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Old 10-23-2011, 05:16 AM  
DamianJ
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Originally Posted by Jel View Post
So the power nature has isn't a power greater than what you have? It's not believing 'in' something in a religious type of way (though obviously for those religious in nature, it can be if they want), it's believing (or willing to accept) that there is a 'higher power', ie something that you cannot control, because you don't have as much power as it, whatever the 'it' of your choosing is.
The power I have *over me* is greater than the power "Mother Nature" has *over me*. I *chose* to do the thing I am addicted to. Nature doesn't make me. And I cannot see how Nature would make me not do the thing I am addicted to.

I can see how, if you are religious, it is easy to put this burden on a mythical fairytale creature. But if you are an atheist, I still can't see how it works.
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