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Is Free Will an illusion or not?

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Is Free Will an illusion or not?
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Is Free Will an illusion or not?
March 26, 2014 at 8:49 pm (This post was last modified: March 26, 2014 at 8:53 pm by tor.)




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RE: Is Free Will an illusion or not?
March 26, 2014 at 9:00 pm (This post was last modified: March 26, 2014 at 9:00 pm by Cinjin.)
Didn't you storm off crying very recently?

Why are you back asking more stupid questions? I thought you were mad at all us meanies?
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RE: Is Free Will an illusion or not?
March 26, 2014 at 9:02 pm
Never fails. The ones you want to leave never actually do. They end up Brett Favreing everyone.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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RE: Is Free Will an illusion or not?
March 26, 2014 at 9:04 pm (This post was last modified: March 26, 2014 at 9:04 pm by tor.)
(March 26, 2014 at 9:00 pm)Cinjin Wrote: Didn't you storm off crying very recently?

Why are you back asking more stupid questions? I thought you were mad at all us meanies?

Not quite yet Wink Shades

So is free will an illusion or not? Come on people.
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RE: Is Free Will an illusion or not?
March 26, 2014 at 9:08 pm
I decline. You're dead to me.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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RE: Is Free Will an illusion or not?
March 26, 2014 at 9:08 pm
Oh, I don't know. Did you leave of your own free will? Was your return predetermined?
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RE: Is Free Will an illusion or not?
March 26, 2014 at 9:10 pm
(March 26, 2014 at 9:08 pm)whateverist Wrote: Oh, I don't know. Did you leave of your own free will? Was your return predetermined?

I know why I left now answer the question on topic Big Grin
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RE: Is Free Will an illusion or not?
March 26, 2014 at 9:11 pm
(March 26, 2014 at 9:10 pm)tor Wrote:
(March 26, 2014 at 9:08 pm)whateverist Wrote: Oh, I don't know. Did you leave of your own free will? Was your return predetermined?

I know why I left now answer the question on topic Big Grin

Does ONE DAY gone really qualify as having left?


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RE: Is Free Will an illusion or not?
March 26, 2014 at 9:14 pm
tor Wrote:now answer the question on topic Big Grin
Nobody is going to that because doing that would be completely pointless.
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RE: Is Free Will an illusion or not?
March 26, 2014 at 9:15 pm (This post was last modified: March 26, 2014 at 9:18 pm by tor.)
(March 26, 2014 at 9:14 pm)futilethewinds Wrote:
tor Wrote:now answer the question on topic Big Grin
Nobody is going to that because doing that would be completely pointless.

Just as arguing with somebody like you who thinks X is true because you like it more and when presented with anything that disproves truth of X you still think X is true because you like it. It's like talking to a fucking brick wall.
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