Is destiny predetermined, if so than what about free will?
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The term "destiny" often implies predetermined: the word used is "predestination."  But free will is a real thing, and you are indeed responsible for your own choices.  The whole "free will vs. determinism" question has been debated ad nauseum in philosophy.  To me, the concept that there is an all-seeing being who can predict what you will decide does not mitigate your responsibility to decide as wisely as you can, and so the question is moot.
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no body know what going to happen tommorrow what is today is important .\ndont think about the destiny. Destiny  can be changed when  we can bring a changes in present situation which bring change in you future directly effect on your destiny.\nDont get dicourage by surrendering every thing in the hand of destiny.\nevery thing is not in the hand of destiny.
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Neither.\nThey make a choice, it's all about free will.\nPlain and simple.\n\n(Thanks for the comments... have a nice day!)
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None. i'm an atheist. And I don't know what my destiny is because i don't believe that you can tell the future and you never know what's going to happen tomorrow (or in a year). respect is important. But it doesn't make it beautiful.
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Your reasoning does not necessarily follow. \n\nConsider one of the suppositions that some scientists have posited as a possible conclusion to the unknowable state of subatomic particles posited by Quantum theory: every choice may spin off a new universe. \n\nNow - mind you - I am not positing that this is what happens, but some serious people have proposed this - every choice you can make, some iteration of you does make, since thought itself is quite possibly quantum mechanical (it is passed via electrons, so the possibility cannot be precluded.) And each of these choices spins a new thread off the universe into a multiverse of possible outcomes. \n\nAs you can see, this is just one possible means by which you actually can have complete control of your destiny, and for God to still know the outcome. An infinite God would still be God of a multiverse of infinite possibility.\n\nYour choices are yours. You know you make them. You can feel yourself make them, as you make them - I don't need to prove this, anyone reading can intuit for themselves that I am telling a basic truth.\n\nThe fact that God does have some inkling of how all this will turn out does not represent any sort of interference with your free will. Nor is it a disproof of God. It is merely a reflection that an infinite wisdom can consider infinite possibilities, and find any of them to be quite unsurprising.\n\nSo no - while God is self-limiting in the sense that he does not appear to want to interfere in our doings (and the universe appears to have been explicitly designed to permit free will) - this is not an argument for God's powerlessness or non-existence. It is proof only that, if there is a God, infinite choices and possibilities are not out of reach of his infinite power.
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We do not control our destiny... but we can if we really want to!\n\n\nThe destiny of a human being is fixed or variable. Can the control of destiny be exercised by one! Is it possible for a normal human being to take complete control of his destiny? Is it possible to manifest destiny?\n\nYes! It is possible to manifest destiny if you are able to understand the crux of life. The destiny of every human being rests with one. It is like a chest of gold the key of which is not immediately made available to us. Only having passed certain standards in life would the key become available to us?\n\nTo be able to manifest our own destiny there are some requisites fulfilling which one shall be able to manifest his own destiny? The moment one enters the domain of human life... the highest manifest stage in the cosmic life... one can reach the stage of enlightenment and finally salvation. Before that we need to take control of our destiny in totality. How?\n\n\nBefore we indulge further in the matter of destiny... we need to understand the reality of life!\n\nThe garb of a human being has been taken by our soul atman within. It is not vice versa. It is not within the competence of a body to inherit a soul atman within. That is just not possible. Our soul atman within has taken the body to purify itself of all the impurities contained within. Unless and until our soul atman is devoid of all the dross within... it can never become enlightened and gain salvation.\n\nThe goal of life belongs to our soul atman within. The body only does its bidding! It is only when the body sublimates itself entirely at the disposal of the atman soul within... can the body manifest destiny. The ego of the body has to be merged with the larger ego... the ego of God Almighty. Unless the body completely surrenders its ego and merges with the larger whole... the body can never manifest destiny.\n\n\nHaving realized the truth of life... submerging our ego with that of Almighty God... one does manifest destiny for ever. It is at this point our soul atman becomes governing. The ego of a human being having merged completely with the desires of the soul atman within... the soul atman becomes free to reach its goal at the earliest. More here- http://www.godrealized.com/destiny.html
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Free will begins only when you start  making decisions for your self. I don't know why you would associate free will or the absence thereof to being born.
