are they choosing to not accept it? Or are they predestine to think this way?......lol
2007-11-01 12:29:12 · 17 answers · asked by . 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
dead: how is it that it makes sense to many but not you?
2007-11-01 12:33:22 · update #1
Did you see how simple Ninja put it? How hard is that to understand to those who insist I explain for their benefit? Now take what he said and expand it. Seems fairly simple to me. And I am sure it is to you as well if you WANT to accept it.
2007-11-01 12:48:14 · update #2
Mr. Danger: YOU are not lacking in comprehension only in agreement with opposing views. And that is not determined by your choice? Now make a choice to not be so smug and rude
2007-11-01 13:05:21 · update #3
It is extremely arrogant of anybody to assume that a concept that they can easily grasp can be just as easily be grasped by others.
Since freewill is apparently an easy concept for you to grasp ,would you care to explain it to others using terms that they too can easily grasp ?
Thank you for taking the time to do that
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But YOU haven't explained it to all of us yet which would lead me to believe that YOU don't grasp the concept as well as you would like all of us to believe you do.
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Sorry about the caps but we don't have an italics option
You can't bluff your way through this .You either understand it or you don't and if you don't then guess what? It's not as easy a cocept to grasp as you would like us all to believe it is .
Here's a piece of chalk , go to it
2007-11-01 12:39:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's hard to grasp concepts that don't make any sense.
The reason it doesn't make sense is that people make decisions based upon the conditions at the time of the decision. These conditions are beyond their control and precede from other conditions. There is simply no room for this imaginary concept of freedom.
If you ask a person why he made a particular "choice", he will always give some reason or he will say he doesn't know which is just another way of saying that the decision was either random or the result of conditions and forces of which he is not aware.
2007-11-01 19:31:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe we have free will, but the choices we make are determined by our personality and surroundings.
For example; I have the free will to choose not to work, however, since I am born in a world where I have to work to get paid, and since I like getting paid, I choose to do something I'd rather not do.
I guess it's a hard concept for some to grasp, because to them, the world is black and white, and everything is either this way or that way, never in between or in any combination.
2007-11-01 20:02:29 · answer #3 · answered by word 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I anxiously await Ethel's description of free will. Surely, Ethel will tell us what free will actually is, so we can see just how easy it is to grasp?
"I have never seen a single piece of evidence or good logic against determinism, and I fear I never will."
Seems that some occurrences in Quantum Mechanics are not deterministic. Whether that makes any difference in the Macro World of humans is the question.
2007-11-01 19:35:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I do not believe in free will.
Yes, by my view, I'm predestined to believe in it. You're also predestined to believe in it. It makes no matter, existance is so full of possibilities one would readily be able to accept the idea of free will.
Does that mean I'm willing to just sit by because all things are predestined? No. Well, unless I already am.
2007-11-01 19:43:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a hard time accepting the concept of free will when (most) of the same people are also going on about god's will. I just can't see a way to have both. If god is imposing his will you can not have completely free will.
2007-11-01 20:40:28 · answer #6 · answered by Gawdless Heathen 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Predestined to think that way. You're created by your DNA--the 'blueprints' that your body used to form itself, and the circumstances and events around you. That which made you what you are is also responsible for your thoughts, and thus your actions. I have never seen a single piece of evidence or good logic against determinism, and I fear I never will.
2007-11-01 19:34:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Freewill tends to counter that God is both "all knowing" and loving. It also begs the question as to why the choice is between good and evil - if I want someone to love me for me, I don't give them the choice between me and a horrible death. Along the same lines, if I knew my children were liable to fail, I would not put candy near them and tell them not to eat it.
2007-11-01 19:46:46 · answer #8 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's is quite easy to understand on its own.
But when you combine that with an omniscient being, you have a contradiction.
You can not have freewill, while at the same time having every action you will take known by "someone" else.
2007-11-01 19:34:52 · answer #9 · answered by Dark-River 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because they believe in predestination which means that they aren't actually having the free-will to chose, therefore making it hard for them to accept the fact that we have free-will.
I have thought about this a lot, I think that to God it is pre-determined but to us it is free-will. Because we don't know what is going to happen so we have the free-will to chose, God does know what is going to happen so it is predestination. . if that makes sense.
2007-11-01 19:35:30 · answer #10 · answered by PUREfect Your Skin 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