What do you believe?
In my experience, people are pretty divided on this idea: Are our lives predetermined, or do we actually have control over what happens to us?
What do you believe?
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Carlos "Danger" Rios
1/31/2016 06:08:51 pm
I believe we have the free will to do as we please in life. God gave us a choice of doing good and bad that's completely up to us. Whether we mess up our lives or making it full of good memories to up to us to decide. No man can control our future if we don't let the,.
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Emily Main
1/31/2016 07:45:58 pm
In my mind I see there is a storyteller, writing how my story began. That is in fact something that was predetermined for me. However, after that fact, my life is full of choices that will determine my day or even my future.These are based on my own character, my own thoughts, my own morals. Others may have their own opinion how I should go about my future or what I should do, but at the end it is what will allow my happiness to flourish. Free will is how I see the world is, and it is up to you to take those opportunities and if one passes you by, there is always more to be on the look our for.
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Alan Nguyen
1/31/2016 08:23:51 pm
A big part of our lives are already predetermined by our parents. They choose our name, our behaviors, what is considered acceptable. They motivate and even convince you into pursuing what they want you to achieve in the future. Some parents want their kids to work on a farm, some wants them to go to college, and others just simply want them to be happy. Nonetheless, our lives are judged and set for us by many others. Society and the law determines what is allowed for us to do. In some countries, their fate are very limited. However, as we grow older, we are allowed to make our decisions and choose what we believe is best for us. We pick who we love, what we want to do, how to live our lives. The choices are endless. If you one day decide to kill someone, technically you can. You just will get in a lot of trouble. So in a way, a portion of your life is predetermined, but that doesn't necessarily mean you can't change. It is just harder for some than others.
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Micaela Lucero
2/1/2016 04:05:32 pm
I think that we have a free will to make our own decisions.In the time that we make a decision I think that we don't know what decision we were going to make but God already knew. I believe that God knows who we were going to become, what job we are going to have, and everything else before we even knew it. God does not what us to be stupid that's why he said that he has given us wisdom. Yes, everyone screws up and makes mistakes but he knows that! If he wanted us to be perfect he would have created us that way.
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Antonia Huynh
2/1/2016 05:30:24 pm
In my perspective on if our lives are predetermined or if we actually have control on what happens to us is indecisive. Due to the fact of the people around us are influential in any manner. As well as how we accept and perceive those actions of those who are influencing us in anyway. Both concepts of predetermined or ourselves controlling our paths plays a role in our daily lives. Predeterminer's role is to guide us into the opportunities we see around us, following the role of controlling our actions, we take the path we choose to take with our predetermined options. Such as school. School is chosen by our parents, due to location or education levels, this is a role of predetermination. How we do in school and what we do in school is our choice. In a way, the two ideas of if our lives are predetermined, or if we actually have control over what happens to us both have a role in our daily lives.
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Gabby Schmitz
2/1/2016 06:28:47 pm
I believe our lives can be controlled but to an extent when it comes down to small personal ideals or decisions but in the bigger picture, our lives are predetermined but not necessarily set in stone. Every action everyone makes on this Earth causes a ripple affect to the lives of every person. Although some scenarios can be controlled such as avoiding a car accident. Lets say a person got up in the morning and arrived at work safely, but if they got up in the morning a minute later, it could set them on the road where they saw a car coming at them a second too late because the other person was in a rush.This would be an unavoidable ripple affect and can make a huge impact on the lives of people. There are some situations in a person's life that can be controlled but the situations that come unexpectedly are the ones that can shape your life such as your personality. Therefore, lives are predetermined (but not set in stone).
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Hien Ngo
2/1/2016 06:41:55 pm
Sometimes life seems as if it's people direct our life like laws or other people telling us what we should do or what we shouldn't do. However, we have a choice in everything. We could choose not to follow what other tells us or choose to listen to others. This shows that it's up to us to decide what's best.
