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"rbwinn" <rbwinn3@juno.com> wrote in message 
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> On Jul 15, 11:16 pm, The Natural Philosopher <a...@b.c> wrote:
>> rbwinn wrote:
>> > On Jul 14, 11:29 pm, BuddyThunder <nos...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>> >> rbwinn wrote:
>> >>> On Jul 14, 8:01�am, The Loan Arranger <no...@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
>> >>>> rbwinn wrote:
>> >>>>> Only an atheist would want all choices made for
>> >>>>> them.
>> >>>> Now there was me thinking that that was the mark of a worshipper. It
>> >>>> seems to me that atheists make their own choices, because they don't
>> >>>> have decisions ready-dictated to them.
>> >>> So you think it is a mistake to decide ahead of time not to commit
>> >>> murder, not to steal, to attend church, not to commit adultery, etc.
>> >> Why would you be so morally deficient so as to need to perform morning
>> >> affirmations in order not to kill people?
>>
>> >> My moral decisions are made as the occasion demands it. Seems to work 
>> >> okay.
>>
>> > So are you saying that for each person you encounter, you make a
>> > decision to kill or not to kill?
>>
>> Only if you BELIEVE that everything a person does is dictated by his
>> choices.
>>
> That is what I believe.  I came to that conclusion while I was
> incarcerated in a V.A. hospital psychiatric ward.  I could not walk,
> could not talk, was given another shot of thorazine every night by the
> nursing assistants, and it was starting to look to me as though I
> would never get out of there.  As I was contemplating my situation, a
> thought that did not come from me went through my mind,  Whatever you
> see before you at any given time is the result of all choices you have
> made up to that time.

OMFG!
On this we actually agree.

Event plus response equals outcome, right? (e+r=a)

> It was at that time that I decided to choose to get out of that
> mental hospital.  It took quite a while, but I did it.  A lot of my
> fellow patients did not.  Many of them are probably still there.

Ummm... you're talking about when you escaped from the mental hospital, 
right?

>To me they did not seem to be all that insane when they would arrive at
> the hospital, just sort of average people with a military background
> who had done something that brought atheistic attention to
> themselves.  Then they would start to give them drugs.  Within a short
> time it was plain to see that some of them were going to spend the
> rest of their lives there.
> Robert B. Winn

I've just realized.
You ARE Jack Nicholson and you HAVE flown the cuckoo's nest.
Am I right?


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Steve O
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Exempt from purgatory by papal indulgence