Theism Supports Free Will Better than Materialism Does

Jeffery Wilson clueland.com · 17 Oct 2014, 06:40 · from 2014-October.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeffery Wilson clueland.com)
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 01:40:05 -0500
Subject: (urth) Theism Supports Free Will Better than Materialism Does
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On 10/16/2014 2:20 PM, Lee wrote:
> I don't think so. Severian only sees one path as he travels Brook Madregot to the
>
> past. It only branches when he reverses direction and travels to the future.

Branching is not the only form of choice for Sev.

Juturna enunciates his choice of direction in URTH XLVIII: "Juturna 
pointed like a village woman directing some lost traveler, her hands and 
arms extending in directions I had not seen until she indicated them. 
'That way the future, this way the past. '"

Tzadkerbell explicitly points out in URTH XL that Sev has a choice about 
how far to travel along the brook Madregot, and when to start walking 
away from it.

The green man says he runs up and down the Corridors of Time looking for 
a time to help Severian, so that's him using reverse time travel to 
retrace his steps and access other branches previously ruled out.

So while there are multiple futures branching from a single past, that 
past still has many ages and many lands in each. Our Severian doesn't 
explore too many of them, but that'a probably why he's our Severian and 
not young Tzadkiel's Severian, or one of the coffin Severians. He can 
choose from several branches when moving forward, but most all people 
have that privilege from the Increate.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >

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