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Old 08-09-2006, 12:14 PM   #11
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Depends on whether you consider free will to be a "power" or property of a person's soul or simply a privledge given to someone by a higher power. I am inclined to think that (as far as Abrahamic faiths are concerned, anyway) that free will is something God allows people to have, but something he could violate or break at any time.
Well I speak as a Buddhist/Mystic.

I see freewill ingrained in the human being through genetics and soul.


The higher order could violate somthing yes.

Would it not though violate the responsibility of one's actions in life?

Would it not though violate personal expiriences of learning the many things that makes a individual life?

Without intevention one could take either the path of the wicked being unskilled or the virtuous being skilled in order to know the conduct and worth of the individual human being through life.

I think responsibility for one's own actions is a heavy emphasis of free will. Human beings make their own happiness and suffering alot of times by their own actions.
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