Are we in control of our own futures, or is everything already written ?
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What's a CRACK HEAD EXPLAINATION?\n\n\n\n\nIf we are in control of our destiny, I need a Tom Tom. I have never been able to make a plan work. Too many ppl blocking me.I graduated from college, but never got a high paying job in my field. I've had to tough it out at the grocery store. I tried to open my own gift shop, but ppl don't but gifts. They all run to Walmart for plastic crap! I want to be a rapper but can't get anyone to put beats to my music and I'm really good. So it must be them, not me. I wanted to work in advertising production and some jerk from Hollywood got the job...and this is Mississippi. Rangel wants to know who wants to live in Mississippi. The jerk who got my job...for one!  I believe in God and I turn it over to him. But I'd like a break once in a while.\n\n\n\n Anyone know how I can fulfill my dreams...let me know!
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I believe that fate sets certain requirements for our life; specific lessons and goals we must learn and complete. How and when we learn or complete them are not predetermined, and the path we take is shaped by our decisions and actions. The lessons and goals themselves, however, must be completed before we die. I believe death is inevitable also, but how and when we die is also determined by what we as individuals do. In other words, our path is not set, but our milestones are.
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my thoughts xactly!  \n\nit's "their" way of controlling what we know and do!
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every thing is free will if u find your goal\nThank u for giving answer of my Question.\nIf u r ready for this, then i am ready but u will have to come here in my country.
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Nope. God knows the end from the beginning, but that doesn't stop us making our own choices. We are our own agents.
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Good one...\nIt'd be difficult to put tomorrow and yesterday in the same group as tomorrow is yet to happen and yesterday has already happened.. One is known and the other unknown. But if you are locked into the present there is only this moment with yesterday and tomorrow totally no chance of happening.
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I seem to read this question more metaphorically, than anything else. Yes, I always seem to do just that. Because I have such a certain future, I seem to have a definite need to squeeze as much as possible into today. I can take nothing for granted, so I just don't let that happen.
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I definately believe that. I think we all have a "plan" of life. And that if something is meant to be it will be. The road might be rocky getting there but it will happen as it is supposed to.\nAnd if it isnt meant to be it  wont. You can not force it to.\nI also believe everything happens for a reason even if it isnt apparent to us what the reason is at the time.
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I was thinking about the same thing the other day. It's funny how we hear phrases so much we know what they mean, but sometimes don't stop to think about it literally. I think it means to take something as if it will always be granted to you, as if you won't have to work hard for it in the future.
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I KNEW you were going to ask that! \n\nTruthfully, we cannot predict the future, but we can make guesses. Based on what has gone on before, our mind creates patterns which create some order and predictability.
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the present creates your future
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if by you, you mean, society as a whole, then the answer is now. society is always ours. it is our heritage and birth-right. it serves us to its extent and we serve it just as well. we are all dependent-independent cells linked in a collective body that is society. we do as we wish but can do nothing without the rest of society to assist us. so if you want to know when we are yours, then the answer is definatelty now--but you are ours too!
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I believe it could happen at anytime. Infact it could happen before I finish writing this ans
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You generate your own meaning. You have to decide what the meaning of your life will be. For many it is just to keep living. Period.
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The future is about possibilities, not certainty. Know what you want and create it. Be open to opportunity and seize it.
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Yes. It lies in our own mind. Life your life today!!
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I believe we are set on a certain path for this life, and that path remains hidden to us until we pass on.  For this reason, life is better taken in stride, letting it unfold before you as opposed to expecting this or that.  We don't control anything, but rather live under the illusion of control.