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Always something new to learn
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#21
RE: Always something new to learn
July 9, 2016 at 3:55 pm
I just looked up 'tautological' in the dictionary. It said 'see tautological'.

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RE: Always something new to learn
July 9, 2016 at 10:18 pm
(July 9, 2016 at 3:46 pm)Alex K Wrote:
(July 9, 2016 at 2:00 pm)Lek Wrote: Free will is having the option to do whatever you are able to do and to try to do anything you want to do.

having the option to do what I'm able to do - sounds a wee bit tautological?

Does that mean my argument holds together very tautly?
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RE: Always something new to learn
July 10, 2016 at 7:42 am (This post was last modified: July 10, 2016 at 7:42 am by ignoramus.)
Lek! You made a joke! That's the first sign of sanity ... Watching sports is the next sign.
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RE: Always something new to learn
July 10, 2016 at 7:47 am (This post was last modified: July 10, 2016 at 8:55 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(July 9, 2016 at 10:18 pm)Lek Wrote:
(July 9, 2016 at 3:46 pm)Alex K Wrote: having the option to do what I'm able to do - sounds a wee bit tautological?

Does that mean my argument holds together very tautly?

No, it means you've said the same thing twice, sort of like telling us you live in a big house home.

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RE: Always something new to learn
July 10, 2016 at 8:50 am
(July 8, 2016 at 4:29 am)Maelstrom Wrote: Constraint is not my problem, ask anyone.

That's very true.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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July 10, 2016 at 9:21 am (This post was last modified: July 10, 2016 at 9:22 am by robvalue.)
When you consider the size of the universe, and the number of actions my imagination alone can conceive of, my realistic options are so small as to be negligible. If this was in any way designed, it would be an extremely strange, stupid or cruel idea; unless of course the designer wasn't aware of our self-awareness. And there's no reason to think it should be.
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RE: Always something new to learn
July 10, 2016 at 11:55 am
OP definitely has more thinking to do on this matter, but I doubt he'll choose to do so.

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