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Article #12827Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
From: rbwinn
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:35
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:35
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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.
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. 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
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