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It is quite insane to
believe human beings have a free
will. Well perhaps
insane is not the right word. Is it
insane in this day and age to
believe the
world is flat?, or that the Sun
revolves around the Earth? Well if
it is, then
people who believe we have free
wills are insane, but I'd prefer to
refer to
them as simply being stupid.
Oh, that's not to say I blame
them for their stupidity. Of course
not, for
since everything is predetermined,
noone has a say over how intelligent
or
stupid one is. In fact there seems
to be a certain advantage in their
maintaining their stupid insistence
that they have free wills. Its kind
of
like how little kids prefer to
believe there really is a Santa
Claus, and it
really is kind of cruel to try to
ruin their pleasant delusion.
Funny, how we
have an institution called Christmas
that has as one of its major aspects
the
perpetuation of delusion in our
young ones.
Anyway, I don't mean to spoil
your pleasure if you believe you
have a free
will. I would like to understand
why this belief is so important to
you. I
mean, it really is a kind of
arrogance, like the belief once held
by many
people that the Earth is the center
of the Universe.
But, really, we have a situation
where about 99.99999% of the human
population
is suffering under the delusion that
what we think and feel and say and
do is
under our control. Of course, if
this were really the case then we
would all
be very intelligent and successful
and happy, etc. all of the time.
Oh, right, some of you deluded
souls would be quick to plead "we
don't have
full control, but we do have some
control!" Right. Like a rock has
some
control over its flight as its
thrown.
So who can we blame for having
most of us suffer under the delusion
that we
humans have a free will? Certainly
we can't blame God, because His will
is
just as predetermined as is ours.
In other words, just as all of our
thoughts
and acts originate in the eternal
past, so do God's.
Now some of your religious
Neanderthals might scream at this
point "hey, but
God is omnipotent, all powerful...He
can do whatever He wants. Oh
really? I'm
sure you've heard the question that
asks; if God is all powerful, can He
create
a rock so big that even He can't
lift it? Hum....My question would
be could
God destroy Himself. Of course if
He could that would end all claims
to His
being Eternal.
But we have strayed. Mankind is
at present suffering from a
collective
delusion that we have free will, and
its really sad because it sets rich
against poor, black against white,
tall against short, stupid against
intelligent, Americans against most
of the rest of the world, etc. etc,
etc.
I mean, were humankind to get
over our collective insanity, we
would recognize
that whatever is dividing us is
really what we should be fighting,
not
ourselves. But enough of the
political sermonizing.
Here's some religious
sermonizing. Religion is about
getting back to God.
Somehow it appears that we, more so
than, it seems, all of the other
species of
life on the planet, have strayed
from what we arrogantly refer to in
lower life
forms as instinct- namely a really
strong bond with God, or
intelligence, or
whatever it suits you to call Him
or it. I mean when we believe we
have a
will separate from Gods' we by this
act separate ourselves from Him.
But its not our fault of course!
I mean, if we really had free will
we would
will our selves not to make mistakes
like believing we have free wills.
Wanna know my take on it? well I
think alot of guys refuse to
understand that
free will is a myth because they
don't want to offend the women, who,
don't
seem to be able to accept this truth
as readily as do men. Mind you, I'm
not
knocking women.. they do seem to
have a keener instinct, or intuition
than we
do, but this isn't about that. I
mean, I think that when a guy tries
to
explain to a woman that free will is
impossible, a woman will begin to
think
"well that means nothing we do
matters, and she'll get all teary
eyed and the
guy, in order to keep getting laid,
perhaps, will say "oh no, Im just
kidding... we do have free wills,
and what we do does matter, lets' go
to bed."
And that would be that.
Again, I do love women, but it
seems we men have been in the
thinking game a lot
longer than they have so
understanding the impossibility of
free will would
come easier to us. Just as
understanding what a crying child
wants would, of
course, come easier to most women.
Please don't accuse me of
generalizing,
because the whole of psychology,
sociology, anthropology, etc is
based on
generalizing. Of course there are
exceptions, but thats besides the
point.
Anyway, wanna know what mankind's
next leap of consciousness will be?
You
guessed it,... we will all someday
overcome the delusion of free will
and live
much more happy and healthy lives as
a result. Well, I really am just
guessing. It could be that we
continue to retain our delusion of
free will and
continue blaming ourselves and each
other for everything, and sooner or
later
we will just all destroy ourselves
and everyone else. Problem solved.
Death. I don't mean to change
the subject, but whats all this
dislike of death
about? I mean, presumably we are
dead, or at least not alive, into
the eternal
past, and once we die, we'll remain
dead into the eternal future. so
does it
really matter if we live or die?
No. Reincarnation? Seems like
another
story, like Adam and Eve, etc.
Maybe we do reincarnate, but why
would it have
to be on this planet. There's an
eternity of space out there to
explore.
I do digress. Free will, the
ultimate delusion. Mother nature
does love her
deception. She causes us to believe
the earth is flat, and here's
another one.
If you were to have asked someone
last century whether or not our
world was in
motion they would have considered
you insane for asking. I mean, do
you feel
the earth moving they would say with
consummate arrogance and stupidity.
Of
course we now know that our earth is
hurtling through space , along with
the
rest of our galaxy at the rate of
millions of miles per hour, ( or
something
like that). Yes mother nature does
love her deceptions.
Unfortunately 99.99999% of us are
not intelligent to understand that
free will
is impossible and I'm not
intelligent enough to know how to
get them to
understand this truth. I mean,
imagine trying to tell a two year
old that
Santa is just a figment of his
little imagination. Waaaahhh. He
is too
real... he is too real. Hard to
reason with that.
