Re: Free Will.
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I haven't believed in free will for about 8 years now. I was going through some hard times and used to take long walks to get away from my situation. On one of these walks, I came up with a theory that I later learned is similar to if not exactly like what Buddhists call the law of dependent origination. I don't know if I have the buddhists philosophy right but to to me it means that every action is based on the action/decision/perception that directly preceded it. And of course that action/decesion/perception was based on the one right before it. And you can go back all the way until the time when you or any individual was just a toddler.
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But in Buddhism, I believe that one wants to become enlightened and escape this chain of causation. So if you regard the law of dependent origination as the opposite of free will, then I suppose the (Buddhist) conclusion is that free will exists, but only for the enlightened.
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