>>>>Each person has been given a measure by God of all those components which make us distinctly unique and individual.
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>>>And there are other sources for these components. Even we heathens get ideas, believe it or not.
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>>The Universe? That's about a vague of a concept as God if you approach it objectively.
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>I wouldn't go that far. Even though the Universe is everywhere, I still prefer to mark my brain as the source of my ideas.


Do you by chance recall the chapter in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance that discusses ghosts?



>Proof: if I'd suffer a serious brain damage, these ideas would stop coming. This doesn't prove that they originate there, but then if they came from elsewhere, they could conceivably come through some other brain, in which case they wouldn't be my ideas.
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>Mind you, I do love the Universe, because it's my home.