A revision
This is what happens
to someone
who carelessly makes hurried
and bombastic declarations of
this type:
"Everything
that takes place is determined
with absolute accuracy by the Natural Law".
We have been led
to conclusions
which are very difficult
to accept.
This absolute predestination
for everything that
happens in the
Cosmos, starts to become really
annoying.
Is it possible that
the universe is
predetermined in such
a way?
You might say: why
not.
There is absolutely
no freedom.
Neither for atoms,
nor for bees and nor for us.
This is so and we
must accept it.
Whether we like it
or not.
We accept other things
too that we don’t like.
As death for example.
We must accept that
as well.
We do not yet know
enough
nor do we have the
courage to draw
the necessary logical conclusions from
the little that we do know.
We do not like the
idea of
being not only totally
insignificant in the
Cosmos but also absolutely predetermined,
and therefore we reject it.
But in reality
this is exactly the case.
Whatever happens
was fated,
and whatever we
do in the belief that we
made a decision ourselves, we had to do it
that way so that what was predetermined
in fact happened.
For this opinion
of an absolute predestination
of all events there
are fairly widespread
beliefs expressing exactly the same thing:
The inevitability of fate.
"Το πεπρωμένον φυγείν αδύνατον".
Escaping destiny
is impossible.
But of course not
even the most faithful
supporter of this
view would come
to the point of saying:
I’m not getting
up to get a drink
because if it is
my fate to die
of thirst it is pointless to try
to oppose destiny.
Nor would
he say:
I perform no action anymore,
I think no thoughts,
I make no decisions.