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I Don't Believe In Free Will

Free will is a social construct.

1. We didn’t ask to exist.
2. We didn’t choose our body, mind, the world, what it contains, or the raw materials we were born into and have to work with.
3. We are forced to adapt through reward and punishment. We are maneuvered through a promise of satisfaction and fear.
4. We are ONLY wanted and deemed worthy in this world if we are pleasing, productive, and harmless. If we are NOT there is something “wrong” with us, despite the fact we are all simply objectively different physically and in some desires and the desires of those in power become objective despite everyone’s desires and wishes being subjective to their preference.

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SomeMichGuy · M

hmmm

1) Not sure as I have no information about any existence I may have had prior to this.

2) Agree.

3) Do you refer to social conditioning?

4) I think this is where you have a lot of passion here, so I am guessing you are feeling rather maligned or dismissed or unnoticed or unappreciated be cause you don't fit into the standard boxes...? If you are in the US, it was noted long ago that it was seen as being ok to be eccentric in Europe in a way it often has not been here in the US. [Events since Nov. 2016 have escalated some aspects of conformity control.]

If your thesis is with regard to something other than the meaning of "free will" in religion, I would welcome more of what you are getting at.

With respect to the traditional meaning, it is all about choosing how you react to things which you often cannot control...choosing to do or not do something, regardless of pressures etc.

I am sorry you are not feeling as special as you are... 😣

Specialyouare · 36-40, F

1) You have to exist first before you can “ask” to exist, or ask for anything for that matter.

3) Yes, social conditioning and using the pleasing, productive, and harmless as the example.

4) Plain survival of the fittest, survival of the one that is found “convenient, submissive, and useful”.

5) Yes the traditional meaning is to choose from the options in front of us, where I’m getting at is that we didn’t choose these options or raw materials to work with in the first place, we were still forced to adapt and they want to trick us into thinking we are “free” when we are not.

Thank you for your kind comment 😊

SomeMichGuy · M

@Specialyouare well I was merely reading you Yoda-speak name lol

Specialyouare · 36-40, F

😊