DIVINITY DIALOGUE: ‘Free Will’ Proof Backfires
REALITY WARRIOR
Are you free to choose any food from a food menu at a restaurant?
HUMAN
Yes, I am free to choose any food I want
REALITY WARRIOR
But you will always choose the food you want or desire the most
HUMAN
No, I have the free will to choose any food
REALITY WARRIOR
But there would always be a reason or cause for you to choose one food rather than another
HUMAN
You are right, I would always be able to give a reason for my choice of food
REALITY WARRIOR
Wouldn’t that reason always be dependent upon, caused by, or determined by something?
HUMAN
Yes
REALITY WARRIOR
If you chose the food you knew you loved the most out of all the foods on the menu, your choice would be made because of your desire and will to experience the greatest degree of eating pleasure
HUMAN
Yes
REALITY WARRIOR
Then that choice would not be a ‘free choice’, because it would be dependent upon, caused by, or determined by your desire and will to experience the greatest degree of eating pleasure
HUMAN
Yes
REALITY WARRIOR
If you choose a food you know you dislike rather than a food you love, you would be able to give your reason for doing so, right?
HUMAN
Yes
REALITY WARRIOR
Then that choice would not be a ‘free choice’ because it would be based upon your desire and will to eat a food that you know will give you no pleasure rather than a food that you know will give you great pleasure
HUMAN
That is correct
REALITY WARRIOR
Can you think of a reason why you would choose a food you know you dislike rather than a food you love?
HUMAN
No
REALITY WARRIOR
I can. Lets say that you and I are sitting together at a restaurant with two of your closest friends who acknowledge and confirm a food on the menu that you greatly dislike and a food you love. We start discussing the existence or nonexistence of ‘free will’, and I say that your will or desire to choose your food is not free because it is dependent upon, caused by, or determined by your knowing that the food you love will cause you to experience great pleasure, whereas you know the food you greatly dislike will cause you to experience no pleasure whatsoever
To prove to me that you are ‘free’ to order any food on the menu — that you have the ‘free will’ to do so, and that ‘free will exists’ — you order and eat the food you greatly dislike
In doing so, you unintentionally and unknowingly disprove the existence of the same ‘free will’ that you are trying to prove exists
HUMAN
How is that?
REALITY WARRIOR
Your choice of the food you greatly dislike over the food you love was dependent upon, caused by, and determined by your will, desire, drive and motivation to experience the pleasure of proving the existence of ‘free will’ by showing me how you ‘used your free will’ to ‘freely choose’ the food you greatly dislike rather than the food you love
Conclusion?… Your choice to order and eat the food you dislike rather that the food you love was not ‘free’: it was based upon, caused by, and determined by your will and desire to experience the emotional pleasure of proving to me the existence of ‘free will’. It was your physical movement to order and eat the food you dislike rather than the food you love that was free or unfree — not the will and desire to order and eat it. If I murder you right before you begin to eat your food, you become physically unfree to eat the food; if nothing thwarts your physical movement to eat your food, and you eat the food, you were then free to eat the food.
Will, drive, desire and motivation are not ‘free’: Humans are not free to create, eliminate, or alter the intensity of their will, desire, drive and motivation to do something; the latter are determined by something other than humans themselves — something that their brains are unable to perceive or know: The DIVINE CONTROLLER. As the eye cannot perceive sound; and as the ear cannot perceive light or color: the human brain cannot perceive that ‘divine power’ which controls it: The DIVINE CONTROLLER
It really boils down to simple, scientifically-based mathematics: when your will, drive, desire and motivation to perform ‘bevavior A’ is greater, stronger and more intense — let’s say it’s at ‘intensity level 9’ — than your will, drive, desire and motivation to perform ‘behavior B’ — say ‘intensity level 2’ — you will always ‘choose’ to perform ‘behavior A’
Each time you visit a restaurant, you will always order the food you know you love the most — the food you believe will cause you to experience the most pleasure when eaten — UNLESS your will, drive, desire and motivation to experience the pleasure of ordering another food becomes greater or more intense than your will, drive, desire and motivation to experience the pleasure of ordering the food you know you love most, as in the case where your will and desire to prove that you have ‘free will’ becomes stronger and more intense than your will and desire to eat a food you know you love
Regarding the aforementioned example of being at the restaurant and ordering the food you dislike rather than the food you love in attempting to prove the existence of ‘free will’: Your will, drive, desire and motivation to experience the pleasure of proving to me the existence of ‘free will’ was greater, stronger and more intense — say ‘intensity level 10’ — than your will, desire, drive and motivation to experience the pleasure of ordering and eating the food you love — say ‘intensity level 9’
Another example: You are about to eat your favorite food on the menu, and a stranger puts a gun to your head and demands that you eat something that he has taken out of a disgusting can of garbage or he will kill you. Unless you are insane or suicidal, you will eat the garbage food rather than your favorite food. Your will, desire, drive or motivation to avoid being killed — say ‘intensity level 10’ — would be greater than your will, desire, drive or motivation to eat the food you love — say ‘intensity level 8’
Are you now able to give me an example of ‘free will’ or ‘free choice’ or ‘freedom to will’ or ‘freedom of willing’ or ‘freedom to choose’?
HUMAN
No, I cannot. You have presented to me an enlightening, amazing truth: it is not human will, drive, desire or motivation that is free or unfree; it is the bodily action or physical behavior caused and compelled by the human will, drive, desire and motivation that is free or unfree.
And you are saying that The DIVINE CONTROLLER solely, completely and ultimately initiates, controls and guides our every physical movement and behavior via will, drive, desire and motivation?
REALITY WARRIOR
Yes, that is correct
Your complete understanding, knowledge and acceptance of this truth — if you should fully accept and embrace it — will cause you to experience greater pleasure and peace in your daily life, and you will then be SUPERHUMAN
Should you seek to share SUPERHUMAN REALITY with others, you will discover that very few are both willing and able to listen and understand. A human brain’s potential and capacity for becoming SUPERHUMAN is genetically-determined, genetically-based — akin to sexual preference, intelligence, athletic prowess, physical beauty, immune-system strength and resilience, sex-drive intensity, musical ability, etc. And, like the latter human, genetically-inherited potentials and capacities: chance, environmental stimuli and circumstance will determine whether one’s genetic potential for becoming SUPERHUMAN is actualized or not
