(03-21-2019, 12:17 PM)redchartreuse Wrote:(03-21-2019, 11:25 AM)Cainite Wrote: But they chose this before this incarnation.. what they chose was the extent of how much balance and growth would be expected of them in order to not get ill in the incarnation.
Why do you think someone might choose this? I'm asking about the purpose- the will- behind such a choice. Because in seeing no purpose, I find myself concluding that a free will choice did not occur.
I'm not saying you would necessarily know! I certainly don't know. And it doesn't seem that anybody here in the thread knows either.
As for free will, this is what I am trying to say. I believe that free will, first and foremost, requires an act of the will. Secondly, that the will must be truly free.
I'm assuming we would agree on at least that much. I will leave it to you to point out where our views appear to diverge.
To gather data/experience maybe? or provide catalysts that more evolved entities wouldn't normally provide (as I explained before, they provide suffering)
about freewill; I honestly haven't focused enough on it.
My current belief is that we are thrown into a video game with consequences. having ''freewill'' would be allowing us to have the freewill to trick each other and rob each other of freewill as well.
You may have noticed that so many things are paradoxical and utterly confusing. this is one of them I guess