A member of Think Atheist whose posts I have quoted before has posted a wonderful summation of the way in which free will and predetermination interact and exist simultaneously:
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"Our choices aren’t free in a libertarian sense: they’re free within the constraints of our experience; our identity. Perhaps Arthur Schopenhauer summed it up best: “Man can do what he wills but he can not will what he wills.” We can do, in the present, whatever our experience has prepared us for."
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Wow, that is one stupid quote, and you think that explains it best? And you wonder why people think atheists are stupid? Sir: if we could do whatever we wanted, we'd all be God. You seem like someone with narcissism disorder.
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