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Old 04-11-2019, 07:52 PM   #361 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk View Post
You “accept” it because it’s clear and obvious.
Well yeah but it's so clear and obvious because I don't have overriding concerns about preserving a nebulous concept of my humanity. I've cast it aside cause I never had it and all I'm left with is performing empty actions as a human construct that have little emotional value to me in any sense of an important human narrative. Accepting that I'm an automaton doesn't challenge my sense of worth cause I have an atrophied sense of worth. I'm simply "lucky" in that my natural view happens to be the most obviously logical.

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So are skeptics when you cant justify your belief with evidence. Every other example on OHs list has evidence.
You're not being a skeptic when you cling to emotional needs to see yourself as having agency. It's a pretty simple idea: without proof of free will the default should be to assume it doesn't exist.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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