shower

well, off to rainhill in just a few minutes, but before i go - here's one of the 'musings' i had in the shower...

was contemplating free will, and although i believe it exists, i just think the term's a difficult one for explaining it. i think the term 'free will' implies that we are free to will anything into being or into happening. it sounds a bit much (to me) like the popular sayings "do your best", "you can change the world if you just try hard" etc.

i believe, rather, that we have free choice, and i think this way of expressing the concept of being able to choose what actions you take, what thoughts you think etc:

• allows room for God (not that he needs us to allow room for him, except in our minds)

and

• puts us back down to the level we were created at, under God (it was him that 'willed' the world into being, not us, but he made us with free choice to live the life he created us to live, or our own lives, which are crap.