I mean it' s like that saying "Everything happens for a reason".Does anyone out there think that we have any real control over our lives or is there a higher power controlling things?
2006-10-24 07:05:24 · 15 answers · asked by nachomanhulk 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
have you not watched The truman show??
2006-10-24 07:07:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, life happens and everything that happens is for a reason, I live by that! I'm not sure of a higher power at work or not, I cant conceive it so I don't bother with it. I do whats right I make choices after deliberating the good from the bad. Every choice you make takes you to the place your meant to be.
Read "The Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield. It will give you a pleasure for the idea that things happen for a reason! Nothing is by coincidence! Good luck with your journey!
2006-10-24 07:14:12 · answer #2 · answered by violettelillyrose81 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Answer: Both.
Life is not an Aristotelian two value logic. The life you live will have a certain path based on your choices which may or may not be random. At some points, you have control; others you do not. For example, you may choose to go to college, but what colleges you choose are only the ones you were accepted.
"Everything happens for a reason" is not biblical. Reason is based on Aristotelian two value logic as used in the scientific method. Tell the parent who grieves that his/her child's death that there is a reason, or the emptiness he/she will feel for the rest of his/her life is rational. Emotions (in this case lost) have no reasons: We feels (or in some cases mast them)
Life is to be lived, not a puzzle to be solved.
2006-10-24 07:25:41 · answer #3 · answered by J. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We make choices, but we have no free will. There is no law of physics, chemistry, biology, or neurology that cannot be expressed mathematically. As the mind is an emergent behavior of the brain, everything our mind does is equally computable (even if the computation is currently not feasible). This pretty much negates free will.
When you realize that one of the most interesting conundrums of the universe is the arrow of time and the idea that time doesn't actually 'flow', one comes to the very possible (though hardly proven) idea that our past, present, and future all were set in stone in one pre-time instant, and only the arrow of time and our limited perceptions keep us from seeing our set-in-stone future.
This is how I view the world. I was born, lived, and died 12-15 billion years ago in the moment the inflationary era began. I'm just now getting around to existing to experience it, even though it's all set in stone anyways.
2006-10-24 07:12:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to decide the answer to this question for yourself. Its a matter of choosing between a belief in 'destiny' or 'free will'. If you believe in 'destiny' then your life is already mapped out from the beginning to the end and there's nothing you can do to change anything. However, if you believe in 'free will' then you can make choices as you pass along the road of life. You'll have to ask yourself, are the choices I am making, preordained [destiny] or really of my own free will? Difficult one a sort of Catch-22.
2006-10-24 07:17:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well we obviously have to make decisions by ourselves, otherwise we wouldnt be able to function as a society.
the religious concept of a higher power controlling things means that we are free to make our own choices, but God already knows what one we're going to pick. so we are free, but God knows.
Its like a close friend; if you were offered the choice of eating either an apple or chocolate bar, you would be totally free to make that choice, but your friend would know what one youd choose.
hope this helps a bit!
2006-10-24 07:17:21 · answer #6 · answered by clairelouise 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is more of a spirituality question. Our lives are planned out but it doesn't mean that we have no control over it. It's called free will and we all have it.
2006-10-24 07:12:48 · answer #7 · answered by Psalm91 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't be foolish, Kate. We control what we do. I rang for a curry an hour ago, my choice. It still hasn't come, I blame Thatcher but that's another story. I'm gonna slap myself 8 times in a vain attempt to get across to you that we control what we do.
Viscounts rule
2006-10-24 07:09:32 · answer #8 · answered by Falcone 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is no higher power,we make choices,some good,some bad.A lot of things happen to us,over which we have no control,but we still have to try & deal with them.To put it bluntly,s*it happens.
2006-10-24 07:15:08 · answer #9 · answered by michael k 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some power greater than ourselves gives us the ability to reason...so don't stand in front of a semi truck and think "karma" is going to save you. all the skill in the world is no good without a little luck.
2006-10-24 07:11:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a persons choices determines their path.
2006-10-24 07:08:53 · answer #11 · answered by jen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