Let’s complete an outline for the next area: Voluntary acts
can be incidental and we do numerous things without thinking. We also have to
eat and do other things out of necessity that don’t require a lot of
deliberation. Choice has an objective in mind and how we plan on going about
accomplishing it. The focus is on deliberation and that is what we do when we make choices. Now we
all have wishes or dreams. They are similar to choices but the difference is
that wishes are always pleasurable and that is why we enjoy them. The outcome
can be however we like. Choices affect our lives good or bad and so we think about
where they lead in depth before acting on them. We may have hope for a
particular object but need to incrementally make choices that lead in that
direction. Choices have to do with the realities of a situation and the best
way to go about things. Sometimes radical change is forced on us and our wishes
have to be adjusted. Quite a few builders in the last few years experienced
that. I heard a message recently about survival in a concentration camp. The
trait that kept people alive was one of keeping up hope for a bigger cause.
Those who lost it would either become bitter and mean or would fall into
depression and die. Choices, however incremental, along with dreams of something
better, seems to be a foundation for human happiness. That is why we are studying
it in detail and so hopefully it stays interesting for you all. Organizing our thoughts
keeps them from getting away from us and allows us to enjoy the good things in
life. We can dream, see reality clearly, make good choices and enjoy life.
"A person is wicked when he is ignorant of what ought to have been done and also what ought not to have been done."
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So a man and a woman who choose to have an affair, be it physical or emotional, think about how it affects their lives and their family's lives and still go ahead and do it? Or are you saying people are incapable of choice in this situation and it's an involuntary act, that people are incapable of avoiding this? Is this a voluntary act which makes the people wicked, or is it an involuntary act where they they have no choice? If they continue with said affair, is it voluntary, or involuntary by their choices? Your blog opens up a whole world of questions.
Good questions. Emotions, passions and dreams are involuntary but when a person takes pleasure in them we might try to call them voluntary. What is felt and desired are to be taken at face value. It takes deliberate planning and an act for something to become a choice. Using the term emotional affair is anti-conceptual. One is a feeling and the other is an act. One might claim that anything that takes away from a marriage is an affair. But that is too broad and can just be a qualifier for demands. Using that reasoning, a person could use sports, a job, shopping, gardening or ministry as the object of an affair to demand the other party give up the things they enjoy.
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