Quote:so let me see if I understand you correctly...Say I was sick on a workday a few weeks ago and called in sick...You say that would have been predetermined for me to do that? Or let's say I wake up Tuesday morning in a rotten mood and decide I'm not going to work, that would also have been predetermined?

 

If it's already predetermined, then there is nothing we can do to alter it, so I can quit my job, become a public assistance dependant and ride life out on the system until destiny arrives, rather than work 60 hours a week and decide for myself where and what direction I want to steer my life towards?

 

Who chooses our destiny? Who said they could do that? What if I don't like my destiny? When does my destiny get determined? How do I know when I have reached my destiny? Have I already reached my destiny?

 

I believe life is all dependant on choices that you make...If I choose to rent a house all my life as opposed to owning one, is a choice not fate or destiny...If I choose to move to another state, it's a decision made to better myself and my future based on all available information at the time, not a predetermined event...

 

Yes, you suffer from the illusion of choice. Work or stay home. College or grade school drop out. Republican or Democrat. All part of the illusion of free will. What makes you think that "you" made any of those decisions, that the decision was not made for you and whatever choice you made was yours? You could choose to pick up a pistol and shoot yourself right now. Whether or not you do is up to destiny, not you. If it's your destiny then you will, if it's not then you won't.

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