Did you miss my 11:15 post, Molly?
On Jul 23, 2:40 pm, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't remember anyone implying that anger is a spirit...and Wes,
> these are nice biblical references, but what is your point in citing
> them?
>
> On Jul 23, 1:52 pm, Wes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >Do we have the power to create our realities? Are we in control? What do
> > >YOU think?
>
> > 29. Jesus said, "If the flesh came into being because of spirit, that
> > is a marvel, but if spirit came into being because of the body, that
> > is a marvel of marvels. (The Gospel of
> > Thomas)http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html
>
> > If Anger, or Greed, or Nicotine, or things like that are called
> > spirits, then you could say that these things that control us are
> > created by us. (Wine and Spirits ~ Alcoholism can take a pretty heavy
> > handed control of a person. Prohibition was reversed, and (Creator-
> > ed?) a new course for the country/world.)
>
> > On Jul 22, 9:29 am, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Are we in control of ourselves, our lives, our families, our worlds?
> > > Or are we just aware and knowing what one can do if something
> > > unpredictable happens?
> > > There are many explanations for why we do what we do. For example,
> > > Thomas Metzinger's new Book, The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind
> > > and the Myth of the Self, seriously questions whether there is even an
> > > "I", let alone a "we." And Douglas Hofstadter's book, I Am a Strange
> > > Loop, contends that the "self" is a recursively self-referencing
> > > memory loop.
>
> > > Hundreds of experiments by Benjamin Libet and others tend to
> > > conclusively confirm that our brain prepares to execute our decisions
> > > before we are even aware that anything is being decided. It alerts us
> > > to our decisions only in time (a split second) for us to veto them.
>
> > > Seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Libet, as well as Benjamin
> > > Libet's book, Mind Time, and Walter J. Freeman's book, How Brains Make
> > > Up Their Minds.
>
> > > It is quite likely that we have no so-called "free will" other than
> > > veto power over our specific actions. Our free will may consist
> > > instead of 1) being mindful about any ill-serving subliminal
> > > intentions and tendencies that inform our actions so that we are
> > > accordingly prepared to veto any action that they correspondingly
> > > inform, and of 2) programming (or reprogramming) our subliminal
> > > intentions to be more productive of the experiencing that we most
> > > desire.
>
> > > Do we have the power to create our realities? Are we in control?
> > > What do YOU think?
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