Page 817 - Atlas of Creation Volume 3
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Harun Yahya
A STADIUM FULL OF FANS EACH WATCHING
A DIFFERENT MATCH IN THEIR BRAINS
Someone who enters a stadium to watch a match thinks spectators, and nobody can distinguish between his own
that he is watching the same game as everyone else, but image and the reality. Neither the fans in the stadium, nor
he is completely wrong. those sitting in front of their screens at home can see the
That is because a different pitch, players, fans and every- true image. That is because nobody can step outside the
thing else form a different image in the brain of everyone screen in his brain and make direct contact with what is
there. However, all the thousands of people there think outside it. All that these people can see is the information
that there is only one match, and that everybody is watch- that reaches the screens in their brains. What sees it all is
ing it. Even those watching at home think they are seeing the soul. It is the Lord of the Heavens and the Earth, God,
the same game. Who creates the soul, and the images which so resemble
However the same number of images form as there are the reality for every human being individually.
nal independent entity. For that reason we can never know whether these originals exist in the external
world, or not."
The fact that we do not walk over the edge of a cliff does not mean that we see the external world as
it really is. When we walk along a straight path and then stop at the cliff edge, we are walking along a
path in our brain, and see the cliff edge in our brain. In fact, even if we do fall off the edge of the cliff, we
still perceive doing so in our brains. That happens in exactly the same way as when a bus hits us, or a dog
bites us, as we have seen above. When we fall off the cliff, the pain of any injuries or broken bones we suf-
fer still forms in our brains.
Objection: "There is no doubt that God shows us these images in order to test us. However, why should
God, the Creator of all actions, bring about such a test?"
Reply: Naturally, God has no need to test people to see their attitudes, since it is our Lord who has
created all events, times and places. God is not constrained by time and place. What for us are the past
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