free-will

You can't take credit for your talents, but it matters that you use them. You can't really be blamed for your weaknesses, but it matters that you correct them. So pride and shame don't make a lot of sense, in the final analysis, but they weren't much fun anyway.

If you choose to walk through the fire, why do you complain it's hot?

We have choice,_ she insisted. __his is it. We don__ get to choose our choices, Gwain, we just get to make the ones we__e given...

I never needed the Society," she says, "to Match me." (-Lei)

Free will and choice implies that you are able to even re-write your record of memories.

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!_ the gunslinger roared. __ou have forgotten the faces of those who made you!

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

I do not believe any power can possess the mind of a man or woman... I believe in God-given free will, you see. I think nothing is forced on us, except by other people like ourselves. I think our choices are our own.

There will always exist inequalities which will appear unjust to those who suffer from them, disappointments which will appear unmerited, and strokes of misfortune which those hit have not deserved. But when these things occur in a society which is consciously directed, the way in which people will react will be very different from what it is when they are nobody's conscious choice.

But free will is what it means to be human, and no one can determine the path you take through this universe. Choice is our greatest right, our greatest gift-and our greatest responsibility.

Christians believe their God gave us all free will - strange that for over 2000 years, they have tried to take that choice away.

The man who can keep order can rule the world, but the man who can bear disorder is truly free.

A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.

Our minds are information vacuums. Either we fill them with thoughts of our choosing or someone else will.

...if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices - that is, an explanation of what they depend upon, by what laws they arise, how they develop, what they are aiming at in one case and in another and so on, that is a real mathematical formula - then, most likely, man will at once cease to feel desire, indeed, he will be certain to. For who would want to choose by rule? Besides, he will at once be transformed from a human being into an organ-stop or something of that sort; for what is a man without desires, without freewill and without choice, if not a stop in an organ?

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

Individual free choices_ can only be the expression of an __ndividual free will_.The notion of an __ndividual free will_ generating __ndividual free choices_ creates a much needed consequence: personal accountability.Personal accountability is vital for a primitive, immature human organization based on reprehension or praise.The permanent interaction of a unique inherited Nature (and maybe a unique __oul_) with a unique nurture (environment), will always determine all our __ndividual free choices_, from cradle to grave. It is impossible for the individual to be sentient before birth and choose these two or three unique factors.The logic of holding someone personally accountable for a __on-chosen_ choice eludes me.The notion of individual free will can at best be a __ut felt_ illusion, but can never have logical relevance.What sort of human (and divine!) organization can be based on the consequence of a __ut felt_ illusion?-Our current one; primitive, illogical, unstable and permanently conflictual.Be it for all individual choices or all differences, the definitive ban of the illusionary notion of personal accountability is the missing step that will lead to human maturity.How__ your __ut_ now?