Balance

Myriad Reality

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It does?

@Techspert

Yeah. It's chaos. True to my nature.

Myriad Reality

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Why?

@Techspert

Philosophy can go down a lot of different routes. Of course, my mind tries to take all of them. At once.

Myriad Reality

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I wonder if their happiness is true. Or if true happiness is even real.

@Techspert

Welcome to philosophy. I try not to think about that stuff, because whenever I do, my mind kind of falls apart into a jumbled mess.

Myriad Reality

The fruit of knowledge was the tomato. It gives the knowledge that it is not in fact a fruit, but as the most deceptive plant ovary, it is of course the one responsible for sin.

@DarkwolfX37

lol

Myriad Reality

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That's a good question, but I don't have an answer.

@Techspert

Neither do I. I guess we'll have to leave it off there for now. Ma'at, one of the members here, once went on a tirade about how everybody in the Path universes had free will and that destroying them was as bad as destroying Source universes. I'm not sure why she ranted about it for so long, or what brought it on, but it got me thinking about a lot of those arguments.

Myriad Reality

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Isn't that the same as living in ignorance?

@Techspert

Does it really matter?

Myriad Reality

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So if they believe they're free, that's just as good as truly being free?

@Techspert

Not at all. It's not as good as being actually free, but they're free enough to be individuals.

Myriad Reality

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But they can't choose. It's paved for them.

@Techspert

Even if all the other paths are still illusions, you have to choose a path. They still choose what they want to choose with their minds. To them, it seems like they made a free choice, and that's all that matters to free will.

Myriad Reality

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So they don't even have free will?

@Techspert

It depends on how you define free will. If it's the ability to make decisions that look like they change things, then yes, they all do. If it's the ability to make decisions that literally change things, then no, they don't, but in that case, you might be able to say that nobody has free will.

Myriad Reality

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Does that mean we're not the first ones to talk about this, or even the only us?

@Techspert

Not quite. There are many, many versions of us, but those are from Path universes, and technically should not be able to get out. Evil David is an exception, but that's another story. When we from Source universes escape as Tier Fours, our choices no longer have any bearing on what Paths exist, or something like that. There aren't any Path Existences floating around--that would be weird.