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[In the astrological fixation, the fate of the person is determined by the alignment of the planets and stars.
Does this sound like a deterministic thought experiment3H or a contender for I, seat of choice3V?]
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[The questions in the previous blogs correlate with the normal contexts of the thought experiment where ‘I choose something’.
Consider the two-level interscope, then the intersection.]
Here is another issue that he raised:
Can I be determined by my bondage (as depicted in Manichaeism) in the same way that a pagan’s fate is determined by the stars (as in astrology)?
Here is another issue that he raised:
Can I master a secret knowledge that overcomes my bondage, as if we could find a path to release from this world of decay (as implied by Gnostics)?
Here is another issue that he raised:
Is our bondage to sin, law and death so complete that free choice is nullified?
Here is another issue that he raised:
How far do the trappings of bondage go?
Summary of text [comment] page 85
Schoonenberg wrestled with the knotty issue of the haphazard use of the terms ‘free choice’ and ‘Christian liberty’ in Christian doctrine.
[My choice2V and something about me2H solidify into concupiscence, then into cruelty.
Like a dead person, the eyes are open but they cannot see.
Death is the fixation of law. Death is the illusion of words.
Death becomes the mandala of the heart.]
