So can we say that our lives have already been determined for us?
I would like to say that I have free will, rather than saying I have no choice in my future at all. For at least in this cartoon, I would like to think the fish hopes so too. This sort of hope, or ideal way of perceiving life makes us optimistic that there is room for change. If we believe in determinism, I feel that we are much more prone to remaining guiltless and unambitious since our actions were supposed to happen anyway.
If we were to say that determinism is what truly dictates our lives, then what good can come out of it?
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HEY AIMEE!!!
While reading your blog, and just thinking about free will in general, it sort of dawned on me.
Now I could be wrong, but wouldn't this subject of free will only matter if we know the end? I mean, we don't know the end, it's still a mystery, we can assume that our actions are predetermined, and that's fine, but we can still make choices "freely" because that's the only way we understand it. Unless we actually know for sure where our actions will lead ultimately, then we can worry about free will.
The thought that God knows our end doesn't really confound free will, because WE still don't know. The knowledge of God depends on faith, and in a way the knowledge of free will also depends on it.
From a Christian standpoint, of course. But I think that Free Will only matters if you believe that something or someone knows your end.
But I don't even know if that made sense, hahah.
So true. I believe that no matter what we have to have some consequences to our actions. We have to be responsible for what we do right? If we aren't then the world can basically stop worrying and living because HEY it doesn't matter! Its all planned out. No free will = no responsibility and that what's going to happen is going to happen no matter what, so what's the point in caring?
totally repetitive. Sorry!
Poor fish!
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