IF WE REALLY HAD FREE WILL, WHAT WOULD WE DO ALL DAY?

Get angry. Get angry with your school, with your government, with science. Because you had to hear it here, and not from them.

This website wants to convince you that:
• You are a robot
• 90% of what you do is a waste of time
• The billionaires are spending their money on the wrong things
• Aliens will never visit the Earth
• The only reason you're not happy all the time is because the non-conscious part of your brain thinks that "being unhappy" will maximise the survival chances of your genes  
• ​Life could be very much better than it is. And one day it will be. But it may be too late for you. So get angry with your government before it's too late

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Are humans robots?
Yes, we can't choose the things that make us feel good
Depends on your definition of robot!
No, we can also choose what it is that we want in the first place

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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. — Aristotle 
I'm getting fed up with my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own. — Alexei Sayle 
The initial configuration of the universe may have been chosen by God, or it may itself have been determined by the laws of science. In either case, it would seem that everything in the universe would then be determined by evolution according to the laws of science, so it is difficult to see how we can be masters of our fate. — Stephen Hawking 
Money didn't make me happy, but it definitely improved my sex life.  — Felix Dennis  
A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills. — Schopenhauer 
If you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you. — Bill Bryson

​The Meaning of Life

If the aim of our lives is to maximise pleasant feelings and to minimise unpleasant feelings,
and...
whether we feel good or bad is regulated by a part of our own brain that we can't consciously control,
then...
the aim of our lives amounts to nothing more than convincing our own brain to make us feel good.