turquoiseb: > My particular confirmation bias, as a firm > believer in Free Will... > Maybe your belief in 'Free Will' is an indicator that you believe in the 'God of Free Will'. If anyone had free will, then they would be like a God, able to change something from one thing to another thing.
But, there is nobody on this forum that can turn lead into gold, or able to leap tall buildings. And, no Buddhist believes in Free Will anyway, since the Buddha taught the 'Twelvefold Chain of Causation'. To be pragmatic, you'd have to believe in some kind of 'determinism' - that everything happens for a reason - instead of believing that a God can enter into the world and cause change at will. Change, according to some Buddhists, is impossible - things don't really move around from one place to another, or change - it's the mind that moves and changes.
