I am freely choose to put jam on my bread instead of lard!
No, you rather choose jam because you like the taste better. Don't agree? When did you freely decided that you will like the taste of the jam?
How do we have free will if we are not thinking?
If we can believe that the world is black and white, we just saved ourselves from a lots of thinking about other possibilities, planning (rather not planning) is much easier than playing through all the possible scenarios in our heads before decisions. We just follow the surface tendencies, which have the highest possibility to be right anyways.
Not a color
We shouldn't forget that the color white is not "a" color, it is all the colors together, and black is just the absence of light.
It might doesn't matter, but what if we all just dilute ourselves into unrealistic world views? What if we listen to people who will utilize our absence of knowledge for their own good? Can we realize that we are on the wrong path before it's too late? Or will somebody come later and manipulate us into a better future?
Will we blame somebody else or ourselves?
[...] the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
Steven Pressfield
Know yourself!
Are you really free? Is there any emotions driving you hidden inside? Maybe you can not notice at first but it is most probably the case.
I am preconditioned
Yeah, easy for me because my past experiences made me question everything, all the time. Not because I want it, it's just happens automatically. I must say that it is not easy at all. Thinking over and over about everything is very tiring. Still the only possible way to see a little clearer.
I might come a little off topic:) Think of this as a precondition for your future, to look inside before you make your "free decision"!
FOLLOW ME!
Free will is a complicated subject to understand. Thank you for making me think about it.
Upvoted and followed.
Thank you @deemarshall,
Yes it is complicated. A large amount of open mindedness is necessary just to question it. I'm thinking about it a lot:)
Aaah Freedom great subject.
For me, trying to understand everything is the real prison. It is endless.
And I discovered that it is what really prevents me from being in the present.
You got the right mindset already! :)
I don't like people in general, because they're all mostly like trees - you hit them with an axe and they fall...
And trees have no freedom at all - it's either they fall or don't =)
hmmm.... That is a very interesting analogy!
it's hard to understand without trying first =)
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