And all of this discussion comes back around to LIH in saying... if you don't check things out for yourself, if you don't try things and see what it might get for you, if you don't do something different, whether it is looking at it a different way, feeling a different way, acting a different way... you are always at the mercy of others.
Choice (free will) is not a provable thing. I don't care. I'm not interested in proving it. I DO IT. Sitting and contemplating it without DOING something still leaves me at the mercy of others. I may not like the choices I perceive that I have (thought) ...it is my hope that I do (feeling)... but regardless, I do it anyway.
Whether that actually PUTS me more in charge of ME, or not, again, is not provable. But I certainly FEEL more in charge of me, and less at the mercy of others.
And if it CAN be proven that all I am is a bag of bones and neurons firing and hormones and animal functioning... the one of me, or the 'three' of me, the one who thinks, the one who feels, and the one who observes it all... could give a [censored] less what science OR relgion says. It works for me.
It works for me.