To be perfectly honest: we talk like we haven't had practitioners centuries and thousands of years before us, when you know, they didn't have guns, and missiles, and more effective ways to kill people.
As individuals and practitioner, sure, we're 'able' to will actions and things into existences. But on the other hand we are hubristic enough to accredit the action to our individual persona, as opposed to thousands of events that occurred that let up to the events, and we're simply taking the credit for what happened.
I'm kind of a supercalvinist/closet-hindu, so I sort of found this idea kind of peculiar~ just my two cents.
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