God's sacrifice

[Edwardo Piet]

So I am not free to type whatever I desire to type... there is some sort of greater force out there that knows everything I will type, in every instance?

You might type, you might not. Whatever you are doing you are just doing, mechanically. If you believe you have a free choice in the matter, that doesn't make it so.

You are either typing or not typing. Whether you decide or not is your brain doing the work. Don't separate your 'self' from your brain. Your 'self', "you" are your brain, unless you believe in souls or something.

You can't control your brain, because your brain is the part of you that does the controling. I know no evidence of a part of your brain that does all the commanding, and then in return is somehow not influenced by anything else, as if somehow exempt from usual physical law. I see no reason to believe that your choices, my choices, anyone or any thing's choices, are "free."

The sun is special because it generates heat and light... but it is true that everything is valueless without something to appreciate it (Which makes life special, because unlike rocks: the living can appreciate the universe)

It makes life special to those who appreciate it. There is nothing objectively special, so some may not appreciate it. With some it may even be quite the opposite. Some people even kill themselves for instance. So it is subjective. And the fact some appreciate it doesn't make it any way special in an objective way, because that's just your subjective opinion

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