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if free will is just an illusion who's the captain of your ship.
BUT.....
do you think you and i use 'buts' more often than most folks?...
i'm so reluctant to leave hold of my illusion of free will. i want to believe that i can choose to feel joy. to feel love. to be love. but my intellect leans towards determinism..so do i really have any choices?
is it all just one long continuous, cause and effect ripple from a pebble dropped, or is someone steering?
i just don't know. i feel so powerless at times that i suspect it's not me.. , yet other times the only word i can think of to describe myself is willful...
what do you think, purr ?