My beliefs

[Antrax]

[Coyote]

As for the space-time continuum, mudbuck has already stated that the Universe is not constrained by Time, so I don't see a problem there.

Let's say, as Being A, you have a time-machine bracelet clamped to your wrist at year zero. At year ten, you punch a few buttons on the bracelet and zap back to year three, and begin a new life as Being B. After five happy and productive years as Being B, you again punch the bracelet, zap back to year seven, and enjoy another four years of life as Being C.

From the viewpoint of an outside observer, there are three seperate entities living between year seven and eight, all claiming to be the same entity. But from the viewpoint of Being ABC, there is only one entity existing in an unbroken nineteen-year stretch, from Being A's year zero to Being C's year eleven.

Of course, to make the analogy fit properly with mudbuck's belief system, we'd have to add the proviso that operating the time-bracelet automatically wipes all memories from Being ABC each time it's used, which negates Being ABC's view of a continuum, and therefore any meaningful identity between Beings A, B, and C.

But mudbuck maintains that there is meaningful identity between those three beings, and indeed between them and all states of existence. This suggests that there must be some Observer to preserve the continuum. It can't be any particular subset of the Universe, since by Step 2 we know that all such subsets are restricted as to interactions with the Universe. Therefore, the Universe as a whole must be set in the role of Observer in order to preserve the continuum of identities throughout time/space.

Ergo, the Universe is God. ~QED

[GH]