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Originally Posted by Richard T
Societies are organized around those needs for experience that can create great mass movements and oppositions. They are not organized around a personal evolutionary path that would be built of freedom of mind. This is one reason why these social foundations are always based on lies.
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Richard - I get what you're saying, and I happen to agree with much of it, but not to the extent to which we are pre-destined to do exactly as we do as little more than programmed robots. Maybe you can clarify this for me a bit so I better understand what you're saying. Is it your contention that every detail of our lives is nothing more than a program? If not, where does free will enter the equation for you? Although fascinating, it might be a bit much to state your opinion as fact being that it does conflict with a lot of other people's firm held beliefs (and I don't just mean those who follow religious doctrine).
This said, the point of this thread is the comments made by Powell, Biden, Albright and others with respect to a coming crisis if Obama wins. Of course, it seems to you we should just relax and watch it unfold because there is nothing that could be done about it anyway (unless I misunderstand).