Posted by Toph on November 2, 2005, at 12:35:56
In reply to gang o' five, posted by zenhussy on October 30, 2005, at 18:58:46
I'm convinced my dog has free will. I know that he does things deliberately to piss me off when I'm late coming home from work, for example. But he doesn't have moods - bio-chemical affect that would transform him into and an angry or a manically euphoric beast. I have moods, zen. They make me different than my core self. Mainly they make me someone to avoid. I've tried to control them, but this only seems possible at the considerable cost of losing important parts of me. One can lose a lot having moods. I've almost resigned myself to conceding that I will always need to have them.
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