So many religious people say that we have freedom of choice. I can think of many instances where our choices in life are not there. Being pricked by a needle, some people feel more pain than others for instance. So is it their conscious choice to feel that pain? Is it someone else's choice not to feel it?
2006-11-22 13:30:35 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Your confusing physical with spiritual
2006-11-22 13:33:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Our choices are between right and wrong not whether or not to feel. Not sure where you got this. It's neither right nor wrong to have pain so where would you get a thought like that? You could however choose how it will effect you, will it ruin your day or wont it? But you might be interested in knowing Scientology teaches that pain is an illusion you can choose to feel or not to feel. Maybe you confused "religious" people with Scientologists?
2006-11-22 13:35:55 · answer #2 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your sensitive nerves has given you the freedom to insult the people you know do not have the nerve to insult you back. Although I wish not to hurt your feelings but my choice of freedom has given me the opportunity to tell you that are also a freak.
2006-11-22 13:53:42 · answer #3 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pain is an aspect of the mind. Unconsciously, yes, people can choose not to feel pain, and there are some people who are capable of overcoming the pain factor in their instinctive, primitive minds.
About freedom of choice: You can't lump everything into one category and then accuse people to be foolish because they believe in something you don't... please, learn a little tolerance, will you?
2006-11-22 14:09:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love the "freedom of choice" dodge. You make such a good point here.
When people tell me that I'm "choosing" hell, I have to wonder what would happen in our "sinful" human world, if a person did something like that. If a human chose to walk into fire and stay there - we would stop them. Protect them for their own good. Get them good mental care. Yet somehow when a god lets us "choose" this kind of torture, it's loving and above us and oh-so-mysterious.
2006-11-22 13:34:41 · answer #5 · answered by Black Parade Billie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You listen to Skah music and your calling someone else a freak?
2006-11-22 13:32:49 · answer #6 · answered by Clerical error 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i imagine you meant the mind won't be able to or won't be able to experience discomfort. there is the cranium, the scalp, and the muscular tissues which administration action of the face and ears, and all have discomfort nerves.
2016-11-29 09:29:11 · answer #7 · answered by kuebler 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a dumb analogy.
Come up with a better way to ask your question, because it really is worth exploring.
2006-11-22 13:34:51 · answer #8 · answered by Chris R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
how someone perceives a situation,gives how we react.it is a choice to act or not to react.
2006-11-22 14:03:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like playing this game too, especially when several of my friends and I are sitting 'round drinking beers.
We start by trying to say your question, only, it sounds like this:
Gibberish, gibberish, gibberish, gibberish, gibberish, gibberish, gibberish, gibberish, gibberish, gibberish.
(Say it as fast as you can, 10 times!! It Becomes Gibberish!!)
2006-11-22 13:37:14 · answer #10 · answered by Aaron 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