Free Will, Science, and Religion

Pride can have more than one meaning. The type of pride that is problematic is the arrogance or entitlement that comes from a person believing they chose to be better than other people. This leads to them thinking they deserve better than other people....

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For the determinist or incompatibilist, there is no longer a debate about sexuality or gender identity being a choice. We know that free will is an illusion and with this knowledge people will no longer blame those who don't fit into their traditions of what a man or woman is....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Jamie Soden, David Joseph and Wsdtime talk about how we can help reduce abortion and eliminate the blaming that happens far too often whenever this subject comes up..

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Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about the emotional needs that cause people to believe in free will and how knowing the truth about their causal will can actually make them feel better and does not deprive their life of meaning as some of them fear....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and wsdtime talk about how we can move people away from blame and revenge. If our efforts are focused on identifying the cause of problems we can prevent them without the need to hate and punish people because of a feeling that they "deserve" it..

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, and David Joseph explain why free will is impossible in a variety of ways. Causality, acausality, the unconscious, and the fact that we did not create ourselves all reveal that our wills are not of our own making....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, and David Joseph discuss each of the ten points from Trick's blog post about the reasons people are unable to give up their belief in free will. http://breakingthefreewillillusion.com/10-reasons-free-will-belief/ You can visit the blog and read about ea....

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Chandler Klebs, Jamie Soden, Anthony Bishop, and George Ortega talk about how forgiveness is the logical thing to do rather that just some moral command. John Searle, the 13th ranked post-1900 philosopher, says that our world overcoming the free will illusion "would be a bigger revolution in our thi....

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Chandler Klebs, Jamie Soden, Anthony Bishop, and George Ortega talk about privacy and some of the dumb things people do that they are not to blame for and should probably be forgotten and not held against them for the rest of their lives....

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Chandler Klebs, Jamie Soden, David Joseph, and George Ortega talk about some of the beliefs of Buddhism and the conflict between karma, the non-self, and the conflict of believing in free will. John Searle, the 13th ranked post-1900 philosopher, says that our world overcoming the free will illusion ....

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