... Sure - you can work as a particular of the species and process information etc as a genetically-determined being OR as a singular being, 'free' to make ...
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louise
shadowed_statue
Mar 1, 2009 9:00 am
This post is totally off-topic. From past experience, all questions are answered in self-referential manner, as though only forms of existential enquiry...
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vjsimms73
Mar 1, 2009 9:59 am
Dream or Reality. There was a brief time many years ago when for a short while I had to confront what seemed to be an odd kind of question, and albeit a very ...
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jimstuart51
Mar 1, 2009 11:14 am
Tom, You write: "I recall a few weeks or so ago the question of freedom versus determinism was being discussed here. Someone said that you couldn't have it...
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vjsimms73
Mar 1, 2009 11:41 am
Freedom WITHIN that which is Determined. Can you not see that there are things which we can each choose to do whilst also there are things that we cannot...
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jimstuart51
Mar 1, 2009 11:50 am
Dear VJ Simms, You write: "Can you not see that there are things which we can each choose to do whilst also there are things that we cannot choose to do? I...
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vjsimms73
Mar 1, 2009 12:05 pm
Given that we experience it to be true that we have some degree of freedom of choice and given that we also feel it to be so, and given that it seems to work,...
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Herman B. Triplegood
hermanbtripl...
Mar 1, 2009 12:51 pm
Tom: We all wish that were true. We want to have our cake and eat it too. There's two. With some ice cream. That's three. But just look at the predicament that...
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jimstuart51
Mar 1, 2009 1:46 pm
Hb3g, I enjoyed reading this post (47228), and I think you capture Sartre's outlook well. However, I not so sure of your attempt to find similarities between...
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jimstuart51
Mar 1, 2009 1:57 pm
VJ Simms, I am not claiming that determinism is true. Much less am I claiming to have any proof of its truth. My position is sceptical. I do not know if...
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vjsimms73
Mar 1, 2009 2:45 pm
Religions, the seed of their own Destruction. I am not in the mood now to go into details, and I have done all that in the past, and how. But just to pick up...
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mary.josie59
Mar 1, 2009 3:41 pm
We must carefully disambiguate causality from its close relatives certainty, determinism, necessity, and predictability. We have causality in the world, in the...
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mary.josie59
Mar 1, 2009 4:01 pm
In existentialist terms, choice carries moral/ethical consequences. Responsibility & freedom underpinnings and all that, according to Sartre et al. We often...
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bhvwd
Mar 1, 2009 5:56 pm
You take power at the ballot box, you wield power with the purse strings. For years I have railed against the tax break for religous and charitable...
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mary.josie59
Mar 1, 2009 9:48 pm
Bill, I recently watched the PBS program about a rat population explosion coinciding with the 48 yr. cycle of flowering bamboo in southeast Asia. I've been...
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bhvwd
Mar 1, 2009 11:11 pm
Indeed, Mary, I saw the PBS show. Overlapping cycles in plant and animal species seem impossible if you try and view them from an individual organism...
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Exist List Moderator
PoetCSW
Mar 2, 2009 2:13 am
... I was cleansing my inbox when I read this. Either incredibly hyperbolic or ignorant. First, while of the "industrialized" nations we have the greatest ...
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grimsley01@...
Mar 2, 2009 3:00 am
Dear Mr. Moderator: got on this list by mistake but am unable to unsubcribe. Can you help? Thanks.......
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bhvwd
Mar 2, 2009 3:00 pm
Most just cannot give it up. The recent posts are full of references to diety and final ends and mad theories and personally held spirits all close held for...
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louise
shadowed_statue
Mar 2, 2009 3:46 pm
... don't have the power that is pretended, it's just mass social agreement. If you want a god, choose one that suits, and know what you're saying. That's...
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kyrstinakre
Mar 2, 2009 10:54 pm
"postmodernists tell us that the subject or the self, itself, is an illusion". is the subject an illusion? akre...
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kyrstinakre
Mar 2, 2009 11:21 pm
we have no God, but Gods have us. they have chosen. akre...
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eupraxis@...
wsindarius
Mar 2, 2009 11:25 pm
There are no gods. Wil ... From: kyrstinakre <kyrstinakre@...> To: existlist@yahoogroups.com Sent: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 5:20 pm Subject: [existlist]...
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bhvwd
Mar 2, 2009 11:38 pm
I do not relish writing this but today's news about AIG begs some analysis. In some ways my being in an insurance center might add credence or disbelief. It is...
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Herman B. Triplegood
hermanbtripl...
Mar 3, 2009 12:49 am
Jim: Why are the `hopeful' arguments for the immortality of the soul `dashed to pieces' by Socrates' suicide? Hb3g: They are not. Each one is shown, in turn,...
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Bernard Joseph Guerrero
bjeg2000
Mar 3, 2009 9:08 am
Are you verifying if the subject is really an illusion, or you were suppose to mean objects, not subjects? Clearly, for postmodernism, the subject is. Cheers! ...
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nr_rajkumar
nr_rajkumar2000
Mar 3, 2009 10:58 am
I have just finished a bit of a heavy reading of some of the back references left by Chris Lofting on the web. I am now inclined to think of the...
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jimstuart51
Mar 3, 2009 1:07 pm
Hb3g, I asked (47244): Why are the 'hopeful' arguments for the immortality of the soul 'dashed to pieces' by Socrates' suicide? You replied (47260): They are...
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louise
shadowed_statue
Mar 3, 2009 2:18 pm
Mary, Thanks for your research work and selection. It is a clarifying excerpt, and a useful site in general. Good to know you're here to help steady the...
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louise
shadowed_statue
Mar 3, 2009 2:58 pm
I'm still assimilating the experience of a lecture I heard last Wednesday, hosted by the university Classics Department at Durham. The speaker, Martin Ruehl,...
