Please delete this account and also the reply I made to the following thread: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=171644
Thankyou.
Weāve long had a policy of not deleting accounts or posts. The reason is that doing so distorts the historical record: deleting a post disrupts the flow of the thread itās in, and deleting a user disconnects all the posts that that person made.
We can lock your account, deactivate it, or change the password, but we canāt delete it or its posts.
Can you deactivate my account please?
Thank you
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Who is he really?
So this place is kinda like Hotel California, then.
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ā¦what happens in Hotel California (waiting for the miracle) ā¦happens all over the Internet.
I suppose if you donāt want to own your own choices, although you actually do own your choices, you might want to make it appear that those choices never happened.
comes to mindā¦ā¦ The Cecil Hotel, dont drink the water!
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āI suppose if you donāt want to own your own choices, although you actually do own your choicesā
Thatās exactly right! And much to do with the confusion freewillists suffer. āResponsibilityā is not some platonic quality or possession assigned to some agency (because there isnāt one). We are responsible because we are the āresponderā to the consequences of what our bodies cause, are held accountable for it, culpable, suffer the rod for it, etc.
None of this depends on whether or not there is such a thing as freewill. One is responsible anyway.
As Iāve said for over a decade, the person who believes in freewill has no substantial evidence or even a metaphysical argument to support that theory and is therefore confused, using it to solicit in people a feeling of guilt, shame, pride, etc., to gain rhetorical leverage, or all of the above.
Only because we spent tens of thousands of years experiencing the feeling of freewill without at the same time being able and equipped to understand that itās an illusion has it become so ingrained in the instinct. That and its social use; the language of free will keeps individuals in check within a group. Being able to make one feel shame is necessary for behavior modification. Belief in freewill is a collective delusion that has served to improve administrative control of peoples in groups.
p.s. Hotel California is only good the first three times you hear it, Mr. A. The next nine thousand times, not so good.
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Itās so weird how you keep responding even though you donāt have responsibility. I bet you even think you respond appropriately.
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I like to think if there was an elevator to hell they would play that song on constant repeat in the elevator for all eternity because it is extremely catchy. 
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