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'Not-B' does not equal AFrom: Steven
Subject: Philosophy
Date/Time 2009-10-09 23:03:44
Remote IP: 76.251.213.191
MessageOK, now I *am* starting to feel like we are in that
argument video you posted, LOL.
It's not just a pre-natal influencing the post-natal situation.
Pre-natal dictates what you came here with, the parameters
of your manifestation. You can grow beyond these parameters
by speeding up your storyline through alchemy.
What I'm discussing is completely different,
and more core than that. I'm not talking about having
impulses that you brought in with you; I'm talking about
following an overall plan created for your benefit by
a higher version of you, and all free will actions that
you think you are making are just the things the higher
version of you already knew you were going to do.
I'm going to be as direct as possible:
The lower-you, the you that you identify with, is just
the physical projection into linear time of the higher-you
that has already *by free will* made certain decisions,
which you are now carrying out faithfully. The only
difference in the now, is the extra depth of understanding
from the physical experience (refer to my prior tennis
analogy), and the possibility of speeding up the storyline
if the lower-you chooses to do so. That's it. It's really
that simple. Now it's just a matter of enjoying the
drama as it unfolds. The experience enriches the immortal
higher-you, and simultaneously helps the mortal lower-you
grow up and join its older brother.
Rainbowbear said it best:
"Desire, goals, ..... we think we have choice. Think back.
What really could you have done different considering your emotional state,
physical state and state of what was surrounding you.
Do you think you really had a choice."
>>>[some omitted] . . . and is part of a larger question
>>>that is crucial to the idea of humans choosing a
>>>free will existence or submitting to an absolute authority.
No, this is the same "option A vs. B" mistake you made earlier.
Not-B does not equal A.
There are not just two options.
It's like if you try to understand light:
Is light a particle or a wave?
Sure it has certain qualities that make it look like a particle.
But is it a particle? No. It only appears to be a particle.
It is actually not a particle.
Sure it has certain qualities that make it look like a wave.
But is it a wave? No. It only appears to be a wave.
It is actually not a wave.
It is light. It's its own thing. Nothing more; nothing less.
In the same way, what appears to be free will is not . . .
Why don't you think about it?
And why don't you answer my question about why this idea
bothers you so much?
I mean, its not as if an external agent to you is making the
script--you are (the higher-you). It's like rubbing your
eye with your hand, and then having the hand get upset about it.
S
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