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Reply With QuoteYes, we choose. There is no "higher power" guiding our every decision.
I guess that's just my opinion, but it's pretty much fact. We have to the power to make our own decisions.
Free Will
A conclusion THREAD to my idea about Free Will being an Illusion...
Did you choose to be able to choose? .... And did you choose to "believe" you have free will, and if you did, how did you come to that conclusion?? Just Wondering ..
Originally Posted by ANC
Yes, we choose. There is no "higher power" guiding our every decision.
I guess that's just my opinion, but it's pretty much fact. We have to the power to make our own decisions.
Even those that beleive we have no free will, or that everything is pre destined, still look both ways before crossing the street.
Yes, but whether you look or not to cross is predetermined
It is easier to fool people than it is to convince them they have been fooled... Mark Twain
Simon Champion!
You are free to do it your own way, if it's done just how they say.
Says who? The bible? If you think that then my whole point sailed over your head. If you truley believed everything was predetermined then you wouldn't need to look across the street before crossing."god" would either guide you across safely or just kill you with a bus. No point in even looking if it's PREDETERMINED right? Yet even the most religious god fearing people look both ways because in their brain they know there is no god getting them across safely. Wether they admit it to themselves or not.Yes, but whether you look or not to cross is predetermined
Are you saying that the Lord Jesus Christ is not protecting me while I cross the street?
It is easier to fool people than it is to convince them they have been fooled... Mark Twain
It's my neurons, I tell ye. They're like the porcupine kids driving the SUV in "Over the Hedge". cn
"My god ... it's full of stars!" - David BowmanneerGreen 2: Soilless grow
your will is your own,.just choose to be yourself and you find no one controls you but you.
Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thinking -fortune cookie
Yet, we don't know all the choices. And can we do the one simple thing? Can we even for 1 second, control the attention away from the distraction of nattering self dialog? To be free of doubt and shame? To not be ridden by expectation and regret? To see what is Self, in a fuller sense than the retard that won't shut up inside? No Shudda, wudda, cudda? Ignore what makes us do bad things? To have peace of mind? That's free will.
Mind control. The Virtue of patience as the mad world spins. Free.
Last edited by Doer; 08-04-2012 at 09:47 AM.
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