Free Will

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• Illusions and personal decision-making

  
  Dangerous Intersection — Authority: 477
  Behavioral economist Dan Ariely uses classic visual illusions and his own research to show that we are often not in personal control of our own-decision-making. Outside factors often compel our decisions, even though we always insist that we are always in control or our choices. The organ donation and ibuprophen ...
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• Obedience as a Form of Godliness

  
  Fr. Ted's Blog — Authority: 128
  The author of the Letter to the Hebrews wrote to the 1st Century Christians, “ Obey those who rule over you …”   (Hebrews 13:17).    These words were written by a believer at a time when he apparently could not imagine Christian leadership misleading or abusing  fellow Christians.   Almost 2000 years ...
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• The Present is Where Isaac Newton and Niels Bohr Meet? An Intriguing New Theory of the Block Universe!

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 437
  And it might even preserve free will. Technology Review (published by MIT) reports today that two physicists have a new idea about what it means to live in a block universe: Today, Ellis and Rothman introduce a significant new type of block universe. They say the character of the block changes dramatically when ...
  2 days ago

• Free Megabus Tickets

  
  Freenology - Free Samples, Magazines, Stuff, Money, What? — Authority: 154
  http://www.megabus.com/us/ -the site is very busy right now. The free seats will be available throughout the company’s multi-state route system dur.e Jan.
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• An astrologer racks her braincell again: can the future be predicted?

  
  Writing from the twelfth house — Authority: 111
  “ Teach me your mood, o patient stars who climb each night the ancient sky.” Ralph Waldo Emerson ************ Definition of prediction: a thing predicted; a forecast (p 1140, The Oxford English Reference Dictionary, Oxford University Press 1996) ************ The question of whether it is ...
  3 days ago

• Three Preachers

  
  The Website of Unknowing — Authority: 527
  Three ministers — a Baptist, a Presbyterian, and an Episcopalian — were having lunch one day. One of them posed this hypothetical question: “If you knew you only had a week to live and could only preach one last sermon, what would your topic be?” The Baptist enthusiastically said, “I would preach on the ...
  3 days ago

• Measured Time and Experienced Time

  
  Eternity in an Hour — Authority: 126
  Philosophy has traditionally two views concerning time, namely, the ‘static view of time’ and the ‘dynamic view of time’. The static view of time as embraced by philosophers like Parmenides and Zeno of Elea held that the appearance of temporal change is a mere illusion. This means that events deemed ‘past’ ...
  1 week ago

• A thread on probabilistic causation

  
  Sublime Bloviations — Authority: 133
  I think I have a workable model of libertarian free will, though I havent made much progress on a planned graphic illustration.  I stumbled across a thread at "The Garden of Forking Paths" that focuses on one of the critical issues facing libertarian theories of free will. The list of contributors is ...
  1 week ago

• Freedom of the Will: A Wesleyan Response to Jonathan Edwards by Daniel D. Whedon (Book Review)

  
  Arminian Perspectives — Authority: 103
  Many thanks to John D. Wagner for the reiview copy. ************************* John D. Wagner has edited and republished another classic and yet little known work on the freedom of the will by Methodist Daniel D. Whedon (1808-1885).  It is extremely significant as the discussion over the freedom of the will has ...
  1 week ago

• A REJECTION OF CALVINISMS THEOLOGICAL DETERMINISM

  
  Classical Arminianism — Authority: 127
  Since every effect must first have a cause, which in itself is an effect necessitated by a cause ad inifitum , then there must be an uncaused cause for the existence of all things (since an infinite regress of cause and effect is logically impossible). From a Christian worldview, the God of Abraham, ...
  1 week ago

• Free Will Astrology

  
  The Scope — Authority: 138
  Rob Brezsny loves to prove Sagittarius wrong.
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• Grow in Spirit by Accepting Yourself and Accepting Responsibility for Yourself

  
  Community Marketing Blog — Authority: 141
  Grow in Spirit by Accepting Yourself and Accepting Responsibility for Yourself Too many personalities Most of us are good by nature, but to become a better person is to grow, and grow in the right directions. We are all so human and make mistakes all the time. We have to many parts of us divided into ...
  1 week ago

• Ancient Roman Existentialism?

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 437
  Jean-Paul Sartre, I think, would have like this. It’s from Carlin Barton’s  Roman Honor: The Fire in the Bones (pg. 32, UC Press 2001): As the art historian Bettina Bergmann points out, the Romans had a taste for moments of high tension, frozen instants of “explosive emotions,” “excruciating suspended ...
  1 week ago

• More Pronoic Antidotes And Hot Scopes!

  
  hazel8500 — Authority: 109
  Well had to go and get my computer up and running after checking my mail and finding Rob Brezney’s delightful news letter.  I had to share a few things with you.  But first, I should stop being so surprised at how this guy is able to put down so easily, some of the things [...]
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• Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology for December 2009

  
  North Atlantic Books Blog — Authority: 116
  FREE WILL ASTROLOGY December © Copyright 2009 Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): When Carolee Schneeman was a kid, her extravagant adoration of nature earned her the nickname “mad pantheist.” Later, during her career as a visual artist, she described her relationship with the world this way: “I assume ...
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• MONTHLY NUMEROLOGY – DECEMBER

  
  Creative Numerology — Authority: 111
  Creative Numerology by Christine DeLorey © Copyright Christine DeLorey – 2009 – All Rights Reserved Your personal number for 2009 is obtained by adding 2009 to your month and day of birth. For example, if you were born on May 29, add 5+2+9+2+0+0+9 = 27. Keep adding until you reach a single digit. 2+7=9. In ...
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• Is God really all that interested in our efforts to make Him our own?

  
  The Old Adam Lives! — Authority: 121
  I don’t think so.   I think He is busy trying to kill off our efforts. I think our efforts at making God our own are misguided at best and very damaging at worst. We are His own. He makes believers out of us. The person who believes he is still in charge needs to be killed off. That’s what God ...
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• Free Will, ep 02

  
  Literary Abominations — Authority: 116
  Download Subscribe And now, Episode 2 of Free Will and Other Compulsions. Story So Far by J.R. Murdock - find his books at Podiobooks . Cast this week (in order of appearance): Andrea Fender as The Moon Girl Michael Lemonjello as Search Party Leader Mark Smith as The Third Search Party Member Miss Kalendar ...
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• Adams and "The Virtue of Faith"

  
  The Prosblogion — Authority: 506
  I recently finished Robert Adams old article "The Virtue of Faith" (chapter 1 of the book The Virtue of Faith ), and I found a really interesting point. Uncertainty and faith are necessary for a certain sort of special good in a relationship. I think its worth quoting Adams on this: Well, suppose we always ...
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• Fate, Free Will, and The Wyrd

  
  Electric Children — Authority: 115
  I discovered this while tripping through Wikipedia recently. It’s an old English and Norse concept of non-linear destiny called the wyrd, which adds an interesting dimension to any dualistic discussions of fate versus free will. In a simple sense, Wyrd refers to how past actions continually affect and ...
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