Quote:Choice is the proof against destiny not the cornerstone for it. Because I can choose to either go to work or not go to work is evidence that me having a job today isn't dependent on destiny.


Some situations are beyond our control the weather for example but that's not destiny that's nature. Where we end up in life is mostly effected by choices made not some predetermined road map. I reject the idea were just along for the ride.

 

But there is a reason for the choices you make.   It may be your prior experience, or knowledge of the situation, or even your genetics and  upbringing, books you're read, people you talked to.  Choices are not spontaneous and random.  They all result from previous events.  

 

If you get up in the morning and decide to go  to work, there is a  reason for that decision.   You go to work because...?  And if you can answer that question, then there is a reason for going to work.   If there is a reason behind that choice, then it is not free will that drives that action; it was caused by prior events.  It is destiny.  You were always going to go to work.  Since the beginning of time, you were destined  to go to work, because every event is caused by prior events. 

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