Just think! Imagine for a minute that everything was transparent. That’s right. Everything. Our bodies, solid objects, our thoughts, molecular structure, right down to the very atoms! Is this a silly thought? Yes and no. We are not omniscient and that is a good thing, but it is helpful to think about it because we would immediately cast aside several fallacies common to human thought and spend more time thinking about more important things. We would realize that all the items around us that we can perceive were formulated in thought and made into a tangible representation of that thought. No thought, no bridges, roads, computers etc. We would immediately abandon our attraction to materialism. We would also realize that our future is only subject to where we are right now and quite unrelated to our present concept of time. We would also begin to hold the same view of our past. These concepts would revolutionize our ideas about birth and death, race, gender and a host of other intellectual concepts. In one fell swoop we would get rid of wars, dishonesty, and bigotry. There would be no need to conceal anything. We would not be offended by nudity. We would understand our thoughts, other people’s thoughts, and our bodies and how our thoughts affect all of our actions even our health. Race would be irrelevant since all humans look exactly the same inside. We would realize that the reason why we are so confused is that we only concentrate on what we can see and create an incredible fiction based on a lack of understanding of what is invisible but just as relevant.
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