Comments by "Jackie Wu" (@jwu1950) on "Aperture"
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@arunk2710 I agree with you 100% that there is no such thing as randomness, chance, or accident. By the law of cause and effect, every cause has effects, and every effect is caused. That is exactly why we have free will. Free will is the cause of everything. For example, you cannot roll a 7 or 8 with one standard dice regardless of how you cause the dice to roll or how many times you choose to roll it. Correct ? There is no randomness possible here as far as we can understand. However, if you choose by your free will to mark all six sides of the dice as 7, or 8, you can now roll the dice whatever way you choose or as many times as you choose, and the result will always be 7, or 8, accordingly. You cannot roll anything but 7 or 8. You see ? That is how your free will determine the results of the dice rolling. As they say, "God does not play dice." Everything is caused and created by our free will, even God.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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@KEvronista On second thought, I am going to teach you truth and time.
Truth is what one believe is true. When we saw on YT American girl, Eileen Gu, won a gold medal for China in the Beijing Winter Olympic, we believed it was the truth. When we heard Donald Trump won the 2020 US presidential election, we knew that was a lie and we believed that is not true. But we also believed Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 US presidential election either, because he has not accepted that lost as true, even as of today. Therefore, truth is always subjective, always transitional, and always circumstantial, never objective, never permanent, and never absolute.
Time, like God, or like gravity, is metaphysical, unobservable, and unknowable by humans. No human knows what time is, what God is, or what gravity is. Period. We humans can only believe it is true that time exists, God exists, and gravity exists, based on logic applied towards verifiable facts like the ticking of a clock, the universe, and the apple falling on Newton`s head, respectively.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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@arunk2710 You don't have to be sorry. I never said I believe God has no free will, or that God has free will. As a matter of fact, I alternate between and among {partially one way or the other) those choices of beliefs, depending on the circumstances, necessity, and appropriateness. It is all at my control, and my control only. That is my free will.
Necessity and fate are both hind sights. Our free will, our choice, dictates the necessity and fate of our future. If you choose a standard six sided dice, your fate will not contain any 7 or 8. Whereas if you choose to mark your six sided dice 7, or 8 on all sides, your fate will contain only 7's or 8's according to your choice, by necessity. It's all up to you, in your control, and it's your free will.
There is no uncaused event because the word "event" implies cause and effect. As far as we humans can understand, everything is caused, including God. However, we humans can only understand so little it is not even funny. For example, is God caused or uncaused ? We humans don't and can't understand. Is gravity caused or uncaused ? We humans don't and can't understand. Is time caused or uncaused ? We humans don't and can't understand. It is therefore ridiculous for us humans to believe everything is caused, or that everything is uncaused. It is however entirely up to each one of us to choose to believe whether everything is caused or uncaused. That's our free will. It is even our free will to choose one way this time and another way another time, depending on the circumstances, necessity, and appropriateness.
Influences of the past do not dictate the future; our free will does. For example, we have the free will to mark over a standard six sided dice of the past with 7 or 8 on all sides, and that would determine the outcome of all our future rolls of the dice. That's how our free will determines all necessity and fate of our future. Determinism is the result of exercising our free will (or the necessary events, the necessary effects, of our free will). Our free will is the cause of everything. We are in full control of everything.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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@arunk2710 I agree with you 100% everything in the past influences the present and the future. But influences do not dictate or decide the future; our free will does. It is an illusion that everything in the past controls the future. Our choice by exercising our free will is the determining cause that dictates the future. The standard six sided dice and all the experiences we have in the past regarding the results of rolling it influence our decision on what to expect from our next roll, namely 1,2,3,4,5, or 6 and never 7 or 8. Correct ? However, do not forget that before we roll the dice, if we change all six sides into 7 or 8, we will for certain roll 7 or 8 accordingly, and never the other numbers. The six sided dice and all our experiences in the past regarding the results of rolling it still influence the future result of our next roll, but the result of the roll is determined by how we mark the sides of the dice. That decision, that choice, is totally in our control, in our exercising our free will.
You mentioned "True" definition of free will. Do you understand what truth is ? Simply put, truth is what one believes is true, or what one chooses to believe is true, or what ones free will decides is true. Truth is therefore always subjective, always temporary or transient, and always circumstantial or situational. There is no objective truth, no permanent or unchanging truth, and no absolute or unconditional truth. In other words, truth is but a choice we make by exercising our free will at the moment for the moment.
I will watch the video you suggested later and will reply to you of my opinion. Before I do that, I have a feeling that it is nothing more than what another person had chosen to believe is true at the moment for the moment but not necessarily what that person may choose to believe at another moment in time or under another circumstances.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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@arunk2710 Now that I have viewed the video you suggested, here are some of my observations:
This woman obviously believes science equals truth. That is an illusion. Science is a belief. Science must be falsifiable or else it is not science but dogma. What is a belief ? A belief is a choice by exercising our free will.
