Who says we have free will?
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Nice answer. You could have at least attempted.
Horrible.... just horrible....
Was that response directed toward my comment? I can't tell because you didn't use the quote function.
Let's suppose it is because you seem to have an affinity for making posts on my comments.
What is horrible about what I said? Usually people would give their impression of their thoughts with more then just feelings. If you think that is a crappy reason for thinking we have free will, then example why you think it is wrong. Remember what your kindergarten teachers would probably say to you,
"Use your words"
Obviously some sort of action must be taken and we must act with certainty even if we do not have it 100%. If anything, this idea should enable people to act more confidently with less certainty. Certainty is non-existent. Furthermore, it can be quite depressing.
But you use this word "judging." Judging is a natural human response. My problem is people get stuck on their judgments and fail to realize everything they see is different from what they're judging it to be, even if only slightly. When you judge, realize its a judgement and does not reflect the essence of what you are actually perceiving. In other words let go of this notion that you have it all figured out, or that you have anything figured out.
This idea is as old as Socrates. He's probably been the most fundamentally ignored philosopher of all time considering how long his teachings have been around and how blatantly people have continued to think oppositely, clinging to certainty with such ferocity at times you wonder who they're trying to convince.
Separate your beliefs from your actions. Realize your actions are a result of your judgments calls in the moment while your beliefs are based on non-existent hypothetical situations you will never actually experience. Just because things are similar does not make them the same. Allowing the world and your actions to exist independent of your mind's world-structure and belief system enables you to see things more clearly and vibrantly and liberates you from unnecessary weight.
It's not certainty. It's prediction. Probability maybe. Certainty makes it sound to definitive.
Eh, everyone's risk/reward system is different. I don't know, I kind of find uncertainty amusing. I should play the lotto more often.
Well why can't one perceive the essence of what one is judging? Is a hot stove not actually hot?
I like Aristotle better.
Your beliefs guide your actions because we all have an ultimate end (our belief in what is best) and all our actions aim at this end. It's called eudiamonia.
If it shows all the properties of a duck, show all the properties of reacting to a duck.
:)
Everyone has free will, just some things people do have consequences. So if you wanted, you could go and murder everyone in sight just no one does, because the law wouldn't be too happy and would bang you away in a cell for the rest of your life ;)
Oh, so because some things we do have consequences (everything does btw) we therefore have free will !!!!
Wait.... I have a feeling that makes NO SENSE WHAT-SO-FUCKING EVER.