Theos-Talk Archives (January 1997 Message tl00107)

At 10:26 PM 1/6/97 -0500, you wrote:
>I believe that the ring-pass -not for free will is determined by our bodies,
>including the invisible ones. A human being has free will as long as his/her
>bodies, heredity, habits, will power will let him/her. (There may be other
>factors tending to inhibit. Those are the ones I can think of just now.)
>
        Liesel:

        This is one of the best posts I have seen on this subject. It makes
sense. Any limits put on us - whatever level of plane, physical,
superphysical, I agree that it is not *externally* imposed. It is built in
due to physical or non physical bodies or material we are made of. All the
literature I have seen have always somehow indicate the ring-pass-not is
something externally imposed.

>As to the idea that  <Human beings have no
>choice about the moral value of any alternative...>, I think anthropology
>doesn't always go along with that. In some Esquimo tribes, the man politely
>offers his wife to a visitor; Arabs are often polygamous; it is considered
>ok to kill an enemy in war; and the morals of killing and misusing animals
>change in different societies. The Spaniards love their bull fights, and
>many people wear furs.
>
        I guess that once one is able to start logically and objectively
think about being in any nation or any situation, I guess one may develop a
set of values/morals that one is comfortable with. Such a set of
values/morals is likely to help us in our dealings with everyone we come
into contact, by what ever medium. It is very hard to be an original thinker
when we are faced with enormous pressures brought on us by the social,
religious, governmental, "morals", which in the eyes of an original thinker
could be *immoral*.


MKR 

>Liesel      
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