RE: Is free will real?
December 25, 2014 at 9:19 am
(This post was last modified: December 25, 2014 at 9:23 am by The Grand Nudger.)
-and that experience can be very real, while simultaneously very much in error, as can a great many other experiences. You're really going to need more than "I feel it". We know that you feel it - that's why we have something to talk about. We all have some experience but the particulars seem to be difficult to hammer out between us - and we still haven't seen any mechanism by which any free willing could be accomplished. Nor an unambiguous demonstration of any free will. I'm suggesting that a very real experience might be less than accurate regarding what is being experienced. We're hearing lions in the grass.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!