Theism Supports Free Will Better than Materialism Does

DAVID STOCKHOFF · 17 Oct 2014, 15:09 · from 2014-October.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (DAVID STOCKHOFF)
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 08:09:42 -0700
Subject: (urth) Theism Supports Free Will Better than Materialism Does
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"Tzadkiel compares Severian, as a human, to a pawn. I take the chessboard to be the symbol

for time. Humans (normally) like a pawn on a chessboard, can only move forward and one

space at a time." 


That's a handy analogy, if not a complete system. There do seem to be essential limitations on all the time-traveling characters. One may imagine knights, rooks vs bishops, and of course queens. Even pawns can capture en passant.On the other hand, no chess pieces travel only backward as do Ossipago et al. 


Knights are especially prominent (Jonas) and yet especially limited. Which best represents the Green Man? 


Note that kings are basically important pawns that can move backward as well as castle.





On Friday, October 17, 2014 10:52 AM, Jeffery Wilson clueland.com <jwilson at clueland.com> wrote:
 

>
>
>On 10/17/2014 7:00 AM, Lee wrote:
>> This may be an example of a character who can explore multiple branchings of both
>>
>> the past and future. I suspect Tzadkiel can also do this.  These are superhuman beings
>>
>> who perhaps can explore time more flexibly than human beings.
>
>Tzadkiel admits to it access of the numerous futures and pasts of his 
>purview and articulates a bit of his use of them on a couple of 
>occasions, so, yes.
>
>> The Green Man and, eventually Severian can move backward and forward in time in more than
>>
>> one step. But they are both human and thus perhaps still limited in their movement through
>>
>> time compared to superhumans like Juturna and Tzadkiel. I think they can only travel a single
>>
>> pathway while multiple pathways may be open to angels, they being closer to God (who has
>>
>> access to all possible timelines, past and future) and plural beings.
>
>Negative, Severian clearly takes multiple paths in the person of the 
>"other" Severians. Of course, this may quality Severian as a plural being.
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>Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
>A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
>< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >
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