Lets say before you die, youre handed a roll of film. You lay it out across the table and see that the film depicts your life from beginning to end. From the second you were born to the second before you died.
Now lets say youre given the opportunity to lead a new life, and be born again. However you have no memory of your previous life, and the environment around you will be exactly as it was when you were born the first time. Same parents, same time, same hospital, ect... Even the most seemingly irrelevant details, like a grain of sand in the doctors shoe, will be just as they were when you were born in your first life.
So you live out your second life, completely oblivious to your new 'incarnation'. And at the end, just before you die, youre handed a roll of film. Is it, or is it not EXACTLY the same as before?
Think long and hard about that question before you read ahead. Im going to give you my personal answer next, scroll down...
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My answer is yes. Assuming you could control EVERY possible detail of existence, right down to the genetic and molecular level, and you gave the same starting conditions to any object, it would always suffer from the same 'fate'.
We can see a simple example of this in the realm of computer programs. Lets say you wrote a golf program where a ball rolled across a putting green. Now assuming the tiny variables like the wind, variations and imperfections in the grass, ect... remained constant. If you set the ball up in the same position every time, and hit it at the same angle and with the same force, the ball would ALWAYS end up in the EXACT same resting position. In fact, you could even PREDICT where the ball will end up before it even gets there (perhaps well talk more about that later).
So what does this all mean? How is it related to fate? Assuming you agree with me about the above 'reincarnation' example, it means that no matter how many times we were to live our life, it would ALWAYS turn out one way and one way only. Is this not the very definition of fate? Perhaps fate isnt a angelic being living in the clouds, writing our destiny out on a piece of paper, but rather fate is simply the result of an unchangeable equation.
So why cant this equation be changed? Well first look at the constants in this world (natural laws like gravity, ect...), they never change and no man can control them right? Now look at every other 'non constant' in this world (other people, ect...). Are they not suffering from the same 'fate' as we are? Therefor how can they control their lives? How could they make a random choice that effects us?
Still some sceptics out there? Allow me to present my time travel example. Lets say you could go back in time, only when you got there, you became yourself (as you were at that time) with no knowledge of the 'future'. The past up until that point would be just as it was the fist time around. So, still think you could make a choice that would screw up fates plan? Sure you THINK maybe you could make a random choice, but if your 'choice' is based on all the factors in your life up until that point (which are the same because you just traveled back in time), your 'decision', no matter how random it seems, will always be the same.
Thus, fate is real. We are all victims of our surrounding environment. We NEVER have a choice. Discuss
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