Determinism, free will, God, experience, happiness, and translation

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Determinism is delivered by the 'absolute' constraints of the body, the mind, and the external world. Free will exists only insofar as the individual may make choices within chaos- the area which is not absolutely deterministic. Man is a truck driver- constrained by the qualities of the truck, but able to make certain decisions while in the chaos of the freeway.

God is an experience. Therefore any attempt to anthropomorphize, externalize, or intellectually symbolize God is impossible. This is like saying- "See that man across the street- he is happiness." As humans exist only as internal experience, any attempt at trans-conveyance of an experience uses the inadequacies of symbols in translation.

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.