[beef_bourito]

Concidering this is the philosohy forum, im surprised there hasn't been a discussion on free will, there have been many discussions on fate but not free will.

So i'm going to start one.

1) Do you believe in free will?

2) Give your reasons why or why not (be it God, some other religion, logic, etc)

I don't really know, I'm trying to figure out what i believe in right now. anyways logi sais that free will is impossible, physics sais the same. neutons laws of motion say that things will only react one way, therefore the chemicals in your brain will only react one way. if a certain stimulus is given to the brain, there is only one way it will react, then it changes, it's constantly changing, so the next time itwill be different.

Also logic goes agains free will. the different beliefs against free will are: determinism and fatalism. determinism is where your will is determined, therefore your actions are determined, that is why things happen the way they do. fatalism is where something is going to happen simply because itwill, nomatter how hard you try to avoid it, it will happen, kinda like a boulder drops on your head, had you turnd left, the boulder still would have fallen on your head simply because it would have.

The whole logical argument for free will is flawed. YOU determine what your will is, so your will determines what your will is. it creates a paradox.

Now, i was also raised a strong catholic and im not ready to abandon my beliefs just because of this, God promised us free will, im sort of trying to figure out how to work this all together. a belief in something gives comfort, i don't like the idea of living for nothing, what's the point of living if you're going to die and not exist afterwards? you might as well end it now. so i don't want to become atheist. i like the idea of christianity, but i'm finding many flaws through philosophy, such as free will, an all knowing God, how can he know all, which means the future as well, and still allow us to have free will? if he knows what we're goingto do before we do it, we don't really have free will because it was predetermined.

All of these questions caused me great discomfort throughout my 7th and 8th grade becuase it was basically saying that everything i believed was wrong, and that didn't go well with me. it was pretty crappy so i decided to avoid thinking about it, that way i could still believe what i wanted and be comfortable. but im not that easily tricked so i dwelled on it, now im in grae 12 and im pretty apathetic about the whole thing so i can talk about it. there're more important things going on in my life right now, i don't need to spend my time worrying.