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Oct 27, 2026
Neil JohnsonHOST
Is that a part of the purposes? What do you think the purpose of that is? Because some people might be saying, well, why was he able to rebel in the first place? Well, because he
David RichardsGUEST
was a free will agent.
David RichardsGUEST
God made the angels free will agents so that they worshipped him of their own will, not because they had to, but because they wanted to.
David RichardsGUEST
And that's the exact same free will that God has given to us through Adam.
David RichardsGUEST
We have a free will to either reject God or to have a relationship with him.
David RichardsGUEST
And Lucifer, unfortunately... didn't go along with the best intentions of that.
Neil JohnsonHOST
And so God creates humanity, but there is this rebellion that tests the free will of humanity.
Neil JohnsonHOST
Is that a fair enough way of putting that? Are we under a test? Is the presence of Lucifer or Satan or the presence of evil something that's causes people in the creation of God, our humanity, to need to rise and make our own free will choices.
Joe BartolozziHOST
Do you have free will? This is one of the biggest topics I would say in philosophy and also mentioned very frequently in theology that many philosophers kind of write about and give their own takes on as well as just, you know, everyday people that, you know, have some sort of interest in whether or not they actually have a choice in the things that they have in life.
Joe BartolozziHOST
Or whether or not everything is predetermined.
Joe BartolozziHOST
That's basically what free will is.
Joe BartolozziHOST
Do you have the capacity to choose and make choices yourself, or is everything that you're ever going to go through in your life predetermined and known by fate prior to choice? you doing those specific tasks or making those specific choices.
Joe BartolozziHOST
We've talked about free will before on stream, but I really wanted to dive into this topic and give you some takes from different philosophers that I've read, as well as my own on whether or not you are the author of your own life and you can make the decisions yourself, or if everything is predetermined and you're basically a cog in the machine with like the false knowledge or pretense of free will.
Joe BartolozziHOST
Free will, like most topics in philosophy, is heavily disagreed upon.
Joe BartolozziHOST
Depending on who you read, you're going to get varying takes on opposite ends of the spectrum.
Joe BartolozziHOST
In my experience, usually leaning towards no free will for the non-religious individuals and free will for the more theologically involved people.
Joe G.GUEST
That makes me feel so good because I had the same problem that you're having because I come from like a very deterministic astrology background.
Joe G.GUEST
So I'm like, why is it that we even try to do elections if like we feel like there could be like less agency in the world? And then The more I thought about this, the more I realized that even if there is no free will, the act of just experiencing life views like free will enough and if election astrology gives us a framework to make those choices from that sort of like free will place instead of thinking about how the astrology is going to happen to us and more so how we are going to happen to the astrology then that to me was enough to make it a worthwhile venture uh even if if we don't have a say on how things go in the end i think that Just feeling that, feeling that power and feeling the ability to navigate life as it unfolds, I think that that's all it's about.
Laura OrcuttHOST
Yeah, that deterministic kind of astrology has always challenged me because I'm like, there's got to be free will, right? Like, we can't live in a world where there's no free will.
Laura OrcuttHOST
That to me, that just makes my heart sink.
Laura OrcuttHOST
So yeah, I guess whatever floats your boat.
Danielle SearanckeGUEST
And if they think information is coming from the ancestors, they don't question it as much as if I'm transparent about I'm picking this up psychically, aka you have a lot of choice and empowerment there.
Danielle SearanckeGUEST
But when it comes from the ancestors, it really feels like instructions and it can take away people's perceived free will.
Danielle SearanckeGUEST
But free will always relies with the sitter, a.k.a. the client.
Danielle SearanckeGUEST
But that's the difference.
Lorne BrownHOST
And you do both meetingship and some psychic work.
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Danielle SearanckeGUEST
We come here to experience the whole spectrum of emotions.
Danielle SearanckeGUEST
We come here to learn how to create a great life or sometimes we might come through to pick a really hard life.
Danielle SearanckeGUEST
There's a whole episode on my show episode seven that's centered around addictions and it's my belief based off of how many people i've worked with in active and recovering addictions that people who choose to come here with a path of addictions are huge teachers for us around compassion around empathy and therefore i feel like they could be quite advanced souls who come in with a struggle path to help teach the people around us So it's quite complex, but I think that there's a lot of choice and free will, a lot more than a lot of spiritual teachers think about.
Frater RCHOST
The nature of spirits, the nature of daimones, gods, angels, all these beings, right? Like, a lot of people want to put them in a box, right? and say this is how they come into existence but it it seems to me like a very odd agenda to want to have some um fundamental ontological understanding of things that are that are spiritual and and beyond a full human grasping i mean john d writing in his diaries right asked the angels exactly like he sort of wants the angels to give him word for word how to pray for the self-initiation into the Enochian system.
