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The question here is about free will, not about being stupid. Apparently you are too stupid to figure that out, and you act like you don't have the free will to be reasonable......so you get your stupid tail banned....tootles, with free will I ban your apparent inability to control your stupidity. NEXT!!!!
Wrong, I can be stupid if I want to be stupid, or if I'm just stupid and do stupid things, but I do those things by my own stupid choice. I blame myself if I do something stupid, and it was stupid for you to come here and imply that I have no choice if I am stupid. Apparently, you do not have the brains to carry on a conversation regarding the OP subject, so your stupidity got banned. I wonder if you feel you have a choice in being stupid, or if you felt you had to come here and make stupid comments because you have no free will and must do as nature has programmed you to do........but then, it's too late, you got yourself banned from this discussion and for all I know, you got yourself forever banned from enjoying God's goodness in the fire of Hell. What an idiot you are, I hope you get saved before it's too late and you are banned to Hell forever.
I'll clarify your statement so you can see how stupid you sound:
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Stupid is as stupid does; just like the poster of this statement, I can't help it; I have no free will and therefore I must always act in stupidity and get banned from Saintnow's discussion. Watch me be profane and stupid in all of his discussions so I get banned. Too bad I'm too stupid to carry on an intelligent conversation, but I have no free will so you can't blame me.
There, I did you the favor of bring your comments around to fit in line with the OP. Maybe your genes will cause you to adapt in order to be able to have a conversation with me, but I see no sign of that happening...you can only be stupid I guess.
If you have no free will, as you have stated you firmly believe, then you have no choice but to be stupid.....and the proof of your stupidity is in that you pretend to be intelligent but talk like a fool pretending to be without blame for stupid things you do and say due to your belief in having no choice in what you say or do. If you really were intelligent, you would not have gotten banned here. "Nonexistent free will" is a stupid belief. You did not have to say something so stupid, but you did, and stupid people are probably going to be banned quickly here.
It's just too stupid to say "I have no choice in my actions". Ya'll know I'm not much for entertaining stupidity. If you want to come here and say "I have no choice in what I say", then I'll have to say, "you are stupid to believe that", and then the conversation is over, nowhere else to go with it. Atheism is always a dead end, and I don't have time for it.
Yeah, I know, you smoke eloquently articulated nonsense. It has to have enough complications of nonsense to entertain you in your meaninglessness of being subjected to death....and you can't even admit death is real. You are nutso, being stupid, and got yourself banned.
I know why you feel you have no free will, and you feel you have no choice but to come here to say stupid things....it's because your belief system is hopeless, and your only hope is to escape pain and suffering in death. Keep trying....oh yeah, you believe you have no choice in what you do, so you will keep trying to escape pain and suffering in death without me telling you to do what you are doing by your nature of being stupid.
Claiming to have no free will, saying free will is "non-existent", is a stupid thing to say. If you want to say you have no free will, fine. But such stupidity has nothing to offer in this discussion, and that's what you think you are all about...nothing. Take your nothingness somewhere eles please, and I hope you get saved before it's too late and you wake up in Hell.
On the side of having free will, a person can be stupid if they choose to be stupid.
On the other side, they have no choice in being stupid.
You are choosing to be stupid when you say you have no freedom of choice. You don't have to come here, do you? You don't have to argue, do you? You really think you can't control yourself in any way? How did you become so stupid to think you can't choose your words? If you can't choose your words and actions, then you have no intelligence, you are a rock who can only do what a rock does.
At least you can tell yourself that it's not your fault that you are being stupid because you were born that way and have no choice.
So you have no choice in being stupid, that's why you must say you have no choice. Because of your stupid assertion, you got banned and that was my choice.
see how it works? Anybody who comes here claiming they have no free will gets banned for being stupid. Try telling God you have no choice in your actions and see if it exempts you from the fire of Hell........oh yeah, you have excluded God in your mind so you can pretend like you know you have the right to exist outside of Hell, so only be finding yourself unable to escape Hell fire will you believe you were wrong.
Hogwash. It is stupid to say you do not have a choice in what you say, think, or do. If you don't have a choice in being stupid, then nobody can blame you for being stupid and you can pretend to be intelligent because you have no choice in the matter and must pretend to be intelligent. Because you are being stupid and pretending to be intelligent, you are banned.
That's a stupid question. Did you choose to ask that question? Yes or no. If you don't know whether or not you choose to ask that question, I have to conclude that you are too stupid for this conversation.
The question is not about what you know, or how you know it. The question is do you believe you have free will, or do you believe you must be stupid if you are stupid? To say you have no free will proves you are stupid. I banned that guy for being stupid, and your stupid question borders on getting you banned. If you want to participate here, discuss free will, don't just ask stupid questions feigning ignorance.
If I didn't have free will, I would have no way of knowing that fact. No matter what, I'm going to think that I have free will. That doesn't mean I necessarily do.
Well, if you don't know whether or not you can choose your own words, thoughts, and actions, then you must be stupid regardless of whatever level of education you have achieved.
