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It's very hard for a traditional person
to step out of their tradition

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and investigate with the means that they never had.

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If you don't have the background to investigate, you don't know what to check with.

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You check with another metaphysician, and he's bound to sing your song.

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So you say "I agree completely with you"

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You don't say "do you have evidence to support that point of view?"

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The free will assumption, that there's nothing that causes it, is just a terrible assumption;

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that there's there's nothing responsible for it, It's self determined.

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"Self" meaning
without cause.

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Free will means "without cause."

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Try thinking of something without
an influence.

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It makes it easier, much easier, for
society to flourish by blaming people,

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rather than taking into account the
physical factors responsible for the behavior.

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And if you don't know what the
cause is the greatest thing you can do is say

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"I don't know. I'm gonna try to look into it."

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But how do you look into it?

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There are laws that govern how you look
into it, are you going to study those laws?

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Or are you going to look into it with
the old value system?

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The old value system will reveal nothing.

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People are not that precise in their
language.  Say "what do you want?"

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"I want access to the necessities of life". They can't say that, they've never been taught that.

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They've been taught a roundabout way of talking about things.

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So The Venus Project does not concern itself with habits of thought or "success" as used today.

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It concerns itself with the physical factors that are responsible for our values.

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You have to be...this is what you must use, "ruthlessly honest".

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Otherwise you can't make it.