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Remembering I have free will

Remembering I have free will

By Elise Case November 4, 2025
Go ahead. Eat that large pizza by yourself, buy that $200 Lego set and dye your hair purple at 2 a.m. It seems as if the internet has figured it out — we should do what we want and be impulsive once and a while. Be spontaneous. Live a little. Here's the thing, though: You’re not actually using your free will, because it doesn't exist. 
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

A Room With a View: X equals X in algebra and real life, but it’s not always a bad thing

By Antonia Lehnert September 12, 2021
It’s time for us to grow out of the illusions offered by free will and accept a certain degree of determinism.
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Philosophical Soup: Reality in astrology

By Max Ferrandino March 24, 2021
Astrology is in our lives whether we believe in it or not. We should respect people who embrace it.
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