henry quirk wrote: ↑Fri Sep 06, 2024 2:58 amYeah......I do.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sat Aug 31, 2024 2:05 pmOh, I think I'm very fortunate to recognize myself as I am: a free will (in the libertarian sense), an embodied soul.
No, of course not. When I refer to meat machines I'm not talkin' about man-made contraptions.So, to this one, it, still, believes that metallic machines are made up of meat.
As I'm the one who sets my course: I'm doing exactly as I intend.And, the fact that you "henry quirk" are obviously not yet doing what you were intended for proves that you have the ability to choose, correct?
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Let's try this again...
You asked: But, you, still, do not yet know which one is true, right?
My answer is: Yeah, I do know which is true becuz I recognize myself as I am: a free will (in the libertarian sense), an embodied soul.
When I say meat machines I'm talking about living things that are not free wills.So, when this one talks about 'automated machines' it must be talking about the non human made contraptions.
Yes, I really believe I set my course.Do you, really, believe that absolutely no one or no thing is setting a course for you?
Do you know what a deist is? Do you know what a deist believes?And do you, really, believe that absolutely no one or no thing has set, nor is setting, a course for, while, still, believing that 'a person' created the whole of the Universe?
I don't.Also, why did you and why do you, purposely, intend to make False, Wrong, Inaccurate, and Incorrect claims, and have and hold onto False, Wrong, Inaccurate, and Incorrect beliefs and presumptions?
Heinlein said it best...And, why, exactly, did you intend to follow and abide by the laws of the state that have control over and which govern you?
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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Yes.So, what the one known as "henry quirk" 'recognizes' "itself" to be, is what it 'knows' is 'the truth' for absolutely every one.
Difference is: he's wrong.just like a so-called "deterministic atheist" 'recognizes' itself to be 'that', this is what 'that one' 'knows' is 'the truth' for absolutely every one, as well.
Yes."henry quirk", supposedly, 'knows' that it is, absolutely, true that, absolutely, every one is a so-called "libertarian free will"
No. It's becuz it's true.because "henry quirk" 'recognizes' that 'it' is a "libertarian free will".
No.In order words whatever "henry quirk 'recognizes', 'sees', 'assumes', and/or 'beliefs' is true, then 'this' must be true for absolutely everyone else as well.
You don't have to wonder.Now, it makes me wonder how "henry quirk" would reply to one who also said and claimed, 'I do know 'necessitarianism' is true because I recognize "myself" as I am: a "necessitarian".
No.Would "henry quirk" accept the 'exact same logic' if and when it was used by another with an opposing belief?
Whoever sez such a thing is wrong.'I do know that evolution and creation, free will and determinism, nature and nurture are true because I recognize, thy and thee, Self as 'I am', exactly: an evolving free-willed deterministic naturally nurtured created Being'.
No.What you are trying to say and claim here is that if and when one 'recognizes' some thing, then this means that 'that thing' is true for absolutely every one. Which therefore means that if, and when, one 'recognizes' "them" 'self' as an "atheist", then "atheism" is true.
Yes.Are there absolutely any 'living things', to you, that are not so-called 'free wills'?
Please, give me an example.Also, are you yet aware that what are so-called 'living things' to you are not necessarily so to others, and vice versa?
Yes, I'm aware some folks have cockeye'd definitions.Also, are you yet aware that your own personal definition/s of and for the words 'free will' are not the same for everyone else, either?
If I do wrong: I'm responsible becuz I chose to do wrong.So, when you do Wrong, you have purposely set 'this course', 'for you', right?
Yes.Are you asking 'me' do I know what 'a deist' is and what a so-called "deist" believes(?)
How do you define deist?Also, are you yet aware that how you define the "deist" word is different than how I do?
Neither.So, which ones of these two here are true "henry quirk"?
No.Or, are you lying here "henry quirk"?
It's possible.Or, could you just be believing some thing is true here but which is actually false?
Please, give me an example.here you are...continually doing what is morally Wrong
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Of course not.But, 'you', the one individual human being here known as "henry quirk" are 'right', and are absolutely always 'right', right?
Of course not.Even when it changes it views and beliefs it, still, believes that it is always 'right'?
I do.which one/s of you human beings have and hold the absolute and irrefutable 'truthfulness' here?
