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  CHOICE may be a mere illusion. FREE WILL a trick of the mind's ego

  by Terry in

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  things are what they are.. everything acts according to its nature.. nothing escapes its own nature.. we cannot be other than what we are and our "choices" follow our nature.. consequently, can we not say correctly that free choice is merely our ignorance of the fact that all our actions and choices are predetermined by our nature?.

  1. if you are offered either a handful of dog poop or a cold dove bar---is your "choice" really much of a choice?

  2. offer a heterosexual male a night with a hot chick or a hot dude...is the outcome really "choice"?

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  How can a measurement be made? Unless you can see into anothers mind their is no way to measure. Even then you are measuring with your own yardstick.
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  What is Truth?

  by AK - Jeff in

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  if one 'googles' the phrase, you get 167,000,000 hits!.

  'bing' it, and you get 129,000,000 hits.. here is a sampling of opinion from just the first page of google hits.. 1] douglas groothuis, ph.d., teaches philosophy at denver seminary.

  here is his 'take' on truth: http://www.leaderu.com/theology/groothuis-truth.html.

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  The Gladiator has it right. No one really knows the truth, all are just opinions of what their reality is for them.
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  CHOICE may be a mere illusion. FREE WILL a trick of the mind's ego

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  things are what they are.. everything acts according to its nature.. nothing escapes its own nature.. we cannot be other than what we are and our "choices" follow our nature.. consequently, can we not say correctly that free choice is merely our ignorance of the fact that all our actions and choices are predetermined by our nature?.

  1. if you are offered either a handful of dog poop or a cold dove bar---is your "choice" really much of a choice?

  2. offer a heterosexual male a night with a hot chick or a hot dude...is the outcome really "choice"?

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  I think its more complicated than just free will. Your existence itself is due to a chemical bonding, if your fathers sperm met with a different womans egg you would not be you. So that coming into existence is really a chemical or biological action. So where does consiouness come to play to have free will? Your thoughts and emotions are chemical in nature and driven by various parts of your brain and hormone producing glands. So I think the only free will you may have is a subset of choices that exist within your biological makeup. So in that vein the question is " Is that freewill"
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  Melbourne Australia weather right now....what's your weather like today and where are you?

  by Witness 007 in

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  took my dogs for a walk on a beatiful mild sunny day 24 degrees.

  winter is coming soon so i cleaned our wall heater!

  i have never seen snow here but our cars and lawns can frost over with cold night temps so hows your weather?.

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  Its mostly sunny and should hit 64 F today, No wind, snow on the Sierra Madre. Going to be a beatiful day in Reno.
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  Ok, it's the new world, you've been alive for 30 million years now and you still look 30

  by gubberningbody in

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  someone else, on th other hand is really just 30.. then both of you get invited to a party and the group play scrabble.. won't that be a bit awkward?.

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  Being 30 million years old will probably make scrabble a little boring. But say that you put that time to good use and are able to create new games such as "hide the black hole in a sack" or maybe c"apture a moon beam with a toothpick" then boredom becomes only a past time suffered by the dull. Maybe 30 million years old is considered young by the old ones.
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  Atheist with crisis of conscience. Please help.

  by parakeet in

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  i'm an atheist having a serious crisis of conscience.

  please help.. i've read many, many posts that talk about atheism as a faith as distinct as any other faith.

  there has also been much made of the atheist lifestyle.. my dilemma -- i don't know what the atheistic faith entails.

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  This has been a good exchange of thought, no faith intended. Existentialism aside, a good whack at co-adhesion has surfaced.
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  Why do you come here?

  by paul from cleveland in

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  After being indoctrinated by the borg and having doubt about a lot that is taught I took to study to try to understand what was being taught. I finally gave it up and walked because all that study confirmed my doubt about the so called truth. When I discovered this place and read so many posts the echoed my thoughts I was hooked. There is every sort here, scholar to athiest, believers and haters, the thing that makes this place special is that there is open discussion and opinion without much damnation. Whilst I don't post often I do read it all with great interest.
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  In most relationships the woman is better looking than the man

  by Quillsky in

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  this leaves ugly women as the most unlikely to find partners.. please discuss..

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  You must remember that beauty is only skin deep but ugly is to the core.
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  A Feckless Thug

  by AllTimeJeff in

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  just a few words on this rather extraordinary scene from "the west wing".

  the video below shows the president, jed bartlett, after losing his secretary tragically, who has known jed since high school.

  the entire episode centers on a crossroads as the fictional president is going through a lot of personal turmoil while losing someone he has loved and known for 40 years.

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  I think this was more of a WTF from Jed than anything else. Losing someone you love is one of the most cold slaps in the face that humans have to bear. The context of this story is about how little control we have of so many circumstances in our lives, even the most powerful person in the world cannot have it their way. Using "feckless thug" as a term in this scene had to be a brilliant insight for the writer, where else could such a term be used with so much impact than in a church to god by the president. Really skillfull writing.
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  Beating God’s Rotted, Dead Horse’s Corpse

  by Nephilim in

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  beating gods rotted, dead horses corpse .

  at erin's party on friday, myke "bertrand russel" chilian came bounding up to me with this disappointed smirk on his face and "confronted" me about this rumor he'd just heard that i believe in god.. .

  nobody hears me when i explain this, i feel like i'm talking into a paper bag: the phrase "believe in god" is beneath me, that's how awesome i am.

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  There is nothing like individual thought to to push thesis and anti-thesis to the brink of new knowledge.