whatever gender, is their level of self-control, patience and empathy for others. And everyone has those qualities to different degrees, so a good or bad person isn't exactly clear-cut. If God is ALL GOOD and the devil is ALL BAD, nobody is completely good like God or evil like the devil. Which means there's no such thing as a "nice guy" either. "Nice guys" are as much a Hollywood fiction as "bad boys."

What music sounds good, whether you love or hate the color orange, whether you think 75° weather is sweltering hot or freezing cold... all of those opinions about the material world are mind-over-matter, not determined by the information your sense organs receive, but by experiences and comparisons lurking in your subconscious mind that influence how you INTERPRET incoming sensory data.

So in the two worlds, the worlds of Matter and Spirit, the material world our bodies live in is an illusion. It's temporary, relative and easily misunderstood. On the other hand, the intangible world our minds live in is so misunderstood that some people refuse to even recognize its existence. Yet, that's the true, permanent world that would still exist even if the material world went up in radioactive mushroom clouds. That's the world of the immortal, subconscious Soul.

So why does the world focus so much on the illusion? Material possessions that make you happy for a little while, until you lose interest and want something (or someone) new?

People are so materially focused that even their religions, churches and preachers dangle material rewards in front of their sheep as an incentive to be "good," or to believe their dogmas. If you do the right things or BELIEVE the right magical combination of doctrines, you'll receive a physical mansion in heaven, a crown of jewels, a planet to rule over or a pile of obedient virgin wives. Whatever the promise, it's a material reward for "proper" spiritual behavior. Why should there have to be ANY physical reward for doing the right thing? If you give one thing with the motive of receiving something else, that's not a gift, it's a business transaction. If you buy a couch for your living room, that doesn't really qualify as a selfless charitable act. So how "good" is appropriate human kindness if it was done for the purpose of material reward?

While some people who know me may be doubting my sanity or wisdom, please try to understand this. The material system of money and CRAP we don't really need, the political system, the worldwide military posturing, the religious structures, EVERYTHING YOU CAN SEE is an illusion to me. That's why I don't support ReCommuCrat politicians, taxpayer-funded social programs, religions, pop culture or anything, really, that excites most people. ALL I really care about is, "do for others what you would want them to do for you," and "don't do to another person anything you would hate." I believe that's the only lifestyle that really pleases God. And in case you were wondering, I'm pretty sure that's What Jesus Would Do.