Free Will argument word count

[Guest guest]

Namaste!

 

I have pasted all of the free will messages into a Word

document so I could highlight the more interesting parts and study

them. This enables me to do a word count. For your information,

there are over 100,000 words in all of the messages on the Fate and

Free Will topic. That's a lot of words!

 

Are we making progress? Is anybody's mind being changed? Is

this discussion worth it?

 

Sri Ram, I did enjoy your insightful recent message listing

the 4 different basic contentions on free will. I did not quite

agree with all of it, but I appreciated your attempt to rise above

the fray and put things in perspective. That is definitely the right

attitude.

 

I am becoming a bit annoyed at all list members - including

myself - for what I perceive as a certain stubbornness. Are we

really trying to become wiser? Or are we just trying to defend our

petty points of view? Perhaps we need more silence and

introspection, as when the ancient rishis retreated alone to the

forest.

 

(Oh, and by the way, I haven't changed my mind!)

 

Om!

Benjamin

[Guest guest]

advaitin, Benjamin Root <orion777ben>

wrote:

Are we

> really trying to become wiser? Or are we just trying to defend our

> petty points of view? Perhaps we need more silence and

> introspection, as when the ancient rishis retreated alone to the

> forest.

>

> (Oh, and by the way, I haven't changed my mind!)

 

 

Namaste,

 

Each one will have to do the 'litmus test' for oneself!

 

1. Ecclesiastes test:

 

1:18 - " For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth

knowledge increaseth sorrow."

 

2. Gita test :

 

........................................

yajGYaatvaa neha bhuuyo.anyajGYaatavyamavashishhyate .. 7\-2..

 

(......."[knowledge and realization,] which having been understood

nothing further remains to be known here in the world.")

 

 

 

Regards,

 

Sunder