RE: Voiding Free Will
July 13, 2012 at 3:50 am
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2012 at 3:53 am by jonb.)
Beliefs are commonly use as identifiers, I an christian, I am Atheist etc. There is also a factor that groups congregate around a given feature, we are the same so we can be friends. I have found that in any group most people will identify with a commonality, as opposed to having a philosophical concept of what that thing is. Which to my mind why virtually all societies have group commonalities.
Given this an individual may come under stress if they do no feel part of the group and as such could undergo a psychological incident, so that they become aligned with the group they wish to feel more part of. In that case the individuals behaviour after the event will be to fit in with the common values of the group, not to exhibit behaviours which expel it out from the other side. Thus it will tend to do as much charitable work as the other members of the group it belongs to.
There are exceptions to this, like the legend of St Francis, where he initially exhibited a set of behaviours that were right for an aristocrat of his time to have, debauchery, drinking, gambling an fighting, but which were also too pronounced, after his conversion we see that exact same scenario, that what he was doing was correct as far as the values went, but exhibited in a far stronger way than the common norms of his group.
Fuck me I must want to fit in with the po-faced atheist bastards who are all about a cleaver intellectual approach and nothing about feelings and joy, sod this for a game of soldiers.
Given this an individual may come under stress if they do no feel part of the group and as such could undergo a psychological incident, so that they become aligned with the group they wish to feel more part of. In that case the individuals behaviour after the event will be to fit in with the common values of the group, not to exhibit behaviours which expel it out from the other side. Thus it will tend to do as much charitable work as the other members of the group it belongs to.
There are exceptions to this, like the legend of St Francis, where he initially exhibited a set of behaviours that were right for an aristocrat of his time to have, debauchery, drinking, gambling an fighting, but which were also too pronounced, after his conversion we see that exact same scenario, that what he was doing was correct as far as the values went, but exhibited in a far stronger way than the common norms of his group.
Fuck me I must want to fit in with the po-faced atheist bastards who are all about a cleaver intellectual approach and nothing about feelings and joy, sod this for a game of soldiers.
