I would like to start this topic with a proverb from my family, people and nation.
Namely:…“There is no escaping from what is written”.
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Аnd this proverb…
also from my people,family"“nation”"
“He who flies high falls low”…
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There is no escaping the consequences of we create by our own life decisions and choices. As we move forward from each decision and choice, we narrow down the range of outcomes which we create for ourselves, unless we change mindset, outlook and behaviour to act differently which might alter the consequences or outcomes’ logic tree. Would agree with that form of predestination although even there free will and different behaviour, choices or decisions can redirect.
If we are talking about a “religious dogma”, then I disagree that a fate is written down and immutable. That would fly in the face of the free will which we had been gifted by God. I believe God has an aspiration for us all to be in communion with God, but only based on our free will choice and love to do so. Predestination, as a dogma, has fundamental errors/contradiction similar to Manifest Destiny or Dispensationalism in that they each remove or abridge free will. They set up an self anointed elite’s propaganda to rule over an under menschen. create classes of clean versus unclean people, valued and no value people. We are all created equally, with equal divinity, and these doctrines fly in the face of each of our God granted intrinsic human value.
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… could it be the case that like Hard and Soft Determinism there is something like Hard and Soft Free Will? It may turn out that some choices are more “free” with others being less so.
… places to start on these subjects … (by no means definitive or exhaustive)
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/determinism-causal/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/
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