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2007-12-18 10:27:44 · 11 answers · asked by ? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You wouldn't be a pagan.
2007-12-18 10:35:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is one of the better questions I have seen on this entire site, but I am not convinced it is "God" that has ordained the idea of free will. Free will is an inevitable outcome. If you look at what "free will" entails, it is about choices. If we were not given the ability to make choices, we would all be governed under the same traditions, customs, values, and beliefs (how boring!). Given the evolution of education and learning, people realize there are options and alternatives to being controlled and oppressed. On the grand scale and for the better, evolution becomes revolution when one's choices are taken away. For worse, your choices are taken away when your free will goes against society and culture. Interpret as you will...
2007-12-18 18:43:44 · answer #2 · answered by MeMeDaVinci 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Things would be exactly as they are now. Free will is not possible in a causal universe because every event and every behavior has antecedents. The perception of free will is a mental shortcut that allows us to think faster, often at the expense of rationality or objectivity.
2007-12-18 18:44:41 · answer #3 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If no one had any free will this would be one hell of a boring existence. no one would do anything spontaneaously or out of character. There'd be no surprises out there to peak one's interest, So I'd have to say absolutely nothing would happen that wasn't already planned. The univers would be 100% predictable, and BORING
Brightest Blessings,
Raji the Green Witch
2007-12-19 00:14:42 · answer #4 · answered by Raji the Green Witch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humanity would not have the ability to question and hence cease to make any progress. In other words we'd still be cave dwellers that don't have the wheel or fire. PEACE!
2007-12-18 18:34:39 · answer #5 · answered by thebigm57 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no free will, even by Christian standards. Its not free will to say "do as I say or be tortured for all eternity". Thats what slave masters say to their slaves to get them to obey.
2007-12-18 18:32:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The exact same thing that is happening now, because freewill is nonexistent.
2007-12-18 18:34:10 · answer #7 · answered by Madmax 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our love or rejection would not be freely given. We would be mindless robots.
2007-12-18 18:32:58 · answer #8 · answered by HAND 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He wouldn't damn people to Hell for eternity.
2007-12-18 18:30:44 · answer #9 · answered by 雅威的烤面包机 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We would be mindless puppets.
2007-12-18 18:35:31 · answer #10 · answered by Dan S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