+54 You will never know if the decisions you make in life are a result of you actually making a choice or if that is how it's always been meant to happen. amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Both

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Can you say how you know?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Belief

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Many people see these as mutually exclusive disjuncts. How can I reconcile that my choices are determined yet still choices? Is this a definitional problem?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I don't seem them as mutually exclusive I make a choice willfully and this choice was meant to happen some feel that this contradicts and for some, it clicks I don't know if it's a definitional thing or not but I do think most have the same meaning for free will and destiny or maybe they don't I haven't asked many to define these

by Anonymous 11 years ago

This debate has been raging for at least 3 millenia. If I my decisions are scripted then I do not have a choice, I must read my lines. On the other hand, if I have choice then there is no script so my actions are //ad libito//. Is there some way to have both? Perhaps a script but you can deviate from it whenever you want? Or no script but if you cannot think of your next line someone tells you what to do?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Wasn't it once suggested (perhaps by Feyman) that there could be multiple, parallel universes, and that each time an event happens, another universe begins in which that event didnt happen? I'm probably bastardizing the concept, but if something close to this is true, then we could be making choices, and it would still be destiny. So what John once sang could be true... "There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be."

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I am familiar with this concept. Maybe when faced with choices we actually choose the all and spawn a new set of universes in which ever possibly is represented in an infinite number of multiverses.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

You did a much better job explaining what I was suggesting.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

The way I see it, you do have a choice in the moment, but when it comes down to it, things are going to work out one certain way or the other in the end. That specific way is molded by all the choices you make. So there is a set way, but there's no big ominous "script" sitting somewhere, to use the metaphor made in VicZinc's comment above. You have choices, and your choices create the future that will happen.

by Anonymous 11 years ago