• n1tr0z3n
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    We are currently living in a society filled with many individuals, of different background, different experience that we've received. And all of us are needy for some necessities, some "things" we need in life as human beings. And among them, we want something that is known as Freedom. The power, the feeling of doing something based on our choice, our opinion. But the difficulty and doubt arises whenever we consider asking ourselves the question if Freedom truly exists. Now there's primarily two boundaries that conquer this doubt, the feeling of gap. It can be due to a religious perspective or a scientific perspective or simply self doubt. Or self-pity and making ourselves flee from our issues.

    In some religions it is believed that, God already knows our future. He knows all of our deeds and all things we would do in life. In that case, where's our free will? How can we be free if we are already bounded by the certainty of the events that will happen in our life? And in the perspective of science, We are nothing more than a constructed complex building block of cells. The main part of it is probably our brain cells. If our choices and decisions are only based on our motives which are born from the experience we achieve in our life, then aren't our imagination and observation getting controlled by the physical law of the world?

    In these two cases, it's considerably difficult to truly understand the existence of freedom. Are our decisions based on our own motive. Well, there are also other concerns, such as capitalism, government, politics, laws and other bounds which make us feel like we are living of slavery. But the way I like to think about these as just a boundary of our freedom. In case of law and order, we aren't absolutely allowed to do whatever we want to, and I believe that's a good thing. Because there are a certain number of things than man cannot do, acts men cannot perform. But sometimes, the opposite also happen. In case of the Scientific perspective, if our decisions are compiled of our experience and the experience end up being negative, then in this case we are also free. But free to do harmful things. Things that can be harmful for our own selves, other individuals in society. So in this matter, freedom can end up having a negative meaning in our lives as well.

    No matter in which perspective we put freedom into, I believe that there is actually an amount of freedom that exists in our lives. We have the ability, the right of making choices by our own selves, whether it's based on our experience or belief. And there are some other beliefs that actually categorize freedom to a concept of a non-existent byproduct of our feelings. And actually there's no way to define if it's right or wrong. Since it's impossible to describe the absolute truth, or describing what's the true definition of reality. So there are different beliefs about the existence of freedom that people has. But the feeling of being not in control can lead people to depression. but, if we believe that Freedom doesn't exist. Then what was the necessity to give us the ability to question about it's existence? Wouldn't it be more meaningful if we never argues about being free? Or certainly there's nothing in existence. We just give birth to our believes and faiths. And the world we live individually is nothing more than our own faith.
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    We can’t properly reflect on these things without critically reflecting of the mental tools we are using to reflect on them, such as the idea of being, the principle of non-contradiction, our subjectivity. Obviously, the problem becomes complex if we consider that, in order to reflect on our mental tools, the only way we have to do it is by using them, but, nonetheless, we can do it, while considering the limits of this condition.
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