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The 2nd and 3rd level (Most imporant topic as you should experience)

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posted on Aug, 29 2008 @ 11:11 AM
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The first level was about if we have free will or not. Now the 2nd and 3rd level for your undivided attention is sole about free intent and free desire.

1. Do rational persons of man have free intent? Or are our intensions not free, but bond and are not selectable by will?

2. Do rational persons of man have free desire? Or are our desires not free, but bond and are not selectable by will?

3. Can you, with your will, bypass your intent and your desire? Or does your intent and your desire bypass your will to flee them hands down?

4. Is there only so long that we may put off our acting upon our intent and desire, if intent and desire hold us in a bond that remains, returns, and/or rises without choice in our manner-nature?

The topic is important because maybe ppl who do certain things (that are likable or dislikable or hateable) cant fight to not do them. If this is the case, then should, say, a rapist (one who would rape and have raped) be not found guilty because of the nature of their non-free intent or non-free desire? Or should the public's dislikable/hateable ones, based on their behavior/personality, be SURELY contained or eliminated in a way that does not subject them to punishment? If you're thinking containment, then wouldnt that still be punishment that would make them go miserably crazy or go suicidal, since containment would keep them away from acting upon their non-free intent and non-free desire?



posted on Aug, 29 2008 @ 11:27 AM
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They're already free to do whatever they want. But so is everyone else. Some people commit crimes, some people lock them away.



posted on Aug, 29 2008 @ 11:36 AM
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Adding 5th wheel:

5. If someone slaps you hard, are you free from having any certain intension come or rise in your thought, whether or not, you'd willingly act on it? If not free, then would you say that the intension was already there ready to rise?



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