2006-10-02 02:33:59 · 6 answers · asked by Mark 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I believe that we are a mixture of free will, nuturing, our genetic nature & influenced by others and also by how we take care of our bodies. We also have obligations or things that we precieve as obligations and that can taint our free will.
The fact that we can think & learn and make desicions means we have freedom of choice. Sometimes as humans we allow ourselves to be controlde by expectationa & obligations.,.........it is we ourselves then who hinder some of your free will.
In the end, we hopefully are wiser and stronger and able to push aside what others think we should be and be who we truely are.
Our freedom is as much free as we let it be and also is as much a binding rope around our neck if we never learn to be free.
2006-10-02 02:47:19 · answer #1 · answered by clcalifornia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are never free; we are born into slavery, and die that way. Free will is an illusion. Our lives are set, and most of us will not go very far from where we started.
2006-10-02 09:50:20 · answer #2 · answered by Bobby 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one is free you may think you are but your not
Government pulls our strings (well some of us) as we are the puppets ...... They will always control and keep that free will dangling taunting teasing, unless you know better and know its all a joke
2006-10-02 09:47:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being certain of only one philosophical viewpoint is another sign of a deceived mind and will.
2006-10-02 09:36:21 · answer #4 · answered by Rjmail 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely NOT!!! Unless you are a high powered government official or Oprah. In the end we will still be here to feed the machine.
2006-10-02 09:36:45 · answer #5 · answered by fiend4 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll show scripture and let God speak to this comments of yours rather than my opinion:
JER 10:23 I know, O LORD, that a man's life is not his own; it is not for man to direct his steps.
PR 16:9 In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
AC 17:24 "The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. 25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. 26 From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.
RO 9:14 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! 15 For he says to Moses,
"I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
RO 9:16 It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy. 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: "I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth." 18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
(Pretty obvious who's in control of whom eh?
2006-10-02 09:54:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