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Emily Gilday
2/1/2016 06:59:40 pm
I believe that our lives are determined by the actions we make. Each action leads to something else either a problem or a solution. Yes our parents put an emphasis on our lives for the first 18 or so years, but after that you have the choice to do what you want. You could wake up one day and decide to finally quit that job or to try out something totally different. All these choices are yours to make.
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Daniel (Certified Cool Kid) Daniel Phan
2/1/2016 07:00:03 pm
I feel like there is no way of really knowing whether or not our lives are predetermined. I'd like to believe that people are responsible for their own futures, but I will not rule out the possibility that our lives are predetermined.
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Emily Main
2/2/2016 06:33:27 pm
But, if you had to choose Daniel would you want your life to be predetermined for you so you don't have to deal with the repercussions of your choices or that responsibility of choice? Or would you want to have the choice to do whatever you want with the uncertainty always lingering with each choice, and with each choice you made wondering if that was the right one for you?
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Alan Nguyen
2/2/2016 07:26:53 pm
I like how you consider both possibilities. I too like to look at things different ways. Lives can be predetermined base on culture or as a child. But we are capable of choosing our future to a certain extent. But overall, I don't know if we would ever know if it is predetermined or not either.
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Samantha Ruckle
2/1/2016 07:35:26 pm
People are entirely in control of their own fates. The actions that we make one day directly effect the events of the next. The idea that our lives were already planned out for ourselves by some spiritual being was only created to give people hope. If people believe that everything will work itself out in the end, they still will have hope.
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Nayeli Marquez
2/1/2016 07:38:53 pm
We have control of our lives in the extent of choosing, yet once we choose that determines us more than we can possibly control.
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Kristina Nguyen
2/1/2016 08:36:39 pm
This idea is debateable, because although we were able to decide a life for ourselves, there are regulations as to what society finds acceptable. Because of this, a contradiction is conjured on the idea of being able to decipher as an individual, while still abiding by the "social order".
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Ly Ho
2/1/2016 09:17:30 pm
I believe that our life is revolved around the idea of free will. We have the choice to make our own decisions that can either be beneficial or consequential. Our lives cannot be predetermined for there are various factors that may influence our decisions such as our beliefs, past experiences and emotions. Most of the time, the decisions that we make will affect us personally whether it is positively or negatively. Our actions can also affect other people around us the same way. Maybe our "fate" is the result of someone's (or our own) actions.
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Aviva Nguyen
2/1/2016 09:20:06 pm
Our lives are not predetermined as we are born with our own choices to make. Our own actions are what makes our future and the person we choose to become. This is mostly based on the person's belief of who controls their life or does their life bring any significance? This rises many other branches of life trivial. Therefore, if one believes of fate then they would already feel the pressure of being successful currently which would impact their future also. But the unexpected can be positive or negative and can be unavoidable because of your own or the other party's action (like manipulation). This concludes that neither fate or free will control us but our experience and awareness for different situations. This is called reality, to focus on the possible and becoming observant in life's game of survival.
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Alex Wise
2/1/2016 09:33:22 pm
There are two ways of approaching the fate vs. free will topic. In one way, it's obvious that our life is predetermined. We are expected to grow up, go to school through at least high school, and then after that, we're expected to start our lives and start working, or go to college and earn a degree that will help us start our lives and start working. After that, we're expected to work every day we can or have to, possibly find someone to spend our lives with, have children, and start them on a path similar to the one we took.
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Tristan Hernon
2/1/2016 10:13:13 pm
Ultimately this question is dividing society into two overall classes: those who believe in a higher deity and those who do not. What people of both sides fail to recognize is that parts of our lives, from childhood to adulthood, is predetermined, while the rest becomes up to oneself. From childhood to adulthood we are under the ruling of our parents, and however they chose to live their lives ultimately affects how we live our lives under their protection, however when we are sent off into the world to fend for ourselves, then we begin to be able to make our own decisions, such as schooling, employment, housing, etc. In the end we will all die, and that is the only predetermined factor after adulthood that is unavoidable naturally, however during adulthood, we can still chose our lives in terms of what we will do, how we will do it, when we will do it, and so on and so forth.
