There have always been movies asking about reality, meaning, perception, and time, but Inception is The Matrix on LSD.

It’s a good thing I’m a Christian because the movie Inception was too close to the bone.

I still have a tendency to struggle with the question “What is real?”

The main things in life are resolved (God is real; I am God’s), but old tendencies manifest at 3 in the afternoon as I type a post on a sunny summer day and wonder if it is consequential in any ultimate way, or if working in the garden would be more real. Of course, if I were out in the garden, I would doubt that too.

There have always been movies asking about reality, meaning, perception, and time, but Inception is The Matrix on LSD.

We have not one dream to contend with but three levels, plus layers of memory and flashback and psychological games—in other words, it’s a lot like your own life. In the indeterminate future (or is it the present?)
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My brother used to say, in our Buddhist days (about two weeks long): “If I dream that I am a butterfly, how do I know when I wake up that I am not a butterfly dreaming I’m a man?”

After that we both became Christians, and not a moment too soon.

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