06-26-2016, 05:02 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-26-2016, 05:35 AM by APeacefulWarrior.)
SilentRey, this might be a good time to ask yourself why you so strongly wish to believe you don't have free will. Even if that belief turned out to be false, isn't it better to believe that it's possible for you to better yourself, to grow and learn, and make better decisions in the future? It's very hard to be a strict determinist without that belief turning into a do-nothing fatalism which assumes there's no point in even trying to do better.
At the end of the day, the existence of free will (or not) is deeply unlikely to be rigorously PROVEN either way, at least not for a very long time to come. So why not believe in the side that leaves you more options for influencing your own life? Doesn't that offer more opportunities to find success and happiness? After all, pretty much everything in 3D life is heavily distorted - we're very unlikely to be "right" about many things philosophically related, either way.
(Or as Slartibartfast said in the Hitchhiker's Guide, "I think that the chances of finding out what's actually going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say 'Hang the sense of it,' and keep yourself busy. I'd much rather be happy than right any day.")
At the end of the day, the existence of free will (or not) is deeply unlikely to be rigorously PROVEN either way, at least not for a very long time to come. So why not believe in the side that leaves you more options for influencing your own life? Doesn't that offer more opportunities to find success and happiness? After all, pretty much everything in 3D life is heavily distorted - we're very unlikely to be "right" about many things philosophically related, either way.
(Or as Slartibartfast said in the Hitchhiker's Guide, "I think that the chances of finding out what's actually going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say 'Hang the sense of it,' and keep yourself busy. I'd much rather be happy than right any day.")