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JHL: But if humans are just acting in a similar way to magnets then where does that lead us? Freewill is gone. Or maybe hasn't ever been here in the first place.
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No, you're wrong here Markus. The fact that humans have the property of attracting like, in no way implies a lack of free will. Our "attraction quotient" (whatever you want to call it) is impacted by our thoughts, attitudes and beliefs, which in turn are governed by our own free will. If you think positive and nice, eventually you attract positive and nice, and so on. The only way you can conclude that LoA precludes free will is if you are proposing that we are not in control of our own thoughts.
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Not so much for the little girls in Africa whose genitals get mutilated, I guess.
But probably all the pain is just a test and experience for their souls. They wanted, and needed, these horrific experiences and lifelong pain to grow.
Right?
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So what you're asking is - am I saying that those little girls only have themselves to blame for attracting that cruelty into their lives. Of course not. But isnt this in contradiction to my assertion that our free will ultimately determines what we attract into our lives? Only if you hold that your conscious mind is the sum total of your being.
But if you also have an spiritual component, perhaps one that has lived many lives over vast tracts of time, then another alternative presents itself: the spiritual component is the actual "magnet", attracting to the physical person on the basis of its energy. However the physical person has a conscious mind with free will, to respond to these things as it chooses, and to attempt to change what it attracts, and therefore to have impact on the spiritual component.
Therefore when a 2 yr old attracts inexplicable suffering into her life, its on the basis of what her spritual component is attracting - where healing is required - and it (fairly or not) becomes the responsibility of the physical person to address.