On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Michael Dinowitz wrote: > >> >> Your mind is in the gutter! =) >> > Menage a ... what's french for 12? (supernatural season 6) >
=) My sister said that was a good show, haven't caught it yet, myself. > >> Our actions have a direct impact on everyone else in the entire world. >> Theoretically, our reality's entire time-line itself. >> >> The tiniest little decision changes everything. Turning left instead >> of right, to reference a Doctor Who episode. >> > And in the end she still got run over by a truck...with a giant bug on her > back. But it was her choice. She wasn't forced to make the turn. I should > not be forced to eat or not eat. I control the color pill I take (as long as > there are still more than one color) (The Matrix) I like to think that nobody can take that away from us. Granted, it will be a lot harder when we "know" what people are thinking... but still. =) >> That said, nobody can take away our freedom of will (if we have it-- >> perhaps things could only ever have gone down the way they go down). >> >> I said "Blessed be!", because I like the idea that if you're not >> hurting anyone, you should be able to do what you will. >> > And the standard response in Pagan circles is "Blessed bee". And "Blessed > C", and other silly variations of that and other phrases. > > But the "do it unless it hurts others" philosophy fails against your > previous statement of "we're all connected". If we're all connected than my > hurting myself is hurting others. Either "do it w/o hurting others" is > freedom to do as we will or it is a limitation to do nothing. > > This is why philosophers drink. Not because they want to but because they > have to. :) LOL! Of course, that sorta rests on the idea that an individual, is really an individual. Nietzsche had a take on this that really got me thinking. The whole "willpower" deal. Heady stuff. If you have to will yourself to do something, you're evidencing a kind of divide, neh? What is "hurt"? What is "good" and "bad"? Philosophy is nuts. =) :Den -- Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. Blaise Pascal PS- And again! Man, randomness is firing on all cylinders today, neh?!? PPS- Maybe nothing really relates, and we just see things as relating. PPPS- WOOH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:330464 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
