Forked Radish answers “What are the chances this story is based...”

Willem asked this question about The Bad Seed:

What are the chances this story is based on real events. If so should I live in fear of my children as my mother poisoned her second husband but committed suicide before she was arrested?

Forked Radish As for the first question, I'm not a bookie and don't lay odds. The second question is based on the presumption of determinism i.e. the idea that all …moreAs for the first question, I'm not a bookie and don't lay odds. The second question is based on the presumption of determinism i.e. the idea that all things are determined by something else. I call it the deterministic illusion and it's resposible for the majority of error in human thought. Examples are the big bang, genetics, evolution, creationism, psychology etc. These ideas are just projections of the deterministic illusion viz. the deterministic solution. Such homicidal tendencies as your mother and the child in the book exhibited don't need be determined by anything, as they are the result of non-outcome driven processes. That is, to say, they are neither teleologic nor teleonomic in nature and therefore are pure "art" and don't originate anywhere except in the mind itself. The primary error is caused by the obsolete Newtonian legacy which presumes a "hardware type", mechanistic universe where things are deterministic, non-intrinsic and random when in fact this is a "software type" digital universe where things are non-deterministic, intrinsic and arbitrary.(less)

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