Free will doesn't ultinately exist as humans always choose the path which has been percieved to give the most pleasure, long and/or short term. We are slaves to our programming.
Free Will
Isaiah Davis
Hudson Miller
>we can neither control what has happened nor bend the laws of physics
but you have the free will to choose how to act upon it. Sup Forums could have continued playing video games and smoking pot, but we all chose to take a stand against what we saw as an affront to all that is good and natural. And we did so in spite of the very real threat of being v&.
Everyone has the free will to be an idiot or to strive for infinity.
Jonathan Peterson
not so much, but yeah
Gabriel Williams
No Abrahamic/Semitic religion has a “holy text” that supports free will.
They love to spin their wheels writing long-winded shit though. You have to view the Big 3 as a sad mind-virus. Because it is.
Hunter White
I think you can look at it in terms of the broader concept of "freedom" and the pursuit thereof. Teenagers rebel against their parents in an attempt to prove their independence (mainly to themselves). It follows that free will in religion and fighting for freedoms in politics is an attempt to continue reaffirming to oneself that one is, indeed, a free and independent agent - except instead of in relation to parents, it is to stand out in relation to society as a whole.
Jose Butler
>tradtional catholic teaching
every esoteric text describes it the same. What differs are the interpretations given. And in that regard all religions can be boiled down to those that worship the abyss, those who worship THE TRUTH and those who worship a deceptive explanation of THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, THE TRUTH is in itself a bit deceptive because people tend to either read the scripture literally or metaphorically but rarely as both literal and metaphorical at the same time.
Christian Richardson
yes they are, but if that desires impeded i choose to do something else.
that conderdicts reailty tho, Were not all stupid robots programmed to so one thing like an animal, were rational human beings, you autist, that false teachings gonna get you killed.
how so i destroyed his argument
Luke Davis
And I am arguing that it isn't. I'm arguing that we are controlled by events and happenings around us, think of it like a reflex. When something sudden occurs, you flinch -- this is not your will, nor your "free will", this is a reflex of a previous event in time.
>Why are religious people obsessed with free will?
This was a rhetorical question, but thanks for answering.
>I have control and I choose with my free will not to be a faggot.
No, I'm saying that it depends on X. What about children who are hurt in their youth? Do they not behaviourally change later in life because of this? Is it their will to behave in this way? I think not.
>an assumption
Well without a God, I explain my world with the theory of the Big Bang and the theory of evolution to account for an alternative creation. We should for argument's sake.
>Teenagers rebel against their parents
Is this not merely an instinct in our species? It certainly is a common trait, isn't it coincidental that so many teenagers chooses this specific way of behaving?
Chase Ward
These godless morons believe you dont make everyday choices or make any choices through out life.. very, very delusional and disconnected from reailty becasue thats not how the real world works..
Tradtional catholic teaches, we are rational creators who can think for ourselves, making different life choices everyday of our life's, and be it good or bad, this is reailty and corresponds with reality
Brandon King
what made you write this if not free will?