Explain your position.
2006-07-11 08:47:55 · 26 answers · asked by tangerine 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Free will. Fate is a mystical entity posited by those who wish to disclaim responsibility for their lives. Free will is something I experience – personally, directly, intimately – every day. I can't prove it exists, but I can constantly FEEL it.
2006-07-11 09:49:20 · answer #1 · answered by Keither 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I believe in both
Fate sometimes is uncontrollable, some things are meant to happen
Free will id just making your own decisions, many people make them and sometimes they screw with fate as a result and screw themselves and per say there future with their soulmate.
For instance, some people are in a hurry to get married or get married because they are pregnant or for other reasons. Later, they meet their match and now they are stuck because they can not have them because they are otherwise obligated to someone else.
Many of us have a hard time making the right choice over what feels good now and what is gonna make their future better, so therefore they runi their fate.
Some times things happen because they are meant to, i.e. fate. You meet someone at the right time for a reason that you later find out why. It may be a friend who you will soon need for an unknown reason, or your soulmate after you break up with your boyfriend, or you come across an opportunity to make money when you will soon need it.
Fate sometimes steps in and ruins things that are not meant to be as well due to choices we made of free will.
I hope this expalins why I believe in both.
2006-07-11 15:57:29 · answer #2 · answered by countrygrl278 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One could ask:
Do you believe fate and free Will have significance in a "reality" that nullifies uncertainty, fate and free will?
It seems that fate and free will can have no meaning to social beings who are necessarily compromised by society and the constraints of "reality".
Fate and free will can only have meaning if there is an environment or space where one can witness the effects of fate and where one can exercise ones free will. No such place exists while Man dwells within the confines of social settings and is consequently, subject to social forces.
2006-07-11 16:09:31 · answer #3 · answered by blake 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both. Some things happen to us due to circumstances out of our control, that is FATE...FREE WILL is the way we handle what fate hands us. It's all about choices. We make our own destinies based on what we do with each situation in out life. No matter what, there is always a choice to be made. The only thing that we have no choice about is being born into this world. What we do from there is all about choice.
2006-07-11 15:53:29 · answer #4 · answered by Caspers Princess 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no freedom of the will, and that belief is perpetuated only by an arrogance of the flesh. People will apply Newton's law of physics that "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction" to every material except themselves. Why is the flesh and the mind exempt from this universal law? Arrogance, and the need to feel beyond the laws that govern two colliding marbles.
I do believe in fate, but of course, we are incapable of knowing it. Humans ride a wave from day one - right onto the beach.
I wrote the following and it is the underlying premise of all of my philosophies:
Every action is a reaction,
And never will be made a decision
Defying the scales of disposition.
2006-07-11 17:10:16 · answer #5 · answered by rlw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not to sound too corny, but I believe in fate with the free will to change course. Say a chicken decides to cross the road. At that point it is his fate to get run over by the pizza delivery van. The zinger is that if the chicken had decided not to cross the road, would he still get hit by the van?
2006-07-11 15:54:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in both. it is hard to explain my position. I believe we have the power to choose and change our fate, but i do believe we have a certain path laid out for us, but it can change into something different with our choices.
2006-07-11 15:51:41 · answer #7 · answered by Govinda505 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you have done everything out of free will, then looking back at your life might be considered fate?
2006-07-11 15:52:31 · answer #8 · answered by coloklute 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fate is what you get stuck with if you don't believe in free will.
2006-07-11 16:16:52 · answer #9 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know which I believe in but I prefer to think that there is no fate. I'd rather think that my actions determined my future and that I set my own path.
2006-07-11 15:50:38 · answer #10 · answered by krd12 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