From: Xela@yabbs
To: abort@yabbs
Subject: "Escaping" control.
Date: Sat Feb  5 13:08:33 1994

Abort said:
  you see the programming as
abolute, I see it as escapable.  By escapable I mean that you can change
the programming or the circuits that is imprinted into you consciously.
If you can change it then to me that is free will.


    You mentioned the consuming of chemicals to alter reality.  In effect, 
you call this "reprogrramming of reality."  I propose that altering your 
programming in no way affects reality, but more it affects your 
*perception* of reality.  Claiming that escape is possible by altering 
brain chemicals is like me saying "If i grub shrooms i can fly."  If I 
would try to fly off a building I would die; this is reality outside of my 
perception of it.  Programming *is* inescapable, the only other option 
being suicide.
    Meditation, drugs, etc. change *you*.  They do not change reality.

    -Alex