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	Free Will – Really?

disenchantedcitizen

6-3-2009 3:23 PM

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progressive politics, free will, brain washing, behavior control

disenchantedcitizen says:

Great essay discussing the fallacy of ‘free will’. Some interesting US history thrown in to illustrate how oppressive our government has become. She also touches on how the medical profession has been poisoning us by making us believe we need them.

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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://theprogressivepatriot.net/2009/06/03/free-will--really.aspx?ref=rss">Perhaps it's just our insufferable conceit as humans which causes us to believe the myth that we have "free will".</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://theprogressivepatriot.net/2009/06/03/free-will--really.aspx?ref=rss">Due to this so-called free will we deem our species higher than the other animals we share the planet with.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://theprogressivepatriot.net/2009/06/03/free-will--really.aspx?ref=rss">But from where I sit- the feral cats, the coyotes and raccoons that roam my property have  much more free will than I do</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://theprogressivepatriot.net/2009/06/03/free-will--really.aspx?ref=rss">as humans we can't tolerate that notion, so we have gone to tremendous effort to exert our will over the animals- driving many of them into extinction.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://theprogressivepatriot.net/2009/06/03/free-will--really.aspx?ref=rss">I wonder when man first realized that in order to keep a civilization "in order" they had to create the lie of free will- as they were taking it away</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; 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