This will be another one of those spiritual posts from an atheistic perspective. Destiny is real, and it is delusional to believe in the alternative. Sounds absolutely mad, right?
However, doesn't this seem obvious? That "free-will" (or 'choice') cannot influence the past? Of course it seems logically obvious. While it logically makes sense, we often are not able to accept this obvious truth on a deep level. We feel guilt over the past, and regret certain things, but it is delusional to believe things could be different. The purpose of negative emotions is to motivate action, which cannot be done in the past; this is a true reflection of our shared delusional state that is seemingly impossible to escape.
Even our science has been corrupted by this. Chance is our imagination's attempt to help us explain our ignorance. Scientists often utilize chance as being a factor, even though chance does not exist. That said, science is the most useful—albeit delusional in many ways—methodology we posses for understanding cause and effect.
However, doesn't this seem obvious? That "free-will" (or 'choice') cannot influence the past? Of course it seems logically obvious. While it logically makes sense, we often are not able to accept this obvious truth on a deep level. We feel guilt over the past, and regret certain things, but it is delusional to believe things could be different. The purpose of negative emotions is to motivate action, which cannot be done in the past; this is a true reflection of our shared delusional state that is seemingly impossible to escape. We imagine the past from the present moment, a moment where the circumstances can only be explained by imagining the past (which is delusional in itself). Where our imaginations and world-views often fail is in understanding destiny and our own ignorance (we can't know how much we don't know). The way the past has shaped the present is not left up to chance, to believe otherwise is purely delusional. Probability does not exist in the past (what's done is done), but us humans are often not able to accept this. Like when atheists debate theists, probability of a god doing this or that is often interpreted using probability (again, human-ignorance is not a factor).
Actually reflect on this, is there any actual probability things could have happened differently in the past? Such as that a god could or could not have done something? No, of course not. This is all obvious, and you may be thinking: "duh, of course it's all obvious..". That is the point, it is obvious that this moment is a product of destiny. Probability is a product of ignorance, we only perceive it to exist if certain factors are unknown. All moments are of equal importance for shaping our future, even if we are not aware of each moment's influence.
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Even our science has been corrupted by this. Chance is our imagination's attempt to help us explain our ignorance. Scientists often utilize chance as being a factor, even though chance does not exist. That said, science is the most useful—albeit delusional in many ways—methodology we posses for understanding cause and effect. You reading this is as much a part of your destiny as anything can be. All moments are of equal importance for shaping our future, even if we are not aware of each moment's destined influence. It is delusional to not believe in destiny. Just because we do not understand all factors does not mean that the future is left up to random chance. We will always perceive chance to exist on a deep level because we will always be unable to truly understand all factors (like a dog chasing its tail). One of the most unreachable factors is the self—but just because we cannot view the self does not mean we are not set on a destined path guided by destined circumstances. Magic lies in ignorance, and the concept of chance is magical.
What does this realization give to us? It gives us the ability to step back, to better appreciate the universe as it is, instead of what our imaginations delusionally perceive it could be. All that exists is destined to be. Things happen for a reason if we create reasons for them happening.
What does this realization give to us? It gives us the ability to step back, to better appreciate the universe as it is, instead of what our imaginations delusionally perceive it could be. All that exists is destined to be. Things happen for a reason if we create reasons for them happening.
It seems odd for you to call it destiny though. It's like chess. A chess master can sit down and see exactly what will happen and how the game will end but someone like me who isn't good at chess has a hard time even knowing what my opponent will do before he does it. Humans have very limited understanding of the universe (such as day to day stuff) that we don't see stuff coming when everything is really playing out like a huge universal algorithm.
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