--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > But you're welcome to it if it floats your boat. > > > > > > > > > > > > I guess there is simply no choice. > > > > > > > > > > See? That's where we differ. I have a choice. :-) > > > > > > > > No, the situation is the same for us both, just you > > > > think about it differently. > > > > > > +++ You stand in the rain-you get wet-problem > > > You don't stand in the rain, you dont, no problem. > > > Your choice, your problem. N. > > > > I tend to agree. For me, it's about making the > > choice to come in out of the rain. > > > > As I read what trinity is saying, he doesn't > > believe that he has that choice. Someone or > > something else makes it for him. > > Right, in this particular case the nerve-cells of my skin > that tell me,that this wetness is cold and the prickling > sensation somewhat uncomfortable. The example is in fact > very apt: Who wouldn't go out of the rain if he has a > choice, so isn't he really stupid who stays there? This > is the simplistic appeal of Barry. On a second thought you > can see, that your reaction is more of a biological response, > filtered through your present mental conditioning. > > > So if I stand in the rain and get wet, it's > > the result of my choice. I take responsibility > > for my wetness and having caused it. > > No, its the rain which makes you wet. The rain makes you > go inside.
Actually, I kinda like walking in the rain. So the rain *doesn't* make me go inside. I make my own decisions based on the requirements of the moment. > > It he stands in the rain and gets wet, it's > > because the universe wanted it that way. :-) > > The universe wanted him to go inside. It must be nice to be so important that the universe has to figure out whether you should go inside or not. I'm not that important, so I get to make such decisions myself. :-) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/