Becuz each of us, you included, are free wills. We're not, not a single one of us (including you) meat machines.why is it that one or those ones, exactly?
There is none. I say I'm right on a specific (man, any man, is a free will). I do not say I'm necessarily right about everything else under the sun.Do you, or do not, see the contradiction and hypocrisy here?
No. I'm sayin' he's wrong becuz to say man is a meat machine is wrong.So, going by your own so-called 'logic' here what this one is saying is true, is because it is, simply, true.
No. I don't expect anyone to accept anything I have to say on this subject or any other.But yet here you are expecting others to 'accept your belief and claim', here, correct?
First, I'm a lousy salesman. My product (a person is self-directng, self-reliant, self-responsible) goes against the current thinking (man is just meat: not responsible, interdependent, must be directed). I don't know how to sell the harder truth over the easier lie. Second: everyone, including you, continues to live as they are (as free wills) even as many claim they're only meat machines.
So, mostly, when I participate here, it's simply to state a position. I figure the reader's intuitions about himself will, or won't, do the heavy lifting.
It's a -- as the forum's resident scripted nihilist sez -- a win-win. Folks either see themselves as they are or don't and I get to say my piece (over and over and over and...) regardless if whether anyone listens.
An amoeba. Or a trout. Or a mosquito. Or a...Like 'what', exactly, for example?
Living things would include, for example, an amoeba. Or a trout. Or a mosquito.I would have to first find out what are 'living things' and what are 'not living things', to you, for me to provide you with examples
Non-living things would include, for example, a rock. Or my car. Or oxygen.
Free wills would include, for example, human beings. There may be others.
When I edit out extraneous garbage (your unkind opinions) or reword or reorder your questions, I'm tryin' to get to the radix and bypass all the poop. It's not wrong of me to value my time and energy and be frugal with both. If you feel you're gettin' a raw deal, please understand that's not my intent.When you just quote only a part of a question I ask you, and then respond, and so are not answering the actual question/s I am asking you, for clarification, thus you are not being Truly open and honest here, then all you are doing is just trying to deceive and fool you, and the readers, here.
Also, by picking and choosing to just answer some questions, while ignoring others completely and completely ignoring parts of some is all just to deceptive and misleading for me to want to continue this here with you.
I believe I, and you, and every other human being who lives, has lived, will live, is a free will, yes. It's not an assumption. There are evidences. Wanna examine them?And, if you want to believe that 'you' and absolutely everyone else are 'free willed persons' only, and all of are created by just 'one person' alone, solely based upon nothing else but your own assumption
Obviously.you' alone who 'set this course' here, 'for you', correct?
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So, when are you 'right' and 'not right', exactly?henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmOf course not.But, 'you', the one individual human being here known as "henry quirk" are 'right', and are absolutely always 'right', right?
And, how can any of the readers here 'know' when 'you are right' from when 'you are not right'?
So, 'now' it is not always right, here.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmOf course not.Even when it changes it views and beliefs it, still, believes that it is always 'right'?
Which is, absolutely, obvious. But, when this gets pointed out to 'this one', 'this one' believes, absolutely, that 'it is right'. And, again, solely based upon absolutely but just because it just believes that 'it is right', only.
LOLhenry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmI do.which one/s of you human beings have and hold the absolute and irrefutable 'truthfulness' here?
LOL
LOL
So, again, it believes it has 'the truth' on absolutely nothing other than 'because it is right'.
So, what 'we' have 'now' is this one knowing that it is not always right, but it believes that it always right when it believes that it is always right.
What do 'you' mean by 'us', exactly?henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmBecuz each of us, you included, are free wills.why is it that one or those ones, exactly?
And, what are 'free wills', exactly?
So, what are 'we', 'you', and 'me' then, exactly?henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pm We're not, not a single one of us (including you) meat machines.
So, why are only "men" a so-called 'free will'?henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmThere is none. I say I'm right on a specific (man, any man, is a free will). I do not say I'm necessarily right about everything else under the sun.Do you, or do not, see the contradiction and hypocrisy here?
Why are children and "women" not, to 'you'?
And, it is only "men" of the 'human animal' that are, supposedly, a so-called 'free will'? Or, are other animals a 'free will' also?
