Today at school we somehow got into a discussion about choice and fate/destiny. The argument was about whether people had a choice in everyday actions or if all we do is somehow predestined or mapped out for us. I personally think we have a choice over our actions, but it seems like we don't because we have no control over our surroundings. Discuss this, state your opinion. GO!
I believe everyone has a destination, but we can alter the way we get to that point. How we act and live our lives effects how fast we arrive to that destination. PandaMan
"You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be."
But what if fate had planned them to commit suicide? It sounds horrible, but sometimes you never know PandaMan
Exactly, pandaman. The predestined moments in life could have been there to lead to the choice of suicide. It sounds totally morbid, but who's to say what's truth, one way or another? And who's to say that it wasn't that person's time to die? If not by suicide, it could have happened by a horrid accident only a short time after.
Life is what you make it. Believe what you want. At some point we'll all find out who was right and who was wrong. PandaMan
i do think that our fate is not on our hands, the way the fate can end with us every moment every time its kind of interesting how our fate can play with us
I think that everyone's 'destiny' is planned for them at the beginning of their lives. However, I think that we change them. I think that if someone walks a different way or if someone drops a penny, many things, or 'destinies' are changed.
I believe we have the choice, but our destinies have been pre-determined as our choices were always going to be the ones we make. If that make sense?
I will expand a little on what I believe. When we are all born our destiny is set. Our destinies, death. We are all predetermined to die, what we do between birth and death is fair game, that's where our choice comes into play. What I said in the first post is why it seems like we have no choice. We can control ourselves. We tell our arm to move, it will move. What we can't control impacts us so greatly that we think we a destined to be something. For example, you're driving down a road. You are doing your thing, going on your merry way when all of a sudden somebody t-bones you and you lose control from the hips down. Did we choose that? No. Then why did it happen? We can't explain the "why" in life so we say it was meant to be. Our every choice affects us and this directly around us in such a way we can't wrap our minds around it. Missing links begin to form due to a hazy memory of all of our own choices and the choices of those around us. Because we can't link everything together on a cause and effect basis we invented something in our minds to explain the unexplained, therefore, creating what we know as destiny.