(August 18, 2015 at 12:24 pm)msid Wrote:(August 18, 2015 at 12:21 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: There is pretty good evidence that our "choices" are actually an illusion. Your brain, on the quantum level, is a machine which operates by certain parameters. There is evidence that everything you do is inevitable.
then this whole conversation is just being typed out by some other force that is controlling our lives so if that is true then there is really nothing we can do about that and our lives would have no meaning
That really doesn't follow.
In any case, I'm still interested to hear all about the free will of the Amalekite children. Or better yet -- tell me about the free will of the child in Minimalist's post. Your god helped your family find an affordable fucking car but orders his 'people' to smash the heads of infants against the stones and won't lift a finger to help an innocent in dire need? And you worship this monster? Interesting.
Fortunately for all of us, there is no evidence for the existence of this 'god' aside from his being the main character in an old collection of books -- your confirmation bias regarding prayer results notwithstanding.
