by SEG

Created on: June 12, 2008   Last Updated: November 15, 2011

Although we each create our subjective experience of the world, that is to say our supervening understanding of it, the objective world none the less remains independent of us.

And while our self-awareness makes us available for constructive critiques of ourselves, the world is not subject to our critiques of it; after all we didn’t create it, it created us.  

Yet thinking otherwise I might say:  “This can't possibly be a perfect World; if it was wouldn't it be exactly the way I want it to be?”

Our perceptions and thoughts reach out and intercept the world; but our subjective experiences are flexible and evolving understandings of a not-so-flexible and objectively independent physical world: we can transform our thoughts about an objective world we cannot transform.

And while we’re available for constructive critiques of ourselves, self-awareness is to reach in, transform and re-create our self, the objective world is not available for our critiques of it; we don’t reach out and create the world, it creates us.

“This can't possibly be a perfect World… if it was wouldn't it be the way I want it to be?”

Each morning I float languidly to my ideal job in a blazingly colored hot-air balloon, sipping Perrier and scattering rose petals down upon the changeless, verdant earth below. After landing upon my office building, the most beautiful office building in the world, I then proceed to my spacious corner office and begin the day counting my money for a couple of hours-  before teleporting to Bangkok for my morning tea and crumpet.

That's my perfect world.

But I suppose, under the present conditions, about the only thing good I can say about this place is that we still have free-will;  we can pretty much do what we want while we're here: good or bad; nice or mean; smart or dumb.

So I guess I'll use this free-will of mine to change the things I really don't like about this world of mine:

-  It's alive with danger: I'm being forced to become courageous.

-  It's littered with challenges: I'm being forced to grow.

-  People are difficult: I'm being forced to become patient.

- It's got too much love in it: I'm being forced to be happy.

- My brain is too big: I’m being forced to think too much about all this stuff.

“But wait a second… this isn’t really *my* world after all, only my thoughts about it are mine.”

Perhaps this free-will of mine is playing a larger

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