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If somebody could see far into the future, in that case, does it mean that the future is predetermined?

and that we're just walking a predetermined path? or do we still get to change our destiny, choose from different paths, and only the end result will the predetermined one?

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Wraithorn · 51-55, M

I think the older one gets the more one realizes that nothing is certain. Anything can change depending on what you do or do not do or what other people do or don't do.

Dan193 · 31-35, M

@Wraithorn it's just a scary thought that no matter what we do, if it were to be predetermined, our decisions would change nothing and our lives would be pointless. Would they? even if we can be happy in the meantime..?

Wraithorn · 51-55, M

@Dan193 You are certainly not the first person to ponder such things.

To see what we have never seen,
to be what we have never been.
To shed the chrysalis and fly,
depart the earth, kiss the sky,
to be reborn, be someone new:
is this a dream or is it true?

Can our future be cleanly shorn
from a life to which we're born?
Is each of us a creature free
or trapped at birth by destiny?
Pity those who believe the latter.
Without freedom, nothing matters.

From the book of counted sorrows by Dean Koontz.

Dan193 · 31-35, M

@Wraithorn that's a beautiful poem, thank you

Wraithorn · 51-55, M

@Dan193 It's a pleasure. Who would have thought that an author of horror stories would write such a thing ? The man has some talent.

Dan193 · 31-35, M

@Wraithorn yeah, well a writer is a writer.