Is there any such thing as an absolute?

The Buddhist in me thinks that you may dismiss the possibility of absolutes once you recognize that things can always get worse.The wall would teach you that eventually.

Speaking for myself and not ringo, I'd say choices are an illusion.Who chooses? An executive construct conditioned by its unique intersection of genetics and circumstance: time, place, culture, the particulars of family structure and the personalities of its members, nutrition, chance encounters with disease vectors and mentors...and the array of choices is equally conditioned and pared by all of the above as well as larger historical, geological and astronomical sets.So what part of all that is willed? How much sense does it make to say that this defined, determined construct of a creature, presented a limited set of stimuli, responds to one most strongly and thus "chooses" Coke over Pepsi?Free will should be made of sterner stuff. Perhaps when we are like gods we will discover it.