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Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by Iamschist
You can respond responsibly if you are present with what is present. Or you can react if you are running on unconscious programming. There is the conditioned individual and there is present awareness.
The conditioned individual has learned responses, each and every one of us has this conditioning, it runs most peoples lives automatically.
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by Iamschist
You can respond responsibly if you are present with what is present. Or you can react if you are running on unconscious programming. There is the conditioned individual and there is present awareness.
The conditioned individual has learned responses, each and every one of us has this conditioning, it runs most peoples lives automatically. The conditioning, the program is always running but can be seen by the present awareness that you really are. The program, the mind, can do nothing without your being. You are the being and the mind should be used by you. If you are trapped in the mind then you are still inside the bars.edit on 11-2-2012 by Itisnowagain because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by akushla99
Originally posted by lampsalot
Originally posted by akushla99
...and thus, 'on impulse', through no process of FREE WILL, affect the belief system of another 'unit' to determine an outcome you deem...'practical, humane or redemptive' because YOU believe it?!
Warning...major quandaries on argument!
Akushla
I don't quite understand what you are saying.
You are 'arguing' a circular argument...this is why it makes no sense.
You've started on one side of the merry-go-round, worked your way round to the original contention and then continued to ask the same questions...in a different way...and back on round the merry-go-round.
Remove FREE WILL,
...and you remove responsibility...
No 2 ways about this.
Akushla
edit on 10-2-2012 by akushla99 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by lampsalot
by rejecting free will, you are indeed rejecting responsibility in the philosophical sense.
Originally posted by lampsalot
Originally posted by akushla99
Originally posted by lampsalot
Originally posted by akushla99
...and thus, 'on impulse', through no process of FREE WILL, affect the belief system of another 'unit' to determine an outcome you deem...'practical, humane or redemptive' because YOU believe it?!
Warning...major quandaries on argument!
Akushla
I don't quite understand what you are saying.
You are 'arguing' a circular argument...this is why it makes no sense.
You've started on one side of the merry-go-round, worked your way round to the original contention and then continued to ask the same questions...in a different way...and back on round the merry-go-round.
Remove FREE WILL,
...and you remove responsibility...
No 2 ways about this.
Akushla
edit on 10-2-2012 by akushla99 because: (no reason given)
No you're the one begging the question. I admitted, and I still admit, that by rejecting free will, you are indeed rejecting responsibility in the philosophical sense.
And it appears the no responsibility 'cancer' is the flavour of the legal system if we are to take the obscene amount of 'human rights'(i say that in that in the perjorative sense when i alude to islamic nutcases getting tons of liberal do goood suport in uk)No body is fully accountable in this world because of the deterministic beer goggles of the judges.look at the amount of rehabilitation courses treatment centres and sad lack of victim support makes me SICK .this could herald a whole new thread
Originally posted by akushla99
Originally posted by lampsalot
Originally posted by akushla99
Originally posted by lampsalot
Originally posted by akushla99
...and thus, 'on impulse', through no process of FREE WILL, affect the belief system of another 'unit' to determine an outcome you deem...'practical, humane or redemptive' because YOU believe it?!
Warning...major quandaries on argument!
Akushla
I don't quite understand what you are saying.
You are 'arguing' a circular argument...this is why it makes no sense.
You've started on one side of the merry-go-round, worked your way round to the original contention and then continued to ask the same questions...in a different way...and back on round the merry-go-round.
Remove FREE WILL,
...and you remove responsibility...
No 2 ways about this.
Akushla
edit on 10-2-2012 by akushla99 because: (no reason given)
No you're the one begging the question. I admitted, and I still admit, that by rejecting free will, you are indeed rejecting responsibility in the philosophical sense.
A) my replies are begging nothing...
B) seems to me that your tune has changed a little across these three pages...
C) i am not, and have never said that by rejecting FREE WILL, you are rejecting responsibility in any ONE sense...I maintain that, rejecting the 'concept' of FREE WILL is the ABNEGATION of responsibility, in all senses!
Remove FREE WILL from the equation and you remove responsibility for your actions. This is a common defence for mentally impaired (or not so mentally impaired) who commit horrific crimes under the auspices of it not having been 'them' what did it...
You can wax 'philosophical' on this, but the rub IS...no FREE WILL = no responsibility.
Akushla