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Those who say we create our own reality are lying
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 72877982:MV80NDg2NTk4XzgxNzIzMzE5X0U1RjMzNjc5] [quote:3643297:MV80NDg2NTk4XzgxNzIzMDY1X0ExNDI1MkND] And no matter what your reality is, it’s on you because you created it. That’s called a scam. [/quote] If you put someone in a kitchen who has no idea how to bake a cake or what any of the ingredients are and they have no recipe, there is little likelihood that they are going to bake a cake - much less the cake of their dreams. But they will create *something* if they try. Whether they spend the rest of their lives pouting and crying about the not-cake they made 30 years ago or whether they clean the kitchen and try again is up to them. You don't *have* to consciously create anything. You are welcome to bounce around the world letting yourself be controlled by what others create. But that's still creating, you've just created a life where you're subject to the experience of others. You can sit around crying and thinking yourself into a rage, or you can decide to stop that and take responsibility. [/quote]
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I didn't create my own reality when I was bullied at school and after I left school the bullying continued. Just as those who are born into war torn countries and lower organisms who are devoured shortly after birth through predation did not choose this reality for themselves.
Woolly ideas such as, we are each responsible for shaping our own reality, are often promulgated by those who have led charmed and carefree lives so have the luxury of cultivating this viewpoint. It's bad philosophy espoused by clichéd New Age types.
Everything in the universe is down to chance and some people are more lucky than others. The notion that consciousness somehow creates its own reality is absurd and would violate natural laws.
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