The message below is a follow-up to this earlier post, in which I brought up the subject of free will:

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=10745

From reader JD:
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Dear Mr. F,

Ahhhh..........Freewill.

I'm familiar with that claim.That humans have free will.
I actually agree. there is however a "however...".

For after all, we all are on our quest for the highest truth...although that is sometimes difficult to come by.

Freewill of the human is something of a given.It is a natural quality of the Divine, and flows into us all the time.

However...if I truly have fully operational freewill...from the Divine, would I be in this position ?

Have I not always wanted a happy, loving, abundant, fulfilled life...?
Have I not always wanted an eternally healthy and youthful body..?

Why are these simple requirements of a being(me);a person imbued with the Divine's freewill not attainable...? What a puzzle.
Something went AWOL.

I have studied all the metaphysical reasons as to why we are in this pathetic condition. They all come short. Lies, I call them.
Frustrations actually.

This one is a joke. Some gurus say that the Divine wants to experience ,say, poverty so we see homeless people in filthy rags roaming about town. Well, do you think that these guys want to be homeless at will..? Where is their freewill..?
Do I want to be homeless at will..? Heck, no.

Is it possible that the Divine really wants to experience being homeless thru these hapless guys..? (Who cares about my opinion.) I just see them around.

Do these homeless guys look like they have DISABLED freewill and have fallen into situations that are not under their control..?

DISABLED..? Like disconnected. ..?

Who dunnit..?

God..???

No, Prime Creator..thru its creation..? Yes..?
(the devil? or the archangel?)My understanding,these are Prime Creators' constructs (thoughtforms that are imbued with self-awareness that we humans continue to animate)

Whatever.

Is it possible that an interested, unseen party is messing us up without our consent..?
That this interested party is inside our minds, our subconscious separating us from this SOURCE of freewill..? Having the power to switch on and off our freewill.
That this interested unseen party only allows us a glimpse of our freewill when it deems necessary..? ( to give us an illusion that we have control of our freewill.)
My thoughts ,exactly.

Well,... Anyone out there who have other ideas..?

Thank you again Mr F. for allowing me to examine these things that are close to my heart.

jd
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