Why does God allow bad things and suffering?

I'm not reporting anyone.

If ants can only abide by their baser instincts, then that is only because they have a less complex brains than humans. But they do act in accordance to their desires as informed by their preferences and traits, the same as humans do. The fact that humans do not only act in accordance with basic instincts is evidence only of the complex array of inputs and the sophistication of the mechanism processing those inputs; not evidence of some kind of 'ghost in the machine'.

It is you who has an emotional attachment to the idea there's no free will mic.

You subscribe to this philosophy because it gives you an "out" for where you find yourself in life.

You can lie to yourself and say that the life choices you made and your appallingly negative attitude didn't lead you to become the wretch of human being you are,instead it was predetermined and you were programmed to behave this way.

All self serving bullshit to abdicate responsibility for your own behaviour and actions.

The monumental hubris you've displayed on this thread has been breathtaking.

You have actually projected your delusions and damaged psyche onto the entire human fucking race.

So if Mic can see no point in living and hates his life because of all the suffering he's endured then the rest of humanity must feel as he does.

I love my life and my daughter is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Nothing will ever change that.

I had someone I know kill himself he wasn't sick or ill just depressed and what a waste that was.

One things for damned sure I wouldn't let you be around people like him in a million years.

So if free will exists, how does that work then? You choose which thoughts to think before thinking them?

Listen mate I have no intention of going round the houses with you as you regurgitate that nihilistic navel gazing claptrap you've been spouting for years.

I'm saying free will exists because I use it everyday.

You of course can't contradict that statement using definitive evidence

End of.

I leave you with the words of Andy Dufresne from the Shawshank Redemption

"Get busy living or get busy dying"

And how have you been able to divine the difference between actual free will and acting in accordance with your nature and preferences? Do you ever experience the sensation of deliberating on which thoughts you are going to think before thinking them; which preferences to prefer before preferring them?

What you're saying is essentially no difference from a theist saying "we're all God's creations", and your assertion only works for as long as you don't dig down any deeper to try and figure out what "free will" actually is. Because if you did attempt to examine it, you would find that it is impossible to arrive at a coherent and meaningful definition of "free will".



There is abundant evidence, and determinism is rapidly becoming a matter of scientific consensus.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-will/480750/