by Jishi Santos

Created on: May 30, 2009   Last Updated: May 31, 2009

Flow, freedom and fences.

Actions as independent of the will is the definition of determinism. Sounds very much like actions that are determined and rigid and there is no other path to follow. Free will will only hinder an organized proved, rigid way of determining most aspects of life,Though safe and secure and unimaginative, this sort of approach is rather like sitting down a group of students in geography and making them copy down ideas from an old geographical determinants instead of getting out and exploring contemporary geographical features. Also ever changing information which these days can be updated daily with the growth in technological communication. However, if we hearken back to earlier ages when man was a little ignorant of progressive thought, and an age where the church seemed to control free will and subsequent free creative thought that could be progressive, we can understand the roots of something like determinism.

For a start it was a good way of controlling people. Have a set of rules and anyone that disagrees is punished. Why the Inquisition was a cruel, determined effort to force people at the pain of death, and sometimes a horrible one at that, to be believers in the Catholic church. Determinism got the numbers up to make more money out of indulgences. Determinism is an overriding force to total freedom of thought and probably something all of us come into contact with at some point of our life. School in the old days was probably full of it and is it any wonder that one of America's favorite sons, Mark Twain, once said, 'School inhibits my learning'. Of course being the intelligent, free thinker that he was, determinism would have put so many fences around his ideas. For what, control? That was pointless, as he a was a peaceful man, so much like many who have suffered the hands of determinists, who have seen them as threats to their rigid systems.

We have the great debate these days between the Evolutionists and the Creationists, the former being deterministic and the latter being free thinkers, open to all possibilities. It is really is a retrograde step, if in schools now, the determinists are getting the upper hand and the creationists story is getting pushed under the carpet. The former communist countries of Russia and China were perfect examples of the way determinism can grow to take over whole large countries. The only problem being they become stagnant, as free choice and creativity are squashed and nothing new comes

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