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Originally Posted by STBOSS
I just posted a thread called "Is it anyone's fault?". A lot of people couldn't understand the point I was trying to make. I was trying to talk about predetermined fate.
If we truly could "choose" to do what we wanted to do then we'd be able to do anything and everything we wanted to do. As a matter of fact, we wouldn't choose anything. Making a choice is all about appealing to your inner desires which are things you aren't in control of.
I just ate some pizza a few hours ago. I "chose" to order pizza but why? There are so many factors involved in the reason I made this particular choice. Things that lead me to making that very choice. I'm just frustrated by people who don't believe in something that seems so obvious to me.
I'd like to hear some good arguments against this idea of predetermined fate that I believe in.
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Interesting. You know what else? Hold on to your nuts, because it's about to get real. That choice you made to order the pizza? It's already affected the lives of possibly thousands of people. Maybe even killed someone. Maybe Jeff the pizza delivery boy left the shop without the pizza and had to go back to get it?
That change in his timeline put him 20 seconds behind his predetermined fate path, which would have been in the path of a sleeping garbage truck driver who crossed over into his lane. Instead, Jeff delivers your pizza and he lives. While eating your delicious pizza, you may think "Hey, what about the person that was in Jeff's spot to get smashed by a garbage truck?" Well, there would be no one there because that's where Jeff was supposed to be.
Jeff goes on to win the state lottery and marry some porn star that he doesn't even like as a person. They have a baby and he grows up to be the next Hitler. But this is the Hitler that likes to kill dogs. Ordering your pizza has triggered the Great Dog Holocaust of 2055.