[QUOTE="Buddha_basic"]Youre assuming you DONT have free will...? But you do. You dont have to do ANYthing if you dont want. You could sit and starve to death if you so choose.
And also, we argue and fight about things that we CHOOSE are important to us and our lives. Thats hardly wrong. Its also because we all are born with Ego's.
Kryptok
I agree that we have free will to do nothing, but we can't do EVERYthing that we may WANT to do.
And I wasnt born knowing my name, or what race I was, what was good or bad, what social class i was or who the president is or anything. I learned all of those things from other people.
All I am trying to say is that maybe it is time we start learning things on our own, using information that we know, and choosing the path that our own hearts lead us on, and not someone elses.
Well again, youre assuming that most people are NOT choosing the path that their hearts lead them on. And thats very subjective anyway. Your idea of a happy life could be very different from mine. Basically what i hear you saying is, lets all stop going down THAT road there, and all go down this one instead.And i think free will is defined a little too literally. By default life means nothing, because at the end of it you cease to live. The only way it gains meaning, is when we give it meaning, and define certain things to mean something to us. So i think its not free will to, for example, flap your arms adn be able to fly. Its free will to interpret/define what your life means to you.
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