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Do you believe in free will? Feel free to leave an explanation!

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CuNguyen 5 June 6
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If the opposite is strict predestination, then I do, yes.

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My vote is not here... It is irrelivent at this point in SpaceTime

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There isn't an alternative that fits my belief. I think we have limited free will. By that I mean that choices have consequences. Those consequences will involve a new environment in which there is not an unlimited number of behavioral choices. My choices will be limited. Then which of those choices I make will establish the next set of choices.
To make this more concrete, let's say my boss yells at me in front of a lot of people at work. I get angry. I have a number of possible responses.I could quit. I could go in and yell back and get fired. I could just keep my head down and keep working there. If I quit, then I have to decide what I'm going to do for work. If I get three offers of new jobs, then I can choose one of them or none of them, but I can't choose a job that has not been offered to me.
So I would say that we do have choices, but those choices are not unlimited -- which it seems to me that some people mean by 'free will'. We can, to some extent steer our futures so that certain alternatives become available, but if I don't choose to become a parent, for example, I don't have the same life choices as someone who does become a parent.

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My feeling is, we can't control what happens to us or what other people do. But we can control how we respond.

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Thats a tricky one to answer. Yes i feel will is free at the instant we choose to use it. But is it predetermined, that this will be the decision you will come to anyway; Based on the potential of everything that ever was, is how it is right now, everything in an infinite variable future has already happened. Combined with everything that is now, in the past and also in your infinitely probable future, being 100% tied to this specific moment and course your perceived freedom of choice has brought you to. I have had experiences that say to me, what is coming towards us cannot be avoided, it can be changed but the effect it will have on us, will be identical to what ever it is that occurs. I don't want to expand on that too much, but i have had experiences that say the future has already happened on a different plane so to speak , i just haven't got there yet on this one .

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My opinion depends upon what you mean by "free will".

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