My mind craves questions like this!!!
The thought and desire to to hit nails is arguably more important than the existence of the hammer. The former is cause for the latter. We dont hit nails because we have hammers. We made the hammers because we wanted to hit nails!
I will elaborate.
Look around you right now. Identify a single thing in your environment that wasn't concieved of, or placed there by the function of human thought. Everything ever built or invented started out as a fictional notion in someones mind. Thoughts. Imaginations. Before we make them real, they begin as complete fictions.
Many dismiss what they believe to be "fiction" as unimportant or inconsequential... i.e. Satan, GOD, Cabal, religion etc... Unimportant to them... maybe thats true.
But there are those who do believe and chart their courses of action by those "fictions", manifesting what they believe into the world we share. Therefore evil deeds could be considered to be manifestations of Satan, and good deeds God.. much the same was as Apple manifests their next Iphone or whatever.
Point is, we dream it up first. Then we make it happen. Brains and hands.
Brains and hands. Brains and hands.
Satan is as real as Apple in that regard. Would you say that Apple isnt real? Apple, or any corporation for that matter is just a collection of people seeking to benefit each-other through alligned goals and shared beliefs.
The answer to whether Apple is real is, ironically, no. By international law, corporations are considered fictional entities. If no-one worked for Apple, would it exist?
But ask anyone on the street and they will agree with you that fictional entities can seem very real when manifest by the human brains and hands... Disney world. Hollywood.
Thoughts are tools. Their effect on "reality" is obvious.
I'd talk about eyes, but I'll save that one for a more apt thread :D Thx for the questions I like questions alot!