Fate vs. Free Will

[freedquaker]

The notion "Fate" is usually confused and contrasted with Free will, which is not true.

Fate is "the knowledge of an omniscient divine entity that knows everything without regards to time, location or any other limiting factor that constraints creatures (those that are "created"). Fate has nothing to do with the predetermination of all those creatures are gonna do and be affected from the circumstances but is the fact that this divine entity knows all this before and after those things happen. Here is an example...

Assume that the technology has advanced so much that we now can foretell the earthquakes by specific time and location. Does it make us the "creators" of this eartquake just because we can foretell it? Or does it make us responsible for its mere happening? No. Just like this, the divine entity knows what the future holds (which is called FATE), but it doesnt necessarily mean that He/It (not necessarily has a gender) determines it.

FREE WILL is the portion of how much we can decide on our lives and or how much we can affect the circumstances surrounding us. Many things are given and without free will, like where we are born, what kind of family we are born into, many of the circumstances around, accidental incidents, the way that our body and many of our personal aspects. So a person is likely to have only, say, 10% free will upon what is surrounded by (Meaning 90% of our lives are given not predetermined. But this 10% shouldnt be underestimated, you know, even the genetical difference between apes and human are less than 2% (or something like this). Human Free will can be likened to a text adventure or cinematic advanture in which you do NOT choose the content but DO choose between different ways to go and contents. In other words, you dont create your own story, but you shape up your own by combining a vast array of numerous story arcs.

My above words above seems a little bit contradictory on the point that The Divine entity does not predetermine our future while many things are given. So isnt this "given" thing the same as "predetermined". Not necessarily. Yes many things were created the way they are given to us, especially at the beginning (like the world that Adam and Eve were put into) and many other things after then were given due to other human involvement rather than the Divine Entity. They are given because of other circumstances outside of our reach but within the reach of other people or some other "creatures". Does it still mean that the Divine entity has created everything from the scratch and then freed us into oblivion/chaos? No, he/it constantly intervenes in the minimal amounts to keep this going, but also in full scale in a way that things will not affect the free will.

Your stomach or brain or heart keeps working constantly and because its NOT you who works it cos the majority of us dont even have a clue about how it works, there is some "force" out there (or in there!) that makes things work, which is so greatly embedded within the causes that we dont even notice but take if for granted.

Ok, In conclusion, There is a Divine Entity out there, call it God or Some kinda energy or something else, Not bound by time or location, it keeps monitoring the world and every piece of Universe and keeps it on balance. It does not necessarily intervenes the course of the universe in the traditional sense but it fully intervenes everything (even realises everything) through reasons/causes. Its like when you push a button on the computer, when I am typing all those characters here, I "think" I am writing it, but its actually "the electronic equipment" that does it. Likewise, when we do something, we "think" that we do it, but its actually that Divine Entity that does everything. But Still we are the responsible ones, cos the rules are clear.

Ok, enough of this, I guess.