Free Will (The nature of a \'Creator\')
by George Jelliss 
, Crewe, Saturday, September 04, 2010, 11:42 (5193 days ago) @ dhw
I think we have a very limited free will, if that is not a self-contradiction. Most of the decisions that we can make are within very limited parameters fixed by our environment and previous history. -If I go for a walk and come to a division in the path I can decide on a whim to take one direction rather than another, perhaps because I went the other way last time and would like to have a change. -If I switch on my computer thinking of making some improvements to my website I can find myself diverted into other lines by an email I have just received, or by a message I've read on a forum I often visit. So how far my decision to respond to the message is free or how far it is just a reaction to circumstances is debatable. I shall now exercise my free will and leave, to make the improvements to my website that I intended to do in the first place!
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GPJ
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romansh,
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2010-09-12, 05:05
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romansh,
2010-09-06, 19:24
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2010-09-06, 13:07
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romansh,
2010-09-06, 03:13
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romansh,
2010-09-04, 17:55
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dhw,
2010-09-04, 12:17
- Free Will - romansh, 2010-09-03, 21:19
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2010-09-05, 16:09
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2010-09-05, 22:24
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xeno6696,
2010-09-06, 04:47
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romansh,
2010-09-05, 22:56
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