Originally posted by American-philosopher
reply to post by JonoEnglish
I don;t wanna go around in circles with you. But the higher force is putting that event in motion. It is up to you how you handle it or don;t
handle it. what someone else said free will,
I understand the free will bit, this choice at a given point in our life put in place by a higher force etc. That doesn't make sense. As complex as
life is, given the chances and probablities we are faced with, why would a higher force need to intervene in our life to provide the opportunity of
the free will to that event. Given that free will is already there in every stage of our lives.
By intervening, and giving us clues, we are not free to choose the right path. We are guided down that path. therefore that choice can't be ours to
take any credit for.
If I was a god and i gave you a warning, by playing a songs over the radio that hinted to you, that a bridge would collapse, Then you came across a
bridge, would you cross it? You have the fredom to choose, sure, but I would have persuaded you to think twice and warn you about the possibility of a
bridge collapsing. Therefore you don't have freewill as you are being influenced to some degree. Yes, you may say freewill is a choice. Yes you are
right, but that intervention is a restriction of your life path.
Freewill taken from dictionary.com "The power of making free choices that are unconstrained by external circumstances or by an agency such as fate or
divine will."
So by that description, we don't have freewill if there are signs or signals from a higher force to an event.
edit on 24-3-2011 by JonoEnglish
because: (no reason given)
edit on 24-3-2011 by JonoEnglish because: My spelling needs intervention....hhhmmmph