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Originally Posted by Fal
However I do not believe in fate or destiny. We do what we do not out of freewill, but neither would I argue that there's some overriding, supernatural power deciding our actions.
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I think you could argue that there might be 'overriding powers' deciding our actions, but that there's nothing supernatural about them. That is, there are a whole load of natural powers that are pushing you and everything around you and are the base cause of everything that you and everybody and everything else ever does. Science goes some way to explaining it but of course it's far too complicated for us to be able to fully grasp.
What I mean by destiny is not that you can go to a fortune teller, have a vision or even intelligently guess where you where you will be in 20 years time. What I mean is that in 20 years time, you will be in a certain place, doing something with your life (or not) and that will be the only place and the only thing you could have been doing at that point in time.
When you look forward in time it looks like there are many options and paths you could take, which result in different outcomes. When you look backwards in time, there is only one route you took, there was only one path and the idea that you could have ended up somewhere else, doing something else is a fallacy.
At the same time, the idea that people can know anybody is "destined" to do something, before they have done it, is bull****. After they have done it, well... then they were destined to do it.