On Jan 19, 10:05 am, Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > If my stance is that one cannot chose to belive in God one either does > or does not, then when I make referance to sexual preferance, You can > assume I see that in the same light. > > Put more simply, I do not belive that sexual preferance is a choice.
Understood (and pretty much agreed, although in view of the existence of repression, self-deception, and the puzzling phenomenon of "coming out to oneself", it's complex topic). > Your three examples are not realy examples of what I speak of. Sorry again about the excessively personal tone (its causes are hidden within all that "dross" you rightly don't want to delve into!). In a cooler and more abstract (but correspondingly less vivid) form, my three questions were all meant to be instances of the general problem of belief in one's own self: a problem with which perhaps even people less dotty and annoying than myself are familiar! Can one choose whether or not to believe in oneself? That was the question I was trying to voice, in the context of your more general question (but in doing so, I rather broke the bounds of decorum, and possibly also sanity!). Or /must/ one believe in oneself, even if such belief seems not only questionable, but downright stupid? Or, indeed, should one /never/ believe in oneself? (Chesterton pours scorn on the idea of believing in oneself, in Chapter II of / Orthodoxy/, "The Maniac".)
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