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Invisiblekaiowas
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my hidden intent.
    #2205688 - 12/28/03 12:53 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

intent, what directs my actions to a certain place or person? what DRIVES me to do what I do? intent also implies an internal design or a purpose.

I can go to a light and turn right if I wanted to, but instead I will turn left. does that mean I intended to turn left, or does that mean that situation outsides of me (say traffic for instance) "guided" me to go left. well I still could have went to traffic, but i didn't want to.

what's all this about? can we control our intentions? or are our intentions a direct result of the things and events around us? is intent directly from the mind or is it a result of events ourside of it?

why is it that many people I know of don't question why they do what they do? or what drives them to do the things they do. not even wanting to know, but rather they just take action. is "just taking action" really involve intent??


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Annnnnnd I had a light saber and my friend was there and I said "you look like an indian" and he said "you look like satan" and he found a stick and a rock and he named the rock ooga booga and he named the stick Stick and we both thought that was pretty funny. We got eaten alive by mosquitos but didn't notice til the next day. I stepped on some glass while wading in the swamp and cut my foot open, didn't bother me til the next day either....yeah it was a good time, ended the night by buying some liquor for minors and drinking nips and going to he diner and eating chicken fingers, and then I went home and went to bed.

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Re: my hidden intent. [Re: kaiowas]
    #2205863 - 12/28/03 03:08 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

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kaiowas said:
I can go to a light and turn right if I wanted to, but instead I will turn left. does that mean I intended to turn left, or does that mean that situation outsides of me (say traffic for instance) "guided" me to go left. well I still could have went to traffic, but i didn't want to.





It's either influence from an outside source, or it's a random chance. I don't usually believe in accidents, however. I believe most things happen for a reason. (Shhh...don't tell Swami!)


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Re: my hidden intent. [Re: Frog]
    #2206062 - 12/28/03 05:08 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

Outside source, random chance, or some sub- or unconscious intention.


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Re: my hidden intent. [Re: Alan Stone]
    #2206104 - 12/28/03 05:30 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

Yes, I agree.


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Re: my hidden intent. [Re: kaiowas]
    #2206401 - 12/28/03 09:00 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

hooray - another free-will inquiry :smile:

I'll tell you that I have no clue what "guides" us other than DNA, chemistry, and fundamental physics


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Re: my hidden intent. [Re: Strumpling]
    #2206435 - 12/28/03 09:45 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

Oh, no, haven't you heard?? We are flies holding the reigns from the behind of a run-away horse. There's is no such thing as free will.


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Re: my hidden intent. [Re: Frog]
    #2206526 - 12/28/03 10:58 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

Yes, I've heard.. I don't believe in free-will....

I'll ask you though; what's guiding the horse?


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Edited by Strumpling (12/28/03 11:00 PM)

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Re: my hidden intent. [Re: Frog]
    #2206753 - 12/29/03 01:35 AM (20 years, 3 months ago)

Frog: It's either influence from an outside source, or it's a random chance.

No. This is a false dilemma.

Beliefs suck. God hates you. Sclorch out.


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Re: my hidden intent. [Re: kaiowas]
    #2206760 - 12/29/03 01:39 AM (20 years, 3 months ago)

There are only 2 reasons for doing what we do. To gain pleasure or to avoid pain or both.

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Re: my hidden intent. [Re: Vort3x]
    #2206802 - 12/29/03 01:57 AM (20 years, 3 months ago)

Vort3x: There are only 2 reasons for doing what we do. To gain pleasure or to avoid pain or both.

Damn... what's with all the false dilemmas here?

I completely disagree with you. The Yeti is actually capable of acting outside that primal sphere. The duality of pleasure and pain is for pinks, glorps, and conspiracists... of which I am not one of.


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Re: my hidden intent. [Re: Sclorch]
    #2206811 - 12/29/03 02:02 AM (20 years, 3 months ago)

do things for no apparent reason

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Re: my hidden intent. [Re: infidelGOD]
    #2206822 - 12/29/03 02:08 AM (20 years, 3 months ago)

I do things for no apparent reason all the time.

And don't pull that "but maybe you just can't see the reason" crap....


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Re: my hidden intent. [Re: Sclorch]
    #2206831 - 12/29/03 02:11 AM (20 years, 3 months ago)

I've gotta agree with Sclorch here - I don't think we're ONLY out for pleasure or to avoid pain at all times.....

hell there's some people that take pleasure in pain, and take pain from pleasure so I'm not sure if this holds up


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Re: my hidden intent. [Re: kaiowas]
    #2206853 - 12/29/03 02:29 AM (20 years, 3 months ago)

sometimes I'm walking down the street and I just STOP.
why? I don't know.. no good reason for it. I just do it to see if I can. to confirm that I'm still in control. "why am I here when I should be there?" and then I think "no wait, I was meant to stop right here at this time in this place. I'm not really in control at all. I had NO CHOICE but to stop, RIGHT HERE. it was all meant to be."
and the trap is sprung...

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Re: my hidden intent. [Re: Strumpling]
    #2207227 - 12/29/03 07:19 AM (20 years, 3 months ago)

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Strumpling said:
Yes, I've heard.. I don't believe in free-will....

