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Join Date: Jun 2003
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Jun 20th, 2003, 11:24 AM
I don't think that qualifies as "fence sitting" really. I think you're bringing a good point to the table, personally. The concept of free-will is also a defining characteristic of humanity in many circles, and your view here is perfectly reasonable.
A human performs billions of independant operations per minute, and seldom do we think about any of them. Nearly all of our actions, big and small, are performed on auto-pilot. As the great philosopher Getty Lee said, however, "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." At any given moment you could spontaneously decide to jump out of a window, taking control of all those minute functions all at once, in a way. You are deciding to let your body operate on its own every second you choose to stay alive.
You can spontaneously decide to do something entirely unpredictable whenever you wish. Yes, you are constrained by many constants that you can't ignore when making your choices... you can't suddenly decide to fly, for instance... but just because you have limitations doesn't make your options so limited as to appear any less than infinite from our perspective.
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mburbank~ Yes, okay, fine, I do know what you meant, but why is it not possible for you to get through a paragraph without making all the words cry?
How can someone who obviously thinks so much of their ideas have so little respect for expressing them? How can someone who so yearns to be taken seriously make so little effort?!
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