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6. TSB Can Know But Cannot Experience The Future

"Experience" is a tricky word: my dictionary makes reference to (a) "direct observation of or participation in events as a basis for knowledge" and (b) "the fact of state of having been affected by or gained knowledge through direct observation or participation". Another dictionary says, "active participation" and "partaking of personally". Please note the personal emphasis.

The difference between knowing and experiencing is quite sharp. It is the difference between the baby-catcher and the mother. The former knows all about birthing but it is only the mother who has the experience of bringing forth a child. Similarly, you may know X will probably happen but until it does, you haven't experienced it. And experience is the best teacher, as everyone knows, because it is a much fuller and deeper understanding of life. This obvious fact, that knowing does not equal experiencing must , logically, work for any entity. The additional fact that all experiences are unique to that person only enhances the importance (to TSB) of every single person.

Consider, what would be the point of TSB creating anything at all if TSB knew, in the instant of creation, what the resulting experience(s) would be? Even if you mix in "free-will" all the possible choices would be known (to TSB) and, ergo, there would be no reason to create. The Vedanta Sutra flatly says (purportedly) that, "The Lord, the supreme knower of all things, who is the knower in all of us, doesn't know himself...so, to God, nothing could be more mysterious than God". In any even, I say knowing does not equal experiencing and you simply have to do it to get the experience.

The answer is that TSB hasn't the experience of the future. TSB wants to experience for sure and uses US to accomplish that. We are manifestly here and we are manifestly doing stuff and we are manifestly experiencing the results. WE are the ones designated to do the experiencing: we are, to coin a word, the Experiencors of TSB.

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