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Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina  Think of free will and destiny like a map. You have a destination, but many roads will take you there. Some are shorter, others more scenic, some roads are fraught with danger and road hazards. But eventually, you reach your destination. Broken or intact, in short order or in a long period of time, happy or sad.... you still reach it. How you get there is up to you. Where you go is predetermined, HOWEVER, even your destination can be changed using free will. Perhaps you decide you don't want to get to X-city. You can alter your destination. |
But life and therefore destiny is not about destinations. Life is a series of experiences,
there is no destination. Therefore all of those roads and experiences must be part of the destiny, destined to go down certain roads and experience certain experiences. Each road absolutely alters completely where it leads and what roads it crosses. A "destination" implies that you stop moving and are no longer on a path. You have "arrived" and are not going anywhere else. Change is the natural order and law of things. Therefore isn't every thought and smallest action guided by this hand of fate.
Different roads absolutely alter your experiences and where you go and who you go with. The tinniest things can alter it. Often you don't even know "x-city" is a possibility, let alone consciously decide against it. Most people are so self-destructive and get in their own way from what they want and where they want to go that they never get there, or destroy what they already have. And fate isn't about just where you go, but what you've already been dealt. Is it not your fate if you have a mental illness(s) to have that.
I'm starting to believe either I have no real control at all, and that feeling of "choice" is just an illusion. That we're kind of pre-programmed from the beginning. It's already proven how predictable people and animals are to react and their feelings and behavior based on the most basic inborn nature and outside stimulus that triggers it. We react to this pre-wiring, we don't create it. So, it's not far off to think if there even is a "spiritual" component and these things are decided and programmed in before birth, that we would be just as much a puppet to that as we are to our physical genes and expressions. On the other hand, perhaps it's all just random - a probabilistic algorithm.