On to Christians, Jews, Moslems,
Buddhists, and Hindus. A good bunch
of people
generally speaking, leaving aside
the inquisition, etc., but really
they have
done a really good job in
perpetuating morals and values that,
unfortunately
our present day world doesn't like
to abide by much any more. But,
alongside
all of the good they have done, and
continue to do, aside from scaring
people
with the threat of eternal damnation
if they don't agree with them, the
unfortunate thing about this lot is
that they prefer delusion to reason.
I
mean they are like perpetual two
year olds clinging to their belief
in Santa
Claus. You can't reason with them,
so they maintain their delusion and
the
world stays in a state of blame.
They probably will get the
Armageddon their hoping for, if for
no other reason
than so they can say, I told you so.
Well. if the world stays stuck to
its
delusion that we have free wills and
are therefore quite right in
attributing
cause, and blame, and punishment,
etc. on ourselves and each other, I
don't
have the power to stop it.
I mean, if I did, I would. If I
were God, I'd do away with this
whole pain
thing. I mean, who needs it. Of
course some stupid masochist will
argue- but
you cant have pleasure without pain,
its impossible. Hah. It's just as
possible to spend your entire life
in the sunlight and never experience
darkness as it is possible to have
pleasure without feeling the pain.
Pain and pleasure really is what
its all about, but that is another
story.
Free will, what a concept. I chose
to eat vanilla ice cream instead of
chocolate. Oh really, and did you
also decide to prefer the taste of
vanilla
to chocolate. No, I'm not going to
get into explaining the logic of why
free
will is impossible. If people are
too stupid, or brainwashed to
understand,
that's the way it will have to be.
There is, again, a price to be paid
for
that, but that too is another story.
Have you tired of reading this
stuff yet. If what I've written
seems
unpleasant to you, you might want to
ask yourself why you keep reading.
Well,
you keep reading because something
inside you is causing you to do so.
Actually, I'm getting tired of
writing this stuff. It would be so
much easier
if humankind just acknowledged that
this planet Earth has really never
been
very friendly to us. How about we
all put our heads together, think
really
hard, and blow it to smithereens
thereby freeing our souls to explore
more
pleasant parts of the universe. I
hear Venus is pretty cool.
I'm serious. It could be that we
just choose, there's that word again,
we were
compelled to choose this planet as
our home to our disadvantage. Kind
of like
we took a wrong turn. Well, maybe
our religious friends got the part
about
Earth finally becoming a paradise
right and all will turn out well in
the end.
Which reminds me. People are
fond of saying you can't have
pleasure without
pain while in the same breath
extolling the virtues of a Heaven
that is
pleasant beyond pleasure. You mean
on Earth you can't have pleasure
without
pain, but in heaven you can. Oh.
Maybe you can explain that one for
me.
Free will. The ultimate
delusion. My fate is so
predetermined that as much as
I try to stay on subject I keep
veering. Of course, if I
really
had a free
will, I would think only pleasant
thoughts and probably not bother
with the
internet much, but so it is. Oh
yeah, some people say "we don't
have total
free will, but we do have some free
will. Of course, if these people
bothered
to think about it for more than five
seconds they would realize how
impossible
it is to have a "partial free
will."' Again, I won't try to
explain, because I
know them well enough to know they
won't try to think.
Time. OK I'll try to explain it
somewhat. What makes free will
impossible is
that ever pervasive entity known as
Time, or to physicists as
Space-time. Now
when Einstein demonstrated
relativity and the curvature of
space and time, we
must realize he was referring to
these entities in a relative sense
only. I
know I've lost most of you with
this, but the simple essence of this
is that
there is an arrow of time from the
eternal past, through the present,
to the
eternal future, and that, if all
other forms of logic ellude you, is
the basis
for understanding that free will is
impossible
Here goes. You have a thought.
That thought has a place in time.
That place
in time was preceded by an earlier
place in time that caused it. At
this
point I would advise any idiot
claming that synchronicity or
randomness refutes
this to reread your physics and
philosophy books, and if that
doesn't help, get
better ones. Anyway. Since one
moment in time is caused by a
preceding
moment in time, which in turn is
caused by a preceding moment in
time ad
eterneum ( coined that phrase, to
the best of my knowledge. Of course
I can't
really take credit for having done
so because I don't have free will,
so let's
just say I'm thankful to have done
so, that also having been
predetermined in
me.)
Did you get it? No. Well, if
you're too stupid or brainwashed by
religion, I
can't help that. Really, I wish I
could, but I cant. Its really not
too easy
being really intelligent. If any of
you out there are really beautiful
women,
you probably know what I mean. It's
hard to be on top.
Free will. If we had it we would
choose to be as perfect as perfect
could be.
we would all be loving all of the
time and Earth would be a paradise.
Now if we all collectively get
over this illusion, the effect of
this on our consciousnesses could possibly be
more pleasant than a good buzz.
Imagine
everybody going around with the
understanding that all of our
thoughts and
acts, etc have all been
predetermined. Get it. I didn't
think so.
I'm not really arrogant. just fed
up with stupid people. You know,
like most
people are fed up with Nazis and
bigots. What can I tell you , free
will is a weapon people use against themselves
and each other, and the world is
full of
friendly fire.
Well now that I've gotten that
out of my system I think I'll go
raise
Kundalini.
See you throughout eternity.
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