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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I don’t think it is the explanation in their case. They are just sociopaths. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve Smith<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 26, 2024 9:32 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> friam@redfish.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Breaking Bad and Free Will<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The person that knows their path is bound, rationally discards the self-regulation of guilt, and in that sense has more “freedom”.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Yah... that's kinda the vibe I get from DT, Bannon, Stone, Miller and many of the Jan 6 crowd.
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<p>I have a thing with the triad of Blame/Shame/Guilt.... I think a lot of folks conflate Shame and Guilt and avoid the (healthy?) self-regulation of Guilt in the name of refusing to be (unhealthily)Shamed. Shame-avoidance does seem to enhance Freedom-sensation
the same way a warm gun fits the hand (Beetles reference), but Guilt-embrace seems (to me) to allow for a finer attention to detail in the fractal landscape of Choice (whether it is an illusion or not) which maybe in some way increases freedom of choice/will?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I'm probably wrong about all this (whatever wrong means in this case) but it is how I have come to model my own personal responsibility (no matter what Sapolsky says about whether I have any choices or not).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>My own Labrynthian path through the Maze of Being is something of a Return to Grace journey... not literally the Judeo-Christian Grace (involving Eden and Apples and Serpents and such) but something metaphorically aligned. Best I can tell, I'll only reach
that state (of Grace) asymptotically (as with Satori?) on a trajectory of senescence and/or extinction (of the ego with or without the body)? At that point maybe Satori and Grace are synonyms?<o:p></o:p></p>
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