And, to say "man" is any thing but what "man" is Wrong, also.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmNo. I'm sayin' he's wrong becuz to say man is a meat machine is wrong.So, going by your own so-called 'logic' here what this one is saying is true, is because it is, simply, true.
But, here 'you' are continually doing 'this'.
Great, then hopefully 'you' will stop expressing as though 'you' could not be wrong or incorrect in absolutely any way whatsoever here.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmNo. I don't expect anyone to accept anything I have to say on this subject or any other.But yet here you are expecting others to 'accept your belief and claim', here, correct?
Why do you believe, absolutely, that it is only 'one' or 'the other' here?henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pm First, I'm a lousy salesman. My product (a person is self-directng, self-reliant, self-responsible) goes against the current thinking (man is just meat: not responsible, interdependent, must be directed). I don't know how to sell the harder truth over the easier lie. Second: everyone, including you, continues to live as they are (as free wills) even as many claim they're only meat machines.
'you' are absolutely 'free' to 'figure' absolutely any thing. But, hopefully even 'you' will eventually 'see' and 'comprehend' that 'you' could be absolutely, or partly, wrong here.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pm So, mostly, when I participate here, it's simply to state a position. I figure the reader's intuitions about himself will, or won't, do the heavy lifting.
But, from what 'you' have been doing so far, it could be quiet some time before 'you' will ever be able to 'see' what the actual and irrefutable Truth is here, exactly.
And, 'you', the one known as "henry quirk" here, have proved over and over here that 'you', still, have not yet 'seen', comprehended and understood, who and what 'you' are, exactly.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pm It's a -- as the forum's resident scripted nihilist sez -- a win-win. Folks either see themselves as they are or don't and I get to say my piece (over and over and over and...) regardless if whether anyone listens.
Okay.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmAn amoeba. Or a trout. Or a mosquito. Or a...Like 'what', exactly, for example?
Okay.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmLiving things would include, for example, an amoeba. Or a trout. Or a mosquito.I would have to first find out what are 'living things' and what are 'not living things', to you, for me to provide you with examples
Non-living things would include, for example, a rock. Or my car. Or oxygen.
Free wills would include, for example, human beings. There may be others.
When you say and/or claim things like this, then you are just 'trying to' 'justify' your deceptive Wrong doing.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmWhen I edit out extraneous garbage (your unkind opinions) or reword or reorder your questions, I'm tryin' to get to the radix and bypass all the poop.When you just quote only a part of a question I ask you, and then respond, and so are not answering the actual question/s I am asking you, for clarification, thus you are not being Truly open and honest here, then all you are doing is just trying to deceive and fool you, and the readers, here.
Also, by picking and choosing to just answer some questions, while ignoring others completely and completely ignoring parts of some is all just to deceptive and misleading for me to want to continue this here with you.
Of course not.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pm It's not wrong of me to value my time and energy and be frugal with both.
What is Wrong is trying to be, or being, deceptive.
These are two very different things, obviously.
Well 'I' do not and never would feel that 'I' am getting a so-called 'raw deal', 'from you'.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pm If you feel you're gettin' a raw deal, please understand that's not my intent.
Yes.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmI believe I, and you, and every other human being who lives, has lived, will live, is a free will, yes. It's not an assumption. There are evidences. Wanna examine them?And, if you want to believe that 'you' and absolutely everyone else are 'free willed persons' only, and all of are created by just 'one person' alone, solely based upon nothing else but your own assumption
And, I am not sure how many times that I have informed you that 'proof' will always outweigh or override just 'evidence'.
But, please present 'your evidences' that all of you human beings are so-called 'a free will'.
Great.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmObviously.you' alone who 'set this course' here, 'for you', correct?
So, when it was pointed out to 'you' previously, where, why, and how 'you' were and are Wrong, then this was 'the course' that 'you' have 'set', 'for you'.
Which 'you', readily, admit.
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I'm right on the money when I say, for example, age is a free will. I could be well off the mark when I say, for example, age is a 22 year old boy with Asperger syndrome.So, when are you 'right' and 'not right', exactly?
Using the examples just above: in the later, meeting you would determine if I'm right; with the former, self-interrogation is a good place to start (what does my experience of self along with my intuitions tell me?)And, how can any of the readers here 'know' when 'you are right' from when 'you are not right'?
