Hmmm - Well I woke up this morning and there you were. But if you hadn't been, I couldn't have been either, and the world wouldn't have been the same. But since you are and I am, we are, and so are all the rest of us. And when I get really into us I notice that it's all one thing anyhow, so really there isn't any "you" or "me" or "them" or "we", but just It. And I guess that It felt like being us today.

Thanks, God. I enjoyed it.

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This concept of being "here" makes me want to change the further philosophical statement:

"To be or not to be, that's the question."

To:

"To be... because you cannot not be... there is no question."

Cosmic undertakings,

PUL,
Cosmic_Ambitions

Greetings, eggshellseas,
[I tried to quote all your replies to date but it wouldn't work for me.  Now I am jealous.  ]
I think maybe you are getting those replies that kid you abit, because they want you to smile. --Not with a smilie face tho.

Two purposes for life have come up previously---to love and to learn. Love is everywhere, so that leaves, as you said, to learn.  This is one of the denser places to learn, one of the lower worlds, I hear, so I try to imagine what repercussions that has for our learning here:
It seems that density requires effort, patience, and perserverance that might not be important in realms less dense. So our will must adjust, maybe strengthen and become more able to modulate too.
Loving and learning about forms that are so solid, as compared to wispier or more fluid life elsewhere, means to me that I want to be able to find beauty and learn how to take care of it, to learn to see consciousness in even the densest and to treasure it.
Since they've not released me from here yet, there must be other aspects of this place I'm supposed to learn about but darned if I know what they are. I just pray for all of us that we learn our lessons here the quickest, least painful, most loving way possible.
bets

If you wanted to, could you incarnate yourself into a different time? Say 16th century, for example? Or at the dawn of human time even?

James, from what I understand, yes, we can incarnate into any future or past time. Now I think this would be according to what it is we need to learn, not just for fun or the 'heck of it.'

Love, Mairlyn