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|    chris rodgers to All    |
|    Re: how's that free will been workin' fo    |
|    31 Jul 21 16:04:06    |
      From: allreadydun@gmail.com              > ### - it's not difficult, because there's nada to refute haha :)))              so how's that free will been workin' for ya then?       No answer to the question?              > i.e., both day & night exist, even though they are the complete opposite       > of each other and therefore incompatible...              they are not complete opposite. Geezus.              > iow: it's a false premise to suggest they're incompatible when, in       > reality, they are actually both only part of the same thing albeit       > seen/viewed from different/partial perspectives only! day & night only       > 'appear' to be a contradiction/paradox but aren't; they're just the 2       > sides of the same one coin :)              blah blah blah, what is this demo talk? You been listening to bozo Biden       again ?              > freewill and determinism are therefore not incompatible at all and are       > similarly just part of the same one thing albeit seen/viewed from some       > kinda partial pov that creates the false premise that they're separate       > items...              they are two separate items.              > it's a simple enough idea, so then the solution is equally simple: ya       > simply remove the 'I' from the equation and the problem goes away because       > the 'question' never exists in the first place hah!              new age bypass work? wtf?              > i.e., take the 'I' out of everything and ya don't even have to 'ask' the       > question because the question, which doesn't then exist, doesn't ever       > arise! :)              Christ your truck broke down out in right field somewhere.       get back in the game dufus.              > perforce in resolving this problem this leaves a person in a kind of       > zen-state wherein 'I' doesn't ever enter into anything, false/fake       > intellectual concepts like free will disappear altogether and the question       > then never arises because other, more real, things come to the fore       > instead: such as acting more in harmony with the world around us instead       > of being intellectually separated from it by indulging in this concept of       > there being an 'I' who can (albeit only in its imagination) seemingly act       > apart from everything else via indulging in a purely intellectual +       > separated sense of 'I'              i think you listened to too much Allan Watts or something.       zen shmen, do you have free choice or don't you?              > no 'I', no problem, no bs ;)              you either have a free choice or you don't.       and not choosing is also a choice, so you can't weasel out here zen boy.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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