Yāknow, the more I think about free will as a religous concept, the more Iām convinced itās supposed to be an allegory for how to treat others, like a more convoluted Golden Rule. The source was shifted to āGodā simply to make the garbage people that donāt normally care about others hesitate before they just ignore othersā advice on how to treat people.
The reasoning is pretty simple: Nobody can actually do anything they want because others will interfere. Individuals restrict othersā freedom all the time. If youāre restricting others freedoms, youāre doing an even worse version of judging others. The Bible pretty clearly says to leave such critical stuff that idiots can screw up in Godās hands, because idiots can and will screw it up.
Same with free will. Peoplesā freedom is, according to religous teachings, a gift from God. They describe such things as āfrom Godā solely because idiots respect their flavor of Sky Daddy over other human beings.
If itās actually a gift from God, then it makes little sense that humans can simply remove a gift an all-powerful diety bestows. Soā¦ either historic humans are insanely stupid and bad at logic ā¦ or itās actually an allegory for not trying to control others so much.
So Andy Weirās āThe Eggā. Itās a good philosophy.
My concept of free will and determinism is that there are both in a way. What we see manifest at our level as free will is at its core determinism, driven by how the environment has evolved our personality to react and think about things. When asked to think of a color we quickly come up with a choice, made by either a preference for or a recent memory of, yet if asked when we actually chose that color at the thinking level we canāt find a single point where there were others to pick from, we just ācame up with itā. Our free will is a conglomeration of things beyond our control.
Thatās pretty much exactly why I think itās more about a lesson on how to treat others. Humans fundamentally believe theyāre free to choose things, regardless of their religious affiliation. We always tell ourselves we want this and that, and decided x and y, etc. Regardless of the reality of free will, we all think we have it.
The only genuine purpose of saying Free Will is a gift from God I can think of is simply to make the dummies that want to force behavior on others hesitate about stepping on āGodās domainā.
Yāknow, the more I think about free will as a religous concept, the more Iām convinced itās supposed to be an allegory for how to treat others, like a more convoluted Golden Rule. The source was shifted to āGodā simply to make the garbage people that donāt normally care about others hesitate before they just ignore othersā advice on how to treat people.
The reasoning is pretty simple: Nobody can actually do anything they want because others will interfere. Individuals restrict othersā freedom all the time. If youāre restricting others freedoms, youāre doing an even worse version of judging others. The Bible pretty clearly says to leave such critical stuff that idiots can screw up in Godās hands, because idiots can and will screw it up.
Same with free will. Peoplesā freedom is, according to religous teachings, a gift from God. They describe such things as āfrom Godā solely because idiots respect their flavor of Sky Daddy over other human beings.
If itās actually a gift from God, then it makes little sense that humans can simply remove a gift an all-powerful diety bestows. Soā¦ either historic humans are insanely stupid and bad at logic ā¦ or itās actually an allegory for not trying to control others so much.
So Andy Weirās āThe Eggā. Itās a good philosophy.
My concept of free will and determinism is that there are both in a way. What we see manifest at our level as free will is at its core determinism, driven by how the environment has evolved our personality to react and think about things. When asked to think of a color we quickly come up with a choice, made by either a preference for or a recent memory of, yet if asked when we actually chose that color at the thinking level we canāt find a single point where there were others to pick from, we just ācame up with itā. Our free will is a conglomeration of things beyond our control.
Thatās pretty much exactly why I think itās more about a lesson on how to treat others. Humans fundamentally believe theyāre free to choose things, regardless of their religious affiliation. We always tell ourselves we want this and that, and decided x and y, etc. Regardless of the reality of free will, we all think we have it.
The only genuine purpose of saying Free Will is a gift from God I can think of is simply to make the dummies that want to force behavior on others hesitate about stepping on āGodās domainā.