This woman believes in "knowledge". Knowledge is an illusion. We humans know nothing. We humans live by our beliefs, not our knowledge because knowledge we humans have none. There is no way we humans can know the future because the future has not occurred yet. No human can know the past because the past is no longer here to be validated. We humans can only believe in what we observed in the past and try to believe we can predict the future. But all our observations are illusions. What we humans can observe is not real; what is real we humans cannot observe. For example, we can observe an apple, but we cannot observe the molecules, the DNA, or the life in the apple that made the apply a real apple and not just an image of an apple.
This woman is confused regarding what are facts and what are imaginations. Free will is a verifiable fact which she has mistaken as a non-existent illusion, whereas responsibility is an imagination she has mistaken as a fact. By the law of cause and effect, every effect is caused and every cause has effects. No doubt there are consequences with every choice we make by exercising our free will. But consequences are not responsibilities. Consequence is a factual or scientific term, whereas responsibility is a legal or opinionated term. Choosing by our free will to kill someone may end up with the consequence of someone got killed, but who is responsible depends on many factors and circumstances at different time. If someone is held responsible as a consequence, that judgement is merely the free will, opinion, and choice of the judge or jury. It remains true, however, that if there is no free will, there cannot be assigned any responsibility.
This woman believes morality is objective, permanent, and absolute. She is totally out to lunch. Morality is like truth, always subjective, always temporary or transient, and always circumstantial or situational.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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@arunk2710 You wrote, "I guess you can't recognize what is real and what is not real most of the time." Exactly, we humans know nothing, in particular what is real and what is not real. We believe we saw an apple when we saw an image of an apple. We never were able to examine the molecules, the DNA, the life of that image of an apple that made that apple a real apple and not just an image of an apple, before we concluded without question that we saw a real apple. The same goes with all our observations which formed the bases of what we called science. Therefore, science is merely a belief, a falsifiable belief. We believe a scientific theory is true only before it is falsified or proven to be not true. In time, all scientific theories will be proven to be not true and not real because we humans cannot and will never know what is real and what is not real. We humans can only make beliefs. For example, most if not all scientists in the world at one time believed the earth is flat and the sun rises in the east and sets in the west on a routine bases because that is the only logical explanation based on what we could observe at the time. Today, most if not all scientists in the world believed the earth is a globe and it rotates on its axis and revolves around the sun. So, do the scientists of the past know the truth or what is real ? No. What about the scientists today, do they know what is true ? Yes, they do based on their logic applied towards their observations. But do they know their observations are real ? No. No human can observe the metaphysical, true and real reality. They just form their beliefs based on the 3D illusions that is the limit of their observations. We humans cannot observe any "events" outside of our 3D, physical universe which is merely an illusion of what is metaphysically true and real. Even within our 3D physical universe, we humans can observe so little it is not even funny. For example, what are the events happening in galaxies billions of light years away from earth we cannot observe now. We need to wait billions of years for the light from these galaxies to reach earth before we can take a still picture of these galaxies, only if they are still there. Many of them probably would have blown up and not exist a long, long time before then.
You wrote, "Free Will cannot exist where events have causes." Wrong. Free will exists and the free will we exercise is one of the infinite number of causes that result in every event and every thing.
You wrote, "I don't know if you'll ever find out what's real in the future." Exactly. We humans will never find out what is real in the future. We humans can only believe in what we believe in. What we believed in can be logical based on facts or our observations, or they can be blind. The woman in that video have blind faith in what she thought is science.
You wrote, "If everything in the past doesn't influence and dictate the future, what influenced your decision to keep replying to my comments?" What ??? When did I say the past does not influence the future ? I said just the opposite of that, namely, I wrote, "I agree with you 100% everything in the past influences the present and the future. But influences do not dictate or decide the future; our free will does. It is an illusion that everything in the past controls the future. Our choice by exercising our free will is the determining cause that dictates the future."
You wrote, "What makes you 'you' at any point?
You are the product of everything that has ever happened in the past." Exactly. Everything including all the choices made by people, like my parents, by exercising their free will. The future will also be dependent on my choice as I exercise my free will. Whether I choose a standard six sided dice or one that is marked 7 or 8 on all sides will not only influence but dictate what is going to happen in my future rolls. That is my free will and it is in my control.
You wrote, "Every atom in your body, it's position at any point is influenced by the past." I agree. But influences do not dictate the future; my free will does. Besides, what is an atom ? Do you know ? No, you don't know what atoms are, what are they made of, or what are all the causes that dictate how the atom act and react to everything else. You can have a scientific theory of an atom, but that is merely a belief, a blind faith that we humans have not and cannot validate.
