Essay 3

Fate And Freewill

I belive that my life is not run by fate but instead it is my freewill that does. It is my freewill that determines what i will do and what I will not do. I don't belive in fate because the idea of not being able to control and do what you want with your life can't be true. Which means tghat you can sit in a room and you can sit there for an eternity and whatever it is thats going to happen is going to happen because it is fated to happen. I think that it is all the choices that we make that make such events possible.
Schick quotes one of my favorite lines from the movie when Neo says " I don't like the idea that i'm not in control of my life."(87) Neo does not like the idea of fate because he doesn't want the choices made for him, instead he wants to make the choices for himself. I completely agree with his arguement about beliefs in fate. I also believe that it is choice taht brought him to Morpheus which leads to the pills and eventually him becoming the one.
I believe that it is the decisions that we makethat makes us. I'm here right no writing this essay because I chosose to. along with sitting down and being in the building. I could've stayed home and have slept through all of it. That is freewill, not because I choose to fail but because there is more than one way i could've started off the day and I chose to go to the college. But then there is fate. Since I made the choice to come to college was i fated to qwrite this essay? Maybe it ios true and maybe it wasn't. But would I be writeing it if I didn't go? Probably not. I've taken all this from schick's idea of finding a book about your life in a flea market when schick says " knowing a prediction can lead to it;s falsification."(97)
Now lets say you consulted with an oracle before went to work in the morining(which you want to be early for). And she says that you will be late for work,. You can do a whole bunch of things to stop this from happening. You can camp out or get up early or never sleep until the next day. MNow fate might be a jerk this day and it might come true. You might oversleep or maybe actually fall asleep trying to stay awake. But you can't disregard the possiblilty of it all working. Schick says "the oracle herself gives the game away when when she answers neo's question... Her mentioning the breaking of the vase is what broutght it about." (98) Basically the foreknowledge of anything cannot be true unless we believe it's true. And once we think that it's going to happen we will start making choices that wiill lead up to it.
Neo becomes the one because he chose to and also because he believed it so even though the oracle says that he isn't. Morpheus also believed neo was the One. Trinity dalls in love with Neo who the oracle says that she will fall in love with the ione. They all didnt believe it at once but eventually began to. It is only when we act upon our actions through free will is when we actually experience freedom. The ability to falsify foreknowledge is also an act of free will as well. Even if it does happen, can it still be free will for trying to stop it from happeneing?