Do you still believe in "free thought" or not ?
/it is still in your sig, right ?
Deism makes sense to me
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/it is still in your sig, right ?
Em in Ohio
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Em in Ohio said:
I can't get behind this idea (deism). If I created a universe, I wouldn't let it run amuck. And, as said repeatedly, I personally could not respect such a creator.
I can't get behind this idea (deism). If I created a universe, I wouldn't let it run amuck. And, as said repeatedly, I personally could not respect such a creator.
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The Truth was disclosed ever since the world and man was created. Men, and the enemy of Truth, don't usually search for the Truth, so they don't know the Truth .
So then, if The Creator forced you to believe the Truth, you would think that wrong of Him To Do , right ?
At least it would violate having "free thought" ?
So The Creator, in His Perfect, Infinite, Unchanging Wisdom and Total Knowledge,
gave us humans "free thought". We get to choose. And if we choose to harm another person, "free thought" allows us to think that way, and as criminals likewise do not obey the laws or regulations or have an obligation in their "free thought" to do what is good or right, people get hurt and killed, like the doctors and pharmakeia and wars for centuries get away with millions of times worldwide, since their thoughts and actions/free will/ are still possible.
Em in Ohio
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You have gone off the wall and I will not engage.
You are the one who claims to want "free thought".
That very thing you want, is why people harm others - The Creator allows free thought.
If He Did Not Allow Free Thought, would you be happy then ? You would simply believe in Him and Do What He Says, with no other choice at all.
Mr. Ed
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Free thought? Does that mean original thinking without outside influence? That's not free thinking, it is simply processing information from third-party sources and claiming them as your own. No one has 100% freewill given the multiple influences that guide our decisions every living moment of our life. Free will is an allusion
Em in Ohio
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What I mean by free thought is the conclusions I have drawn by processing information from multiple sources, but not conclusions that resulted from indoctrination. (Just Jeff went spinning off on this and I disengaged.)