Frater RCHOST
And they're like, yeah, we can't do that because it has to be a prayer that comes from the free will of man to God.
Frater RCHOST
And he's like, well, what's that? He's like, okay, well, what exact words should I use then? They're like, yo, buddy, we're not men.
Frater RCHOST
We have no idea how you relate to God.
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Ike BakerGUEST
And it's one of those things, too, where you...
Ike BakerGUEST
it requires a little bit of an adept kind of mindset of things.
Ike BakerGUEST
So you can do stuff in your life that does not interfere with the free will of another person.
Ike BakerGUEST
So like love spells and things like that, the katadesme of, you know, PGM and Hellenistic magic, that's not the kind of stuff that you want to be doing because there's an element of coercion to that or at least a... sort of, you're blocking the other person's true free will, um, and being able to make a choice.
Shahrez HayderGUEST
Because, because you have a choice.
Shahrez HayderGUEST
And this is where people always, always come to me and they say, well, like, like, what about the people who are homeless? Don't they have a free will? Can't they get rich? Because I say it's an equal playing field.
Shahrez HayderGUEST
We can all get rich.
Shahrez HayderGUEST
Right.
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Shahrez HayderGUEST
The other two are irrelevant because they're too small for us to even care about.
Shahrez HayderGUEST
And the other two here are beyond our capacity, so we don't even have to worry about it.
Shahrez HayderGUEST
But see, this is the issue, right? is that people that in the Dean, they're too concerned about understanding God and free will.
Shahrez HayderGUEST
They're too concerned, deep diving, thinking, wait, what's ordained and what's free will.
Darrell Dee Sullins JrHOST
Right.
Darrell Dee Sullins JrHOST
Like no matter what you choose, free will or not, at the end of the day, God knows you're going to go to heaven or hell.
Darrell Dee Sullins JrHOST
Right.
Darrell Dee Sullins JrHOST
What would be the purpose of being here and being a disciple? And that's exactly that, is what you're explaining.
Darrell Dee Sullins JrHOST
One is because God tells us to, and it's a form of obedience.
Darrell Dee Sullins JrHOST
But also, you don't know who you may reach.
Darrell Dee Sullins JrHOST
I personally think free will comes into play with the day-to-day life.
Darrell Dee Sullins JrHOST
How I live here on earth.
speaker_1NARRATOR
you are not free.
speaker_1NARRATOR
This theory about the absence of free will from human life suggests that individuals have the ability to make choices and take actions based on their desires.
speaker_1NARRATOR
However, they do not have the ability to control the will behind any of their actions, thus making them a slave to their own desires.
speaker_1NARRATOR
In order to prove this theory, the following thought experiment is proposed.
Joe BartolozziHOST
You had no control over where you were born, what school you went to, what you ate for a lot of your life.
Joe BartolozziHOST
How much money you make, what job you're usually going into, because all of those things change depending on the things that you have access to and you're given from a time where you're not really conscious.
Joe BartolozziHOST
And then even when you are, those things impacted your personality to where they've affected you, not in a free will sense, to where you're no longer the person that you thought you were freely.
Joe BartolozziHOST
Everything you are has been made and impacted by another person.
PeterHOST
here.
PeterHOST
You guys do have free will.
PeterHOST
I will affirm that.
PeterHOST
We'll see what happens.
PeterHOST
We've got results.
PeterHOST
You have
SamusGUEST
free will.
SamusGUEST
Nice.
Joe BartolozziHOST
I want to believe in God because if God does exist, that's fucking golden for me, right? That's fucking yes, right? That'd be a score, but I can't believe in it unless I was convinced of it.
Joe BartolozziHOST
And that's because God gave me free will off of what you're saying, right? I have the free will and the reason in my own brain to, you know, not believe in it.
Joe BartolozziHOST
And I currently don't.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Why do you desire proof? Is proof a good thing? Once you recognize this as Christians, you can watch videos like this all the time and recognize that these people are behaving in such a way that ultimately is going to abound greatly to the glory of God.
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Joe BartolozziHOST
how is that selfish i see it like this is bro this is i i'm done let's just keep no let's just keep watching
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
he said that he was a christian in the past but what do christians believe christians believe that all things are being worked together for good and everything that's happening is part of god's plan so yes everything that you do god allowed you to do it christians aren't thinking themselves but
Joe BartolozziHOST
I have free will.
Joe BartolozziHOST
What do you mean? How am I going to attribute that? He's stepping away.
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