People. At last count there were 8 billion plus of us.What do 'you' mean by 'us', exactly?
A free will, most simply, is one whose choices are not necessarily rooted in prior events/causes. The free will is a cause, an agent, a point of creative and causal power.And, what are 'free wills', exactly?
Free wills.So, what are 'we', 'you', and 'me' then, exactly?
It's just a convention of language, age. In context, when I say men, I mean people, persons, women and children included.So, why are only "men" a so-called 'free will'?
Very possibly.Or, are other animals a 'free will' also?
Compatibilism -- that we have free will and are determined -- is nonsensical. Necessitarianism is clear: all things, no matter the configuration, are particles (particle aggregates) and reality is nuthin' but the relentless smacking of particles into particles. Somehow, the compatibilist sez, we still get to choose. If, however, as necessitarianism sez we are nuthin' but particle aggregates then our thoughts and feelings, our choices, and our actions are nuthin' but the necessary product of particles slamming into particles.Why do you believe, absolutely, that it is only 'one' or 'the other' here?
So: it has to be one way or the other. There simply isn't any middle ground between libertarian free will and necessitarianism.
Let's start with the most obvious: everyone, you included, has the intuition of being in control of themselves. When you, for example, choose one course over another, you don't defer to a causal chain. You don't say I choose X instead of Y becuz of events that preceded that choice, nor do you feel your choice is somehow bound up in your genes. You don't, if you're honest, blame your choice on your circumstance. Always, it's your sense that your choice begins with you, that you're responsible for it.Yes
Let's examine this first then proceed to other evidences.
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What are you even on about here now?henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 6:28 pmI'm right on the money when I say, for example, age is a free will. I could be well off the mark when I say, for example, age is a 22 year old boy with Asperger syndrome.So, when are you 'right' and 'not right', exactly?
Using the examples just above: in the later, meeting you would determine if I'm right; with the former, self-interrogation is a good place to start (what does my experience of self along with my intuitions tell me?)And, how can any of the readers here 'know' when 'you are right' from when 'you are not right'?
People. At last count there were 8 billion plus of us.What do 'you' mean by 'us', exactly?
A free will, most simply, is one whose choices are not necessarily rooted in prior events/causes. The free will is a cause, an agent, a point of creative and causal power.And, what are 'free wills', exactly?
Free wills.So, what are 'we', 'you', and 'me' then, exactly?
It's just a convention of language, age. In context, when I say men, I mean people, persons, women and children included.So, why are only "men" a so-called 'free will'?
Very possibly.Or, are other animals a 'free will' also?
Compatibilism -- that we have free will and are determined -- is nonsensical. Necessitarianism is clear: all things, no matter the configuration, are particles (particle aggregates) and reality is nuthin' but the relentless smacking of particles into particles. Somehow, the compatibilist sez, we still get to choose. If, however, as necessitarianism sez we are nuthin' but particle aggregates then our thoughts and feelings, our choices, and our actions are nuthin' but the necessary product of particles slamming into particles.Why do you believe, absolutely, that it is only 'one' or 'the other' here?
So: it has to be one way or the other. There simply isn't any middle ground between libertarian free will and necessitarianism.
Let's start with the most obvious: everyone, you included, has the intuition of being in control of themselves. When you, for example, choose one course over another, you don't defer to a causal chain. You don't say I choose X instead of Y becuz of events that preceded that choice, nor do you feel your choice is somehow bound up in your genes. You don't, if you're honest, blame your choice on your circumstance. Always, it's your sense that your choice begins with you, that you're responsible for it.Yes
Let's examine this first then proceed to other evidences.
Once again 'we' have another one who has completely and utterly missed and/or misunderstood what has been and is going on here.
And, again, this is because this what is not open to absolutely anything else, other that what it believes, absolutely, is true.
It is not honest enough and thus not open enough to just seek out actual clarity here, not open to the fact that it could be wrong absolutely anywhere in its beliefs and claims, not taking responsibility for its Wrong doings here, and this is why it has drifted so far afield and has been completely missing out on what the actual irrefutable Truth is, here.
But, because it believes that it already knows what the absolute truth is here, this is why i0t also believes that there is nothing else nor more for it to learn here.
