RE: The Problem of Imperfect Revelation: Your Thoughts?
September 28, 2013 at 8:38 am
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2013 at 8:40 am by The Reality Salesman01.)
Being able to have done differently than you did?
That's pure illusory. At every instance of choice, people do the exact thing that they're conditioned to do, and they cannot act in a manner that is inconsistent with their nature or beyond their ability to conceive. They can condition themselves to do different things in the future, but the conditioning which leads to them is what determines them. All of our choices are determined. The retrospective recognition of alternatives creates the illusion of freedom, but this is after a decision is made. To say you could have chose differently, is to say you could have lived in a different universe. A puppet is not free, even if it likes its strings.
Furthermore, can anyone give an example of a time where they chose differently than they did? Since they could have, surely it's been done before.
That's pure illusory. At every instance of choice, people do the exact thing that they're conditioned to do, and they cannot act in a manner that is inconsistent with their nature or beyond their ability to conceive. They can condition themselves to do different things in the future, but the conditioning which leads to them is what determines them. All of our choices are determined. The retrospective recognition of alternatives creates the illusion of freedom, but this is after a decision is made. To say you could have chose differently, is to say you could have lived in a different universe. A puppet is not free, even if it likes its strings.
Furthermore, can anyone give an example of a time where they chose differently than they did? Since they could have, surely it's been done before.
