Re: Free Will - does it exist?
Had a rather in-depth discussion on this very topic with my husband (yes, we have those kinds of conversations). He was talking about the work of a particular contemporary philosopher and I was trying to wrap my brain around the worldview/framework that would even give rise to this question (I was there once, obviously, but it's so "gone" I can't go there any more, which is an interesting experience, to say the least).
In the end, the conclusion was that the problem with "does X exist" is the definition of "X". What, exactly, are we talking about when we say "free will", anyway?
Note that this is more of a rhetorical question than anything else, though it might give someone some fuel for the fire of awareness (or not).
Personally, I've actually come to a place where questions like this are no longer important or even meaningful. The framework just isn't there any more. The whole "death of the seeker" thing, I guess. It is interesting to observe my absolute inability to get back to that mindset, to that framework that would make the question even valid. This thread was the first time I'd really observed/experienced this so clearly. It's kind of weird, in that existential way that these things are...
May the light surround you, may you be blessed. May the light surround us, may we be blessed. May love and light surround us all, and may we all be healed and blessed. And so it is, and so it shall be, now and ever after.
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