'Intelligence', with 'belief', enables that ability to create, do, and/or achieve ANY thing.
'Free will' just enables 'the ABILITY, to CHOOSE'.
How does/did a child 'create' 'this world', in which 'it' exists, and is FORCED to 'experience' and/or 'suffer' and 'endure'?
How, EXACTLY, do children create much of the ABUSE that they HAVE TO experience?
'you', adult human beings, CAN do this, although 'you' RARELY DO, but HOW can a child, and especially a younger child, CHOOSE how to react and respond to the creations of "others"?
AND, 'you' can also CHOOSE to NEITHER 'believe' nor 'disbelieve'.
BUT WHY would ANY one do this?
There is CERTAINLY NO NEED TO. Unless, OF COURSE, one has had to grow up in a 'world/reality', which is NOT wanted, or just DISLIKED and/or HATED.
BUT 'free will' just refers to 'the ABILITY, to choose'.Lacewing wrote: ↑Sat Sep 17, 2022 4:56 pm We can attempt to draw others in or automatically impose our creations or stories on them. We may claim that much is out of our control or that we're just following commandments because it is a god's will and we are merely a devoted servant. We can create self-fulfilling prophecies to prove ourselves good and right. We can be dangerous, twisted little gods with our free-will creations!
'Creations' are made by and through 'intelligence', 'imagination', and a BELIEF in one's own ability to 'make 'it' happen'.
And 'you' are VERY Correct in that 'you', adult human beings, can be VERY DANGEROUS, and VERY TWISTED, LITTLE 'things'.
One is completely and utterly FREE to CHOOSE, for example, to BELIEVE that God does NOT exist, and could NEVER exist, and there will ALWAYS be MORE, but this CHOICE to BELIEVE such a thing can be a VERY DANGEROUS and VERY TWISTED LITTLE thing TO DO.Lacewing wrote: ↑Sat Sep 17, 2022 4:56 pm With free will, we can continually explore and expand our awareness and ability. We need not blame or attribute anything to anyone else when explaining what we are. There are influences... but they're like shades of color on a palette that we freely create with.
Without free will, how or why would we do any of these things?