<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> William Flynn Wallace </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><font size="4">> I just want to know what the hell the term means.</font></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">I suspect, without any evidence at all, that it comes from Christianity.  If we are always doing God's will because that's the way God set it up,</blockquote><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​<font size="4">Does God have free will? Either God set things up the way He did for a reason, in which case He<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ was ​</div>subject<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ed​</div> to cause and effect just as we are, or he <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​was not​</div>​ in which case His behavior is random rather like the decay of a Uranium atom. Where does free will enter into this?</font></span><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span name="Dan TheBookMan" class="gmail-gD" style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dan TheBookMan</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;white-space:nowrap"> </span><span class="gmail-go" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;white-space:nowrap"><a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com">danust2012@gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;white-space:nowrap"> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>I believe in free will</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​I don't know if I believe in free will or not because I have no idea what the term means.​</div> </font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">​I understand what "will" means, I want to do some thing and don't want to do other things, ​and my likes and dislikes are a function of both the state of my brain and the state of the environment; but I don't know the meaning of "free will" </font> </div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div><div> </div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font><div class="gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="gmail-m_-7345446146981696380h5"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div>