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• Imagining the Postmodern

  
  The Dunedin School — Authority: 525
  From the current dialogue between historical critics and postmodernists, it’s fairly clear that: (1) nobody agrees on the definitions of either historical criticsm or postmodernism, and yet  (2) everybody is positioning themselves more on one side or the other, even if they don’t really buy the ...
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• Zeus Remains

  
  Libertarian Blog — Authority: 136
  From Monarchy to Aristocracy to Plutocracy to Democracy, Zeus (the State) remains, and therefore the American Revolution was thwarted: ...through whose will Mortal men are named in speech or remain unspoken Men are renowned or remain unsung For lightly he makes strong, And lightly brings strength to confusion, ...
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• Predestination vs. Free Will

  
  Command the Raven — Authority: 150
  From Koinonia House ArchivesPREDESTINATION VS. FREE WILL“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever…” - Deuteronomy 29:29 [show/hide]Deuteronomy 29:29 [29]"The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are ...
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• Predestination vs. Free Will

  
  Jesus Lives! — Authority: 151
  From Koinonia House Archives PREDESTINATION VS. FREE WILL “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever…” - Deuteronomy 29:29 From the beginning of time, thinkers have puzzled over the paradox of fate vs. free will, or ...
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• A Sirius Christmas: Santy Claus Is Outsourcing, The Meaning of Merry CHRISTmas & The Holidays Are Happy, but Biased

  
  DefendingGenesis.org — Authority: 109
  Santy Claus Is Outsourcing!He’s gotta be. How else do we explain those pernicious little twisty ties that bind every toy to the box at the molecular level? Can we attribute this cruel packaging development to good-hearted, jolly ol’ Saint Nick? Doesn’t this seem more on par with some trick of Ol’ Scratch?Can a ...
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• Reductionism Not?: Mathematical Biologist Stuart Kauffman on “breaking the Galilean spell”

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 437
  My favorite line in the gnostic Gospel of Thomas goes like this: If matter emerged from mind, it is a wonder. But if mind emerged from matter, it is a greater wonder. In the recent dead tree edition of Free Inquiry (Dec. 2009/Jan. 2010) is a review of Stuart Kauffman’s  Reinventing the Sacred: A New View ...
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• Why, Mr. Anderson, why, why do you persist?

  
  The Mouse Trap — Authority: 111
  Regular readers of this blog will be aware of my fascination with Carol Dweck and her entity versus incremental theory of intelligence/ability that I have blogged about extensively in the past. To recap, people (children usually in her studies) can have a fixed entity view of intelligence that it is a stable ...
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• Notes on the Science and Nonduality Conference 2009, Part 6: Gary Weber

  
  Nonduality Blog — Authority: 122
  Gary Weber – You Are Not in Control Segment of talk entitled “Ramana Maharshi and Einstein on Free Will” given at Science and NonDuality Conference in San Rafael, CA in October 2009. Employs Bhagavad Gita, thought experiments, gedanken, and examples from everyday life to demonstrate that it is impossible to be ...
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• Control and true freedom

  
  emerging thought in Montana — Authority: 405
  Control and freedom are interesting topics in themselves. If one is in control is he free or reacting to what is happening around them to maintain that control? If one is a servant or slave, there is a sense of freedom from the responsibility of higher things others are controlling so one is free to pursue other ...
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• forbidden fruits & veggies

  
  Poems at The Poetry Showcase - Share your poems at the Poetry Showcase — Authority: 164
  o why o why o why did my cousins stick peas up their noses when their mother so often had told them not to stick peas up their noses and why o why o why did adam and eve go and eat read more
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• How Long Can You Endure Tough Self Discipline?

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 567
  I have read many books about success and self discipline and it seems there is a fine line between the amount of discipline one person has and the amount of money that person makes if you consider success only financial success and also all monks have to endure the hardest kinds of activities before they ever achieve ...
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• Free Will Astrology

  
  The Scope — Authority: 144
  Rob Brezsny gazes into 2010, and rails on boring astronomers.
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• weekly numerology – December 17

  
  Creative Numerology — Authority: 109
  CREATIVE NUMEROLOGY by Christine DeLorey The weekly forecasts are updated each THURSDAY The monthly forecasts are updated on the 1st of each month © Copyright Christine DeLorey 2009 – All rights reserved Your personal number for 2009 (you keep this number for the entire year) is obtained by adding 2009 to ...
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• Why belief in free will is important: its pro-social and moral implications

  
  The Mouse Trap — Authority: 111
  I recently stumbled upon the Psychology Today blog of Roy F Baumeiester and went through some lively blog posts that were exchanged between him and other PT bloggers especially John Bargh on the issue of free will . Thoise exchanges are worth reading by themselves and are highly recommeneded. This post ...
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• Soul First

  
  Spirituality for Living — Authority: 133
  T here is a lot of concern with free will. This is why many shun the concept of unity. We do have free will, or intention, also called choice, but we misunderstand that capacity. We err in our understanding of those choices. Whenever you chose one thing, you at the same time exclude another choice. This is the nature ...
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• Barack Obama, Free Will, and Atheism

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 437
  One of the consequences to being an atheist (if you’re willing to look closely enough) is the rejection, not just of God, but of human free will. In other words, an atheist is likely to acknowledge the outward appearance of choices, but ultimately not the inward presence of free will. Free will is a religious ...
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• Illusions and personal decision-making

  
  Dangerous Intersection — Authority: 478
  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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• What my masters thesis was about

  
  dangerous idea — Authority: 426
  Back in 1984, I wrote a masters thesis under Dr. Michael White at Arizona State University entitled "Moral Theories and Free Will." I defended the claim that on the assumption that what we are utilitarians looking for ways to modify behavior, compatibilism makes some sense. Even if determinism is true, we might want ...
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• Corporate Election (Resources)

  
  Arminian Perspectives — Authority: 109
  I am a strong proponent of the corporate election view and wanted to list and link to some good resources which explain and advocate that position.  Hopefully, I will add on to this as new resources become available.  If anyone knows of any good resources on the subject that I have missed, please let me know in the ...
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• Obedience as a Form of Godliness

  
  Fr. Ted's Blog — Authority: 122
  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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