You wrote, "Science is not just a belief. It's a system we use to figure out what's real and what's not real.
That system is always evolving." Exactly. Science is constantly changing because we humans do not, will not, and cannot know what is real.
Please read my statement here and tell me about your opinion on whether it is a correct statement or an error: Metaphysics is the foundation of science. Every scientific theory is in essence metaphysical. Sciences without metaphysics is not science but hollow and meaningless materialism. Metaphysics is beyond physics and beyond the observations capable of humans. For example, no human knows what God is, what gravity is, or what time is because these are all metaphysical entities which we humans cannot observe. We humans can only observe the effects which we believed were caused by these metaphysical entities respectively or collectively which are also beyond our human ability to observe and validate.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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Pleasure is not happiness. Pleasure is merely just a temporary state of mind.
Therefore, the pursue of pleasure is stupid.
We are in a state of pleasure after our pain ends, when we are done feeling the pain, and there is pain no more. Got a headache, take an Anvil, and you feel good and ready to go again. It's that simple.
Now let's look at pain. As Buddha would agree, life is a series of pain. Being born is painful, growing old is painful, getting sick is painful, dying is painful. That's life. It's inevitable.
Therefore, to avoid pain is impossible, and futile.
The pain we feel is usually not the actual pain but the imaginary pain which may or may not become real, or when it does become real, may or may not be that unpresent before it's gone and pleasure sets in.
To have a happy life requires no effort except understanding. Understand that we must all die. Life is short, and so any pain is short and immaterial in the grand scale of reality, but it is inevitable just like everything else. Any thing that happened happened because it is inevitable, unavoidable, unchangeable, in unalterable. Just accept it and let be.
To live a happy life we would like to pursue all our hearts desires. We have desires. That is inevitable. We have the choice of pursuing our desire or to let go of them. Most if not all failures are due to letting go. So, let be but never let go. Take tiny steps and enjoy every moment of your life. Its that simple.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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@hmgrraarrpffrzz9763 If pain is always to be avoided, all dentists will be unemployed. Notice that the pain we try to avoid mostly will not materialize anyways because they are never the real pain but the speculation of the potential for pain. That is why we have free will. We are free to choose whether or not to believe in our speculations. We brush our teeth everyday believing we would have healthy teeth tomorrow, but we don't know if there is going to be a tomorrow, do we ? If we knew for sure that we will all be dead tomorrow, most of us would rather do something else than brushing our teeth. But then some
of us may still choose to brush teeth today because of other reasons. That's our free will : to believe or not to believe.
Your computer scenario is no different from your train track scenario. Train tracks and computers don't have a brain or free will. The humans who operate them have. They have many choices and they can also make mistakes. Train accidents happen from time to time, you know ? Someone may choose to get drunk and go to work, hence make the wrong switch.
Besides, 1+1=2 is merely a belief. No human knows what 1 is, where does 1 begin, and where does 1 end. In computers there is no 2, you know ? There are only 1 and 0. This is called a binary system, which is stolen from the Chinese Yin Yang in the over 5,000 years old I-Ching, the book of transformation.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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@hmgrraarrpffrzz9763 You did say pain is to be avoided, and you also said if the same conditions are repeated, our decision would be the same. That is the same as saying we always choose to avoid pain, which is 100% true. But, like I explained, in nearly all cases it is not the real pain but the potential for pain that we believed in that caused us to make the choice one way or the other. That is where our free will come in : we have the free will to choose believing or not believing the 100% exactly the same condition will cause pain or not.
I have proven to you we have free will and also explained how it works. Each time we make a choice, we are exercising our free will. Computers and train tracks don't have free will because they don't have a brain and they can't make choices.
You said 1 has a very specific meaning. That is 100% correct. But that only says what is 1, not what 1 is. I said no human knows what 1 is. I didn't say no human knows what is 1. For example, we humans believe we know what is God, what is gravity, and what is life, but no human knows what God is, what gravity is, or what life is. That is because no human has ever seen, touched, heard, tasted, or smelled God, gravity, life, or 1. No human knows where 1 begins, where 1 ends, and where the other 1 begins. Therefore 1+1=2 is not real, is only imaginary, is merely a belief. The same is true for God, for gravity, or for life. We believe God exists, gravity exists, life exists, and 1 exists, but no human knows what each one of them is.
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@hmgrraarrpffrzz9763 When you say "normally", you acknowledged that there are cases of not normal, aka free will. Most people are normal. Olympic gold medalists, however, choose to be not normal but exceptional. That's their free will.
