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Your experiences led you to "choose" differently. I had the same, though it took a while. Not everyone has those same experiences.


If you don't have free will, then why did you choose to participate in this discussion?


Same reason you did. Right place, right time. If you were omniscient and knew everything that happened in the universe up to bow, you'd be able to perfectly predict the next instant, and the instant after that.

It was only after I understood that I had no control that I felt free to do whatever I wanted, ironically enough.




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