Author: Will DockeryWill Dockery
Date: Sep 18, 2008 11:23
Her Illustrious Ashes wrote:
> Dennis M. Hammes wrote:
>> Her Illustrious Ashes wrote:
>>> myshitisfromgod wrote:
>>>>Dale Houstman wrote:
>
>>>> Depends on what you consider to be chains and what you consider to be
>>>> delight. "Free will" is mostly a pleasant - even necessary - illusion, just as
>>>> "gods" is mostly an unpleasant - even unnecessary - illusion. The
>>>> "openings" for actions that are not strongly determined by a Golden
>>>> Horde of existing factors (from natural laws to heredity to
>>>> education to
>>>> economics to the collective will to physical limitations to the
>>>> presence
>>>> of kryptonite in your bong water) are limited, although (according to
>>>> chaos and quantum theory) they exist in the virtuality of "things". If
>>>> "history" is a brand of collective natural determination (that is- if
>>>> you are considering "history" not as that vast pile of
>>>> power-determined
>>>> lies and myths but as whatever actuality lies behind all that celebrity ...
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