Tag: illusion
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Scientific Determinism
There are some brilliant scientific minds that assert that I do not have a choice about anything. They insist that everything I do and think has been determined by the physics and chemistry that I have inherited. Every particle in the universe was, they say, set in motion during the big bang. I can’t do…
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The “i” in Christ
Someone farther back than anyone has done my genealogy literally took on the name of Christ for the family. That decision many centuries ago has a pernicious effect on me. I am certainly a Crist but that doesn’t make me a Christian. The “i” in Christ gives me delusions of grandeur. I am the Mark…
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Freewill and Power
Some people have more self control than others. Some people have power over others. We are not free in an absolute sense. But if we only have the illusion of self control then that would be a strange twist of evolution. If we believe we are sentient and have the freedom to choose we are…
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Evidence of Divinty
I am convinced that humans have a spark of the divine. But I can’t prove it. I see love and mind as things that can’t be merely physical. If we have only the illusion of consciousness and choice then arguments in that direction are as hollow as they make us to be. I do not…
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Needing Time
Do you need time? As Ford Prefect says in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie, “Time is an illusion… Lunchtime doubly so.” Time is an inconvenience at 1:30 in the morning when I am scheduled to leave for work in exactly 12 hours. Time is a little more convenient when I’m actually working a…
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Not going back…
Is there an age or year of your life you would re-live? My senior year in highschool was at the time amazing. I truly believed that I was the center of the world. I had good grades in advanced classes, I was in music and theater so other students knew who I was, and I…
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Awake Again And Again
I got to sleep at around 11:30pm and woke back up at 2:00am. After two and a half hours of sleep I feel completely well rested. That is an illusion of course. If I try to stay awake until the end of my shift this evening I will be in terrible shape. Here’s hoping that…
Latter Day Sinner 