I set out to write a blog not to preach but to talk about life as I see it. So, despite the title above being about free will, this is my view alone.
Free will... The ability to make a decision on your own and say yes, this is what I want to do. If you haven't watched the Adjustment Bureau, this would be the moment to do so. Forget for the moment the love story and explore what the concept of free will versus someone of a higher power controlling you is. Frankly I agree with the story line, free will did give us the dark ages and the world wars.
Free will gives us the choice to be good or choose an evil path. Sometimes the choice is blurred, other factors cloud the judgement so the right choice is not always clear. I discovered recently that there even exists a word for when every choice you make in a situation is going to be a bad one - Zugzwang.
Because you can't control the free will of others, bad things happen to you without you even having a say in it but also moments of happiness, bliss. Because you have free will, you also can (even without trying, just by ignoring other people's free will) make choices that hurt an entirely innoccent party (as a sort of knock on effect) and destroy what would have been a great friendship. These things I have learned the hard way.
But, faith in a higher being has given me hope for the future that one day, this burden of free will is going to be easier. That my choices in future won't affect other people in a bad way.
To those I have, I am sorry.
Free will... The ability to make a decision on your own and say yes, this is what I want to do. If you haven't watched the Adjustment Bureau, this would be the moment to do so. Forget for the moment the love story and explore what the concept of free will versus someone of a higher power controlling you is. Frankly I agree with the story line, free will did give us the dark ages and the world wars.
Free will gives us the choice to be good or choose an evil path. Sometimes the choice is blurred, other factors cloud the judgement so the right choice is not always clear. I discovered recently that there even exists a word for when every choice you make in a situation is going to be a bad one - Zugzwang.
Because you can't control the free will of others, bad things happen to you without you even having a say in it but also moments of happiness, bliss. Because you have free will, you also can (even without trying, just by ignoring other people's free will) make choices that hurt an entirely innoccent party (as a sort of knock on effect) and destroy what would have been a great friendship. These things I have learned the hard way.
But, faith in a higher being has given me hope for the future that one day, this burden of free will is going to be easier. That my choices in future won't affect other people in a bad way.
To those I have, I am sorry.
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