Free Will is Free! (Updated Sept. 8, 2010
J. Speer Williams
Have the will of a lion, and ye shall be free, even in a slave state.
No one has all the answers. I merely have points of view - view points, I invite you to consider.
Since the beginnings of philosophical thought, the validity, or even the existence, of free will has been questioned. Some have said self determinism doesn't exist, that our choices, decisions, and actions are determined by the material universe, and by those would-be gods of determinism, leaving us no free will at all for the rest of us.
Metaphysical libertarians disagree, believing in a God who encourages free will, as a method of spiritual progress, and as a path to ever increasing free will powers: The more free will we exercise, the more free will we'll have.
We all have the potential to exercise freewill, in spite of governments that try to steal our free will, through a variety of guises: national security, majority rule, consumer protection, the will of the people, are all Trojan Horses to deprive us of our free will.
Free will is an inalienable right, borne from an individual's realizations about life, that comes from within, irrespective of group think, the hive mind, the herd mentality, polls, or governmental mandates, regulations, policies, or laws. In a free society, there must be no infringement upon the god-given rights of free beings to exercise their free will. Denying beings their free will because of how they may exercise that free will is the stratagem long employed by tyrants, and too often supported and defended by the voices and actions of the unthinking, unreasoning masses.
There can be legitimate penalties imposed upon those whose exercise of their free will hurts others, but there can be no prohibitions against free will itself, in a free society.
Through the exercise of free will, we learn of light and darkness, of truth/lies, of positive/negative, and of right from wrong. In this sense, individual free will is God’s will; and, those who would try to thwart God’s will by limiting our free will are attempting to supplant their Creator, a preposterous impossibility, utterly devoid of wisdom, or even common sense.
When governments turn god-given rights into privileges, granted by the state, they are attempting to disempower man, and eventually turn him into a slave, something only possible with the consent of the majority of people, usually a people who prefer security over freedom.
Those who make freedom their secondary concern, and security their first, will soon have neither security or freedom. True security can only come from free beings wisely exercising their free will; and, anything short of that is a tyranny.
Mandating vaccines, requiring full body scans, making us buy expensive health insurance, imposing increased taxes, bombing and invading foreign countries, torturing human beings, all whether we agree or not are all proofs of a tyranny, a tyranny intent on destroying all free will and free beings alike.
The intentions of the state are manifest; and as one's pulse is a reflection of one's heart, the free will of free beings will plainly demonstrate their intent to remain free, even while being labeled as terrorists by the spinmeisters of the controlled, corporate media.
Peaceful Revolution, Civil Disobedience, Lawful Disobedience, and Lawful Rebellion are the actions of free beings, exercising their free will. If a healthy lion did not rebel against man killing him, or taking him prisoner, he would not be a lion. A free man exercises his free will or he is not a free being.
Ultimately, slavery and freedom are both personal decisions of our free will. Never believe you are a slave; a prisoner, perhaps, but never a slave.
Have the will of a lion, and ye shall be free, even in a prison or a slave state.
J. Speer-Williams
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UPDATE:
Bruce,He called it free will, and as such I disagree -- we are all bound by laws, and to take his argument to the ultimate degree, we would act on every single whim we have -- and this would be pure chaos.However, what he DESCRIBED sounded more like free THOUGHT -- and in that, I agree with him. Advertisors, moral majority, government -- none of that can take away our right to think for ourselves.I would add (not in the predestination/free will sense) that as we call Jesus LORD of our lives, it is incumbent upon us to obey His will -- and to say that His will is that we have free will is to deny His Lordship. I'm reading "The Gospel According to Jesus" and the whole first chapter is dedicated to the fact that we are SLAVES of Christ!!Rhonda
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