Do you believe your life is planned out as soon as your born? That no matter what you do, you will end up the same? That you have a destiny already formed when you are born?
Or free will? We can consciously make choices to change the outcome of our lives? That it’s up to us?
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There is free will and determinism to a degree. We are psychological constructs we operate based on what we know. We make choices all the time though. Anyways the future has yet to be written. We can do what we want with it.
Itd be a pretty shitty feeling to think that everything I have been through that led up to sz was inevitable. Like to think there is hope for others who catch the symptoms early. Really I think the world could drastically reduce the amount of people with psychotic breaks if more information was available and wide spread. They think were all super paranoid split personality seeing people who aren’t there.
Once you live with it for a while its a pretty mild experience.
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Came to conclusion after trying to will myself to death one long depressing night. That the fact I was still alive in the morning proved we have no free will…I know. wasn’t my finest hour but up for debate.
It might have been possible at one point. but what regulates the body is all subconscious and very mechanical, very smart at the same time. It would be stupid though a lot of people would die, youd eventually get bored and accidentally kill yourself. Kind of funny to imagine. I’ve tried to do it too, well thought about it had no idea of a means to see it through.
Sometimes. It’s always an intersection.
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I think that reality as we know it is something that has been played out before possibly countless times and we’ve been getting it wrong so we have to keep doing it right.
I think that its the some times minute decisions some times great by certain individuals are what guide our future as a species.these individuals are maybe saints maybe angels or something like that.
I think the human species has progressed as far as we have or possibly farther a long time ago thousands of years ago.There is proof of a nuclear war taking place thousands of years ago.Thats what created the great deserts.
I think the world is a game board for God and satan to play out the game with our lives.I believe it is approaching the end game and God will ultimately win.
Hey,good afternoon…I used to believe that life is planned out and what you do will end up with the same outcome.Now i do believe that choices we make can lead to different outcome,either good or bad,For example,now I drink a can of soft drink daily,it has two consequences for me,i drink soft drink to reduce work stress for me,it can helped my mental symptom but then soft drink can make me had higher chances of getting disbeties so I had to balance these out,it’s the choices we make that lead to different outcome
At the risk of sounding like Forest Gump, maybe it’s both.
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Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans - John lennon
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Fact-checking has never been more accessible to the average person, even though Google and other search engines are sometimes alarmingly wrong. But who wants to dig? Take for instance one of my favorite quotations, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans,” which is mistakenly and repeatedly attributed to the late John Lennon, who was killed on December 8, 1980.
It’s true that Lennon worked the phrase into his lovely song “Beautiful Boy,” but he didn’t come up with it, despite what Google says – over and over again. So who coined it? According to the Yale Book of Quotations editor Fred R. Shapiro, the origin is attributed to writer and cartoonist Allen Saunders. A variation of the quote, “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans,” was published in Reader’s Digest in January 1957, when Lennon was 17.
Here’s another surprise. Sometimes our most trusted sources of accurate information get it wrong as well. Case in point: Brian Williams, who deserves a noogie. Even his NBC nightly news program didn’t bother to mine through internet misinformation when, during a broadcast last week, he told America that Gilda’s Club, the free cancer support and information centers, is changing name to Cancer Support Community.
Whenever I look back at the past I believe in determinism. Whenever I look at the future I believe in free will.
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I believe fate is created by free will. Before we are born we choose who will be in our lives, and under what role, and the lessons we will learn so our souls can progress. Our lives are planned out according to the choices we will make, but time is not chronological. The past, present, and future all exist in one instant. That’s not to say we should trash our bodies and hurt other people because we still have free will, but before we were born we knew the choices we would make. I believe sz is a gift, any struggle is. To have a care free life would not teach us anything. It would be a wasted life. 
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I just let the cards play their hands.
I always believed it was free will.
But the truth is that : Either DESTINY or KARMA from previous birth(mistakes from this life) play a huge role in your overall situation.
But that dosent matter that you do not have any power at all. You do have a power.
My view is that it is 50/50…50 % destiny and 50% your will.
I still do not believe in GOD.
What I believe is that…When you are born you are born with a clean slate (thetype of parents you get, your siblings in case you have them before your birth) are all a result of your previous karma.
But once you are born the rest of it depends on your hands…Once you begin to have the ability to think (at age 8-9) the decisions and choices you make decide your life.
You could make strong arguments both ways. I tend to believe we have free will. The notion of individual responsibility depends on us having free will.
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I agree with @BryanAshley
I do feel there is a mix of both. I do believe some things in my life were determinism. But also, I believe people have the power to change and get on a different path.
It’s a very delicate balance between choosing what to do at the fork in the road.
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Maybe the two need not exclude each other. Is acting out of free will really in competition with attributing the act to other causes? Is it really that we notice a decision to, e.g. move our arm, and then notice it to move? Think of how we usually perceive events indepent of us to be determined by each other. We notice some event, and we connect that to another event by the concept of causality. If free will is to compete with such causal determinism, it should have the same structure. But do you really notice an event of willing something, and then the next second the event of that something happening? Maybe it is wrong to conceive of freely willing something as a causal influence.
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Freedom is an illusion. Our brains and the universe are mechanical. There is coherency in determinism. Your consciousness is witnessing the action of your subconscious brain, we don’t consciously do anything. There is no “little you” inside your brain.
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