RE: In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus
May 16, 2025 at 8:03 pm
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2025 at 8:12 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Free will of a limited kind is a profound contradiction in terms. Limits are exactly what people skeptical of free will are talking about. Limit being a damned good antonym for freedom in the first place.
@John 6IX Breezy
I agree, and I genuinely enjoy agreements like these. There really is no good opposite for free will (fatalism would be, but for whatever good reason or no reason at all I'm physically incapable of believing or even conceiving of it being true, lol)- but that doesn't make determinism a good candidate. The whole point of compatibilism is that they may coexist. I like bioautomata...but hey, maybe plants freely will the things they do. For the record. I like the idea. I have the same experience of life as anyone else..minus a few really troubling months. I wouldn't wager someone else's life or wellbeing on my affinity for the idea or my personal experience of what seems to be so-and-so, is all. That's kind of my metric for everything.
@John 6IX Breezy
I agree, and I genuinely enjoy agreements like these. There really is no good opposite for free will (fatalism would be, but for whatever good reason or no reason at all I'm physically incapable of believing or even conceiving of it being true, lol)- but that doesn't make determinism a good candidate. The whole point of compatibilism is that they may coexist. I like bioautomata...but hey, maybe plants freely will the things they do. For the record. I like the idea. I have the same experience of life as anyone else..minus a few really troubling months. I wouldn't wager someone else's life or wellbeing on my affinity for the idea or my personal experience of what seems to be so-and-so, is all. That's kind of my metric for everything.
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