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Yeah, sannhet
I don't think any of us make nearly as many decisions as we think we do. Our minds are already made up about most things.

posted by pappy on February 27, 2005 at 4:30 PM | link to this | reply

Pappy -
The ol' walking dead syndrome, eh?

posted by sannhet on February 27, 2005 at 12:12 PM | link to this | reply

sannhet
Gurdjieff also taught that evil does not exist as such but is the working of the mechanical nature of things.  Good things do not happen very often, but they are the result of conscious decisions.  He taught that most people act in mechanical ways most of the time, that is, they do only what comes next from what came before without any real decision being made.

posted by pappy on February 25, 2005 at 5:02 PM | link to this | reply

JustA -
Excellent point! One must get to the real Truth to be able to distinguish between right and wrong or good and not good.

posted by sannhet on February 25, 2005 at 2:30 PM | link to this | reply

“ignorance regarding the good.”

This would imply that people really do not know right from wrong, though they believe that they do.

“There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Proverbs 16

posted by justAcarpenter on February 25, 2005 at 2:13 PM | link to this | reply