/lit/ - Literature

>>18719687
There is a lot of talk about humanity's free will in multiple parts of the Bible (Genesis, Job, the Gospels, etc). Unfortunately, you do kind of have to rely on the handwavey thing to deal with your second question. We cannot know what it is like to be truly omniscient/omnipotent. This is a reddit-tier addendum, but one thing that I've always found interesting is that Laplace's Demon, the idea that if one knew the mass and motion of all particles in the universe, he would know all future events and outcomes (which I would think constitutes omniscience), has been fundamentally challenged due to certain discoveries in quantum mechanics/physics. Just food for thought. As for your first bit, I think it is a matter of personal opinion. I feel like forced happiness is fundamentally lesser than chosen happiness. If I did not have free will, I likely wouldn't care about my happiness being lesser, but as I am right now I would not choose to be a happy machine. Thanks for your non-confrontational reply anon. I hate when these threads devolve into retarded back-and-forth namecalling.