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One just has to look at this thread title here, which is what "henry quirk" wanted , to see the 'intention' behind this thread that "henry quirk" sought out.
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It is not that any thing is confusing me.henry quirk wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 12:10 amWhat confuses you?What are you even on about here now?
I am just asking you what are you even on about here now.
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What, in this post...
...is moving you to ask what are you even on about here now(?)henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 6:28 pmI'm right on the money when I say, for example, age is a free will. I could be well off the mark when I say, for example, age is a 22 year old boy with Asperger syndrome.So, when are you 'right' and 'not right', exactly?
Using the examples just above: in the later, meeting you would determine if I'm right; with the former, self-interrogation is a good place to start (what does my experience of self along with my intuitions tell me?)And, how can any of the readers here 'know' when 'you are right' from when 'you are not right'?
People. At last count there were 8 billion plus of us.What do 'you' mean by 'us', exactly?
A free will, most simply, is one whose choices are not necessarily rooted in prior events/causes. The free will is a cause, an agent, a point of creative and causal power.And, what are 'free wills', exactly?
Free wills.So, what are 'we', 'you', and 'me' then, exactly?
It's just a convention of language, age. In context, when I say men, I mean people, persons, women and children included.So, why are only "men" a so-called 'free will'?
Very possibly.Or, are other animals a 'free will' also?
Compatibilism -- that we have free will and are determined -- is nonsensical. Necessitarianism is clear: all things, no matter the configuration, are particles (particle aggregates) and reality is nuthin' but the relentless smacking of particles into particles. Somehow, the compatibilist sez, we still get to choose. If, however, as necessitarianism sez we are nuthin' but particle aggregates then our thoughts and feelings, our choices, and our actions are nuthin' but the necessary product of particles slamming into particles.Why do you believe, absolutely, that it is only 'one' or 'the other' here?
So: it has to be one way or the other. There simply isn't any middle ground between libertarian free will and necessitarianism.
Let's start with the most obvious: everyone, you included, has the intuition of being in control of themselves. When you, for example, choose one course over another, you don't defer to a causal chain. You don't say I choose X instead of Y becuz of events that preceded that choice, nor do you feel your choice is somehow bound up in your genes. You don't, if you're honest, blame your choice on your circumstance. Always, it's your sense that your choice begins with you, that you're responsible for it.Yes
Let's examine this first then proceed to other evidences.
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From when you said and wrote, 'I'm right on the money ....'.henry quirk wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 1:26 amWhat, in this post......is moving you to ask what are you even on about here now(?)henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 6:28 pmI'm right on the money when I say, for example, age is a free will. I could be well off the mark when I say, for example, age is a 22 year old boy with Asperger syndrome.So, when are you 'right' and 'not right', exactly?
Using the examples just above: in the later, meeting you would determine if I'm right; with the former, self-interrogation is a good place to start (what does my experience of self along with my intuitions tell me?)And, how can any of the readers here 'know' when 'you are right' from when 'you are not right'?
People. At last count there were 8 billion plus of us.What do 'you' mean by 'us', exactly?
A free will, most simply, is one whose choices are not necessarily rooted in prior events/causes. The free will is a cause, an agent, a point of creative and causal power.And, what are 'free wills', exactly?
Free wills.So, what are 'we', 'you', and 'me' then, exactly?
It's just a convention of language, age. In context, when I say men, I mean people, persons, women and children included.So, why are only "men" a so-called 'free will'?
Very possibly.Or, are other animals a 'free will' also?
Compatibilism -- that we have free will and are determined -- is nonsensical. Necessitarianism is clear: all things, no matter the configuration, are particles (particle aggregates) and reality is nuthin' but the relentless smacking of particles into particles. Somehow, the compatibilist sez, we still get to choose. If, however, as necessitarianism sez we are nuthin' but particle aggregates then our thoughts and feelings, our choices, and our actions are nuthin' but the necessary product of particles slamming into particles.Why do you believe, absolutely, that it is only 'one' or 'the other' here?
So: it has to be one way or the other. There simply isn't any middle ground between libertarian free will and necessitarianism.
