perspective on action vs inaction

[KYDoug]

There were fascinating responses here. Thank you very much.

I would be very interested to hear more about your ideas of time and Reality, zedro, but I'm not quite sure how. Have you posted a thread on this or written something up about it? Your idea of nodes (in the other thread) was quite stimulating.

And Patrick, I was thinking along those same lines, with some zedro thrown in. More advanced entities might shuttle back and forth in time manipulating events to their desire with some constraints perhaps given by zedro's nodes and continuity considerations. Not sure what that means, but have both sides done this? More to your point, however, Patrick, I know we humans are limited, but could we affect our own situation in the same way not just in the present but in the past (and future?)? Maybe in a more limited fashion and needing mass to do it, but can we be active?

I would guess there needs to be a focused goal - a vision. How many of us lowly humans would be required? Probably no answers but I wonder what would have happened if a certain key event had not happened (there's quite a few scifi stories on that I guess). Say Constantine did not accept Christianity (for his political gain), the church would not be linked to government, the Word might not have been so twisted, and we would have progressed more than we have. Not sure how that would fit into zedro's ideas of continuity. Here in the present, is it possible for humans to focus on an enlightenment goal for us all with some benefit? I think I have read about that. If the "good guys" do not feel it is best to interfere any more than they have, can we pick ourselves up and change the future? I have a feeling that future is fast approaching...