On Freedom of the Will

Humans are creatures that have received special treatment since the beginning. We are the dregs of the earth that are given life and freedom to choose the direction of our lives compared to other creations. Since the beginning, freedom and humans are two things that are closely related, cannot be separated and separated. The Creator breathed half of His breath, half of His appearance, and half of His intelligence and wisdom into humans to become His 'representatives' in this world. This may be what makes other creations, plants and animals see humans as someone who has a different aura of presence that makes them submit, although sometimes there is resistance as part of the instinct to survive and defend themselves, but in the end they will submit and become under the control of human domination. Some entrust their lives and devote their entire lives to serving humans as their 'gods'.

Having the mandate to control, preserve, and strive for life in the world makes humans have more privileges to move and act. This is what then becomes the basis for thinking about freedom. But the idea of ​​freedom cannot possibly emerge in a state that is basically free. It could be that the idea of ​​freedom actually emerges from a state of being confined, confined, under pressure and feeling imprisoned figuratively in a play on words and thoughts. Humans feel confined because of the rules of the Creator who, in addition to giving freedom, also sets small but absolute rules in the freedom given to humans. In Eden, or the Garden of Eden, humans were given the freedom to do anything, eat anything, it sounds like absolute freedom, but with one absolute rule, namely not being allowed to eat fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden. The earliest humans who were free paved the way for more freedom which then became an endless search with different and artificial goals to obtain freedom.

The search for freedom in the history of civilization has been rolling for a very long time, starting from the turmoil in the mind to the turmoil between physical, strategy in war with fellow humans who are the same as humans but different in physical criteria, ideology, beliefs, territory and various aspects that are sought as reasons to attack under the pretext of fighting for freedom. Freedom of will is a guide for humans to carry out their will in civilization. Human choices to make choices according to the will they want then make life more varied. Because the life of civilization is a variation of the diverse choices of the will of many humans who live and die as long as this planet rotates.

Various freedoms of will meet, synchronize, confront each other to form the flow of civilization. Every human being is equipped with the power of freedom of will given by the Creator, making humans free to realize what they want to do. This is what then popularized the phrase "you can do whatever you want. You can be whatever you want" which is very much based on freedom of will. This power of giving creates dynamics in life. Freedom of will is not only in the form of free choice to do whatever one wants or do as one pleases. Freedom of will also forms free will to create rules and norms that regulate freedom of will.

The various rules that are created are based on the free will of the rule maker. The free will to make rules first came from the Great Creator, who then gave half of this power to humans (perhaps animals also have it, as can be seen and observed from the existence of a hierarchy in several groups of animal species). The free will to make these rules then descends to some humans who have the authority to make rules. In making these rules, it can also be divided between rules made for oneself in the form of personal rules (individual rules) and rules made to regulate a group of people. Personal rules are more abstract and vary depending on each individual. Rules for society are binding and coercive in the form of legal rules and community norms, which if not followed can be subject to criminal law sanctions and social law sanctions. Personal rules have sanctions known as consequences. These consequences can be things that are detrimental to oneself in various forms that have physical and psychological consequences, and can also have a wider impact that has an impact on the lives of society.

One form of rule created because of the freedom of will possessed by humans or a group of humans, which must be followed by a million people is religion. Religion is a form of freedom of will possessed by humans as a form of freedom of will from humans to translate the task of God's call to attract as many humans as possible to follow a certain belief system with the guarantee of salvation and eternal life. God the Creator of the Universe has given the mandate and power of freedom of will for humans to create a container to organize fellow humans who believe and have faith.

Although it is not new that philosophical reflection writings consider religion, spiritual things and God to be the opposite of free will, but if seen from another perspective, religion is actually one of the valid forms of free will that humans have to freely create and regulate other humans with a solid and lasting foundation of rules (even until the end of the world. The last day, judgment). Free will is not only about being free to do anything worldly, capitalist consumerism, and the pursuit of false pleasure with miserable consequences. Free will can also be interpreted as the free will to choose to devote one's life to serving and believing in and living life according to the commands of religion and the Supreme Being who is believed in and believed in. Life is a collection of choices that are freely chosen based on free will. The choice to believe by having a religion, or choosing to believe in life without having a religion, is a free will that is freely chosen by every human being. We are all given this power by the Creator.

The freedom of will to make choices as freely as possible will meet and clash with the freedom of will to make choices as long as it follows the applicable rules, laws, and norms. These two models are the same but not the same. It's like there are two sheets of white canvas, one blank white canvas, and the other blank white canvas but with a border. On both canvases, you are given the freedom to do anything to the canvas, you can draw, paint, tear, spit on, throw dirt, anything. On canvas one can do everything freely, but on canvas two you can do anything as long as you don't cross the border. Human life goes on like these two canvases. The border is the rule of law, the rules of society, the rules of religion that are collectively binding on the wider community, which even the type of human who claims to be the freest without rules will follow depending on where they are.

This boundary is created by free will to freely determine the boundaries in life, which is then called the attitude of humanity. This attitude is another basis for human civilization, something that makes wars can experience ceasefires, wars can stop, humans have limits not to kill each other too much and too often, there is an attitude of respect and loyalty, there is time to enjoy togetherness and enjoy solitude, and various human attitudes that are considered good and approved by the majority of humans. Freedom of will by adding humanitarian values ​​is a valid combination that does not interfere with other humans. In humanity there is love, sympathy, empathy, good values ​​that maintain freedom of will to have direction and purpose. This boundary in religion is humanity as the implementation of faith in God that is believed, which is implied in religious commands, advice and prohibitions of God in the holy books of each religion, which makes religious adherents, believers can live their lives freely and directed towards the right path according to their faith. There is no confinement or feeling of being locked up in a religious prison if faith is carried out with love and sincerity without selflessness. For those who choose not to believe and not to follow religion (also a form of free will), their boundary is humanity with values ​​inspired by the many views on humanity itself that come from many thinkers in various religious beliefs and various views on life that are chosen according to their free will.

Freedom of will is a gift from the Creator given to humans as His 'representatives' on earth. As creatures who have the power to do this, humans have the freedom of will to determine what they want to be, what they want to do, what they want to follow, and what they want to avoid. As long as life is still in the body, breath is still blowing, freedom of will will always be a power expressed in the history of human civilization. It is better if this freedom of will embraces humanity so that this different and diverse life becomes beautiful, different, but not destructive and sustainable without creating barbarity that disturbs fellow humans and other creations.