Comments | babalond: Freedom, Will and Freewill

babalond

Freedom, Will and Freewill

Aug 31, 2008 23:21

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

"So with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy will." - Liber AL vel Legis, I, 42I have recently been reading various writings, posted on line, regarding Thelemic concepts of Will and Freedom, and have to comment that their authors seem to be - in my opinion - rather confused about the place of ( Read more... )

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I'd rather just Free Willy. premabast September 3 2008, 08:30:51 UTC

Free Will is brandished about Christian communities in the States as an explanation of how one can be effectively pre-ordained as one of the Chosen and yet still 'turn away' from Christ. This supposed co-existance of predestination and 'free will' to choose whether or not to follow Christ is just one of the crunchy clusters of crap to be encountered in the stale cereal that is (most of) U.S. Christianity.

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Re: I'd rather just Free Willy. babalond September 3 2008, 10:22:20 UTC

My purpose in posting the material was to make a sharp philosophical distinction between the concepts of Freedom, Will and Freewill within the context of Thelema. The discussion of Freewill is a perenial one much beloved of first year philosophy courses. I simply wanted to point out that a system based on Freedom & Will does not commit one to the specious notion of Freewill. I also wanted to clarify the notion of Will, and to some extent of 'True Will' (the notes on the nature of Will should do this for any bright reader ( ... )