Isn't it kind of stupid to say "if I couldn't choose my words, I would have no way of knowing that"?. Wouldn't you have to be equally dumb compared to a rock for such a thing to be true? A rock can make no choices, you would have to be as dumb as a rock to be unable to choose your words, thoughts, and actions. Thanks for the comment, and congratulations on walking the thin line to discuss both sides without taking the position of "I have no choice in my actions because my evolutionary fizzes make me do what they dictate according to my surroundings", and then the exceeding stupidity would force me to puke and ban you.
If you think you have free will, but you don't know if you actually do, then you must be stupid. It's very simple. Either you understand that you are responsible for what you say, think, and do, or you deny responsibility by saying "I think maybe I didn't have a choice. It's stupid to say you don't have a choice in what you say, think, or do.
I know why you feel you have no free will, and you feel you have no choice but to come here to say stupid things....it's because your belief system is hopeless, and your only hope is to escape pain and suffering in death. Keep trying....oh yeah, you believe you have no choice in what you do, so you will keep trying to escape pain and suffering in death without me telling you to do what you are doing by your nature of being stupid.
congratulations on being the first person to understand the OP and respond with good comments.
Of course you can have free will and be stupid, that's the point. If we are stupid, and we have the brains to not be stupid, that's our choice. Some people are stupid and refuse to blame themselves for doing and saying stupid things. They think they are never supposed to feel guilty.
"Jace" above said there is no such thing as "free will", claiming he has no choice of action but must do as his programming makes him do...so it's not his fault, he thinks, for sounding stupid. I banned him because this debate is short on tolerance for stupidity.
Correct...free will does not exclude stupidity. Stupidity can attempt to excuse itself by denying free will; the two are not mutually exclusive....but if you say you have no free will, you must be stupid.
This day in age some people seem proud to be stupid or ignorant. Just look at social media. They post memes that do their thinking for them, often without fact checking anything for themselves. Then they went so far as to reduce deep thoughts to #hashtags, which in itself is ludicrous. Have you ever noticed that people only use #yolo when they're doing something stupid? You never see "I just donated all my old clothes to the Salvation Army #yolo." "I just completed my masters thesis #yolo" "I just saved a baby from a hot car #yolo". People are dumbing down everything. Humanity in decline. Idiocracy.
So you are arguing that you must be stupid because society is dumbing you down, or you have the choice to be stupid if you feel like you are being stupid?
A general dissertation on levels of intelligence is not the debate here. We have a genius sodomite you is trying to say he has no choice in seeking butt buddies to play with, and is a robot when it comes to sexual expression. I say that is stupidity personified, claiming to have no choice in sexual expression...regardless of IQ, education, or experience levels.
So what about you. Do you have free will to be stupid, or must you be stupid because you believe you have no choice in your actions?
Your comment here contains elements of truth and I appreciate that. You did not state whether you personally believe that you have free will.
The problem is that "free will" implies you are responsible for everything you say, think, or do. Being responsible means there is a judgment over your time. That judgement is why people try to argue that they have no free will and are only doing what there brain chemical fizz makes them do. They do not want to take responsibility for themselves, they do not want to admit guilt, they do not want to concede to justice.
Your comment here contains elements of truth and I appreciate that. You did not state whether you personally believe that you have free will.
The problem is that "free will" implies you are responsible for everything you say, think, or do. Being responsible means there is a judgment over your time. That judgement is why people try to argue that they have no free will and are only doing what there brain chemical fizz makes them do. They do not want to take responsibility for themselves, they do not want to admit guilt, they do not want to concede to justice....and I ban them because it will be a waste of time arguing with a person who insists they cannot choose their own words by their own free will......it's a self contradictory argument in stupidity, and a waste of time to entertain the nonsense so I boot them out of the discussion.
To that, I say that anybody who claims they have no free will is being stupid, no matter how many big words they use with perfect grammar and composition.
Did you truly choose to sound like you are stupid, or did you have to sound like you are stupid because you do not have free will? God knew Adam would choose to disobey Him. Do you choose to be stupid if you imply you have no choice in saying stupid things, or are you stupid and you must say stupid things?. If you have no choice about being stupid, well then you must by all means be stupid and say stupid things.
For example, if you are born with some kind of mental handicap, then you have no choice but to be "stupid." That is obviously an extreme example but it illustrates my point that genetics determines a lot of a persons intelligence.
The question is not about intelligence, it's about free will. Of course your intelligence will be limited if your brain is not developed normally. It appears that your brain is normally developed, guessing by the way you talk...so the question is, do you have free will or do you have no choice if you are stupid?
It's just too stupid to say "I have no choice in my actions". Ya'll know I'm not much for entertaining stupidity. If you want to come here and say "I have no choice in what I say", then I'll have to say, "you are stupid to believe that", and then the conversation is over, nowhere else to go with it. Atheism is always a dead end, and I don't have time for it.
