2006-11-17 01:18:55 · 14 answers · asked by MJ 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Our lives are predestined, but as you live your life you have choices to make. When all is said and done it will all be predestined. In other words God will know all the choices you make before you make them.
2006-11-17 01:25:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't feel any predestination at all. In a sense, we have a right to feel predestined, because of how unlikely it is for us to be here. The universe has to be just right and society has to have happened in a certain way for us to be born to live the life we are living. However, if things were different, we wouldn't be here thinking about it. That, in short, it the anthropic principle.
At each instance in your life, there are myriad ways it can go. Any specific choice you make or any specific thing that could happen to you has only a remote chance of happening. However, it is nearly 100% chance that you will make a choice and things will happen to you. Even if any specific outcome is 1 chance in a million, so are all the other million possible outcomes.
So, if you look back on your life, it is natural for it to look extremely improbable. Therefore, it looks predestined. In fact, it's not.
2006-11-17 01:24:13 · answer #2 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not necessarily predestined but predictable. Life is a big equation with many variables. If you have the ability to see what the value of all of the variables is you can predict the outcome of their lives. Nobody has this ability on the grand scale. On a small scale perhaps you can predict the outcome if you know the person well enough and you know enough about the situation. I don't know if that would make their decision predestined but I do know that them doing what they were going to do wouldn't be a choice.
2006-11-17 01:26:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whether it is predestined or not is irrelevant.
I am a product of causality... random causality..... and so shall random causality be my demise. There is an innate set of rules to it on various scales.... but it isn't intended with any purpose, and is far too complex to effectively predict to any great accuracy. It is essentially all random ..... and there is no escaping that because we are innately part of it.
So why give a toss?
As long as I can have control of my own life in as much as I understand "control" to be... at least until such time as I die.... then I'll be content.
2006-11-17 01:31:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe we all have the power to control and change our own destiny. Fate plays a big role in how our lives will be patterened but we can alter anything with the personal choices we make.
2006-11-17 01:24:39 · answer #5 · answered by Dariana 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dr. David Hawkins talks a bit about this. His view, the exact moment of our death is predetermined. Also, the society, type of parents and peers etc are also predetermined before we are born. The rest of life is up to us. A bit of interest, he also says that our soul enters our body at 3 months of pregancy.
2006-11-17 01:29:29 · answer #6 · answered by sunline 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes. Just remember everything you do was meant to happen and right were you are right now is were you were meant to be at this moment. There is no getting around it. Some people here will say that they choose their own destiny but how could you do that unless you knew before hand what your destiny was going to be. No one knows the future so how can you possible say that this is your choice. You may choose anything but in the end you are doing exactly what you are supposed to be doing.
2006-11-17 01:28:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Saying life is predestined is fatalism.I am the product of my actions(good or bad),architect of my actions,engineer of my actions,builder of my actions,born of my actions,and heir of my actions!
2006-11-17 01:36:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anger eating demon 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I feel I have been born, yes, but my life is not pre-determined. Why would I come to that conclusion?
2006-11-17 01:23:57 · answer #9 · answered by a sock 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Except that if this is predestiny you were going to get the same answer from me anyway which I can assure you you weren't because I wasn't going to answer it on the grounds that you would get it anyway but you didn't did you?
2006-11-17 01:29:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