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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight
B: Isn't "anything I want" a convenient little delusional phrase? Clearly your will is NOT as free as you think. You are limited to "choosing" only that which "you" will allow yourself to "choose".
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Um, unless I am stupid or completely missing something, this statement makes zero sense. If free will is about making personal choices, how is making a personal choice not free will? How is looking at the options, weighing the outcome and making a decision based on the available information limiting?
An instructor in a potentially boring class once made the statement to the class that "you are all sitting here right now because you have nothing more important to be doing" (I always loved instructors who forced us to think and not just teach a rote lesson).
On the surface, you think the guy is nuts. Of course I would have rather still been in bed (if I remember correctly, it was an early morning class) or doing something else. But then I realized that this class was a requirement for me to graduate and I had a higher probability to get a passing grade in this class by sitting in each session and learning as much as possible (I like to the best I can in my endeavors). And I wanted to graduate to help me secure a better career path. And I wanted a better career path to secure a better life for me and my future family. So yes, once I thought about it, being in that class at that moment WAS the most important thing at that moment.
Bastard.