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Originally Posted by Mark Lapierre  Could you qualify this statement? Are you saying that people are not responsible for the way they think or act because they learned to think and act that way?
Have you considered the ability to choose? Whether or not you believe in free will, none-the-less each of us has the ability to choose to take an action or not, and to react a certain way, or not. We can choose to insult someone, or be nice. We can rant and rampage, or take a deep breath and speak calmly. The ability to choose is accompanied by the responsibility to deal with the consequences of your choice. The circumstances which lead to each choice may alter the difficulty of the decision, but regardless of circumstance you always have a choice. |
No, we don't have the ability to choose, you think you have the ability to choose, but you don't. Why do you think some people act bad with others people? why some people are poor? think about it 2 minutes....you think they choose to be that way?? yes they made some choices, but this is not clear choices, they were not thinking , felling the same thing as you when they were making their choices, and why they did not fell the same as you? they don't have the same past as you! They don't have the same neuronals path. Everybody is born with the same set of neurons, then the structure is getting stronger as your life goes on. I kNow this is not something easy to understand, because if you believe in this you will feel like you are nothing, you have no reason to exists. By accepting this truth, you will understant the world, you will understand why people act this way.
when you hear anthony robbins, by example, telling you that you have the choice, you are responsable for your actions, he is not telling you that you have the power to choose, he is trying to make you BELIEVE that you can choose, so when you do something bad, you think YOU are responsable and you can change. This is not the same thing... the more you know how a brain work the more you understant what i'm saying,,