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kentuck

(115,137 posts)
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 10:16 AM 23 hrs ago

The Parallel Realities

Two opposing "truths" cannot exist at the same time. One will match the facts as we perceive them. The other will match the illusions as we perceive them. You may tell yourself that when the plane crashes, you will bounce away from the wreckage unharmed. That is an illusion. When the plane crashes and burns, you will be blown to smithereens, like everyone else. That is the fact. They can be very annoying in our illusory world.

But, we are living in one or the other parallel realities right now. We are either living in a factual world or we are living in a world of illusions. Both seem to be real. But they are not. There are laws of physics that determine reality. We are not Houdini. We cannot make them disappear.

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