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Free Will: Myth or reality - Just some half-cooked-half-raw thoughts ...


Its said that God and Devil are playing a game with Human souls as wager ... that there are angels and demons amongst us ... Half borns ... All they do is just whisper into our ears ... the propensity to do great good and evil lies within us ... all that they do is just give us a nudge in one of the direction ...
(courtesy - Constantine movie)



Made me think... If this is so then there is a distorted free will scenario ... That we do everything by making CHOICES OF OUR OWN ... but the push for these choices is given by someone else... Then is that even fair ... That we suffer the consequences of these choices while these choices were actually made by someone else ... Agreed that we might be part to blame for this but but we get the Full burden of the effects.... that's not fair ... 



This would make 'The law of Karma' flawed then ... 



Now, off to another point - 



Do we do everything because we want to ... or is it because we are meant to ... or because someone else wants us to do so ... And do we know that we want something because we want it. 


And what is destiny ... they say that unless its destined not even a leaf can move on its own ... but some say that we make our own destiny .... Some say destiny is nothing ... its just coincidences - but what makes all the coincidences occur, exactly when they have to occur ...



Is there some grand design or is it the case of an absent creator ...


What to believe ... I m confused ...

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