If you had free will, you could simply will yourself to be completely happy and blissed out all the time
#freewill #determinism
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I'd never heard of The Secret til now. So, I scrolled thru your hashtag link.
Does it work? Are people getting results? It kind of looks like "faith healing" to me. You know... just believe... have faith...
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Placebo effect is a real thing after all.
And sometimes faking it causes the making it.
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So, you're saying that you can will yourself to be happy and blissed out all the time by faking it?
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No. We do not have full control of our environment. But we do have certain abilities to adapt our environment to be more conducive for healthy behavior.
By destroying your cigarettes beforehand, it makes it more difficult to smoke them during a moment of weak-willpower.