[MD] Freedom

[John Carl]

Now you're *trying* to give me the shivers Krimel... but it won't work.

if .. if .. if ...

if wishes were ponies, beggars wouldn't need to look far for rose
fertilizer.

I AM; so postualating all the chances which make me NOT are rhetroical
blowin' in the wind.

Waiter, I don't think this conversation is leading to the Good.

John

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Krimel <Krimel at krimel.com> wrote:

> [John]
> And more to Arlo's point, making choice dependent upon chance has a certain
> truth ring to it, but I'm not sure I'll buy it.   It makes ME and MY
> existence dependent upon chaotic chance. Shudders.  Existential angst comes
> all over me.
>
> [Krimel]
> We make choices as a way of influencing chance. We seek to improve our odds
> of attaining goals or achieving our hearts desire. That is what evolution
> is
> all about and all living things have some ability to perceive their odds in
> such matters and to act on them.
>
> Your existence is nothing but the outcome of lots and lots of random
> events.
> A particular sperm fertilized a particular egg at a particular place at a
> particular time. If any of those particulars had been minutely different,
> right down to the quantum level, you would be someone else.
>
>