Re: Re: choice.

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It takes a needy person to recognize one ;-)

-- choice.

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> I wonder if its sort of a collective choice.. for example.. I hate to

> cook and tell myself and everyone i hate to cook and i cant cook.

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> I made passover dinner and surprise surprise it was awful in my

> opinion.. so was it my thoughts.. or was it collective thought..

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> I think both. I have always believed im a terrible cook and so of

> course i have evidence.

> IS that because of a thought instilled in my brain at a young age i

> was not aware of at the time.?. oh well..

> Was i programmed --my sister and my mother are both excellent cooks.

> Every year i dont cook the turkey enough. I wonder why?

> I am programmed to fail.. i suppose i should do the work.

> The dressing got so burnt i threw it out. The soup and potatoes were

> cold the matzo balls were hard as rocks.. and My neightbor had an

> electric saw cutting ceramic tile 2 feet away in his car port the

> whole time both Nights..

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> It could be funny if it wasnt tragic.. ok not tragic.

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> Hubbard says you will have trouble with anything you take too

> seriously i take work and i take cooking seriously.

> Plus i affirm over and over i hate to cook.

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> Im sure i was born on a weds.. Im still not on anti depressants but

> its depressing.

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> I also took work seriously so now im not working.

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> I also wonder why its so very easy for me to believe negative things

> and so almost impossible for me to believe anything positive.

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> My hsuband says this is all in my head.. i know when food tastes

> terrible.. well it is all in my head now what.?? Do the work

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> I have to go back to affirmations its the only thing that cheers me

up ..

> love, roslyn

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> In Loving-what-is , " Andy " <endofthedream@> wrote:

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> > > *****There ARE choices and decisions. Clearly. Choice happens. It

> > > arises out of a complex constellation of factors over which there is

> > > no control.

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> > So what is choice if there is no control?

> > In other words: If there is no one who chooses, how can what happened

> > be called " choice " ?

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> > *****If you don't like calling it a " choice, " call it something more

> > to your liking. They're only words. :-))

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> > What is very clear is that choices happen. Posts are read on LWI

> > List. Responses occur to some posts, not to others. Of those

> > reponses, some end up getting posted to the board. I call that a

> > choice.

> >

> > But who chooses it? Is there a stable, persisting, ongoing entity

> > (Andy or ) who consciously, willfully, with fore-thought,

> > makes a balanced choice? I can find no such entity. Everywhere all

> > there is, is change, flow, flux. So who is there to MAKE the

choice?

> > And yet, choices happen.

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> > It's much like the title to Mark Epstein's first book, " Thoughts

> > Without A Thinker. " We are SOOOOOO convinced that since there are

> > thoughts, there MUST be a thinker doing the thinking. We never

really

> > stop to look at the process itself, to consider whether there really

> > needs to be a thinker, even if there are thoughts.

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> > As I see it, thought creates the sense of self (the " me network " ) and

> > then, out of that mental construct, thought creates the 10,000

> > problems (the " slings and arrows of outrageous fortune " ) that the

" me "

> > is subject to throughout life. And the 10,000 joys too.

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> > Wouldn't it imply a possible alternative? One we don't really know

> > exists, because we are always in ONE state?

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> > *****There are no one-sided coins in phenomenality. There are no

> > single-ended sticks in the relative world. Thus there are always

> > alternative interpretations. Each is drawn to the one most

> > accomodating its innate conditioning-in-the-moment.

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