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| "Being happy is easy, hooman!" |
I continue to find this (clear your mind for just five minutes) to be definitive proof that we don't have free will.
To expand on that:
Everyone I have ever known has many unhappy thoughts and negative feelings. If they have free will, they are, to a person, masochists.
Many reply: "How can I be happy when the world is so terrible?"* That's easy! Just use your free will to choose to always be happy! Blaming the state of the world for your thoughts and feelings proves my point that we don't have free will.
This is not to say, "You're all stupid!" I know it absolutely feels like we have free will. And moment-to-moment, we function as though we have free will.
I harp on this because realizing that no one has free will is a way to be happier. And the happier we are, the better the world is.
*There is also the rationalization that being smart is better than being happy. Back when I was smart (relative to the people in my cow-forsaken cowtown) and unhappy, I bought into that fantasy. But that is wrong - not the least because being unhappy is a huge turn-off to others. If we want the world to be better, we can't isolate ourselves and repulse others. More.
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