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if I ever write a book, there is going to be a character in the story named Ivory Lee.
Wow! That's very nice of you to say that. You made my night. You really did. Thank you.
It's quite obvious you are a very intelligent person with the most exquisite taste.
If you ever do write a book with the character Ivory Lee in it, please be sure and let me know and I'll buy at least 10 copies. Keep one for myself, and give the other 9 to friends and kin as Christmas gifts and birthday presents.
Well, Tzap is a female. Hence the sensitivity to a beautiful name. But indeed, it is a pleasant combination. Spurlock.. Goldilock.... Like a magic story character.
Also it's a great psychological example of how little it takes to get someone's gratitude and financial support.
@ApeFace.... Post #53. Worship is the key word. This is what a "god" requires to exist. Worship. What is worship? Worship is willing (sort of) donation of one's energy to what one believes to be a deity.
A deity is an information -energy construct. It is initiated when two start thinking along the same mental energy lines. Their thinking creates an information-energy constract, usually referred to as egregore. There is another term for this - pendulum. To me, it is simple choice of word, I consider them both same.
Egregore exists only when being fed on human energy. Aka, worship. As one of the types of energy. Egregore grows, as number of its supporters grows. Think of Peter and Paul. Fathers of the church. They could definitely be called fathers as they put major effort into Christian egregore creation.
As egregore grows in its might, just like a mindless ameba, it has to feed itself. Hence, it keeps his worsippers in its tentacles AND starts looking for new feeding grounds, for new worshipers.
Egregore instinctively keeps its feeding ground to itself only. It will influence its flock with all kinds of limitations with one and only purpose - to stay alive and to be fed.
This below says it all:
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am o jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of then that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.' Exod 20: 4-6.
This above is simple and clear proof to what I said. Egregores fight between themselves for feeding grounds. Hence, various kinds of animosities and outright battling between people. It does not have to religious only, as egregores are of kinds uncountable. Sports, for example. Corporate meme. You name them. Remember, where the two think along the same lines, egregore is created and feeding needs to be done. So even members of the same beach volleyball club have their egregore. But the most powerful ones, historically, were religious ones as they pasture of billions.
They come to exist, they flower, they seize to be, as their worship parishes away. So it happened with ancient gods of various kinds.
Egregore, or thoughtform, or tulku, been known to those in the know forever. This is a dangerous knowledge as, one who knows how to conceive a desired egregore and how to control it, use for his purpose, can conquer the world. Without realizing that, in a short bit, he is nothing but a feeding unit to egregore itself.
I've felt this way before. If he bothers to create human beings and give them life, why not bother to create them to worship him.
No hell needed
That would be too easy!
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