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How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?


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...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.



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This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.



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This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws.



We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.

We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.





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