: From CGI member Mike:

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O.K.

Well, I didn't use the word soul because it originally meant physical body, plain and simple. Its been corrupted to mean some kind of vaporous spirit thing, so I don't like to use that word.

On to mystery. There are two kinds of mystery. The first is a common mystery. An example would be that you don't know what has fallen between the cushions of the couch in the last several years. That's the type of mystery I was referring to. The second type would be something that one accepts without reasonable proof. This is commonly referred to as an article of faith or belief. I don't like articles of faith. However, if I find that I'm crutching on one I seek remedy as soon as practical.

Now for the stuff in BIG print.

-Question everything.
I do. Its fun!

-Seek proof through experience.

Experiential proof always starts as subjective. But, if it correlates with other proofs it sometimes can be considered objective. Depends on the frame of reference. Its a fun game.

-Believe in the possibility of the impossible.
I am just all on board with that! The possible is impossibly confining; like a playground with one ride. I like to think of impossible as impossibly large; like a playground with no back fence and at least an infinite number of rides that would be impossible to ever finish. This makes possible bigger and more interesting.

-But don't be duped into believing anything unprovable, but be open minded if the unprovable is proven through your personal experience.
See, Seek proof through experience, above.

Just for fun, lets take this to a bottom line. The barbarian said it best about fifty-thousand years ago. He said, “If life is an illusion then I am also an illusion, and thus it is real to me.”.

Everything is points. Points of agreement, of interest, of accord, of view, of contention, of experience, in common, of separation, of belief and disbelief and on and on and on. Everything is just points. And so the point is that points do not exist. They are hypothetical articles of faith that cannot be proven to exist because they simply cannot exist by their own definition. Points are imaginary co (cooperative) ordinates which define a grand or ground illusion upon which we agree and of which we are a part, and thus it is real to us. Because it is illusion all things are possible and no-thing is impossible in as much as you wish to make that real.

Ultimately subjectivity and objectivity are illusions, as are fact and fiction. The game isn't made to be played that deep, unless that's what you want to do. Most people would rather sit on the ground and play in the dirt, the DNA. The playground isn't buried, its on top of the ground illusion.

One can play pure deterministic games or pure free will games or composite games. Put yourself anywhere on the scale that you would like to be at any time. Its all games; its all good.

But I agree, just because someone says it or writes it doesn't make it so. Not even if you or I say or write.

Right now I'm occupied as a man in the Save the Republic game with other people. The bad guys are impossibly far ahead with only a few seconds on the clock. But if possible co (cooperative) ordinates can be reset to larger than impossible the good guys could still win. Its a real good game.

What games do you like?