Re: Fitting the canon in

["mike" <wizathogwarts@xxxxxxxxx>]

Irregardless of our experiences, we always have the choice of doing 
what is logical, based on our experiences, or doing something 
illogical just because we feel like it.  Then there is always the 
sometimes third alternative, going with our gut feeling.
Lacking free will is the absence of imagination.

--- In buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Electronis Zappa" 
<nittanywarrior@e...> wrote:
> But then there's determinisim, where free will is an illusion and 
we
> have no choice in what we do.  If you could really choose to do
> something, why then did you do one thing and not the other?  For
> instance, imagine you're at a fork in the road.  You could go left 
or
> right.  You `choose' to go left.  Why didn't  you go right?  
Because it
> was not meant to be.  Remember the last new Angel "Whoever drinks 
from
> the cup is the one who was supposed to drink from the cup" or 
something
> like that.  Same basic idea.  We base everything we do on past
> experience, or in the lack thereof, experience in something somehow
> similar in abstract way.  Back to the fork in the road.  Your 
girlfriend
> just so happens to be a southpaw, and also, the night before you 
watched
> Randy Johnson pitch for the Diamondbacks.  Ok, this is a poor 
example,
> but you get my drift.  When you're making that `choice', the sum 
of your
> experiences dictates that there is only one possible outcome.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> She brought colors to my life that my eyes had never touched
> And when she taught me how to care, I never cared so much
> I try not to think of her, but I fall asleep and do
> I drift off where the grass is green and the sky is baby blue
>
> Baby Blue
> George Strait
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Y ddraig goch ddry cychwyn
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Electronis Zappa
> AIM S/N:  electroniszappa
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                     'Choices'

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