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    significant changes. At the start of every day choices are made that in some manner are a direct influence of one of these people. Wake up, working, its not a destiny, although it may feel that way at times. Somehow, the lines become blurry about free will and destiny. Did you have an…

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    *Insert Really Awesome Headline Here* Imagine this. Two doors, both alike in appearance. One is an exit whilst the other is a trap. You are given a choice in which door to go through. Hypothetically, let’s say you choose the first door. Bam, wrong choice. Let’s say you choose the second. Nope, wrong again. Both doors were traps; you never really had a choice. It may seem that your life is governed by the choices you make—you don’t need fate or destiny to predetermine it for you, but when we…

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    These individuals fought for their freedom. However many people believe the freedom to make choices is an illusion. So was it these revolutionist’s free will which lead these revolutions or was it fate. Two poets debate the nature of fate and how much it really controls us. The poems “Fire On the Hills” and “Invictus” both give an opposing explanation of free will and fate. In “Fire on the Hills” Robinson Jeffers uses paradoxical metaphor and chaotic imagery to depict a forest fire in which he…

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    Reichenbach, writes “creating persons who perform a very significant number of free acts and who thus might be appropriately termed free persons, God has made things which he subsequently cannot control”. So is there a limit over the control of people’s actions even if what they do is done out of pure evil or are we free to choose what actions to perform? Free will theodicy explains our human nature and our evolving world. As complex as times get from the very beginning…

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    Stephen Hawking discusses the question of whether humans have free will or not. “Is Everything Determined?” both utilizes logical reasoning and builds upon theories previously stated in order to prove that nothing can be gained in discovering the fate of each individual human being. Hawking’s ethos is built outside the essay by his reputation as one of the world’s leading physicist; his composition originally appeared in the book Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays. As such, his own…

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    It was dark, not inky black where you can only imagine what your seeing, more a perpetual twilight, a constant dullness. This is normal with no sun, it had not been created yet. God has a dilemma, he 's bored. It 's the beginning of time (whenever that is), part of being God is the need for attention. It does not occur to anyone, but God has needs, just like everyone. The beings he made were in his image, if they have needs, the creator must also need something. Why create things that…

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    could be interpreted in many different ways, some say that he secretly wanted to see his fate to come true because of all his choses that lead up to him making his fate come true. Oedipus was unfortunately pre determined by his fate but he did have the free-will in changing his destiny. There are many ways that this play could token a different turn of events if he had a different mind set. From the the day Oedipus was born he was a victim to other people’s decision when his own father Laius…

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    negative childhood “is especially pivotal in determining behavioral outcomes” (Stromberg). I believe that individuals genetic is not the only factor that makes them more or less prone to crimes, yet it’s the addition of environment and the concept of free will to the one’s…

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    The debate about free will has been going on for years. After reading many articles, it seems that people have very different views regarding free will; two of these people are Galen Strawson and Robert Kane. Strawson believes that you cannot make yourself the way you are due to predetermined factors, while Kane believes that you can shape your own character through self-forming actions that pave the road for your decisions later on in life. Although both make very good arguments for their claim…

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    by, And that has made all the difference” (lines 19-20). Well, we know that not to be true. From what Frost has told us, they were practically the same and had been equally traveled “And both that morning equally lay/ In leaves no step had trodden black” (lines 11-12). The difference in the paths in this poem is often what is misinterpreted and leads to confusion. The real point in this poem isn’t the paths, it’s what they represent-and that is…

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