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Decisions! Decisions! All that reading and reviewing seems too much like hard work to me. I simply run my fingers along a bookshelf and wait to see what ’jumps’ out at me. Try it, it’s fun.

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Quivira Trail, welcome to the board.

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Congratulations on your graduation and good luck with your future plans.

Wow! What a long post. Sorry I didn't have time to read it all but I did feel the need to reply as I am quite concerned about you, jBrenton. I think you are suffering from something called... Shit! I can't for the life of me remember what it's called but it's a disease that once it has control of a ...

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Welcome! stretmediq.

Maybe but as an intuitive I don’t believe in accidents or coincidences. We might not be in agreement about where we came from or how we got her but THIS is not an accident! We are here and some of us have spent our life trying to figure out the whys and the wherefores! I’m not a negative person but ...

Who you are and what you are is an accident.

This can't be true. Can it? What about ancestry and environment and nurturing. Surely we are what our past history made us?

Or have I misunderstood the post.

blackbox, In my simple view we have choice but on a deeper level something else is running the show - you know, like when we help someone make a decision and have them believe it was their idea in the first place. That's as far as I've got. I'm still trying to discover what the 'something else’ is a...

Welcome! blackbox. My view is that we don't have free will but we do have choice which helps to give us the illusion of free will. There is a lack of self-knowledge but this can be taken care of through relaxation and meditation where we can tune into ourselves and learn more about our true-self and...

Welcome! LEV.

Welcome! CloudOfUnknowing.

Welcome to the board, Enhanceism.