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Position: We are in the timeline where the apocalypse didn't happen, and that's a choice. Reality is under your control.
Personally, I don't believe that I, the ape called Bear, is the one who controls anything. I am just a thought in your head. A string of memories you control that loosely forms a narrative. The Bear you know doesn't exist outside your head. The you that you know doesn't either.
What 'we' apes can know is just a string of loosely held beliefs tied to experiences and conditioning.
So who is in control of this future and reality, I can honestly say you are. But not the you that you think you are, that particular you is irrelevant, arbitrary, and riddled with false strings.
The you that is afraid of Baba Yaga, the you that can't control your BodyOS, the you who complains about sand niggers, the you that has nightmares about being in a warzone... even the me who complains about liberals and electric cars. That you is a false projection, a glint of light off a perfect gem that has little to do with the gem itself.
(I honestly think Tamamuwu is the only sane one here because I can't recall anything he's shared at least about conditioning or fear or abnormalities. Tamauwu, you seem to be the Marilynn Munster here.)
Anyway, this still applies to you. Because even you think you are something solid, real or permanent, and you're free to believe that, but in reality, just like everyone else, we are all nothing. Immeasurably small, at least two dimensions smaller than who is actually in control, infinitesimally infinitesimal, the period at the end of the Bible, something so small, so insignificant, nothing, yet still there is something there, but it's effectively nothing. Not even by definition something, literally arbitrary at your whim.
Who's whim though? Right? The 'being' if you can call it that, if you believe in non-duality it's the source, could be we're all just part of it. If you believe in souls, that's him, the one who wrote the soul contract perhaps. Whatever you want to believe, whatever you were programmed to believe or choose to believe or believe you have the choice to believe or not, that's the guy.
Somehow, there is feedback, something like if you're playing an RPG and the avatar has a hunger bar and you choose to put that on automatic feeding or feed the character, if the character asks for something you (the big you) can choose to give it to them. Ask and you shall receive.
To follow that analogy, you are here now because you are something worth playing, and the construct, matrix, whatever you want to call it, the simulation is what we can choose to believe is real, but nothing we can experience is actually immutably real. From Donald Trump to George Floyd, we're in an MMORPG, but the avatar can cheat. I've been cheating, it's subtle, not too much or the ape will spaz out.
So my original position is true, given the right interpretation. Just planting seeds here.
We live at his whim, when the avatar does something he doesn't like, revert to past save and continue. The timelines were we die are irrelevant to this timeline, our 'higher self' is a save scummer in that way, but there is always a chance he's on hardcore mode, I don't know that, my point is, we exist, our future existence is at his whim, so be entertaining if you want to continue.
In other words, your anxieties, fears, nightmares, mortal coil, annoyances, temptations and all that are just in the way, drop them. How? This one crazy trick, shadow work, can remove the conditioning, it can help you realize the memories and beliefs are arbitrary, don't waste your life.
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