I'll ask you though; what's guiding the horse?




That's the problem, in my opinion. NOTHING is guiding the horse! It's going where it wants to go! The fly THINKS it's operating the horse, but the fly is going to go where the horse is going and THINK that the fly got there on its own free will!

I quoted this once before:

Baron Paul Henri d Holbach (1723-1789) (a hard determinist) compared humans on the earth to the fly in an ancient fable:

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* ?The fly in a fable?: D?Holbach tells the story of the fly, who alights on a large carriage (coach) being pulled by horses. The fly begins to think that it (the fly) is determining where the carriage will go.

* Humans on the earth are comparable to the fly, according to d?Holbach

* Both (fly and human) think they are free, but they are not free? because there are forces that determine what they do.




Personally, I don't buy this. This means that because of the way the Universe works, even if we think we are making choices, none of our choices matter because we are not in control. We "think" we are making choices, but those choices were predetermined by the Universe.


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Re: my hidden intent. [Re: infidelGOD]
    #2207230 - 12/29/03 07:21 AM (20 years, 3 months ago)

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infidelGOD said:
sometimes I'm walking down the street and I just STOP.
why? I don't know.. no good reason for it. I just do it to see if I can. to confirm that I'm still in control. "why am I here when I should be there?" and then I think "no wait, I was meant to stop right here at this time in this place. I'm not really in control at all. I had NO CHOICE but to stop, RIGHT HERE. it was all meant to be."
and the trap is sprung...




Yes, well, that's just so that you think you are in control. How about the big things? Marriage? Children? Career?


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Re: my hidden intent. [Re: Frog]
    #2207252 - 12/29/03 07:53 AM (20 years, 3 months ago)

Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you deal with it.

I believe in Fate, and that everything DOES happen for a reason. In the BIGGER picture, everything orchestrates with life, the musical notes and symphony of life is already written out...but, the free will--still exists. Your mother dies in a car accident, its up to YOU how to deal with it. You get fired from your job, its up to YOU what you learn from it, and how you cope with it. You win the 22 Billion dollar Lottery, its up to YOU how you take it, and deal with it.
YOU control how you learn, deal and experience, your own experiences, which you chose to go through long before you ever incarnated into this lifetime.


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Re: my hidden intent. [Re: kaiowas]
    #2207329 - 12/29/03 08:49 AM (20 years, 3 months ago)

Intent's a funny old thing. One time when I was tripping I got all hung up about intent - specifically "where it comes from". I would lift up a cup, and wonder where the thought "pick up the cup" came from. It seemed like it came from nothing. But how could that be? How could I go from thinking about nothing to thinking about picking up a cup? There's no causal link. Speech is a good example. I started saying random words out loud and wondering where the idea to say them came from. I figured that intent is complete unto itself. You "summon it into existence" out of nothing. I suppose that's how language came about in the first place.

Sorry, just thinking out loud.


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Re: my hidden intent. [Re: Frog]
    #2208104 - 12/29/03 04:00 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

"NOTHING is guiding the horse! It's going where it wants to go!"

Well that implies some type of "free-will," Frog. Haven't you heard? There's no such thing :cool:


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Re: my hidden intent. [Re: Strumpling]
    #2208146 - 12/29/03 04:20 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

No, Strumpling!!! Um, let me think a minute...

Okay, the horse can't help running wild! That's its destiny, too!!!

Or something like that...


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Re: my hidden intent. [Re: Strumpling]
    #2208509 - 12/29/03 07:54 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

this whole thing about no free will is ridiculous. You cant always apply physical truths to real life, althought that sounds stupiod. what i mean is sure we dont have 'free will' to decide, where we are born, what the weather will be, if our parents love us or molest us etc etc because all these things are governed by concrete physical laws at some level and these things in turn affect what we do so then we dont have free will. id say that two diffrent people can be presented with the same outside/external events and yet react in diffrent ways. this alone doesnt prove we have free will i guess but
i think we have free will to the extent that we are concious of our actions and what we are doing and why. if we let ourselves drift along in the flow of external events than we have no free will because our fortunes rest entirely on random chance.

think of a man walking straight down an endless road. One day he finds 20 dollars on the street and he is happy. the next day he steps on a nail. the next day it rains on him. he has no free will!

imagine another man walking on the same road. He THINKS to himself 'what the hell am i doing on this road?' finding no real reason he decides instead of walking farther he will sit down on the side of the road and meditate. or maybe hell catch a ride with someone to the next town , where hell use the 20 dollars he found to start that cactus growing operation hes always dreamed of etc i dunno i guess what im saying is its stupid to say we have no free will. I have free will. i decide what i want to do (what my WILL is) and then i am FREE to do it.

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Re: my hidden intent. [Re: PHARMAKOS]
    #2208530 - 12/29/03 08:04 PM (20 years, 3 months ago)

Using the example of molestation:

Two women grow up in the same city, with similar middle class backgrounds, same religious values, etc.

One woman has been molested and she grows up to abuse drugs and/or alcohol, and she will most likely be promiscuous.

The other woman is molested and chooses to get counseling and not engage in a cycle of self-abuse over her life time.

Are neither exercising free will? Both were predestined to act out these resulting behaviors?


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