Schrödinger's Cat had a kitten... or did it?

[Leila Raven]

Oh you know the drill... there is a box, and in this box, there is a kitten... or is there?

When it comes down to belief, faith, whatever you wish to call it, I believe what we find in our box, is whatever we believe we will find in our box.

To those who believe the box holds that miraculous entity, oh kitten, lo and behold, when they open the box, the proof is there for them, voila, kitten. To those who believe the box is empty, the proof is there for them, the box is empty. It doesn't matter what your beliefs... the box of your subjective beliefs always holds.. you got it.. your subjective beliefs.. whatever they may be.

So is there anything in the box... yes and no, there is nothing in the box, and there is -everything- in the box, both, and neither. Perhaps there is no box, or perhaps there are infinite boxes.

Greater truths lay in paradoxes, and subjective truths come in boxes, of our own creation filled with the manifestations of our expectations.

What's important is to realize that you have the right box for you, and to respect what other people experience in their own box is as valid as what you experience in yours...

Meow.

The Katt.

[Ernie Hopkins]

Always thought provoking Luv!!! A dilemma discussed over scotch and a cigar more than once!!!

[Zephonith Serpent Woman]

Hello, Leila!

I guess it all comes down to the fact that no-one can ever be the same as anyone else. This is reflected in Nature, and one of the most profound discoveries for me in early childhood, was to read that no single daisy petal is the same as another. Considering the basically uncountable number of individual petals on the billions of flowers on Daisy bushes the world over, this to me, was always an amazing and ultimately reassuring meditation to "fall back on", whenever someone else told me that my way was wrong, and that i was not living up to the expectations of others.

"Care about other's opinions, and you will always be their prisoner" ~ Lao Tsu

Just a thought ~ perhaps within the box itself, lies the paradox? hehe

BB

[Catherine Sarah Hislop]

This reminds me of a conversation i had recently with a young person who thinks everything is going wrong in his life. his friends are negative force etc etc... I said to him thta when we feel negative about what is happening in our life .. we draw negative to us.

i asked him to look in the mirror and praise himself for the positive he ahs dome and the positive he has.. Slowly those who are negative started to leave his life.