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Jenny Yang
2/1/2016 10:20:53 pm
The first 18 years of one life is predetermined by parents. Those 18 years, everyone lived under the rules of their parent, and the path that these children take are set by parents and with this predetermined path the perspective of each indvidual are set in certain way to shape they life they grew up with. Eventhough, these decision are made by fate, the parent each individual have and they way they are taught, but you sometimes have to think to those moments where you make your own pathway by either follow the path the parents set or move on an independent road.
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Scott Ho
2/2/2016 04:26:56 am
The lives of individuals is not predetermined. One may have a predetermined fate because of society (for example, forced marriages are predetermined to happen), but unless one has the power to alternate what society believes, their fates, to a certain extent can be predetermined. In the presence of power, however, individuals may do as they please. This power may come in the form of law or free thinking.
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Aaron Shukert
2/2/2016 05:13:01 am
Although each side of the argument has its justifications, I'll have to side with the idea that everyone has free will and power over their own actions. While we are heavily influenced and our free will is often impeded, ultimately we have the ability to make changes in our own lives. Despite just being chemicals really, our active consciousness gives us this ability, and the life we live is dependent on our decisions. Decisions that we have the power to make.
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Diana Rodriguez
2/2/2016 05:26:30 am
Having come from parents who have had to struggle their entire lives, I wholeheartedly believe that our lives are determined by free will. Even as young children who are completely dependent on their parents, we can still make choices about whether or not we behave, act kindly towards others even when our parents aren't there, and be honest about any problems we might have. As we enter adolescence an adulthood, our options and choices merely expand and we gain the opportunity to change the environment we are surrounded by. Simply because one was born into poverty, does not mean that their economic situation cannot be improved through an education. Even in regards to your name, one can legally change it once they are old enough. To me, life is the result of all of the choices that were and were not made and, as such, it is our free will that creates our destinies.
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Darlene Bahena
2/2/2016 12:16:33 pm
At the risk of sounding pretentious, I will say that I believe everything as we know it is deliately interconnected. Much like a spider's web or an intricate tapestry, and each of us is a strand in the grand design. However, as a strand, we have free will. We have a say in what we will be or become. It is the choices and decisions we make and the chances we take that define and shape us. And if our actions do indeed determine our lives and affect our outcomes, one must also consider the effect one person has on those around them.
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Suchi Verma
2/2/2016 01:27:54 pm
What a question! Honestly, there are days I question myself on this a lot more than I should. Some days, I believe that whatever's going to happen is going to happen. It's already written somewhere and it's going to happen whether you like it or not. Other days, I'd like to think that my life is my own hands. That's usually the days when I don't do my homework. But I have no answer for this. It really depends on how you view life. Sometimes, I just like to do nothing and see what happens. Other times, I say, "It will happen this way and I will make it happen this way." So I suppose it depends on motivation and where I am at life.
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Mireya Valadez
2/2/2016 05:52:08 pm
I believe that our lives are made up by our own choices, although there are many people that say they are a certain way because of the way they were born and the family they were born into they made the choice to be like them. I live in a family that struggled their entire lives and they didn't go to school this doesn't mean that I have to be like them, I am making my choice to go to college and I have the free will to become what I want to and it wasn't determined by anyone else
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Alicia Aguirre
2/3/2016 02:49:48 pm
Our lives are predetermined to a certain extent. There is a concept such as destiny, for one to ultimately be who they are enforced to become due to occurrences in life they have no control over. Yet individuals still contain the power to chose and make paths solely based on what they can control. Thus our lives are predetermined, yet can be altered by our choice if it is allowed among the many surprises life brings.
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Alex Preston
2/4/2016 09:06:00 am
Life is determined and driven by our free will, and I do not believe in a supernatural force that pre-ordains our fates. The course of our lives can't be determined by any outside force. While outside forces can influence our lives, they can't directly effect our actions and decisions.
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