Reply #66: (1)News of the Universe: Life at the Edge of Discovery

[Paradise]

"Just because a Republican is president doesn't mean the world's going to end, no more democracy, chaos will reign."

Well, Bob, we're talking about *, here, and his Vulcans, and chaos IS reigning!

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"The great English poet, John Milton, in his epic poem Paradise Lost, argues that the preservation of the freedom of the human will is the most important feature of man’s existence,'

'The mind is its own place, and in itself

Can make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heav’n.

What matter where, if I be still the same,

And what I should be, all but less than he

Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least

We shall be free; th’ Almighty hath not built

Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:

Here we may reign secure, and in my choice

To reign is worth ambition though in hell:

Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav’n.'

'Milton is proposing that it is better to compromise everything, even the possibility for salvation and goodness, in order to preserve the vital and unparalleled power of the freedom of the human will. Many agree with Milton that life would hold little meaning if it was somehow proven that free will does not exist."
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http://www.duke.edu/~mjd/chaos/Ch3.htm

(1)Nowhere could you have experienced 'free will' more than you would have right here on DU!!! That is, if you weren't leaving us. :hi: bye bye