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fate vs. free willFrom: Steven
Subject: Philosophy
Date/Time 2009-10-03 07:18:45
Remote IP: 76.251.213.191
MessageI think everyone has a "larger" version of themselves
operating on higher dimensions that has a more global,
uncluttered view of what is best. The "urging" placed
upon the smaller self seems fatalistic, and all sorts of
choices seem to occur to the smaller self which cause
"misery"--but the larger self knows exactly what it is
doing, and can see the big picture.
An analogy: The liver ("smaller self") thinks it's fate
that it suddenly has to detoxify some quantity of alcohol;
the person ("larger self") thinks it's free will
that it has to do so, since it "chose" to drink a glass of wine.
What appears to be fate, is simply the free will of the larger
self that has a better viewpoint and a more intelligent understanding.
What appears to be free will, is simply the attempt of
the smaller self to engage the situation--already planned by
the larger self--but doing so from its limited uninformed perspective.
In other words, the overall story has already been written (for
your best interest). The smaller self only chooses the dialogs
and conversations to have within the overall story . . . and in
fact: while the dialog is "ad libbed" by the smaller self, the
overall idea of what to say was suggested in advance by the larger
self all along. The interaction of a "stream of wills", as you say,
is just the collaboration of multiple participants to the same
storyline.
This is why I think that is important to not take any individual
action or set of actions that happen in everyday life too seriously,
because they are relatively meaningless to the big picture.
S
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