What do you believe in: Fate, Coincidence, or Choice?

[kaneada]

Fifaguy360 said:

kaneada said:

Fifaguy360 said:
The poll is wrong. It assumes Fate and choice are separate from each other.

How, in your estimation, are fate and choice not mutually exclusive?

Doesn't require estimation. Just think about it.

Fate is a collection of choices in a time frame known prior to their happening. The fact that they (the choices) are known doesn't prevent them from being independant nor free.

Intersting perspective...two assumptions I question:

A) Time exists and is, in and of itself, a real thing.

B) That all choices are known to something or someone making all possible outcomes predicatable.

Neither of those things can be possible without making the assumptions that they exist and then defining those assumptions to highly descriminative criteria where they would loose context, leading me to assumption C:

C) A choice is not a choice if it is known to someone or something, that outcome is absolute through influence of that someone or something, and can't be changed due to the the knowlege and influence of that someone or something. This makes choice an illusion and therefore not real, making both fate and choice mutually exlcusive concepts.