Do you believe in free will?

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Hey guys, I'm Catholic

Hi. Are you a dirty one?

but I enjoy talking with people of other view points and I'm just looking to learn a little bit about some of your ideas so help me out if you would please.

That's great. Just keep and open mind and don't turn troll. Kthnx.

I'm just looking to get some insights as to how most of you feel about free will and how exactly it fits into the materialist world view.

Let me tell you a little secret. Most of us aren't satanists. I think you must have read the Satanist Bible, and in the introduction it does say satanism is very involved with materialism, but atheism (what most of us are) isn't.

If we are composed of nothing other than matter then doesn't that mean all that we are as humans is a bunch of chemicals and particles being governed by physical laws?

Well, that really depends on what type of free will we are talking about. Are you talking about my ability to choose with colour I like best or how I'm affected by gravity without choice?

It seems like that is the only option if materialism is true, however it just doesn't seem like that explanation fits in with the universal experience of free will. I mean if an object is dropped it must necessarily fall to the ground because of gravity. But there is no physical law that makes it necessary for me to post on this forum, it seems like I freely chose to do it myself.

And that's the difference. If you jump, you will fall. If you don't want to post on here, you don't have to. We are governed by physical laws to an extent. It's the same if you believe in God. It's not going to change the fact that gravity keeps you on Earth.