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Old 12-18-2008, 09:33 PM   #11
regular.joe
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If we take as a true statement that the universe is "on it's own" with no director. Basically all can be brewed down to processes. Atomic to chemical reactions. It's too simple, all is predictable. Free will is simply an impossibility. The chemical stew and electrical apparatus that is our brain is just the result of a long line of processes with nothing intelligent behind it. There could be no such thing as morality. Morality implies the ability to make a decision using this so called free will, a decision which will lead to consequences, good or bad, perhaps in relation to our survival at least. No God, no Universal Director, no free will. No need for morality.

I am saying that if this is indeed true, we cannot take any credit for what we believe or do what we might call think. In fact this conversation is just a cog in the universal wheel, it has no meaning beyond that.

Hmm, Flint, I've just proven that we have no need for morality, in fact there can be no such thing. Wow, can I get a nobel prize for that?
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