Liberals are all mind-melded with one or more demons. They don’t have free will. These shrinks probably get their test subjects from that pool.
There are those who think that life has nothing left to chance
A host of holy horrors to direct our aimless dance
A planet of playthings, we dance on the strings of powers we cannot perceive
The stars aren’t aligned or the Gods are malign, blame is better to give than receive
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that’s clear, I will choose Freewill
There are those who think that they were dealt a losing hand
The cards were stacked against them they weren’t born in Lotus Land
All preordained, a prisoner in chains, a victim of venomous fate
Kicked in the face, you can pray for a place, in heaven’s unearthly estate
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that’s clear, I will choose Freewill
Each of us, a cell of awareness, imperfect and incomplete
Genetic blends with uncertain ends on a fortune hunt that’s far too fleet
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that’s clear, I will choose Freewill
To paraphrase Bill Clinton, it depends on the definition of free will.
I don’t anyone really disbelieves in free will, even those that insist that it doesn’t exist. Otherwise, why would they choose to bother, about anything?
Maybe they mean that no one other then them has free will. That’s a bit sociopathic, though.
A couple of decades ago they tried to sell the idea that you only have a finite amount of self control so you should never restrain yourself because then you would not have any left should you need it.
It was nonsense of course. Self denial actually expands the amount of self control you have but people wanted an excuse to indulge their bad behavior.
We have free will. We can make choices that are not based solely on the attractiveness of a desirable object, but based on other considerations such as the possible effects on another person, or ourselves, or the collectivity.
The left is passionate about denying free will, because then they will be able to justify NOT punishing criminals for their actions and allow them to do whatever they want.
They sit starring at their monitors ever fearful they must publish something, anything to keep the grant money coming.
Shrinks still use ECT and also use a plethora of other pharmacology that creates irreversible brain damage, thus the armies of homeless. Also all insane mass shooters, family destroyers and other are on psych drugs. Psychiatrists are experts only in destruction. Of course they would say that all behavior is biochemical. It’s self serving claptrap.
Dualist view: the mind has free will. It can unconsciously choose whether to think on a conceptual level, or not think and stay concrete bound, Once the mind chooses, the brain follows.
Mark
There is no maverick molecule in the universe. If there were, then God isn’t sovereign. Therefore, he wouldn’t be God.
— RC Sproul
the 10 commandments are the boundaries of free will...
The existence of conscious free-will is more certain and obvious than the existence of the material world. While I think both exist, it is epistemically possible that the sensory input I get is illusionary and there is nothing like the material world. However, as pointed out by Descartes and others: Cogito Ergo Sum.
Free from what?
Greedy schmuck.
It's self-appointed willfulness intended to steal and destroy your life under the guise of a presumed super-knowledge. One pesky problem: they really don't like being subject to a popular vote. They have a political conundrum because we are distinct from animals. This professional "we" has already concluded that we are democratically outnumbered by insects and microorganisms. Saving themselves, some kind of intellectual holism draws the circle a little smaller--to exclude bothersome data--in order to lays claims to a secret "we" that has special access to a scientific teleology. "One thing is clear: we are not there yet." Now that's the new humility!
Our present system [in the Soviet Union] is unique in world history, because over and above its physical and economic constraints, it demands of us total surrender of our souls, continuous and active participation in the general, conscious lie. To this putrefaction of the soul, this spiritual enslavement, human beings who wish to be human cannot consent. When Caesar, having exacted what is Caesar's, demands still more insistently that we render unto him what is God's — that is a sacrifice we dare not make!The most important part of our freedom, inner freedom, is always subject to our will. If we surrender it to corruption, we do not deserve to be called human.--Solzhenitsyn, From Under the Rubble