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helenS · 36-40, F

If not yourself, who would you want to be?

BethA · F

@helenS one of Jesus's angels

Alfred22

@helenS Except for his breathing issues, perhaps Spinoza. He was right about the basic nature of reality being Necessary and not a matter of divine whim/Will.

helenS · 36-40, F

@Alfred22 I don't know anything about Spinoza, apart from the fact that he appears in crossword puzzles

Alfred22

@helenS You might like the idea (from Spinoza) that all is necessary. That means that the Laws of Nature cannot be otherwise.

To put it in a philosophy of mind context, that C-fibers firing just is pain, is not a matter of choice for God, as Saul Kripke famously alleged in The Nature of Necessity.