Anyway! Todays (pst) topic is about free will, one which I'm quite passionate about. I won't go into things like determinism, or predestination in this post, simply because I don't believe in predestination, and determinism is too long to cover in this post. Heheh.
So most of you know what free will is right? The ability to make your own choices and determine your own fates, as it were. The thing about free will that I've found and may be blatantly obvious, yet many of us overlook it - the actions that we make everyday, the choices that we take.. they are driven by our belief systems. None of us act against our belief systems. So, you ask, if someone is forced to work against their belief systems, then what?
The answer is that that can never exist. One of these situations is true: the person forced believes that there is no other option and buys into that belief; the person forced believes that this is the only way out of the current situation to get back to their original situation; and so on and so forth. Whatever a person believes in, they will act according to that belief system.
That is the beauty of free will. Regardless of what others say, think or do, your actions are your own, as you see fit to carry out. Each and every person has the chance, the oppurtunity to change their life as the clock ticks. But to experience this oppurtunity, you need to ask yourself -
What is my belief system? Is this originally my own belief system, or has it been taken over by the beliefs of others? Can I use my free will to do the things I want to do for myself?
(Photograph by Julio)
|If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything - Wiseman, from Sucker Punch|
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Hey great post! looks like you are doing good ^^
ReplyDeleteThanks Sveta! :D
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