You will of course realise that you are not the first to be in the position you are in, although awareness of what bought you to that place is something that evades many who find themselves in the same postion. In the same way that not everone could be having sex right now, not everyone can be changing the world either. Whether you put this down to determinism or will is up to the indivudual, but either way, not all options are available all the time and not all corners we find ourselves backed into are entirely of our own making. Failure, like success, is a collaborative effort that requires many people and a combination of decisions and luck/fate.
If you believe in will, you can overcome, if you believe only in fate, you're fucked. Time to choose.
Thanks for the reply. To be honest I was in two minds about posting this. The admissions still make me uncomfortable while I'm coming to grips with the loss of an old identity and life. But I thought, if I can't face truth, how much more of a hypocrite am I?
In regards to the rest of your comment, I would say that belief is not a question here. The Will is an illusion. The fact that we live in what is obviously a deterministic universe makes this so. To imply otherwise is to say there are small pockets in reality inhabited by our brains in which certain universal laws do not apply. This is not an excuse for inaction, however. There are actions and consequences, this is causality. The illusion is that "we" or "I" have any meaningful input or drive in our "Will" (all of which are fabricated concepts).
Of course it could be instructive that you chose to post this here where hardly anyone will see it....
While it's true that on a biological, atomic and of course quantum level we lack free will, we still retain the abilities to do things like quit jobs, change behaviours and punch random strangers in the face. So you can't hide behind science to explain things in the purely human world. Reductionism is discounted for a reason.
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You will of course realise that you are not the first to be in the position you are in, although awareness of what bought you to that place is something that evades many who find themselves in the same postion. In the same way that not everone could be having sex right now, not everyone can be changing the world either. Whether you put this down to determinism or will is up to the indivudual, but either way, not all options are available all the time and not all corners we find ourselves backed into are entirely of our own making. Failure, like success, is a collaborative effort that requires many people and a combination of decisions and luck/fate.
If you believe in will, you can overcome, if you believe only in fate, you're fucked. Time to choose.
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In regards to the rest of your comment, I would say that belief is not a question here. The Will is an illusion. The fact that we live in what is obviously a deterministic universe makes this so. To imply otherwise is to say there are small pockets in reality inhabited by our brains in which certain universal laws do not apply. This is not an excuse for inaction, however. There are actions and consequences, this is causality. The illusion is that "we" or "I" have any meaningful input or drive in our "Will" (all of which are fabricated concepts).
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While it's true that on a biological, atomic and of course quantum level we lack free will, we still retain the abilities to do things like quit jobs, change behaviours and punch random strangers in the face. So you can't hide behind science to explain things in the purely human world. Reductionism is discounted for a reason.
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