Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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We only do things for 2 reasons; either we want to, or we have to (lemm.ee)

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There's no freedom in having to do something but you're also not free to choose your wants.

Maybe it's better to just live and let life happen instead of thinking about what could've been. What ever happened is the only thing that could've happened.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

To have a strong feeling to have (something); wish (to possess or do something); desire greatly: synonym: desire.

Pick any dictionary definition for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, I neither have to nor have any strong desire to wake up early on a Saturday, but I still do because of a force of habit, how does that fit into your definition?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's involuntary action. Not something you choose to do.

The title is essentially an argument against free will. The illusion that you could have done otherwise. Waking up early out of habit is no indication of free will to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wasn't arguing for free will, I was arguing against your argument, and, as you can see, it is flawed.

When it comes to free will - in a situation where you have to make a choice it doesn't matter that post-factum you can say that you couldn't have chosen otherwise due to internal and external factors, what matters is that in the moment you still have to make that choice, and no one (oftentimes not even you) can really predict the outcome.

Also, determinism is flawed simply because quantum mechanics exists, which is decidedly indeterministic and deals with probabilities, and there are phenomenons where it affects things on a macro scale.