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Old 05-11-2007   #8 (permalink)
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Default Re: The Illusion of Free Will

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Originally Posted by panickedthumb View Post
LegoAddict: But then, we aren't changing our opinions just because we want to change our opinions. The irrefutable evidence puts us in a situation where we are unable to stop the changing of opinions.

Round and round the perpetual motion machine goes.
We're getting to the point in that mightely roundabout way that becomes us 'thinkers', i.e. humans. Which is not to figure out whether or not we have free will - you won't figure it out, the point is just to be, to dwell in the now, the present moment where the whole question of freewill or religion or tea doesn't arise. Be the doing . . . of course you have no choice in this

And tea may arise, just don't think about it and it may disappear and be replaced by beer and then it's time to act
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