Do they piggy back off of each other? For example - Soulmates. Are you really destinied to be with a special person or do you have a choice on who you want to be with?
2007-03-09 09:34:45 · 17 answers · asked by gloried 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Good point cravencx. I never thought of it like that.
2007-03-09 09:43:55 · update #1
free will has nothing to do with god or with heavens...
Man is condemned to make a choice in every second of his life. Some choices are good for him and some arent. Whether he is fully aware of the consequences of his choices is more important than whether he has free will or not. He may sincerely think that the option he chooses is good for him and for mankind but it may come out the other way around. At such cases he cant be held responsible. The problem is that most of our choices are made in full ignorance of the consequences.
2007-03-10 03:31:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Destiny is something we romanticize about. We use the word when it works for us and when it doesn't we find other explanations like.....bad lucky. We can also use the word destiny for negative things in life. For instance we could say we were predestined to make a bad choice in a mate and were predestined to divorce. I think the word destiny and fate are used to negate our poor choices or our surprise where things go well.
I used to think that we all had someone we were predestined to be with. Well, I don't believe it anymore It is more my choices good and bad. It is also the roll of the dice.
If we are truly creatures with free choice fate or destiny can only be words used by someone, (the creator) who sees our lives from the beginning to the end. We can't comprehend a time and place where there is no time. We can't imagine our life from the beginning to the end.
Thus I believe in free will and the roll of the dice...might call it situational events in our life that can change our direction.
In each moment we make small decisions that have huge changes in our future. One life has billions of possibilities.
2007-03-09 20:39:19 · answer #2 · answered by clcalifornia 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe they do piggy back off each other, but there is a catch...if your free will denies your destiny then so be it. I believe that destiny gives you a few chances. At times we may 'miss' our destiny, because of baggage, timming etc. However if we have the 'will' and 'desire' for what we 'missed' if it is truely destined then the opportunity will arrise again. Therefore with your example. If you thought you may not be destined to be with the one you were with, and your 'free will' chose to leave the relationship...then after time and growth you felt you had made a mistake and you found appreciation for your past partner...if it is truely destined then the universe would present the opportunity again. If it was not 'destiny' and just pine-ing for "what was" then when you get over it, the universe will present you with other destined opportunities. Thats my take anyway. bye.
2007-03-09 10:07:36 · answer #3 · answered by kalamena251505 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Human beings, as well as animals and inanimate events have the ability to break the chains of strict causality postulated by Determinism or DESTINY. 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.
2007-03-10 18:44:52 · answer #4 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is an interaction between free will and destiny. The path to our destiny is guided by the decisions we make. In the case of soul mate, think of it this way. One might cross paths with their soul mate earlier in their life. The path back together becomes insignificant. For instance a college love might go away for graduate school. One might loose contact with this love, but if they are destined for eachother they might meet at say a class renuion or a mutual friends house. If a person is destined for wealth in money and possessions, they might loose everything in the stock market before getting a high paying job to gain it back. Therefore the money they had is only a mere experience on the path to greater wealth. As for education, one might graduate from college, yet later be laid off sending them into trade school to find a new life. Sure the person could have skipped college to go to trade school, but the choice to go to college set off a sequence of events leading to a job that wasn't meant to be.
2007-03-09 09:57:13 · answer #5 · answered by Phillip 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think everything is a choice. If something happens to be your destiny it is because you have chosen it either consciously or subconsciously. If your own destiny is not yet clear to you, then it will come back around again and again until you are ready to make that choice and go with what you really want.
2007-03-09 10:36:46 · answer #6 · answered by I Know, I Know 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are both inter-related but on different levels. Free-will basically deals with the choices we make while destiny deals with a spiritual force that may or may not control the paths we take in life. The book "Another Thought" by OC Tross explains this in detail.
2007-03-09 10:11:05 · answer #7 · answered by ken123 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are actually three forms of Observer intervention and living. All have free will, some way more then others. The fated have free will, but must do their final action which helps the destined. The destined have much free will, and can even deny their own destiny. which in turn alters reality itself, and the watchers, they are all free will. They are only here to observe.
2007-03-09 09:39:54 · answer #8 · answered by cravencx 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Free-will and destiny always carry over each other.You are destined to be aligned with one soulmate, but you have a choice who you want to be with.
2007-03-16 00:55:17 · answer #9 · answered by oscar c 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although I do not claim to yet know whether free will exists, I should point out that destiny and free will negate each other. Therefore, it is impossible to experience both.
2007-03-09 09:37:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