Mason Riggle

@SQAAD absolutely. The cessation of 'judgement' is just one of benefits of dispelling the myth of 'free will'. The point is, you can't 'lose control of yourself' because you never had it. 'Free Will' was never the case to begin with. Organisms can, however, if it occurs to them, lose the belief in the notion of 'free will', which will affect how those organisms behave.

Infinity (nothingness) is limitless.. it's without limits. 'Experience' is one of the things infinity can be, because it can be literally anything. Consider: if you had a bag, that contained infinite different objects... if you began pulling objects out of this bag, and you did it for an infinite amount of time, eventually, one of the objects you would pull out would be the reality being experienced now.

^this part of what you said is True. We (plurality) are then one thing (singular) there is. Even imagined duality is the one thing there is when it's imagined, and that's what you (Everything there is) are. Always. It (Everything) is Always (eternally) Now.

It's possible to be the one thing there is.

@Giulio Bevilacqua okay, then don't. I suppose if you're not 'doing' anything, there's nothing to do.

@Giulio Bevilacqua bring attention to the present moment, which is all there is. Look around.. listen.. feel what is happening now. Is there anything to fear presently? Anything to resist? If you are experiencing anxiety, you are lost in thoughts of the future which never comes. It's always now.

Don't worry. Everything will be okay in the end.. if everything is not okay, it's not the end.

@Dodo 'fresh and new' doesn't mean 'free will'.. a tree somewhere is sprouting fresh and new flowers as we speak.. do you think this means trees have free will? Could it have grown it's flowers some other way than how it is, just because the one it's growing now has never been grown before?

@Dodo I am something that is happening, not 'doing'. Sure the organism 'Mason Riggle' does things, but it does them all by itself. There is no 'me' hiding somewhere inside my organism 'doing my organism'. It doesn't have to 'try to be itself'.. it just is itself. A thinking, breathing, growing system. What you take to be the 'thinker' of thoughts is just more thoughts.. what your organism imagines to be the 'doer' of what it's doing doesn't exist. There is no separate 'you' inside your organism somewhere telling your organism what to do.. your organism functions automatically, exactly how it will, and no other way.

"Why we still keep Acting like we have Free Will?" Because we have no choice!

The only thing I ever do is 'be myself' and I never have to try to do it. I happen automatically. I couldn't 'not be myself' if I tried, because 'trying not to be how I am being' is just more 'how I am being'.

This is not correct. People might 'think' they are doing what they don't want to do.. but they are really doing exactly what they want to do.. which is doing something they think they don't want to do. It's just that there is some stronger 'want' they don't recognize.. I don't want to wash the dishes.. but I do, because my desire for the dishes to be washed is greater than my desire to 'not wash them'. Wanting and 'not wanting' are the same thing..

@Dodo I think you perhaps missed something along the way. Even if you were 'God' with total freedom to do anything you want.. if you are not free to want 'other than what you do want'.. where is the freedom? This is why God = Love = Truth. Reality is how it is because that's how it Loves to be... if it loved being some other way, it would be that way.

You are how you are because conditions of reality dictate as such.. Reality can never be 'other than how it is'. Consider, if you were me, you would doing exactly what I am doing right now, because you would be me.

@Dodo There is no separation between 'you' and the 'environment'.. You are part of my environment, and I am part of yours.. but it's all the same environment... There is just 'the environment' of which you are a part, behaving how it will.

@Dodo there are a whole set of conditions that have to occur for you to imagine 'adding 1' that you have nothing to do with.. could you do it IF you were a fish? Could you do it IF you had no concept of '1' or 'adding'?

@Dodo 'Can IF'.. you can imagine... IF that occurs. If it never occurred to you to 'add 1', could you do it?

What will you think next? Do you know before the thought arises? Where is the freedom?

Any attempt to change what's occurring is just more 'what's occurring'. Woulds, Coulds (and Shoulds) are always actually, 'would ifs' and 'could ifs' (and 'should ifs')... This 'would' happen IF conditions are such that it happens. This 'could' happen IF conditions are such that they do happen. Conditions at any moment are whatever they are, and never other than what they are.

@Dodo if the Justice System was no longer based in the idea that individuals are personally responsible for their actions, it would switch from a more 'retributive' system to a more pragmatic system, where it removes people from society to protect society, acts as a deterrent, and focuses more on rehabilitation, than punishment.

@Dodo what happens happens.. is happening.. and continues to happen.. exactly if, when, and how it WILL..

@WelcometoReality yes, recognizing that there is no freedom, is counterintuitively... absolutely liberating!

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The 'no-self' is already permanent.. what happens is, often times the belief in a 'separate self' arises, and other times it's not there. With practice, some humans get very consistent at remembering that the 'self' is a belief in something that isn't there, if that occurs. You can't dispel 'the self', because there's no 'you' to dispel, and no 'you' who might dispel it.. There are organisms, that don't have a self, that sometimes have thoughts that they do..

^exactly. Nobody acts like they have free will, because there is no such thing as 'acting like you have free will'. No one has any idea what 'acting like they have free will' is like. Consider what it would be like for a whirlpool to discover it wasn't causing itself to swirl around.. what would that change for the whirlpool? Would it suddenly stop swirling? Of course not. There are certain behaviors, of course, that were influenced by 'the belief in having free will', that change when that belief is dispelled. For example, when it's recognized that no one is authoring their own thoughts, it ceases making sense to treat others as if they are personally responsible for being how they are, and so things like 'judgement' also stop making sense.. and so a being who is successful in consistently dispelling their own belief in 'free will', will be more successful at 'not judging'.. not because 'not judging' is a good thing to do.. but because the alternative no longer makes sense.