We always choose to avoid pain, or rather the potential for pain. Some would rather die instead of taking a blood transfusion because they believe the potential for pain in their afterlife is much higher if they take a blood transfusion. That is their free will, and hospitals in free countries would have to respect their choice and not force a blood transfusion that would certainly save their lives.
In USA, some people believe it is their free will to not wear masks during a pandemic. In China, those who don't wear mask will be captured like animals and put away because they do not only endanger their own lives but also the lives of others. Yet, in China, everyone has free will. One can always choose to wear mask or not wear mask and risk being captured like animals and put away.
The same example as above explains how free will works and how free will could work. A previously signed instruction to not be given blood transfusion works even when the patient cannot make any conscious decision any more.
In detail, each time we are given a choice, we have the free will to choose. When we are not given a choice, like in your train track scenario, we still have the free will to believe we have a choice or to not believe we have a choice. Olympic gold medalists exercise their free will to believe they don't have a choice but to do their best to win.
Mice have tiny brains, and so they are very limited in their ability to understand potentials or to understand what's there to choose, as compared to what we humans have. Mice can be trained to jump to avoid an electric shock and then trained again to not jump to avoid an electric shock, and they can be so confused as to not know what to do, so paranoid that they die. That's called learned helplessness which can even be fatal to some humans. You may argue that learned helplessness demonstrates the absent of free will, but you would be wrong. It is because learned helplessness in humans can be unlearned due to the fact that humans having enough brain capacity to relearn how to recognize new potentials and to make decisions based on their free will. Not all humans would give up like you and declare humans as helpless.
I cannot imagine we have a computer that knows everything. That is simply impossible because computers are programmed by humans and humans know nothing. We humans live by our beliefs, not our knowledge, for knowledge we humans have none. It is precisely our lack of knowledge that gives us our free will. Animals don't have free will because they don't know that they don't know. Animal behaviors are highly predictable because they are involuntary and reactive to outside stimulus with little or no self consciousness.
Defining God, gravity, life, and 1 only define what is God, what is gravity, what is life, and what is 1. It doesn't tell us what God is, what gravity is, what life is, or what 1 is. No human knows what God is, what gravity is, what life is, or what 1 is. Period.
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@sanderhoogeland9161 That is not complicated at all. First of all people wish for God or someone to bring them peace. But they are totally mistaken. Peace is in each and everyone of us to give, and is not something something we can expect others to give us. The key is the more we give, the more we shall have. Jesus told us that too. Do you think the people can understand ? No. The more peace and love you give, the more peace and love you shall have is counterintuitive. Jesus taught us that 2,000 years ago, but even today not many people can understand or accept that. See ? As for the sword used as a metaphor of love, it is a simple and right to the point description of how the love we give, and the love that's growing in us, need to be learned and protected. They are not to be taken for granted. Others can give us love, but no one can grant us love. We need to accept and to pass it forward or the love given to us, brought to us by Jesus, would not grow but instead, would vanish. Love is a weapon of mass construction.
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@sanderhoogeland9161 You don't believe in any form of creator ? Are you just trying to be ridiculous ? Do you believe the space capsule which carried Armstrong landed on the moon randomly, by chance, and by accident. No. That space capsule was created, designed, and caused to land on the moon and nowhere else but the moon. It could not possibly land on Mars or Jupiter by luck, chance, or randomness. You know ? Our existence must also be created, designed, and caused to exist. That is not to say we humans can know the Creator, God. God, the Creator, is like gravity. They are metaphysical, unobservable, and unknowable by humans. We humans can only believe God and gravity exist, but no human can know what God is or what gravity is. It's that simple. Do you love God ? Do you love gravity ?
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@sanderhoogeland9161 The watchmaker theory is a logical fallacy to some people, but it is not really so. We understood the watch was created, designed, and caused to be on the beach by some humans, not directly from God, the Creator. However, don't forget the humans and human intelligence were created, designed, and caused, no reason and no evidence of it being a result of luck, chance, or randomness like those stupid conartist like Darwin would like you to believe.
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@sanderhoogeland9161 Evolution is a fairytale. It is neither a fact nor a theory. It is not a fact because it has never been observed. It is not a theory because there is zero evidence, zero logic, and zero scientific hypothesis that can be scientifically tested and verified. There are also overwhelming evidence and logical proof to confirm evolution could not possibly have occurred on earth.
The watchmaker theory is in fact a scientific theory because the evidence has been scientifically observed and tested countless times, and logically proven each and everytime. The law of cause and effect is a scientific law observed countless times and yield the same result everytime with zero exception. That is why it is called a law that every effects is caused, and every cause has effects.
The watch on the beach is undeniably created by design and caused to be on the beach. No randomness, luck, chance, or accident can explain it. The truth is : by the law of cause and effect, randomness, chance, and luck cannot possibly exist. All effects are caused, and all causes have effects. Period.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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