On Feb 8, 8:05 am, Pat <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4 Feb, 11:43, Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > So what is the greatest evil then?
>
> > The greatest evil is taking choice from somebody.  However you perform
> > such an action, by killing, by enslaving, by physical force.  The key
> > here is choice.
>
> > Even our children understand this, and can get highly upset when
> > tasked with something they have no wish to do.
>
> > Agree, disagree, why?
>> Of course I disagree...and you know why.  You only THINK you have
> choices.  The continuum shows differently.  Science stands with me on
> this.  If you truly believe that you have freedom of choice in a cause-
> and-effect universe, you're allowing yourself to be duped.  Please,
> don't take that personally, as you know I would say it to anyone who
> said such a thing.  Our children understand what we instruct them.  I
> was instructed by some teachers and my father, who knew that there was
> a catch involved in Special Relativity.  Children will remain children
> until they grow up and face the facts.  The truth of the space-time
> continuum has nothing whatsoever to do with what I wish it to be.  All
> my wishes are but events in it.  And I truly wish that people would
> face the facts and understand just this one aspect of reality; for, if
> they did, they'd be a million steps closer to the One.  If I get upset
> because my father tells me to mow the lawn, that's just not anything
> to get upset about.  To do so would be childish.  It's a FAR different
> thing to take someone's life.  The balance, in that case, is left to
> God.  And, personally, I believe that, for every action there is an
> equal and opposite reaction.  That would mean that, in the case of
> murder, the person who murders gives up their afterlife (or, rather,
> exists in a state wherein they would rather not).  But, of course,
> there's a greater scope in that, if a 'murder' occurs, then it had to
> be the will of the One--and who can fight that?  We are agents of the
> Lord and do His bidding whether or NOT we realise that.  The space-
> time continuum is a permanent record of all things that are done (down
> to the quantum level!) and it is by means of that permanent record
> that our hands will testify against us (or for us, if and when we do
> good).  Apologies, once again, to Ian, for didactics.

Didactics......... ?

Well, I guess so, in the sense that L. Ron thought he was didactic.

cheers

oz, wondering about the source of the above

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