tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post4256316351896976270..comments2024-03-29T01:07:30.224-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Fatalistic about Fat?Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-3046204702401288362013-12-31T08:16:40.098-08:002013-12-31T08:16:40.098-08:00I am not sure where I read this, but I believe it ...I am not sure where I read this, but I believe it stated that all time exists at the same moment. The present, the past and the future. It is rather like a decision tree where your free will selects which path is now available with its attendant decision points. At each decision point one is using their free will to move on to the possibilities inherent on that path. This continues on until one cannot make decisions.<br />It is somewhat like a chess game where each move has a path that will ultimately lead to checkmate.<br />I believe that Patricia K is correct that much of the argument against free will is a justification for not taking responsibility for the decisions one make. How nice is it that one can blame all their failures on fate.<br />That does not mean that I don't think "karma" has an affect. Though I have often wondered if this is one of the levels of Hell or purgatory where we either go up or done a level given how we live life.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-50898062651315266682013-12-31T08:03:09.375-08:002013-12-31T08:03:09.375-08:00The real question is why do some people believe th...The real question is why do some people believe they have no control over their lives, while others believe they have complete control? Of course, you have everyone else who falls somewhere between these two extremes. <br /><br />There is no generalized answer to that question. What we believe is part genetics and part life experience. And there are as many answers to the question above as there are people who are living and have lived. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01990269310381826048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-26411913336265358772013-12-30T19:58:04.709-08:002013-12-30T19:58:04.709-08:00Don't tell the Calvinists this or they might g...Don't tell the Calvinists this or they might get upset.Memphishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01636056194130886380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-15812984854962192032013-12-30T12:25:51.466-08:002013-12-30T12:25:51.466-08:00I didn't know Freud disbelieved in free will, ...I didn't know Freud disbelieved in free will, but perhaps that's why I always liked Jung better?<br /><br />I don't think recognizing a narrative nature to our life takes away free will, or at least not if you recognize there are many competing narratives going on, and recognize there are bifurcation points where change is easy, if you're paying attention, and keep an open mind that those stakes you couldn't pull out as a baby elephant might not always be so deep as they seemed.<br /><br />For instance, I don't know which is worse, women who spend their wholes lives obsessed about fat and dieting, and deprive themselves and in their resentment against their bodies, they act out in other more destructive ways. While another who accepts she's overweight, but stays active, and does what makes her feel better.<br /><br />You could imagine life is a river and fighting the current is the path to misery, while understanding the current means you can use it to your advantage, and not obsess that all rivers lead to the sea, and we're all going to die.<br /><br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-24378669993936409792013-12-30T11:10:11.335-08:002013-12-30T11:10:11.335-08:00I think that they want an excuse to justify not ta...I think that they want an excuse to justify not taking the necessary steps for weight loss. I suppose that it is possible that they truly have a fatalistic world view and that it affects them in all sorts of ways ... but I think it is more likely that they need to justify not exercising and modifying how or what they eat. Patricia K.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-38620110812595202792013-12-30T07:55:27.970-08:002013-12-30T07:55:27.970-08:00A good astrologer acknowledges free will. Astrolog...A good astrologer acknowledges free will. Astrology is used like a weather forecast. Finding the optimal time for events and activities is not fatalistic.<br />Planning is an exercise of free will.<br /><br />Geneticists and sociologists are fatalistic. They say that the genes and or family you are born with determines all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com