Comments by "Jackie Wu" (@jwu1950) on "Aperture"
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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.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us
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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.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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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.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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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 ?
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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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.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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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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