A post submitted by CGI member Morgan.

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http://www.visibleorigami.com/2025/09/free-will-is-what-puts-you-on-side-of.html

Because conditions change in ways that are difficult to see... unless one has the capacity for time-lapse observation... where a flower can blossom right in front of your eyes, it is sometimes hard to tell that conditions are changing, and this is especially true when there are conditions within the conditions... that are adamantly resistant to change… meaning that some things change, and some things do not, and sometimes they are standing right next to each other. Well… they both change, but not at the same time.

Okay, that might have sounded a little convoluted, and I often have to dance a complicated jig just to transmit a simple point.

Let’s approach it from another angle. It’s commonly understood that we have something called Free Will. On the surface, that means we can operate independently and do what we please, regardless of… or in spite of the consequences. What does that ‘act independently’ mean? Independent of what? What is it that would otherwise be controlling us? I mean, if you’re going to be independent, then you have to be independent of something. Yeah?

Where does the idea, the concept of Free Will, come from in the first place? I think if you trace it back, you wind up in that time period where they screwed up Christianity, and turned it into a cash register religion, via the tender ministrations of The Council of Nicaea. You might say that the argument first surfaced with the Greeks. Everything seems to have done so. You get Socrates saying one thing, and then those who followed him altered what he said (cause they had free will).