Fate and free will

[ifeelthelight]

Do you believe in fate and free will? Do you think that everything is pre planned and predestined or that we have free will and agency and control over our lives? But what if our free will led us towards our eventual fate and destiny? I kind of believe in past lives / reincarnation and I heard that everyone has a pre-birth plan for their life of how it’s going to go once they get here on this earth and what their purpose is / what they’re going to achieve but I think my life has gone so far off course, it’s not gone according to plan. I think this might be due to my free will messing things up…ugh

 

[aitouka]

This is such an interesting question. I’ve thought about it many times before, and I will still say I am not sure. The pre-question is: does cause and effect apply in everything? If yes, then everything is pre-planned, without doubt. If no… well, there are millions of other answers out there.

 

[Ligand]

Absolutely not. I am a hard-determinist. I live like I have free will, but if I think about it long enough I recognize that free will is probably just an illusion.

 

[anne neum]

i dont think those are mutually exclusive