"Well, the very reason I can see Leticia's point is my understanding of the Emerald Tablet. Balinas may have said it first, but it makes perfect sense to me. Things don't happen out of nothing, basically, something has to precede something else, as it's cause. At least in the physical realm. A contradiction can be reached through the logic of infinite descent if we take the statement as absolute. But if we regard any finite chain of events, then one thing does appear to lead to another.
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I might be missing something, but a linear chain of events makes sense to me. In the example of me reaching out for something like my potion, Leticia's logic makes sense. Because I already have something, I subsequently reach for something else. But being special, is a different matter. Something has to lead to me being special. Unless of course, well, I have these dreams, almost like memories of being rather, well it would sound silly, but different from a human. A different green shape I occupy in my imagination. If I could believe such an imagining could be true, I suppose it could explain to my satisfaction what makes me special.
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Otherwise, my efforts at self understanding are flustered. Would I have to accept Dr Reynolds nonmaterial ideas then? He could accept that a physical?event has no physical antecedent, but a spiritual one. I suppose his attempts to breach the gap between the physical and the spiritual could be called successful, but I feel a little queasy when something physical cannot be explained in physical terms. It's so...messy, I suppose.
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As for these?'dream demons,' I could surmise that the time flows differently for them than it does for us. After all, this has been reported about the fairies, so why not demons. Very interesting all around, even if I can make but little sense out of it all," Hyde thoughtfully concluded.
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