Examples Of Predetermines

Margaret Talbot “From Brain Gain: The underground world of “Neuroenhancing” Drugs” aims to illustrate how the use of neurotransmitters are in the college setting in attempt to aid college students with their busy lives. Using an unbiased tone, relatable people, and comparisons to convey her message, she creates a very realistic view of the current use or abuse of “brain-boosting” drugs.

In the book “A Lesson Before Dying” we see that it’s actually forces out of our control that determine

Do you think our fate is predetermined or do we have some control over it? Many people now think that we have some control in our destiny, depending on the actions and steps that we take during our life time. On the other hand some people think that you have no control over your fate, and have to follow the destiny of your family members. In Oedipus the King, Sophocles seems to argue that man has no real control over his or her destiny. Throughout the whole story he shows us how people try to run away from their fate and no matter how hard they try to change the outcome, they can’t.

As mortal beings, our own fate is determined by the individual choices we make over the course of our lives, mainly because these selections ultimately define who we are and what we do in life. My reasons for this being, primarily, each decision we make during a lifetime has an impact upon our lives. The next being, we pay the consequences for all of the good and bad we commit in life. Finally, we decide whether to make a good life for ourselves or relinquish our opportunities to do so. While there is a God who oversees the universe and each of our individual lives, he allows for our free will and the choice to which road we choose to take in life.

I agree with this statement on how some things are fated to happen, and that we have no control over them. Whenever I have physical education and my class is playing a sport I do not have control over some things that happen because they are fated to happen already. For example, while my class was playing basketball, I was on the offensive side at the time and we had to try and score in the net, but we did not, so the other team just took the ball off the miss from my team and threw the ball straight down the court to the open person for an easy lay-up. I had no control over who that person threw the ball too, I did know that he was passing the ball to the open person because he was wide open, but I was already on the other side of the court

A supporting story to clarify would be infamous Adam and Eve story. Adam and Eve were the first human beings created and the first to disobey God by falling into temptation by the snake to eat the apple from the tree that God warned them they could not touch. If God foresaw the future of Adam and Eve’s disobedience then the reasonable answer to why he did not try to stop them was because he had given them the free will to choose their desire. A desire that led to the first sin and first evil committed by the human being. We can either retain a good will or a bad will, and God can foresee this decision. However, even with this power of freedom we often choose to commit wrong, which is what God foresaw with Adam and Eve.

In today’s society, many people argue over whether we are governed by fate or by free will. Some people say free will because they can control what happens in their lives. Other people say fate because they have no control over it. I believe that we are governed by free will. We can control what is going to happen in the future. Many examples of this come from the play Romeo and Juliet, and even though it is really old, its lessons about free will still apply to teens today.

“On Friday noon, July twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below.” This tragedy led Brother Juniper, a Franciscan from Italy, to seek an answer to whether or not fate is completely random or if it is controlled by a higher power. However, as Thornton Wilder once stated, “the business of literature is not to answer questions, but to state them fairly,” the inquiry is never revealed, only left to flourish in the reader’s minds for many years to come. Speculation may lead individuals to pursue an answer for themselves, yet an answer is nearly impossible to find. Even knowing that an answer is unreachable, individuals still possess their own beliefs about fate. One may personally believe that fate is neither random or destined, but controlled completely by the individual.

Many people believe fate or freewill governs all human life. However, I believe Gods fate governs all human life by planning out all human life, from the time you were born to the time of your death. For example, in the United States all of the Jews are taking a plane to Israel because, "the Jewish religion states that at the end of time God of come and take all the Jews all

Within Christian theology, the concept of Predestination can be defined as ‘the doctrine that God has foreordained all things, especially that God has elected certain souls to eternal salvation.’ (Mifflin, 2011) After studying accounts of Predestination from St Augustine of Hippo, Martin Luther and John Calvin, it can be specified that I am not convinced by the concept of Predestination. I have formed my answer on the grounds that the concept of Predestination raises too many issues for it to be plausible, for example it questions our free will, moral responsibility and the nature of God. Furthermore, arguments against the concept of Predestination from schools of thought such as the Arminians and Laudinism seem far more convincing to myself.

An author once wrote, “I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” Some people say that the human experience is governed by fate, yet in reality, our lives are controlled by the choice we make. You chose how to act, you chose who you consider a friend, you chose to use your resources, knowledge.

Our lives are influenced even before we are born. We are products of our environment. Depending upon

A woman arrives at a crossroads. Will a predetermined fate cause her to take a certain path, or does she have free will to choose a different path? Based on the nonfiction works The Sports Gene, written by David Epstein, and “Losing Control,” a person’s fate is the result of choices that that person or people in the close vicinity of that person have made. In “Losing Control,” prior research or preparation affects one’s fate. David Epstein said in The Sports GeneI that people have the ability to direct their fate if they have enough determination. Both these works provide sufficient evidence to support the claim that humans have total control over their fates.

Fate and free will in Oedipus Rex In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, the theme of fate and free-will is clearly brought out throughout in the play. Fate is a rudimentary part of human everyday life because almost all aspects of life are based upon it. From the beginning of the play, Oedipus’s greed for power and control is paranoid in his state of mind. When he is informed that the former ruler of Thebes King Laios was murdered, he is furious although his fear is that he might well be murdered. Therefore, he is determined to find the murderous in order to secure his throne and to rid of the turmoil affecting the land.

Casual determinism put simply, is the theory that all things happen for a particular reason and everything is predetermined. It is the idea all the events in one’s life can be explained, and each event has a particular reason for being. If everything is predetermined, then this therefore suggests that the future is fixed which further suggests that we can possibly predict the behavior of things. The theory of determinism ultimately suggests that we don’t the capacity to have free will because all future events are destined to occur, and furthermore we do not posses the knowledge to figure out whether it can be proved true or false (Hoefer). There has been three positions that have developed concerning the theory of causal determinism: hard determinist, compatibilist or soft determinist, and compatibilist.