YOU! You are barred! ;¬) On 19 Jan, 10:27, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18 Jan, 17:32, Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > So I have been away for a week(damn me am the only IT bod in the world > > without Internet access at home,this is NOT the question) and when I > > come back i see all sorts of rows and arguments and I guess what can > > only be described as 'bad bood' > > > Those of you who know me well enough by now know that one of my things > > is the concept of 'free will' and it is something along these lines > > that I want to ask you about. > > > Choice of belifes. I was asked elswhere a while back on some Sikh > > forum or other why I choose to belive that the entity we know as God > > exists. After thinking about it for a while I realised that I > > couldn't really answer this question in any way other then: > > > 'Good question Agnostic Ji. > > > Do we really choose to have faith in God's existance though? Can we > > literaly choose what we wish to belive or not? > > Lets try it, please try to choose to belive that God exists and let us > > know what happens. > > I suspect that I can no more choose not to belive in God than I have > > chossen the opposite.' > > > Am I right? Rather like one's sexual preferance, is it true that one > > can choose to belive in God or not? > > > Ian I'm look at you my friend. > > Space-time is not compatible with free will. We live in a space-time > continuum that contains all of space and time. You have no choices, > rather, you have the appearance of them due to the fact that you have > the ability to speculate yet you lack access to the future. It's > really THAT simple. God, i.e., that which truly IS, is that which > decides, and God decides to do all that which is possible. In this > particular sequence, you believe in God.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
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