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IS FREE WILL AN ILLUSION?
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D Gallo
Uploaded on 04/08/2008

Many say the life is predetermined...many also say that we have free will...i believe it may be a combination of both, in that we show up in a certain place in time and only have the options that a put before us, but we still can choose what path we take...are we only a circumstance of prior decisions and happenings or do we actually have the ability to choose our own fate????

 

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Re: IS FREE WILL AN ILLUSION?

Free will is not an illusion but a practise. This practise is a real-time choice of two outcomes with neither benefit or deficit but the consequence will ultimately be predetermined.

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I believe in free will; predestination may also be true, I don't know, but I don't think the two are mutually exclusive.  If I choose to act in a certain way because that is who I am, then that is free will.  But, if there is some metaphorical slab of stone out in the Universe upon which the fate of everything is written, what's the difference?  I'm not conscious of any part of me that is crying out at my body to act differently (aside from my conscience, at times), so, still assuming predestination is correct, I appear to be in agreement with destiny.  If we wanted to have truly free will, that would mean that we all are wild cards, with no fixed identity, which I don't believe.  The end result is the same: I do what I want.  Perhaps the slab of stone is attempting to take credit, but that doesn't really effect anything.
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