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There is such a thing as free will but it's our conscious that prevents us from doing all we want to do.  One’s own conscious is one’s free will.  You will only do what your inner being will allow you to do!
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Yes  I think free will is an illusion and yes predetermination makes sense.
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In my opinion, true free will is choosing what to do with the influence of what you have learned in life. Whether it be from parents, friends, or God. Just because it is free will, it doesn't mean that decisions made will be right or wrong. The point is that you chose it, without a gun to your head or any other type of direct influence. For example if someone, who is familiar with religion, and God and knowing right from wrong decides to rob a bank, that decision is made with free will. God is not going to come down and slap the person to stop them. If the person decides not to rob the bank, a decision made with free will, it may have come from their conscience or a memory instilled from there parents about right and wrong. Or maybe from a sermon in church. Basically, we all have free will whether God is with us or not. It is those that use the free will to do bad things that makes it tainted. But free will alone is just that, free will, it is not good or bad until an action stems from it. Does that make sense. Sorry if I rambled.
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Peace on you...Allah Knows everything that will happen. The first thing that He created was the "pen" and He ordered the pen to write. The pen wrote until it had written everything that would happen. And then Allah began to create the universe. All of this was already known to Him before He created it. He does have absolute and total control at all times. There is nothing that happens except that He is in control of if.\nThere is a mistake in the question: "Free Will." Allah alone, has Free Will, He Wills whatever He likes and it will always happen as He wills. We have something called, "Free choice." The difference is that what Allah "Wills" always happens and what we choose may or may not happen. We are not being judged on the outcome of things, we are being judged on our choices. This means that at the core of everything will always be our intentions. Whatever we intended, is what we will have the reward for. Each person will be judged according to what Allah gave them to work with, how they used it and what they intended to do with it.\n\nAs regards the actual "Judgment Day" - Allah tells us that everything we are doing is being recorded and not a single tiny thing escapes from this record. Even an atom's weight of good will be seen on the Day of Judgment and even a single atom's weight of evil will be seen too.\n\nThe one who will bring the evidences against us will be ourselves. Our ears, tongue, eyes and all of our bodies will begin to testify against us in front of Allah on the Day of Judgment. None will be oppressed on that Day, none will be falsely accused.\n\nHe could have put everyone in their respective places from the very beginning, but the people would complain as to why they were thrown in Hell without being given a chance. This life is exactly that; a chance to prove to ourselves who we really are and what we would really do if we indeed had a free choice.\n\nAllah Knows everything that will happen, but we don't. That is why the test is fair. May Allah bless us.
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Yes, along some lines I believe in destiny. I don't think about it as much though; the rest of my life is still a mystery, so I'm not disturbed by it.\n\nIt was destiny that I'd get 2 points from this question, but is it destiny to get 10 points?
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There is a possibility, destiny is a complicated thing. Believe it or not, it's a part of science! So i believe it can.
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Technically, free will is an illusion.  Given all the data present in any situation, including the data that a person has accumulated over a lifetime, it is possible in principle to calculate the outcome.  As a practical matter, this is of course impossible, and "free will" is an appropriate model for the actual situation.
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You are born with free will, but freedom is earned. In other words, you have your freedom taken away, but not your free will.
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Our lives are predestined, but as you live your life you have choices to make. When all is said and done it will all be predestined. In other words God will know all the choices you make before you make them.
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Unfortunately it appears that way to be true for many people.Others may refer to this as Karma. Tempting fate is another usage as is preordained and predestination.Our lives or just being alive is a matter of fate  within this universe. To deny a connection to it is like denying our own existence.Fate can be from certain bad or good choices. Others have referred to this as alternate realities or programs within the universe or Matrix. If you apply science and logic I would imagine this should become more clear. Free will does have it's limitations within a given number of variables and common laws.Don't be dismayed by averages though. It depends on who you know and come in contact with physically, emotionally,spiritually and psychically. We often learn and display ourselves by example so keep that thought in mind also. Logic is the key to greater understanding not arrogance. If life is a test of our psyche than it is whether or not we chose to ignore our intuitions or guides.Each one of us is like a math problem or theory being applied or tested.Life isn't just one program but several programs running at the same time.So fate isn't just white or black or true or false it's multiple choice in a world of chance or multiple fates or alternate endings.This is what some may refer to as the Book of Life.