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Old Sep 12th, 2003, 10:39 PM       
Just out of curiousity, why did you use the word "Deterministic" to explain yourself?
It seems kind of futile to use that word.. deterministic basically means "The past influencing our futures", can you argue that your decisions are not composed of elements of the past? Whenever you type you are using a language you had to learn, which is an element of the past.
The "Deterministic form of perfection" is relative, remember when you were a young kid and you wanted to be an astronaut, so you would work on pretending you were floating around in space? Or when you were 14 and you thought the most perfect thing in the World was to be one of the "Cool kids". Yet in all these circumstances there were kids who wanted to be other things, or who were other things. How did they get there? Do you still want to be an astronaut or one of the "Cool Kids"? This goes off on two angles, and both fulfill important parts of the topic. I'll discuss them later...
Why don't you walk around lighting yourself on fire? Because at a young age you learned that fire is hot, and fire hurts. Isn't this deterministic? If you did decide to light yourself on fire as some sort of appeasement to God or society, isn't it also still working towards the deterministic measure of being perfect, in this case fitting in with God or Society?
If you are talking on a more universal level, let me know.



edit: it cut off half my post :/
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