Iambiguous: Not to worry. It only seems weird because you were never able to not think that it feels weird.
Peacegirl: That doesn’t help at all. And it certainly doesn’t answer the question as to why. Your constant going back to this is the same old diversion.
Iambiguous: Seriously though, from my own frame of mind, given my own assumptions about free will, you are an objectivist. And, for objectivists, whether in regard to either free will or evil, they simply cannot grasp why others don’t think exactly like they do about things like this. After all, they might have invested years and years connecting the dots between what they think is true about morality and/or religion and/or the Big Questions and the psychological need to have a font that they can embed their Self in. For you, the author.
Peacegirl: You are so off base it’s a joke.
Iambiguous: And I know this in part because this was once true of me. Twice in fact.
Peacegirl: False comparison.
Iambiguous: In other words, I know what is at stake here for you. Indeed, what for some is deemed to be their very “soul”.
Peacegirl: Yes it is my soul but not for the reasons you give. You’re projecting.
Iambiguous: My advice is this: if staying anchored to your own particular font is something you are intent on taking with you to the grave, steer clear of threads like this. Even if you started it. That way you won’t encounter points of view like mine.
Peacegirl: This is not my first rodeo. Your point of view has nothing to do with the points made in this book. You didn’t read a drop. That explains a lot.
Iambiguous: Your “thing” in my view is analogous to the Mormons going door to door. It’s not enough for them to be saved. They must save others as well. So, you are committed to the author’s conclusions regarding the end of evil in the future. But you have convinced yourself that the more people you can lead to him here and now, the quicker that will happen. Or, rather, so it seems to me.
Unless as some suggest it actually is more about the book itself. The money.
But what do I know about that, right?
Peacegirl: Give me a break Iambiguous. This is not about money. And stop acting like you know it all but end with your signature disclaimer that you really don’t know. You got that right!
Iambiguous: I’m just trying to offer you another frame of mind. One that in some ways makes things better, but that in other ways [admittedly] makes things a lot worse.
But I can only think what I do here and now given the possibility that I can think of my own free will what I do here and now.
Then “the gap”.
No gap. No free will. Nada! This is a dead giveaway that you read nothing. What surprises me is the lack of interest in this subject from others, or that’s how it seems.