2006-08-22 11:44:25 · 11 answers · asked by kevinhoegle 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
predestination is the science of saying "I don't know what will happen, but when that something happens it was meant to happen and nothing else could have happened." It is entirely useless, perhaps it is true but if so there is still really no use in thinking about it. And the idea that humans have a free will is often misconstrued also, it is true but only in an ideal world which does not exist. If a gun is pointed to your head and you are asked to do something you have two choices, die or follow orders, is that free will?
2006-08-22 11:53:39 · answer #1 · answered by kioruke 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free will and predestination can coexist. In some instances, you have the power to make choices that will change your path in life; However, some things were meant to be your destiny. I once heard the saying "water reaches it's own level," and I believe that it means that no-matter how you deviate from your course, you will eventually be where you were meant to be.
2006-08-22 11:53:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Predestination occurs when one lacks the vision of the scope of possibilities resulting from ones choice. Circumstances arise as a result of a series of events coming to fruision. Events determine the course of said circumstances which in turn creates alternate circumstances. Creating a never-ending cycle of quantum machanical possibilities, in essence, we create our own reality via our choices. This reality only becomes reality when it comes in contact with anothers reality, or creation of reality. Watch the movie "What the Bleep do we know".
2006-08-22 11:54:54 · answer #3 · answered by Rob 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Predestination is a cop out. It means we have no choice, or rather, that our choices are subservient to a greater force, a god with a plan or design, when in reality, if there is a god, than that god is not preoccupied with our choices but rather is in spite of them. Not that we determine our own fates. We don't. We do have choices, we make them everyday, and hopefully, we accept the consequences of those choices.
2006-08-22 11:59:32 · answer #4 · answered by wally 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Predestined to have free will?
2006-08-22 11:51:05 · answer #5 · answered by smecky809042003 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
free will is the willingness to face predestination
2006-08-22 18:10:34 · answer #6 · answered by mochi.girl 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Here is my spin on that, and think what ou will, but its what i think. I dont think that either acan exsist together, However, You can take fre will and pair it up with Forordination and they work to gether and here is why. Foreordination means simply that You have been chosen to do something, but its up to you and the decisions you make to get there, there are no expections that something or not. With this scenario, you have Choice.
2006-08-22 11:52:42 · answer #7 · answered by Metallicat 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is one GOOD question. One I have struggled with as well. I mean if we all have a purpose or plan; yet we also have the ability to change that plan; then how can we truly believe in destiny when it can change not only by us but by others' actions as well... Tough one.
2006-08-22 12:00:21 · answer #8 · answered by Michael B 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
presestination is nonsense. the world is the way it is because of the results of the combined choices of all the billions of us that have ever lived. there have been predictions that have come true, but we could've changed the outcome if we chose to.
2006-08-22 11:58:21 · answer #9 · answered by Alibaba F 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That it is only by becoming aware of our influences and underlying motivations that we are able to break the cycle that perpetuates them.
2006-08-22 15:15:25 · answer #10 · answered by A K 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