Let's start with the most obvious: everyone, you included, has the intuition of being in control of themselves. When you, for example, choose one course over another, you don't defer to a causal chain. You don't say I choose X instead of Y becuz of events that preceded that choice, nor do you feel your choice is somehow bound up in your genes. You don't, if you're honest, blame your choice on your circumstance. Always, it's your sense that your choice begins with you, that you're responsible for it.Yes
Let's examine this first then proceed to other evidences.
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Here's your post...
Here's my response...Age wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 2:42 pmSo, when are you 'right' and 'not right', exactly?henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmOf course not.But, 'you', the one individual human being here known as "henry quirk" are 'right', and are absolutely always 'right', right?
And, how can any of the readers here 'know' when 'you are right' from when 'you are not right'?So, 'now' it is not always right, here.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmOf course not.Even when it changes it views and beliefs it, still, believes that it is always 'right'?
Which is, absolutely, obvious. But, when this gets pointed out to 'this one', 'this one' believes, absolutely, that 'it is right'. And, again, solely based upon absolutely but just because it just believes that 'it is right', only.
LOLhenry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmI do.which one/s of you human beings have and hold the absolute and irrefutable 'truthfulness' here?
LOL
LOL
So, again, it believes it has 'the truth' on absolutely nothing other than 'because it is right'.
So, what 'we' have 'now' is this one knowing that it is not always right, but it believes that it always right when it believes that it is always right.What do 'you' mean by 'us', exactly?henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmBecuz each of us, you included, are free wills.why is it that one or those ones, exactly?
And, what are 'free wills', exactly?
So, what are 'we', 'you', and 'me' then, exactly?henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pm We're not, not a single one of us (including you) meat machines.So, why are only "men" a so-called 'free will'?henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmThere is none. I say I'm right on a specific (man, any man, is a free will). I do not say I'm necessarily right about everything else under the sun.Do you, or do not, see the contradiction and hypocrisy here?
Why are children and "women" not, to 'you'?
And, it is only "men" of the 'human animal' that are, supposedly, a so-called 'free will'? Or, are other animals a 'free will' also?And, to say "man" is any thing but what "man" is Wrong, also.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmNo. I'm sayin' he's wrong becuz to say man is a meat machine is wrong.So, going by your own so-called 'logic' here what this one is saying is true, is because it is, simply, true.
But, here 'you' are continually doing 'this'.Great, then hopefully 'you' will stop expressing as though 'you' could not be wrong or incorrect in absolutely any way whatsoever here.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmNo. I don't expect anyone to accept anything I have to say on this subject or any other.But yet here you are expecting others to 'accept your belief and claim', here, correct?Why do you believe, absolutely, that it is only 'one' or 'the other' here?henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pm First, I'm a lousy salesman. My product (a person is self-directng, self-reliant, self-responsible) goes against the current thinking (man is just meat: not responsible, interdependent, must be directed). I don't know how to sell the harder truth over the easier lie. Second: everyone, including you, continues to live as they are (as free wills) even as many claim they're only meat machines.'you' are absolutely 'free' to 'figure' absolutely any thing. But, hopefully even 'you' will eventually 'see' and 'comprehend' that 'you' could be absolutely, or partly, wrong here.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pm So, mostly, when I participate here, it's simply to state a position. I figure the reader's intuitions about himself will, or won't, do the heavy lifting.
But, from what 'you' have been doing so far, it could be quiet some time before 'you' will ever be able to 'see' what the actual and irrefutable Truth is here, exactly.And, 'you', the one known as "henry quirk" here, have proved over and over here that 'you', still, have not yet 'seen', comprehended and understood, who and what 'you' are, exactly.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pm It's a -- as the forum's resident scripted nihilist sez -- a win-win. Folks either see themselves as they are or don't and I get to say my piece (over and over and over and...) regardless if whether anyone listens.Okay.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmAn amoeba. Or a trout. Or a mosquito. Or a...Like 'what', exactly, for example?Okay.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmLiving things would include, for example, an amoeba. Or a trout. Or a mosquito.I would have to first find out what are 'living things' and what are 'not living things', to you, for me to provide you with examples
Non-living things would include, for example, a rock. Or my car. Or oxygen.
