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- April 21, 2020 at 3:32 pm EDT #28654
KabUPartícipeI think I am “my own person,” but am I really making decisions about my life that are completely independent? Being the social creatures that we are, where is our free choice?
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- May 7, 2022 at 4:22 am EDT #288264David JPartícipe
No free will except the choice to correct or not
- November 9, 2021 at 1:26 am EST #187261zohrehPartícipe
We can never decide independently because we are dominated by genes, social networks and those around us, and the type of culture and upbringing and customs. Our choice is our reaction to currents outside of ourselves
- October 28, 2021 at 11:35 pm EDT #184550Jan KoonsPartícipe
It seems the only free choice I had or used, is who I want around me because of their decisions. As I became more aware I no longer agree with others decisions all the time and can actually form a decision on my own. Time will tell if they are a good one or not, but hey, I made it.
- July 23, 2021 at 8:54 pm EDT #58152SeraphimPartícipe
It is clear that I am not “my own person.” Nearly everything that has any relevance or importance in my life has already been predetermined: my gender, race, sex, age, level of intelligence, parents, family, place and time of birth, and, first and foremost, my mazal. The only salient feature of my life that I can really chose is my attitude and, by extension, the quality of my experience of all of the above parameters.
Just like Adam and Chavah in Gan Eden, they could not choose to be born anywhere but the garden, but what they could choose was whether to eat from the Tree of Life, or from the Tree of the Knowledge of the Things-I-Like and the Things-I-Dislike, which was really the same Tree: a mystical plant that the Creator has super-positioned “betokh ha-gan” (in quantum superposition) as both the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge. It was only our primordial parents’ attitude toward the non-dual, superpositioned Tree(s) that made the wave function collapsed, the outcome of which we are all to painfully familiar.
- April 20, 2021 at 2:11 am EDT #45072YanethPartícipe
Our free choice is in our environment this it’s affected by our surroundings which include family members, friends, colleagues, and friends inly when we choice to be in the right path we can be free of choice!!!
- March 2, 2021 at 6:30 am EST #41909JDFPartícipe
Environment = free will
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