Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the … - Raymond Smullyan

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As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all. . . and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.

Raymond Smullyan

Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini.

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All my life I have been intensely repelled by the idea of 'making an effort'. I hate this idea today as much as I did as a child. I don't know why I hate it so much; I just do.

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I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!

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