Is there such thing as Free Will?
Determinism is a compelling argument, that each action that everything and everyone takes has a cause, and nothing is random. But that leaves no room for Free Will. And yet, if I was to stop deliberating options and performing what looks to me like Free Will, my life would look different, which can be explained by Determinism but so would the other path my life could have taken. Doesn't Determinism starts to sound like a new name for god?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.The reason I am a New Thought Christian is our belief that genetic, biological, societal and economic determinism can all be overcome through the development and implementation of our higher thought capacity a.k.a. "Higher Consciousness" or "Christ Consciousness" . We do however believe in meta-physical determination in that our purpose on earth is to overcome the physical forms of determination. We believe this was Rabbi Yeshua's (Jesus) actual message which was later drastically corrupted, and is still being misunderstood to this day.
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Sorry, @UnityBrad -- that sounds like more WOO relabeled. No matter how you cut it, you're appealing to the supernatural and that just doesn't cut it.
@evidentialist How is effective use of our pre-frontal cortex "magical" thinking? Of course Jesus didn't know what a pre-frontal cortex was but his message, if interpreted without Christian Denominational pre conceptions, is still valid, even if you do not believe that the Universe functions by a Foundational set of Laws (God). Either way the truth will set us free, and we will do greater works than Jesus performed (we already have). We are typing on the result of one of these greater works after all.
@UnityBrad -- Still sounds like a form of New Age Woo. Suppose you reduce the flowery rhetoric and put it into simple, straightforward, and plain English. That way someone (me, for example) might get your point.
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