posted on Jul, 11 2017 @ 04:02 PM
originally posted by: TheConstruKctionofLight
a reply to: rickymouse
I like to entertain the occasional delusion that I have free will
When we are walking down a hallway looking for the bathroom, we need to pay attention to what door we open. Once you open the wrong door you can get
distracted and the consequences can be pretty crappy.
That is the extent of our free will. Our desire to believe we made the right choice when we didn't usually means we are on the wrong path. Society
also is a strong controller of our free will, sometimes that is good and sometimes it is bad. Lately what is considered normal in society is not
sensible. What society usually pushes now is economic policy, they want us to spend more than we earn to supply people with work so they can spend
more than they earn.
Can you tell I have been trying to set up my granddaughters wedding and reception? I am doing a good job, it will be in our yard and we will have
natural casing hot dogs, Johnsonville brats, and grass fed organic beef hamburgers, and corn on the cob. On top of that we are having a pot luck so
people will be bringing some food. Dinner for around fifty relatives will cost about three hundred bucks or so. My granddaughter and her husband
want a little intertainment, there will be guitar jamming, the accordian will be out there and a few people will be playing violas and other
instruments. It will be a byob alcohol party. The fire pit will be going and three grills will be fired up, one wood grill, one charcoal grill, and
one gas grill. We will be having a big dutch oven with homemade peach cobbler in it and strawberry shortcakes for deserts along with whatever potluck
people bring. Now, if you consider all the food, maybe it will cost about eight bucks a head. I could do it for half that, but I want high quality
food. Why should it be expensive to get married, why should it be expensive to die or to be born. Society is making everything expensive,
including healthcare.