Sunday, February 01, 2009

Free will

Well... at first before addressing the topic, one must reflect upon their personal beliefs. Is everything predetermined? Is everything determined by choice and thus, indeterminate altogether? Is free will possible within a determined future?

From a logical perspective, the existence of the knowledge of our future actions presents itself evident. Not through our knowledge, but through the knowledge of a higher being. If you withdraw from a dimensional and restrictive viewpoint of "time", everything occurs with a cause... and everything occurs with an effect. Whether the causes and effects are separated by thousands of millennium or mere seconds, each action owns a respective reason for birth and a consequence of existence.
Now, since God is omnipotent and omniscient, he exists within and outside of the boundaries of time. God is all powerful. So God is independent of any Earthly restrictions such as time. And since God has no restriction... God can see all things, whether past or future. So in that sense, he knows what actions we will make, he knows what we are thinking before we think it, he knows before we betray him, he knows when we will sing praise to him. But within this knowledge of everything, I believe we still have free will. Since we do not know of our doings twenty years down the line... we can still make a decision as to what we wish to be... even though God ultimately knows our "destiny". =compatibilism

Upon reflection... one can see that in every action one is free in choice. Except that one happens to be subjected to necessity, and in such we are not free. One does not change their conduct because of reflection and resolution of free choice, one must act as subject to their individual character from the beginning to the end. And that through natural development and maturity, the choices change justly based upon one's nature. In the end we only carry out the actions that as a personage one condemns necessary.

Regarding free will restrictions... Definitively one will make the choice to commit murder. Whether or not the Government states that murder is wrong, if one has a reasonable cause for action, one will likely act upon such cause. BUT, the Government/and/or laws placed upon such actions do carry INFLUENCE within the initiation of the action which is permitted by reasonable cause. Thus, the "body" of Government has a reasonable cause to commit to action a law that will presumably deter such a heinous crime. The effect or "end" allows for an unquestionable state of action or "means" such as prohibiting the killing of another human without cause to defend oneself.

On the less obvious things... complexity envelopes the reasoning. As a society, there exists rules. In any society, large or small... there exists rules. The Federal Government has laws regarding criminal and civil jurisdiction, and a household has "unspoken" laws such as, do not burn the house down, or in many cases "spoken" laws such as, "we don't hit." Without rules(as you said) chaos ensues and our hierarchical chambers of society crumble to just a foundation. That foundation is the morals of our individual tenor. As a collection, we act independently of the morals of others while still recognizing such morals and either responding sympathetically or in disregard to nothing but ourselves. The Federal Government and all the laws carried hypocritically on its back represent necessary societal organization of beliefs and the justification of cases of offense.

I believe... in a perfect society there would not be a need for government. Because everyone strives to be more like Jesus Christ in every action, in every response, in every thought and each person possesses opposition of self preservation in favor of a greater habitat. But I also believe that one thing cannot exist without it's natural opposite. And such a society would inherit the need for existence of a perfectly opposite society. And though our present society is quite awful, it is far from the unimaginable horrors of one such hellish existence. What we truly need, more than anything, is not Christianity in Government, but "christ-like" individuals in Government. Liberals and the separation of church and state alike would exemplify their grand distaste in this for their belief in false freedoms. These false freedoms only exist here on Earth, where money-whores' and power-mongers' short miserable lives can live (what they believe is)peacefully without the infringement of basic principles of economic capitalism.

Because their is a cause for law, their exists a method for acquiring order.

It is crazy to imagine a world where LOGIC, which is so important for all things, could have a different method. Where the traditional scientific method is foreign and unintelligible. Where basic reasoning exists as an example for extreme pollution of thought. All understanding would be twisted upside down. All intelligence garnered through time would no longer be applicable. All and everything ultimately ends and begins at nothing.

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