John, I've got to have a break. Dogs do harrass their prey until they drop. I suppose as long as I stay put, this will carry on. I forgot the cigarettes sorry. Yes, 10 fingered typist, learned at school. Could have taken music as an option, but the girls were mostly in typing, which I thought would be useful and female company seemed a good idea too. Good decision.
Yes, cigarettes by far the worst, but I would legalize the lot. Leave people to their own moral standards. The big boss approach hasn't worked has it despite umpty trillions of dollars in murder, prisons, health destruction, waste and waste and waste of lives and effort. Free will rulz ok.
I don't know about that subconscious stuff. I think there isn't any santa, big Dog, green men. If I say there aint, then I don't think Freud can make it flip upside down, unless I'm lying for some reason. Obviously I'm interested in these ideas - we live our lives in a moral climate determined by all these ideas. We are stuck in the solar system whether we like it or not, so better be a bit curious about what's up.
The forehead stars and picture bibles is being flippant sorry. I really only have so much energy and being flippant is an easy way out of having to handle something. I can't be bothered reading more bible. I've had a bash at it and know the sort of stuff it says pretty well. Though I can't quote chapter and verse, though John 11 springs to mind for some reason. Or was it Corinthian 3?
I don't like this last bit. Free will sorted out? Should I ask about that? Last person I talked to about free
will, we got to talking about God and Jesus' message to mankind, and he said he
didn't believe there was such a thing as free will, therefore he could not choose to
believe. A few days later, he showed me a passage in a book, which he had
underlined, which in essence said that people are mere robots with no free will and
whatever they do was predestined and is unavoidable, etc.
That part sounds to me as though he was gearing up to things and was looking for excuses to remove himself from his actions. You'd have to wonder about reading maths for fun though. To me, religious things, free will and all that stuff precipitates people like him into his violent madness. If everything was soundly based on cause and effect, no free will, simply how we behave is a combination of external effects and the way our bodies are made, then we could all cope so much easier without being subject to all the malarkey. I think I as an atheist should have been the person talking to the maths man. I would have eased his stress, not exacerbated it. Though you might have a different opinion from my writing.
Gotta go John. How about no reply for a little while. I was going to hide behind my death, but thought you might realize I was only joking.
Maurice.
Maurice
This man, who said he didn't believe in such a thing as free will, was a former
college teacher, was fluent in Russian and German, and read math books for
entertainment. A few weeks ago, he strangled his wife, and stabbed himself to
death. Perhaps he was out of control, though - I mean not in his "right" mind,
because he had been taking Prozac to control his anger. |
