home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!doc.ic.ac.uk!agate!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!gatech!concert!borg.cs.unc.edu!news_server!martinc
- From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: Credibility and Trueness
- Date: 28 Jan 93 10:56:39
- Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
- Lines: 30
- Message-ID: <MARTINC.93Jan28105639@grover.cs.unc.edu>
- References: <ewright.727932461@convex.convex.com> <1993Jan27.004250.17453@sol.UVic.CA>
- <ewright.728158167@convex.convex.com>
- <MARTINC.93Jan27144010@grover.cs.unc.edu>
- <ewright.728178797@convex.convex.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: grover.cs.unc.edu
- In-reply-to: ewright@convex.com's message of Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:53:17 GMT
-
- In article <ewright.728178797@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
-
- In <MARTINC.93Jan27144010@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
-
- >What a fascinating assertion. Are you once again speaking ex cathedra
- >from your rectum or do you have some logical, if ignorant, argument for
- >it?
-
- Psychology denies the existance of free will because its very
- existance is incompatible with the concept. Once you recognize
- that human beings have free will, you can explain any human
- behavior with one simple explanation: he chose to do it. All
- the ids, egos, superegos, hobgoblins, and supernatural forces
- that fill psychology books become superfluous. (And the writers
- of those books lose their source of income.)
-
- As I said, logical, if ignorant. I'm sure that the schizophrenics,
- manic-depressives, phobics, and obsessives will be pleased to know that
- all they have to do is pull up their pants and choose to stop being
- schizophrenic, manic-depressive etc.
-
- But we're left with the explanation that Ed Wright can't find a soul
- mate and become non-single and happy because he chooses not to. I
- wonder why that is?
- --
- Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu
- Dept. of Computer Science/CB #3175 UNC-CH/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
- 3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC 27707/(919) 419 1754
- "Oh God, please help me be civil in tongue, pure in thought, and able
- to resist the temptation to laugh uncontrollably. Amen." -- Rob T
-