I will choose a path that’s clear.
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice
Freewill
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=urBpdyFCZmo&pp=ygUOZnJlZSB3aWxsIHJ1c2g%3D
Hey Stupid,
Me calling you stupid was a choice, free will at work, got it?
Thinking themselves wise, they become fools.
Yeah? Well, He’s an idiot
A person can become a new creature. In fact, they can become born again.
I read this and got a headache.
That was not my freewill so...he must be right?
Is that so?! He’s not God or a god!
People know what lies are, but they believe them anyway. And when some one writes a book saying that is OK, you can be assured that the book will get lots of press.
I can argue both sides of this debate.
My first question would be; We know placebo’s work. How do they work if consciousness does not influence the final result?
Our free will is limited to the attributes available at the level or frequency of consciousness that we have attained.
The abuse of Science to try and ease the guilt of sin, will not work. It will still be there under all the lies.
Yeah. But judging people for right wing views is still allowed
In all my reading and listening to various religions’ viewpoints, I only recall one woman saying God made a mistake when he allowed free will.
I mutter so many times “well, thanks to free will——
that serial killer abducted little children”
“those knockout game teens got away with it again—witnesses shut up”
or “the man who pushed the woman onto the subway tracks to get killed ran away.”
The human race commit so much evil they are again as in the time of Noah. IMO
A priest who wrote a book about his experiences as one of the hundreds of exorcists said the average person got the wrong idea from such things as the movie The Exorcist. “They think the power of Satan is overwhelmingly enormous and strong and an equal opponent to the goodness of God. But Satan is a small part of God’s creation and nowhere near being equal.”
Hope he was right.
Starting around 1965, the favored explanations began to change radically. A person’s environment was considered less and less important in causing his behavior.Just as with Freudianism, behaviorism’s main idea was counterintuitive (that is, it ran against common sense). The behaviorists insisted that all of a person’s behavior was determined only by his lifelong history of rewards and punishments. Actions that had been rewarded (a smile, for example, that had brought a caress) were likely to be repeated, and actions that had been punished were likely to be suppressed. And that was it.
So he is a Calvinist?
"they can't help themselves".....
Why call it ‘free will’?
Call it, ‘understanding the difference between right or wrong’. When it comes to right or wrong, most people know the difference. Most people will choose to do right and to elect to do the right thing when other choices do not agree with their consciences. Those that do not will either get punishment or will be shunned.
Simple enough.
I tend to agree.
The human body and brain (which we were born with and had no choice in the matter) is a system that responds to stimuli. We are very similar in many respect so we tend to have similar responses and make similar choices. But we are also different and unique in other respects and as a result may at times end up making different decisions. Our choices are driven by our pursuit of of what we THINK will make us happy.
I think free will is an illusion.
But if that is so, then why do we feel we can hold people “responsible” for their choices and actions, if they had no control over their choices. And how do we then justify “punishing” someone for a “crime”?
Stanford neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky, of his own free will, wrote a book denying humans have free will, and is now pimping that book for sales.
It's not that people don't have free will, it's that many are conditioned, especially from birth, to think without it. That conditioned thought is then reinforced constantly throughout their lives lest they break free.
“Neurobiologists investigate the structure, function, development, and pathology of the nervous system at different levels, ranging from molecules and cells to entire neural circuits and systems.”
I would consider this guy the same as a carpenter because he studies the physical parts of the house and how they work. But I won’t ask him what the brain says to them.
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