Free wills would include, for example, human beings. There may be others.When you say and/or claim things like this, then you are just 'trying to' 'justify' your deceptive Wrong doing.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmWhen I edit out extraneous garbage (your unkind opinions) or reword or reorder your questions, I'm tryin' to get to the radix and bypass all the poop.When you just quote only a part of a question I ask you, and then respond, and so are not answering the actual question/s I am asking you, for clarification, thus you are not being Truly open and honest here, then all you are doing is just trying to deceive and fool you, and the readers, here.
Also, by picking and choosing to just answer some questions, while ignoring others completely and completely ignoring parts of some is all just to deceptive and misleading for me to want to continue this here with you.
Of course not.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pm It's not wrong of me to value my time and energy and be frugal with both.
What is Wrong is trying to be, or being, deceptive.
These are two very different things, obviously.
Well 'I' do not and never would feel that 'I' am getting a so-called 'raw deal', 'from you'.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pm If you feel you're gettin' a raw deal, please understand that's not my intent.Yes.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmI believe I, and you, and every other human being who lives, has lived, will live, is a free will, yes. It's not an assumption. There are evidences. Wanna examine them?And, if you want to believe that 'you' and absolutely everyone else are 'free willed persons' only, and all of are created by just 'one person' alone, solely based upon nothing else but your own assumption
And, I am not sure how many times that I have informed you that 'proof' will always outweigh or override just 'evidence'.
But, please present 'your evidences' that all of you human beings are so-called 'a free will'.Great.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:45 pmObviously.you' alone who 'set this course' here, 'for you', correct?
So, when it was pointed out to 'you' previously, where, why, and how 'you' were and are Wrong, then this was 'the course' that 'you' have 'set', 'for you'.
Which 'you', readily, admit.
Just like the rest of our exchange which hasn't seemed to trouble you.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 6:28 pmI'm right on the money when I say, for example, age is a free will. I could be well off the mark when I say, for example, age is a 22 year old boy with Asperger syndrome.So, when are you 'right' and 'not right', exactly?
Using the examples just above: in the later, meeting you would determine if I'm right; with the former, self-interrogation is a good place to start (what does my experience of self along with my intuitions tell me?)And, how can any of the readers here 'know' when 'you are right' from when 'you are not right'?
People. At last count there were 8 billion plus of us.What do 'you' mean by 'us', exactly?
A free will, most simply, is one whose choices are not necessarily rooted in prior events/causes. The free will is a cause, an agent, a point of creative and causal power.And, what are 'free wills', exactly?
Free wills.So, what are 'we', 'you', and 'me' then, exactly?
It's just a convention of language, age. In context, when I say men, I mean people, persons, women and children included.So, why are only "men" a so-called 'free will'?
Very possibly.Or, are other animals a 'free will' also?
Compatibilism -- that we have free will and are determined -- is nonsensical. Necessitarianism is clear: all things, no matter the configuration, are particles (particle aggregates) and reality is nuthin' but the relentless smacking of particles into particles. Somehow, the compatibilist sez, we still get to choose. If, however, as necessitarianism sez we are nuthin' but particle aggregates then our thoughts and feelings, our choices, and our actions are nuthin' but the necessary product of particles slamming into particles.Why do you believe, absolutely, that it is only 'one' or 'the other' here?
So: it has to be one way or the other. There simply isn't any middle ground between libertarian free will and necessitarianism.
Let's start with the most obvious: everyone, you included, has the intuition of being in control of themselves. When you, for example, choose one course over another, you don't defer to a causal chain. You don't say I choose X instead of Y becuz of events that preceded that choice, nor do you feel your choice is somehow bound up in your genes. You don't, if you're honest, blame your choice on your circumstance. Always, it's your sense that your choice begins with you, that you're responsible for it.Yes
Let's examine this first then proceed to other evidences.
Re: "age" verses "quirk"
That you continually believe, absolutely, and continually claim, that you could not be wrong in any way here is what 'I' want to point out and show how these people really could be and were, back in the days when this was being written.
They actually believed that they were absolutely right even when they had no actual proof, and were relying on their own made up assumptions, beliefs, and/or stories alone.
Individual adult human beings were really like what the one here known as "henry quirk" is showing and proving, here.
They actually believed that they were absolutely right even when they had no actual proof, and were relying on their own made up assumptions, beliefs, and/or stories alone.
Individual adult human beings were really like what the one here known as "henry quirk" is showing and proving, here.
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