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Dang, ISM, you said everything I could have, only better! Was it fate that I didn't read this until after you posted?

The thing that stands out most is you share my belief that time is happening all at once. It's rare that I find somebody who will consider that.

I believe we create the world around us. My husband challenged me on that, asking me if the world really was flat and the center of the universe when everybody believed that to be true. I couldn't answer that, though my initial thought is that yes, somehow, it had to be flat. I'm reading a book on quantum physics and the "observer effect" seems to bring us back to humans creating our world by thought. At the very least, we create the kind of interactions that we choose. If I smile at somebody while shopping at the mall, hopefully their day is just a tiny bit brighter, and they may pass that on to the next person or two. Tiny sparks, true, but it's at least on the preferred side of the balance sheet.

I believe we choose the circumstances of our life. If I had a really good life in a particular circumstance, one would think I would choose it again. I would meet the same kind of people there as in the past, hopefully, so the same souls would be drawn together again.

I believe coincidence is more than chance. I'm not quite sure what it means, but it means something.

I do believe in a higher power, though it could be created by man's consistant belief and need. The Norse (I am told) believed the gods changed with man and his belief. This definitely makes sense to me.