2007-11-08 17:00:57 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No i don't. Even God Himself allows free will, who then can destroy it? Get your priorities straight!
2007-11-08 17:16:04 · answer #1 · answered by bEiNg DiScIpLiNeD 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Jim, this culture isn't developing, it's stagnating!"
The problem with utopias is, what do you do with the garbage? No matter how perfectly you integrate and harmonize every element of a civilization, there will be things that don't fit, that ruin the seal on the closed system.
An historian wrote a book, "The End of History", in response to the fall of Communism and the triumph of Capitalism, because he truly believed the end of war and nationalism was at hand. He now disavows his work, recognizing that human ignorance and injustice will keep history going indefinitely.
To make it truly work, people would have to agree, unanimously. Don't think of it as extinction of free will. Think of it as enhancement of free will, all humanity acting together with one mind and voice. Connectivity has its allure: far more knowledge and capability and less conflict than we have know. Of course it would be essential that everyone agree on what is true and what is right. We'd have to be virtually telepathic, but it would not feel like constriction or imprisonment. Rather, it would be a sensation of one vast mind, one "I", sensing everything, deciding everything. Some theologians say that's what heaven will actually be like. But short of actually experiencing it, I imagine a lot of people really hating the idea.
Aside from the irrational fear of the loss of "identity", there is another problem. The vaster the observer, the less there is to perceive. A perfectly functioning, closed-system society would soon lose its purpose. Consider a vacuum cleaner with a blockage. The motor actually turns faster, becomes more efficient, because there is no actual work to do. If life becomes an endless cycle of the same old perfect thing, it starts looking very pointless.
2007-11-09 01:30:16 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any kind of Utopian society is not possible. If it were, we wouldn't be here. The purpose of life in my opinion, is to ultimately experience perfection. Once this is achieved, there is no longer a purpose for living, we are liberated and have become perfect.
(a)heaven is not a society. Dictionary.com defines society as:"The totality of social relationships among humans."
"Heaven" is a place inhabited by spirits: spirits that don't have bodies are not human. They are simply pure spirit. Therefore there can be no society in heaven. It would be illegitimate, and not needed. Society is needed on when humans are required to work in consort to attain any and all goals.
And your question referencing the topic of free will is not germane; because we don't have free will as such; it's only a limited and much circumscribed will: in no way FREE.
Wotan
2007-11-09 01:22:35 · answer #3 · answered by Alberich 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. if free will is destroyed we'd be even more unhappy.
a utopian society will be born when we realise that capitalism is evil and communism is flawed. socialism and anarchy are the only societies that have been anywhere close to utopian. if anyone disagrees with me send me an e-mail and show me a TRUE SOCIALIST or TRUE ANARCHIST society that has not worked. the world has never known a true socialist society and anarchist states fall by the hands of governments and people who infiltrate it and destroy it and such small new societies cannot withstand such things. most new societies cannot withstand such pressures.
http://www.answers.com/topic/anarchism?cat=biz-fin
click the link and look under the political dictionary. anarchy is not "no rules do whatever you want"
2007-11-09 01:08:12 · answer #4 · answered by Dr. R PhD in Revolution 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Utopian society has not and never will be known to human beings. Free Will has nothing what ever to do with perfection. However, it may be possible for an individual to experience a bliss in their life depending on their willingness to never expect anything.
2007-11-09 01:07:01 · answer #5 · answered by yah_ra 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Totally, mankind is shallow and rebellious in nature, and not everyone will agree to be a part of some established preogram or way of thinking.
Besides as Susy said, when Evil in the world terminated, but "evil" is part of the free thinking, no human can say what is good or evil without a biased opinion.
2007-11-09 01:05:51 · answer #6 · answered by Edgard V 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Who the heck can answer such a question?
Do you really think you will get an accurate answer?
We won't know until it happens, IF it happens. So why bother asking?
2007-11-09 01:04:19 · answer #7 · answered by Somewhat Enlightened, the Parrot of Truth 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Free will as in choice. That sounds more like a place of robots but you don't have to look hard to see bits of heaven. Its all around us.
2007-11-09 01:08:02 · answer #8 · answered by Micha M 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Only if evil is destroyed. The day is coming soon when evil will be destroyed. Read the Holy Bible for the details.
2007-11-09 01:04:43 · answer #9 · answered by Sweet Suzy 777! 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The most potent thing a person can do is to give their will over to God, by their own volition.
2007-11-09 01:16:59 · answer #10 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