Michael

Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2024

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ENTJ

Aries

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A question of free will, or lack there off.

Admittedly I have not done a deep dive on this, but have found it to be a more, and more curious thought. Often, I hear everything happens for a reason. It's the big warm fuzzy blanket of a thought that every success and struggle propels the individual foward to an end goal or whatever. Though, to me, it has always felt more ominous, if everything happens for reason, then it could just as easily be said that everything is planned for. In that, free will is lost. There is no choice to make ever as all outcomes have been laid out, as you will ultimately make this or that choice which dominos on to infinity. I'm aware Kant touched on this, but ultimately if we are left with no actual mechanism of choice, the notion of free will disintegrates, heck even moral judgments of good and bad, seize to be as there is no actual decision making process, because ever decision is predetermined, we are but cogs in the wheel. Even this whole post, you reading it, is all part of a storyline written. The alternative, nothing happens for any particular reason, it just is. There is no plan, no guiding mechanism tye brings you to where you should be. Life just is, and the choices you make are enterly yours. There is no warm fuzzy blanket. Ultimately, this feels all like a binary thought, either one has the comfort of being guided through life stripped of free will, or, no entity has it planed out, you are your own self and can be agent of order, chaos or any other choice. I don't know, this ramble is getting long, but ceratianly one of mental gymnastics (on my end atleast)