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The quotation continues:

They are indeed the same. You can explore the subject on your own or ask me for sources.

^All religions bear witness to the truth in their own way, even yours.

When a superior man hears of the Tao, he immediately begins to embody it. When an average man hears of the Tao, he half believes it, half doubts it. When a foolish man hears of the Tao, he laughs out loud. If he didn't laugh, it wouldn't be the Tao.

I acknowledge my references, unlike all these secularist gurus who fancy themselves creative genuises, but just recycle Kant, Kantian nanobots that don't realize they are in the service of the most superstitious anti-philosopher to ever live.

^Nah, I've indicated what I think you should read. Go ahead, keep running cycles on your hamster wheels.

The secularist priesthood clinging to its primitive superstitions regarding free will. Pathetic.

^What I have is the ability to align my will with the will of existence itself, and this is the only true freedom. Not everyone has this ability, but ultimately all mankind will have it. Read Kabbalah.

Peter Pan wants to believe in the magic freedom pixie dust.

The determinist disagrees. As Waton puts it, "Our mind no more determines its thoughts and ideas than our body determines its actions; all are determined by existence."

^Spinoza's point is that a conscious being's actions are every bit as determined as those of an unconscious being. As he states, "the soul acts according to fixed laws, and is as it were an immaterial automaton."

Dennett paddled about at the shore of philosophy, got scared by determinism, and never ventured into the depths.

You're just another priest, praising the Great One, yet rejecting everything he taught.

^And how many callow youth have not sung triumphal hymns over Spinoza's gravemound?--Schelling

Here is Spinoza's full statement: The stone's motion and its stopping are both constrained and determined by other forces/objects. For Spinoza, freedom is not freedom of decision, but freedom to act according to one's nature, a property that belongs only to God. Human freedom lies then only in...