Re: The 800 pound gorilla and free will How do you define yourself?

Good stuff - funny too.

Now:

If all is predetermined, why act at all?

If our forefathers had simply sit back and observed when they were being suppressed by the British, where would we be today?  For that matter, if one single man, Thomas Paine, had not written and distributed the pamphlet "Common Sense" when a majority of the people and a majority of the members of the Continental Congress were in favor of capitulating and making peace with King George, where would we be now?

If we simply sit back and try to observe and better ourselves as individuals while believing all is predetermined, and a few good men do not again step to the fore, where will we be tomorrow?