Where exactly is your free will? Can you identify where it is real and where it is an illusion?

[Tony Kosinec- KabU Instructor]

Where exactly is your free will? Can you identify where it is real and where it is an illusion?

[Chris]

I am free to chose how I live my life. I believe its real when you understand how things should work the correct way and it’s an illusion when you think you know but you actually don’t.

[Shmuley]

If freewill has to do with us being different than a machine that is completely dependent of the person who manages it, yes, we have free will. We are free to give as well as to receive in order to give. To receive blessings to bless others.

On th eother hand, free will does not mean we are autonomous. We depend on our DNA, the way in which we have been brought up by our families, society, our HIgher Power, and the like.

[Rick Reed Sr]

Free will is in the choices of environment, associated groups, and desire. I can’t identify where it is real and where it is an illusion yet, however, I desire to.

[Shmuley]

If we interpret free will as us being apart of nature or our HIgher Power, that may seem to us as neing free. On the other hand we are subjected to our DNA, culture, nurture, and other aspects that shape our lives, our desires, and lives.

On the other hand, free will has more to do with our will to receive and to give. When we learn that we receive in order that we may give to others then we will learn that our reason to live is to receive to bestow, to be blessed to become a blessing to others. Then we will be free to give. That is our true freedom.

[Deb]

It was a surprise to me that everything I thought were freedom of choice decisions, were actually more predetermined. We have inherited DNA with certain qualities and predispositions, our childhood indoctrination and education. We perceive and act through our very programmed ego. I guess our free will comes as a choice to pursue a spiritual course in life versus just being stuck reacting to the stuff of this world.  We can start to recognize that there is more to life than just fulfilling desires and begin to ask the bigger questions about life.

[Mihaela]

I have always felt that an inner force pushes me towards knowledge and connection with the world in which we live. I think that free will is whether you choose to follow this force or not.

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