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Welcome back from Arandi's Coffing Attack and hopefully you're feeling better Arandi and can continue with this discussion of freedom and whatnot.

Did you have anything left over to say about freedom?

I just wanted to quickly explain the comment of why I live a philosophy or why I have a philosophy that you can't live.

You kind of mentioned that in passing. That was just from our discussion.

Yeah, feel free to clarify it.

I'm happy to clarify that now if you want.

And it really will become far more pertinent the end when I kind of propose some different things.

If I were to, at this moment, just to let listeners know what's really been occurring to me and I think I knew this before we had this good discussion.

I'm with you guys for almost 90, probably 90% of everything you say.

I really think the critiques of religion that come from the conversations that you do are very important and whatnot.

And really where we're going to end up differing in the end is in an openness level to certain possibilities that you guys seem close to at this moment.

And so for something like this where I'm open to realms and I'm also aware of critiques, for instance, of a sensationist doctrine of perception,

that knowledge comes through the five senses only from my philosophy background and whatnot I know that makes problems and things.

But anyway, I guess I'm just trying to say in that last 10% that I'm open to that you guys seem close to, there are some very common sense things like a sense of freedom that I'm not having to kind of untuck myself out of thinking that I'm free.

And in that 10% where we disagree or at least that I'm open to an alternate model, I can actually feel that I'm genuinely free and I don't need to strain and kind of talk myself.

And I feel like there's something genuine in the universe that I'm accomplishing here by my actions, accounts, it matters in the eternal scheme of things.

And yet you may have those feelings and you may be living where that and then all of a sudden say no, actually it doesn't count in the eternal scheme of things that counts in the here and now.

And it isn't making a difference in another realm or in something beyond the reach of science or something.

So that's what I'm saying. Can you live your philosophy without having to constantly talk yourself into what am I experiencing different than what I think I'm experiencing?

I don't think that I walk around going, I'm determined to do this. Do I have a choice? Probably not, so I'm just going to do it.

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