Success or failure is not an indicator of fate's existence.
In a religous context, fate doesn't make sense because evil people are predetermined to do evil and be eternally punished for it. Thats an indicator of an evil god. So if you believe in a god and that theyre are benevolent and omnipotent, then free will makes the most sense. Otherwise they create people only to send them to burn in hell.
In a scientific context, the only way to know whether or not fate exists, in my opinon, is to figure out whether or not the future already exists.
If you imagine time as a line starting from the left and progressing to the right, then the question we have to ask ourselves is are we on the right side tip of the line right now with the past trailing behind us? Or are we in the middle of the line with the future stretching out in front?
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If in our timeline, the future has already been written, then all things are predetermined because the future could not exist if our actions can change at any second.
But if at the very moment you are reading this is the absolute front of our timeline, then nothing is predetermined, and your actions build your future second by second.
Well if you choose to follow the path set ahead of you then you are exercising your free will to do so... if you choose not to then you are exercising your free will not to. So the the point is that as long as you have choices, then you have free will... even if you exercise the choice to not choice or use free will... it still your choice and you have the free will to do so.
So if you think it is easier to not use free will and follow the path set ahead of you, which we call destiny or something that is fated... then the point is that you don't have to decide to do that, because you have free will not to do that, and by deciding to do that you are exercising free will.
Yes I fully believe so.
We have a lot of free will. Though some choices we make (in fact pretty much EVERY choice we make, or those made upon us, for us, etc.) has consequences good or bad.
You have free will even if you lived in a tyranical society. You can STILL chose to disobey and get killed/have your HEAD chopped off. That's basically practicing your right to choose something vs to comply.
If we didn't have free will we wouldn't even be able to function. We are compelled to make decisions constantly, every single day, but if everything was predetermined we'd just be mindless robots following a programme. Since that is obviously not the case...
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No, and I do not mean this from a religious or spiritual point of view, and it may or may not be depressing. Life is nothing more than biology, which is nothing more than complex chemistry, which is just how matter interacts with one another at the atomic level, all set in motion by the beginning of the universe, and functions with in the confines the laws of physics. What makes up everything around us is particles, and they move and do this, that, the other. We don't defy these things that have been set in motion, we're a part of it all.
Yes I believe we all have free will. Yes in some or many situations one may not aware of the choices a person has or they may not realize that there is always free well but that does not mean there is no free will.
I don't know about others but I will go by follow free will.
I think of free will and fate/destiny as the following anecdote.
Fate/Destiny is like a GPS, it has a destination and the shortest/fastest route there
Free will is the driver, they can choose to go fast, miss a turn or take the wrong turn further delaying the destination. However, the destination and the route are still there ( yes the route changes based on the drivers decision but the destination doesn't.
life isn't deterministic but we also do not have free will. every instance of "the presence" presents us with a certain set of choices. so that means we do not have "free will" but we do have choices that are limited by what is possible and limited by what we can think of. however "being limited" doesn't mean there's "destiny". only few things are destiny. for example the fact that you're gonna die some day. but whatever you do untill then is way less determined.
Let's say I gave you a knife and a live chicken.
Now you have two choices, you can kill it or let it go. It's all upto you.
That's a free will.
This question is huge, well it's true that everything is meant to happen, but we can choose, the things that are meant to happen it's because this destiny knows our choices, so don't lay down and say it's destiny, keep moving forward and don't ever let go
That's assuming you're destined to be lead somewhere good. Those whoose destity is ho die in misery, serving as a gautionary example to others, would no doubt feel differently.
Free Will i. e. the ability to make rational, ethical, emphatic choices - is a multifaceted ability unique only to humanity.
So called "Free Will" is a Christian theological concept. It's not something easily understood by the many.
This is a weird question…. the class system of America is pretty maneuverable
Yes especially in America but choices have consequences
free will is a law of the universe
Yes...
Yes we do
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