Hell No!

"All things in life are fated; you cannot change fate with your own actions"

All the great men of philosophy are now rolling around in their graves. Have people become so jaded that we surrender to some invisible chain that disengages us from the complexity of having some sort of control of our lives? I almost burst out laughing when I read this line in a paper that I was proofreading, I can imagine some bored guy in thick coca-cola eyeglasses stuck in a back office write this in an important paper that I happened to be editor of.

If indeed this is true, that fate is unchangeable, then what the hell are we doing trying to wrangle some sort of control over life then? Shouldn't we just hang back and let fate float us forward? No more trying to discover the answer to, "Why am I here?", or "What will I do with my life?". Just wait for LIFE to take you places, let things happen.

Predetermination of fate is almost impossible to believe because chance gives us more curveballs than straight outs.

Take the LOTTO for example, sure tens and thousands of people try their luck on any given day, much disappointed sure, but it's the thrill of the possibility of winning that gets people to join in on the fun. Waiting for a curveball to hit and swinging it out of the field.

But what if the curveballs themselves are predetermined? Like some MATRIX alterworld is indeed controlling the drones, that happens to be us, and that there is no such thing as a REAL world. Again, I'm driving myself nuts with the thinking! Must be the weather really. Who can live on this heat, nor think rationaly?