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"can't it be the case that you not choosing to eat the spinach is because of your predisposition too?" Oh, I'm absolutely predisposed to hate spinach. I've had no bad experiences with the stuff to color my view (except for tryin' it voluntarily). As I see it: spinach is garbage food. But: my predisp...

I disagree.

Yeah, I live and work in South Louisiana. I self-employ as a civil/criminal researcher. in the course of a month, I make the rounds through eight different parish courthouses. I’m a regular viewer of civil and criminal proceedings, large and small. I tell you plainly: black folks aren’t treated any...

“So, being able to not act in accordance with your desires is evidence for free will in your opinion. I get where you're coming from.” Well, that not what I said at all. The spinach choosing was an example, not a definition. and the example was about ignoring, by choice, predisposition (which isn’t ...

Yeah, I live and work in South Louisiana. I self-employ as a civil/criminal researcher. in the course of a month, I make the rounds through eight different parish courthouses. I’m a regular viewer of civil and criminal proceedings, large and small. I tell you plainly: black folks aren’t treated any ...

No, I can’t choose to like spinach (I don’t: it’s foul), but I can choose to eat it anyway (for whatever reason I cobble together for myself).

That’s agency (free will [agent causation]).

HereToDiscuss wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 13, 2019 9:08 am

Sculptor wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 13, 2019 12:20 am

He is utterly determined to argue for free will

Yes, you are-albeit whetever you will change your opinion or not is unknown. And..?

Sculptor: HA! That’s funny...you won your freedom from the penalty box with that.

HTD: huh?

No, it’s not, period

“The idea of a 'you' that chooses is only apparent within the dream of separation within the realm of duality, aka knowledge.” I got no clue what all that means. # “In reality a choice is made before you've become aware a choice has been made,as life is one unitary action.” No, that’s wrong. # “No o...

“But your method of assessing and concluding will be different because of the environment, not to mention the assumptions themselves.“ Sure. As I say: environment influences. There’s literally a whole universe of influences, but it’s all on me how I resist, circumvent, submit to, or take advantage o...

“But your "choosing" is actually a result of cognitive proccesses that are decided by the environment.” No, my choosing is what I do, based on my assessing and concluding; ‘I’ deliberate (de-liberate). # “Your desires and outlook on life is decided by the environment and genetics” Environment influe...

“Don't worry about Sculptor , Henry, he's a suburban socialist who's got two left testicles and the kind of narrow political world-view that would be better suited to life in Cambodia, Venezuela or Cuba.” HA! No worries: he’s in my penalty box...I ain’t got to read him anymore. # “a nasty, very nast...

Yeah, I disagree.

"How could any place with its own buggy festival be considered a "podunk"?" Oh, I'm just bein' a misanthrope...CP ain't a bad place to live...not a bad pace to raise a kid. # "Sounds like a centre of civilization. Just two century ago's civilization, maybe." For me, CP's distance from 'civilization'...