Absolutism versus Relativism

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Free-Will and Determinism
To explain free-will in a way that even a modern moron can slightly understand we must use imagery.
Let us imagine ourselves swimming in a vast ocean with no end, and that in this ocean we are swept forth by a wave.
This ocean and wave is time.
What is our free-will against the surge of a massive body of water.
We can swim horizontally on the surge, or dive into its depths, or stay on its surface, but we cannot swim contrary to it…reason is that we are also part of the wave and to do so would contradict our existence…but let’s not make this too complex for the retards.
From the imagery we can now understand how the past is immutable, and though it is determining, as it is pushing us forward whether we like it, or not, we can adjust ourselves, and our trajectory, relative to its force.
With effort, determined by the power of our will and the aggregate energies it focuses, we can move horizontally on its crest, deeply or on the surface, like a surfer, and that is the next of our will’s power.
Will here is mind, aggregate energies is body, which also includes brain of which the mind is but an extension.
To this we must mention chaos, because the imagery fails to incorporate randomness and only represents order, in the form of water.
Things become too complex for retards, so best we keep it as simple as possible, and like most retards only believe in order - primitive minds cling to their primal comprehension, and order is all they can process as existing.

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Psychological Predispositions
The difference between a realistic and idealistic approach to life and the world it finds itself within, can be divided into Top<>Down or Bottom<>Up thinking, corresponding to an approach towards phenomena through noumena, or noumena through phenomena.
Nihilism finds its natural disposition in the Top<>Down, idealistic approach.
It begins with the desirable abstraction, to whatever degree it is based on experienced world, and then proceeds to justify it by shaping world to fit into its established “truths”.
Nihilism begins with a fabrication as a given, and then demands that it be disproved, absolutely, otherwise he remains convinced that it is no better or worse than any other “truth”. Using nil as validation of whatever it took as being self-evident.
The realist begins from the position of nil, and then proceeds, through experience, to judge what is more or less likely, never expecting any final, absolute conclusion. He holds hypothesis as superior or inferior, not as certain, and adjusts his positions if and when new data is experienced, multiplying his confidence with every repetition of it. The onus is upon the theory to prove itself, not as absolute but as superior, basing this assessment upon perceptible, repeatable outcomes, and in reference to an indifferent world of (inter)activity.
Not so for the Nihilist.
He expects his presumed theory to be disproved, and that it be disproved absolutely, otherwise he uses the absence of an absolute as justification of parity
He prefers to level cosmos to infinite space, so as to avoid the impact of matter/energy, representing probability, within it.
Whether he understands it or not, his disposition of a desire to escape in the uniformity of theoretical nil - infinite space/time, where no distinctive fluctuations can trouble his fearful mind.
Having abandoned the childishness of absolute order, as in God, he turns to the opposite, never letting go of the absolute, and hopes for an end in a future where his own inferiority will disappears in uniformity of chaos.
Unable to endure the uncertainty of his own presuppositions, perhaps sensing their motives, he wishes to pull the world down with him, so that even in the case of his own error he would have not have left anything behind to laugh at his cowardly foolishness.
Unendurable, for him, is the thought of wasting a life trying to make amends for the “injustices” of natural selection, he wants to spread his own feebleness by seeding doubt, and the ideologies of self-hating, life-negation.
Unbearable, for him, is the possibility that others will strive to stand-out rather than blend-in; discriminate rather than be blind-to.
Dragging the world into the dark where nothing can be discerned, and he is no longer assaulted by his own reflection, where everything is a matter of touch, careful hands groping in the dark, with delicate soft fingers.
Somewhere where eyes no longer reveal what lies in the distance, and it can sleep and dream, with “eyes wide shut”.

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Crow, first of all it’s a pleasure to meet intelligent new people here.

Now to the topic. predisposed and free will are at times inclusionary, or at other times- exclusionary events. I don’t call them conceptual, because it is the kind of ambiguous process, where there may not be, or can be connections.

If the connection between the will and its manifestation is missing, predisposition is totally casual, and historic. One is drawn in, as if by necessity, in an absolute sense, without being able to identify any of the particular elements which goes into its phenomenal manifestation. Trying, one is indeed reduced to a aberration, where ultimately, which can draw in other tangentional perceptions/perceptiveness.

On the other hand, when an inclusionary bond is formed, at first no difference can be noted, and again it becomes a case of a dog chasing its own tale. It is only when a re-differentiation is sought in terms of, not only in pictures, but pictures stored away into an array of sequential prioritize, when the become formalized in an order of progressive significance.

The recall finally does away with the informal and substanticpve content, for the sake of expediency, for there are too many pictures to deal with, and reduces the redundant latency into an entropic patency.

The absolutism is the result for a total search from all the cross searched possibilities. But that is not to imply that absolutism and relativism completely divide like a cell into the many called perfect world of
Unending relativism.

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Don’t call me intelligent it will hurt the feelings of the sane ones on this forum.

Here is how I see it.

Predisposition, nature, is what we are inclined to do, programmed to react - path-of-least-resistance.
It is determined as the sum of all past nurturing.
Tried and tested methods of reacting to particular stimuli.

Free-will is a self contradicting concept. You cannot be independently striving to gratify a dependence.
Willing consists in choosing the path-of-more-resistance, as a method of outperforming other organisms.
Consider the Will, the brain focusing the organisms aggregate energies, or those under its control.
A focus of energies that multiply their effect, breaking through more, greater, resistance.

Will is not independent, in the purest definition of the word ‘free’, it is always dependent.
To become independent, to whatever degree it an, depends on how much need it can endure, or get rid of.

Consider need as mass. The stronger you get the more mass you can endure comfortably.
Therefore the Greeks had one word for exercise and mental discipline- asceticism.
Exercise placed mind/body into controlled stressful environments to increase its endurance.

We can also separate needs into those produced by lack, as hunger, thirst, and those produced by excess, as a byproduct of the first, for example growth, reproduction, art, play.
We can also differentiate between the above and those fabricated by society as wants, desires, by associating symbols with needs.

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This is again a different cell, experiencing/seeing/trying to understand one of manifold ways.

I do understand this, but I will defer the question of intelligence, and its effect on the feelings of others to a later time, for the it’s own sake.

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Sorry Crow, I didn’t mean to pre-empt our conversation but needed to reaffirm something about the below normative thesis by McCay.

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Genetic memory automatically reacts to otherness, surprising the conscious mind, as if the actor were someone else.
Know Thyself is an ongoing process missing from newly evolved self-consciousness.

The mind perceives itself acting, after-the-fact, as the processing requires lags behind the more automated acting already programmed into the organism - genetics.
To compensate it trains itself with multiple experiences to react automatically to the same stimuli with a slight modification - Will having an effect.
Like training in the martial arts.
Reactions have to become second nature - not thought and prepared.

This is how nurturing modifies the sum of all past nurturing = nature.