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To: TigerPaw who wrote (41628)	4/5/1999 11:53:00 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

So what is your opinion? Are you an agnostic or are you proselytizing for Nihilism.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (41628)	4/5/1999 12:03:00 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

<<Free Will has implications for morality since if you believe that all is fated, you need not take responsibility for your actions since they would have happened anyway.>> Wrong again TP. Define responsibility TP. Along with free will we are given purpose in life. Living according to this purpose offers an opertunity to succeed; or choosing to disobey the directives of the purpose causes us to fail to achieve lifes goals. It is our "responsibility" to choose. The fact that we are given a continuum of time to struggle and be tested toward an ultimate judgement day is another given. To deny the universe and that your place in it has purpose explains your philosophy of inconsequencial existance and lack of concern for a higher order of principles of living. When you deny such you may still engage free will to accomplish as much in the limited scope of materialism as possible. Lying, and injustice no longer carry weight in this mode of operation since they have their basis outside of materialism. An explanation which includes an All powerful and All knowing God encompasses both materialism and principle based, purposeful living.