(11-19-2025, 05:17 AM)babushka Wrote: "If miracles were undeniable, free will would be destroyed." could be an interesting debate.
"Free Will" is a funny thing. Certainly it exists, up to a point, but it is poorly understood, in my opinion.
A person's will is free, but their ability to follow up on that will is constrained. So, while it exists, it is not absolute - there are constraints that limit it's practical application, and possibly guide it.
Consider - I may "will" to throw a rock by strength of arm for 17 miles. Practically, there are constraints in place that will never allow that to happen. Gravity and physics being two of those constraints.
So, while "will" is free to dream, it is not free to do.
I think there are a large number of people on this planet who cannot grasp that simple concept. They seem to think "Free Will" is unlimited, when it is not.
Is "Free Will" then still "free"?
In Will, yes.
In Action, no.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake