From: johnny moral (johnnymoral@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 16:16:27 BST
Scott wrote:
>'I suggest replacing the phrase "free will" with "creativity". And only
>Quality is creative. We are just local passageways for creativity to be
>creative. We make a mistake by trying to own it, which leads us to wonder
>how much "freedom" we have. One can just as well say we have none or we
>have
>all.
Regardless of what it is called, free will or creativity, you are right, we
are passageways for quality, products of morality.
Scott wrote:
"The error is to think that there is some "thing" called "me" that
"has"choices. The choices exist in their own right."
That is the lynch pin all right, the idea of self. It's not an error,
though. There IS a thing called me that has choices. And as long as we
think of ourselves as selves, then our selves have free will. When we think
of the whole connectedness of everything, the contingency and historical
dependence of everything, both the free will and the self lose their place
on the pedestal and we have to acknowledge our dependence on quality. But
we can be a passageway for quality and a self at the same time, the idea is
not for one to destroy the other, but for both to co-exist, the created and
the creator loving each other.
Johnny
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