do you believe in there is fate or do we have freewill?

Answer 1

you have a mission, should you choose to accept it.

Answer 2

Gooood question. I honestly don't know. I like to think that we're free to choose, but are we pre-destined to choose the paths that we take?

Or will we end up in the exact same place if we were to make a decision that was the polar opposite to the one we actually made?

I think back and I can trace how all of the choices I've made have led me to where I am now.

There may have been rough times, and times that I thought I may have made the wrong decision, but now absolutely everything is so right, and I wouldn't change anything for the world.

I guess whether or not you believe in fate or free will depends on your belief system. If you lean more to the religious side of things, then you believe that God has some pre-determined plan for you, and knows exactly where you're heading in life, so no matter what you do you will end up in the exact same place. Why? Because God knew that you were going to make those decisions before you did.

If you're not so religious, you would tend to lean more towards free will I'm sure. That the decisions you make actually make a difference. That's the way I like to think. That my actions can make a difference in my life, and perhaps eventually in the world.

either way it will forever be an ongoing debate, because there is really no correct answer to this question... it's all a matter of opinion.

Answer 3

Good morning, and good question!

The notion that a cosmic puppeteer is controlling my every
decision and action is not only repugnant to me- it is totally
rediculous. If indeed a supreme being exists, I'm certain she
has more interesting things to do than yank my strings all
day long. So I excercise my free will in rejecting this notion!
If one accepts that an idea is it's own reality, then my belief
that I have free will makes it so.

On the other hand, it could be argued that we are "destined" to
behave in ways that are commensurate with our ideas, beliefs,
impulses, and desires. This is an innescapable certainty, as
even if we endevor to behave in ways that are counter to our
wishes, in that moment it is our wish to do so, and therefore,
we are inexorably following the path prescribed by our soul
regardless of the action we take.

So.... If I cannot help but behave precisely as I wish to behave,
I haven't got a choice in the matter, now have I? ;-) Accepting
that I don't have a choice in my actions, I am still left with the
belief that I have control over my thoughts and ideas- these things
are not imposed upon me by any external source, rather they
are of my own design. Thus, even indirectly, it is still me at the
helm, and no one else. If I believe that I have free will, then I do;
if I believe in predestination, then that is my reality. The only
choice to be made is the choice to embrace freedom and
responsibility, or to shirk from it......

Answer 4

A bullet coming out of a long range rifle has its course and direction pre-determined.. that is fate, but on the way, a very strong wind can change its course a little, that is freewill...

Answer 5

Human beings, as well as animals and inanimate events have the ability to break the chains of strict causality postulated by Determinism. We are thus free to influence our affairs and our destiny. In changing our future from what it would have been without the interaction triggered by our free will, we are changing the very universe of which we are an integral part. With the intervention of free will, our future, and thus the future of the universe, will follow a path different from the path it would have pursued without our intervention.

In addition to scientific considerations, common sense insists that Free Will exists. Who would deny that we have Free Will when we put one foot in front of the other and decide, of our own volition, of our own Free Will, to go for a walk or not go for a walk? It is clearly irrational to believe that a chain of causality at the time of the Big Bang determines if we go for a walk this afternoon, or not.

Answer 6

Here is the best answer to that question: yes. It is true that nothing happens without God willing it, and in that sense all things have been predestined (or in your words, fate). However, we are fully responsible for the decisions we make. Logically, this makes no sense, but this is the way it is and we are not to probe into such a mystery.

Answer 7

This is a somewhat controversial question. You could believe in free will and that fate does not exist, but on the other hand, what if it was your fate to believe this?

Answer 8

I believe that what happens to you is a consquence of your actions, or your lack of actions.

"Fate" has always seemed to be portrayed as something you could not stop no matter what. "God" knows what will happen to you...... and if so, what is the point? Is he begin entertained by your puppet-string actions?

Answer 9

i believe that in love, there is such a thing as fate but everything else such as the job we get or whatever is of free will

Answer 10

fate

Answer 11

my thought is in between both. manifest destiny. we have a path, a destination laid out for us. but we have the power to change the direction of the path.