The question is of course can fate and free will co exist in this world? One man has an answer to that question. Or at least an opinion on the matter.
Growing up in Peoria, and spending some time in Connecticut around the Farmington area, Michael Wille was a introverted, misunderstood intellectual.
Today he comes to you with answer to a question that has plagued mankind ever since he was created. Much like the question, How can I destroy the sun?
Spending hours and hours of time not studying the matter at hand but playing fantasy baseball and the addicitve Worm Game, Michael does not consider himself an expert in this field, but rather a beginner. Now of course we must get back to the discussion.
To preface this argument, I must say first and foremost, that one of the two possibilites must exist. Some religious concerns may come up during our time here, but i will be brief on them, they will only be here to help my argument. To begin, I am choosing that free will exists in our world. Every day I wake up, and I make a decision, should I go back to sleep, lie here looking at the ceiling, or should i get out of my bed and go seize the day? Every day I make a choice. Every where I go I make a choice. Even if I was just to lie there in bed for the rest of my life, that would be a choice. Refusing to choose is to choose. I have the freedom to choose, the power of free will. Now with that power, I feel I am in control of my life. I can decide what to do, and where to go, and how to do it, and when to do it. All these possibilities are open to all of us. We all have the power of free will
Now, we must look into the possibility of Fate existing alone. If today right now, I am supposed to end up marrying some lady from Italy, and I cant do anything about it, then Fate definently does exist. According to Fate, I am a robot, a pawn if you will, and the world is my chessboard. However, I am not moving myself, someone else is for me, some Higher Power, is controlling my life. Now if my life is being controlled by someone other than myself, I must not have free will. We run into a problem here for Fate-choosers because we can all make choices every day to decide what will happen to our lives. We are in control of our life. If not, then God is a Marionette and we are the puppets in this world. If God, or for religious sake, any other Higher Power or the Stars, is running our lives, then he never gave us free will. If He really chose for us what to do in life before it happened, then we could not choose something else. Free will could not exist. Unfortunately, you have the choice to read this next sentence or not. You have the power to choose. Therefore, we must conclude that free will exists alone in this world, and fate does not.
This does bring up the question of a Calling in life. Does that really exist then? Well, we'll save that one for another time. It's been.... educational.
God did not choose what will happen to us in our life; he just knows what we will choose. Fate is someone else choosing for us. God knowing what we will choose doesnt mean he chose for us.
