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Not exactly correct Robert in re discharging student loans.

A debtor is permitted to file a motion to determine dischargeability of their student loan. The standard is not easy to meet…it must impose an undue hardship to require repayment. So if the debtor is utterly lacking in means to do so a judge will eliminate that loan. (debts which are…[Read more]

Unseen, what did i write that made ya think i was disagreeing with notion that feelings are in preconscious mind?

Jody Lee, i second Reg in giving my approval…not that my approval should mean anything to ya. Simple thing but it is so valuable…we all have a strong tendency to dig the fuck in to our ideas and be more about fighting to be RIGHT…[Read more]

A few additional thoughts on the issue of how does it profit a person to have free will.

If we have free will perhaps we are not driven by the need to feel well and avoid pain. Kids wont grow up obsessed with sex and drugs. They will actually be able to develop their minds. FREEDOM from the slavery of biology!

Further, as thinkers we are no…[Read more]

Unseen, you ask a legit question and one which is not typically asked.

I am with you in part. Blame, praise, sense of superiority account for some of the need to feel that it exists. Religious folks also want it so god is not the biggest dick in the universe. BUT BUT BUT..perhaps there is more to it. Ultimately the value in our lives is…[Read more]

Pope, I must have noticed his use of the word, feeling, but it escaped my consciousness or has retreated into an unreachable memory.

I essentially agree with your feelings on this matter. If we are analytical we see a consistent trend in humans, in the history of thought, among both the brightest and the dimmest, in which anthropocentric notions…[Read more]

Just spoke to someone in Sonora..in Tuolomne county who got message just now..power outage imminent

Pope, based on feelings?

Unseen was cogent. That was reason, baby. The little unseen man who speaks for him was on his game!

I don’t follow your reasoning in regard to the flow of consciousness between preconscious and conscious. I think you are assuming a fact not in evidence.

As to free will i can’t even picture how it would look…how it…[Read more]

Unseen channeling Ivy..impressive…although not nearly as puissant as Ivy who had god give her a heads-up.

Squat wisdom, squat wise, shooting sparks time flies, whither the wisdom to describe. Neb by neb the sighted sign that waxing on is so much braille. In declensions of deforming glancing meaning…

Free will is an issue for science to solve…not that i think we will get there. Another refrain is the tendency to anthropocentric thinking. We can’t…[Read more]

Robert, even if quantum injects randomness it does nothing to create free will. If you disagree please explain your thinking.

Jody, have a look-see.

Jody, thank you.

My gut tells me or is it the little man in my brain who rules me if there even is a me that it extends to more than just medical conditions. Praise be Allah, but Robert has spoken in a way on this topic that i concur although i go further.

Have you read about the impact of abuse on children later in life? It is fucking…[Read more]

Pope, that is a very difficult road you took. Like Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting, not your fault. And to the degree that you are not experiencing those things it is because your brain has changed for the better. The tendency to view mental illness (a misnomer bcoz all illness is physical or else it is not an illness) as a matter of shame to…[Read more]

Pope, I am not asserting that my position is an excuse for indolence or capitulation.

You have articulated one of the criticisms atheists have for theists who prey instead of do.

Jody, it feels like we choose. It feels like we have free will. The general understanding from culture is that we make our own luck, that we are the masters of our destiny. That understanding is consistent with religious notions of free will (god gets a pass for evil if everybody is doing their thing of their own volition)

Reality and…[Read more]

Ivy, why didn’t ya think about jumping his bones?

Unseen, your attribution to Jody Lee about animals perceiving beauty is in error. That was me.

You wrote…Animals perceive beauty? So they are critics?

That is an obvious non sequitur. One need not be a critic to perceive beauty.

Next you write…Knowing which painting is more beautiful than another? Nonsense.

Some animals have been proven…[Read more]