@Donotbelieve I thank you and have chosen to make an exception in your case !!
You lucky girl !!! or should they be question marks ?

@Donotbelieve Ithink you realise that wasn't what I was questioning .

@Donotbelieve LMAO

@irascible I know I come from the UK . I was born and bred here .... A common expression .

@ReBrew2115, I often worry about the direction humanity is going as awhole--especially in concerns to the environment. We're destroying everything and I wonder how much more we can destroy before we cause a worldwide disaster and everyone faces the threats of starvation, disease, pollution, etc. And being a college kid, I stress out about money a lot because I'm paying for everything entirely by myself without student loans and a lot of the time I barley squeak by as far as paying for tuition, books, food, and housing goes.

@Mea Understandable. Those are all reasonable things to be afraid of. I would be if I were in the same position. I've always dealt with a fear of the end of the world but it didn't really get driven home for me until I saw "Interstellar" which depicted the outcome of severe climate change very accurately. It was disturbing to me and even more disturbing was the bleak outlook for life on the planet. But... I like to think that science will find a way. That people will change. And hopefully, it won't be too late.

That's one of my favorite movies!

@Mea I love Christopher Nolan in general, but I thought Interstellar was one of his best.

Why don't you think it exists?

@Mea The Dilemma of Determinism demonstrates through logic that it isn't real. It narrows the possibilities to how we make choices down to two options: Determinism and Indeterminism. Determinism is the idea that our choices follow a causal relationship and that everything that has happened in our past and our environment informs us completely of what choices we make. In other words, your choices are 'determined' by something. As you can see, this option doesn't give you free will. So what about its opposite, Indeterminism? Now Indeterminism is the idea that our choices are completely random. Nothing determines your choices in this option. But that doesn't amount to free will either because it's as if you're rolling dice to make decisions. Randomness by its very nature defies any sort of control including our own. So there you have it. Your options are either Determinism or Indeterminism and neither give you free will. All the possibilities have been exhausted with these two options.

@MrControversy I enjoy playing devil's advocate so I've spent almost the last hour trying to think my way around those categories. I can't say that I expected to wakeup this morning and realize that I don't actually have free will, but that logic is sound. I do have a follow up question for you though, do you believe people's actions have meaning?

@Mea I guess I would follow up with this. There is a way of thinking about that makes it not seem so scary. I reckon that most people will still go about their lives as though they do have free will. So then it led me to ask the question 'why is free will do important to us?' and I realized that it's because it is a means to an end. It's how we get the things we want. Let's say that every decision we made led to an undesirable consequence. I doubt we would feel very free at all under those circumstances. So I thought maybe free will is more of an external thing. The more doors that are open to getting what we want, the more free we are in that sense. Also I realized that I can't judge folks that still believe in free will because they might not have the free will to believe in otherwise. We live as though we do have it. It's a kind of poetry. The only thing we have to adjust with all of this is the correctional system. Make it strictly about containment and rehabilitation rather than revenge. Because if there's no free will then ultimately nobody is responsible for their actions. We just can only keep them away from society for safety reasons and make an attempt to rehabilitate the prisoner if his crime is minor.

I'm sorry, that's no doubt a difficult situation to be in. Baby steps are always good, so the fact that you do recognize there is an issue can be very significant in finding help and making the changes in your life that you'd like to see.

@Mea Yes. I am definitely working hard on pushing past that hard truth. But I am my own worst enemy. A nemesis of myself, if you will.

I'm pretty certain they will kill us off first

We probably actually NEED “the rich” here in the USA - they at least keep us free of being dominated by some Islamo rich KOOKS!

I’ll take the devil I DO know!

@LeighShelton, out of fear or comfort? I agree that ignoring anything for too long can cause problems, but always fretting over something, especially something you may not be able to control, can be draining.

I don't fret or worry about things I can't control as it only hurts me and helps nobody. it won't go away sticking your head in the sand either.

I'm interested in hearing individuals' truths. This question is in regards to the same. Your truth is the only aplicable truth you can answer for.

“Elvis” should have taught you this...