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Re: We are personal beings.

From Xx/v]andrak|≡xX <xmfuller@t.query.com>
Newsgroups alt.atheism
Subject Re: We are personal beings.
Date 2025-03-13 05:45 -0500
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Terry Miles wrote:
> % wrote:
> 
>> Terry Miles wrote:
>>> % wrote:
>>>
>>>> Terry Miles wrote:
>>>>> Xx/v]andrak|≡xX wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Terry Miles wrote:
>>>>>>> jojo wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Terry Miles wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Dawn Flood wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 3/9/2025 11:02 PM, Terry Miles wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> jojo wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Terry Miles wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dawn Flood wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 3/9/2025 9:55 AM, Terry Miles wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dawn Flood wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 3/9/25 1:34 AM, In the Name of Jesus
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 9/03/2025 6:18 pm, Ted wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> In the Name of Jesus wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Religion and bible reading is not
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enough.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nowhere near enough.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I wanna suck black ass.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I don't necessarily subscribe to the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> practice, but I will die in the defence
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and preservation of your rights!!!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hopefully, if it comes to that, I will
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> receive a Medal of Honour!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yours,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mike
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> If such would happen, there would no
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> longer be any "I"; you do understand
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that, don't you?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dawn
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> There's none now. No "you" or "me" either.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> That's an interesting hypothesis, assuming
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that I understand what you're getting at
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> here, namely, the claim that our minds are
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "imaginary".  It's kind of like the dilemma
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of those who advocate hard determinism and
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the absence of free will -- is the position
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that they advocate a "free" choice on their
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> part??
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dawn
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yeah, I think that's involved with it too. But
>>>>>>>>>>>>> it's not that our minds are imaginary, it's
>>>>>>>>>>>>> that our selves are a story we make up.  Hume
>>>>>>>>>>>>> said something like that with his "bundle"
>>>>>>>>>>>>> idea, and of course Buddha too said the self is
>>>>>>>>>>>>> illusory. According to Dennett, the self is the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> center of narrative gravity, i.e. it's quite
>>>>>>>>>>>>> handy to use, but not actually real.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> we could also be a simulation, which is looking
>>>>>>>>>>>> more and more likely.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> LOL. See Donald Hoffman "The Case Against Reality".
>>>>>>>>>>> You might like it.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I presume that I exist, and I presume that I have free
>>>>>>>>>> will, all the while acknowledging that neither (or
>>>>>>>>>> both) may, in fact, be true.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Dawn
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Well said. Seems to be the wisest option.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> well free will or determinism are both predicated on
>>>>>>>> existence. i feel its less about free will and more about
>>>>>>>> chaos.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Chaos, as in shit just happening? ... Yeah, I think you're
>>>>>>> probably right.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Your mouth is as vulgar as your last name.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> LOL. "Miles" is vulgar?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Have you ever seen a
>>>>>> grown man digested by increments of six hours apart?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> No, thank gawd.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have the
>>>>>> power to change my mind yet announcing such seems a large
>>>>>> sight closer to explaining myself than achieving an agenda.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Sure lol.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>> can't you see him in his ,
>>>> oversized plastic fireman hat ,
>>>> riding up front on his big wheel
>>>
>>>
>>> LOL. Who the hell is he?
>>>
> 
>> who knows some drifter that has lost his way
> 
> 
> Seems unhinged.
> 
> 

Lacking basic verbal skills and rabid.
-- 
1.11 hrs the number of the beast You try to keep me in cages But baby
you got to catch me first You think your love is contagious I do my best
you cant do your worst "Nonsense." --Joannis PapaOomMowMow

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Re: We are personal beings. "Terry Miles" <tmiles43@yahoo.com> - 2025-03-10 19:13 +0000
  Re: We are personal beings. jojo <f00@0f0.00f> - 2025-03-10 22:58 +0000
    Re: We are personal beings. "Terry Miles" <tmiles43@yahoo.com> - 2025-03-11 03:53 +0000
      Re: We are personal beings. Xx/v]andrak|≡xX <xmfuller@t.query.com> - 2025-03-11 05:01 -0500
        Re: We are personal beings. "Terry Miles" <tmiles43@yahoo.com> - 2025-03-11 19:20 +0000
          Re: We are personal beings. % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-03-11 12:24 -0700
            Re: We are personal beings. "Terry Miles" <tmiles43@yahoo.com> - 2025-03-11 19:27 +0000
              Re: We are personal beings. % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-03-11 12:31 -0700
                Re: We are personal beings. "Terry Miles" <tmiles43@yahoo.com> - 2025-03-11 19:47 +0000
                Re: We are personal beings. % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-03-11 12:54 -0700
                Re: We are personal beings. "Terry Miles" <tmiles43@yahoo.com> - 2025-03-12 00:36 +0000
                Re: We are personal beings. Xx/v]andrak|≡xX <xmfuller@t.query.com> - 2025-03-13 05:45 -0500

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