Saturday, October 20, 2012

Free will is an illusion

You are acting in accordance with a worldview, which has been transmitted to you from your family and friends, from your church or your spiritual community, from your teachers in school and from the marketing and mass media industry. You are a puppet connected to many strings.

You are a Muslim or a Jew, a Protestant or a Buddhist, a free market liberal or a neo-Nazi…

You try to talk in a way that you believe you should talk and you try to think in a way that you believe you should think. You dress up in a way you think you should dress up and you conduct yourself in a way you think you should conduct yourself.

It is not your will, but your mother’s will, your friend’s will, your husband’s will, your teacher‘s will, your...

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