Predetermination Puns

So I recieved a proposal to reduce my TBI/PTSD and Migraine ratings and sent in the forms requesting a hearing. The hearing is coming up soon and I was wondering what anyone's experiences have been with these?

What kind of setting should I expect? Is it with a random VA employee or will it be similar to a legal hearing as a civilian with a Judge present?

Will I just be asked questions or will this be my opportunity to state my case?

How long did your hearing last?

Did you know your outcome when you left or did you just have to monitor ebenefits and myhealth websites?

I am a Purple Heart recipient for blast wounds and shrapnel to the face if it makes any difference.

I have a question, which, possibly, was pulled out of the bag many times, but I haven't noticed that - is there any possibility to get the custom paths as a feature in the coming TNO updates and (if it's valid to speak like that) DLC's? That would be a good tool for anyone, who wants to, for example, make their own plot twist on the political arena, but without using the cursed console panel, safescuming, or Zhdanov's ultravisionarial cosplay (>!stalking on all the states of interests to be sure, that!< "***ALL IS GOING BY THE PLAN!***"(Igor Letov) )? I understand, that it's a tool for casual players, but sometimes it may be a good tool for self entertaining or even for an art (don't ask me why, cuz it's a little bit complex to explain in one article).

Thank you! I'll be apreciated for your attention.

Do any atheists believe in predetermination? Why would they? If there is no god=no predetermination right?

In the Loki finale we found out that there's always been an "invisible guardian of time" (He who remains, Kang, Immortus or whatever) who controlled the course of time.

This basically means that all the events prior to "Sylvie freeing the timeline" were predetermined and could only happen in the way we've seen them.

In your opinion, does this diminish the importance of those events?

Sure, the Avengers put a lot of effort in defeating Thanos (for example) but It's also true that they had to do that, orherwise Kang would have interfered and pruned them.

I don't know what to think

My real question: are all of our actions ultimately non-free-willed events that belong to the passage of time?

Hey everyone, not sure this is the best place to ask this question but thought it would be welcomed here anyway.

Over the last year or so I've been learning things about myself through reading about attachment styles, personally types and things of that nature.

I've learnt that I'm codependent and have an anxious avoidant attachment style, both pretty unhealthy ways of existing in close relationships and are said to stem from early childhood conditions and parenting.

While I don't want to focus this post on my traits, I know there are many other things that can be triggered and developed during our early years which can fuck us up in some way for the rest of our lives due to bad conditions and parenting.

It could take the majority of our lives to overcome something which was developed in the first few years of us being born.

My struggles and things I feel I want to overcome in this life I've learnt have at least partially stemed from my childhood.

Now I'm sure on the best way to ask this question but does anyone out there think that these specific conditions have in a way been put in place for us to learnt learn/overcome challenges on our 'souls journey'?

I know this is pretty complex and there isn't a straight answer towards it, we just don't know. It's just interesting to learn how much we are shaped during our childhood and how a lot of the unhealthier patterns we fall into could have been avoided with better parenting. It makes sense and other than the whole parenting thing there's a lot of other circumstances in my life which definitely feel put in place for my development as a human which feels in tune with something much deeper.

Anyway cheers for reading if you've made it this far and I wish you all well X

I’m currently trying to do a whole bunch of research about why Islam isn’t that perfect and make a general document with all my findings and personal insights too. Right now I’ve just started writing about Islam and how fate ties into it. This is a topic that I’ve always had massive questions about and I’ve never been given a proper answer. I’ve personally come to the conclusion that the lack of answers is answer enough. But I want to put it to you guys.

Do you think fate exists within Islam?

Can predetermination and free will exist together as Islam seems to suggest or is this just a massive contradiction?

If everything is prewritten by Allah, then does this not make him cruel and unjust as he is essentially condemning some people to eternal hellfire before they’re even born?

Hi all!

I was wondering what some of you guys believe as far as predetermination vs free will.

My brain is having a hard time understanding God’s plans for us and what we have control over if at all. An example being COVID-19 and if God created that or not.

Much love and thanks! :)

I'm not sure if this topic is appropriate for this page, but there isn't really a Predetermination subreddit and this theory has a major role in my existential angst so here goes.

Frankly, the ideas of pedetermination and predestination terrify me. The idea that all of our seemingly "free willed" actions are merely a result of an immeasurable number of variables that occurred before them seems to take away the personal intentions behind all of our decision making.

We like to believe that everything we do is as a result of our cognitive reasoning abilities and desire to make the best decision, but if even the electrical impulses and chemical reactions happening in our bodies are the reasons we have thoughts, weren't those thoughts predetermined to happen as well? Similarly, we didn't ever choose our preferences, otherwise we would have simply chosen to prefer everything in order to achieve maximum happiness, so even the things we enjoy are a result of our environment and influences. It feels like free will is more of an illusion, and our consciousness is merely along for the ride.

Tracing every event back to the one before it over and over again would eventually take us back to the conception of the universe. If the universe were to restart and begin exactly the way it happened the first time, would history inevitably turn out the exact same way? And if so, doesn't that sort of squeeze all of the free will from our decision making?

I understand that predetermination isn't as simple as having no choice. If you sit down at a restaurant and say, "welp, my actions are all predetermined, so I don't need to choose what to order!" you're not going to end up ordering. I suppose the reason this bothers me is because if it is true, then the idea of accountability and "taking credit" for your actions sort of loses its credence, since everything that you do is merely a result of your influences and environment. If the things determining who you're going to be are things that are out of your control, such as education, upbringing, etc, isn't the course of our life decided before we're even born?

I realize this is a slippery slope (as everything is) because it can lead to some unpopular thinking, such as "in that case, we can't throw perpetrators in jail because they were predestined to commit that crime!" While it's possible that every single event in that person's life led them to become a murderer, obviously a degree of justice and order in our society ha

As the title say I would like to see and possibly know what is the view on the idea of free will vs pre determinism. I am not sure how knowledgeable people are here on the idea of free will ij Islam or how interested people are here to talk about this aspect of Islam.

It's always been a subject of great confusion for me. The way I was taught about Islam and qadr (pre determinism) is it is the 6th pillar of Islam and everything is written in lauhe mahfuz before anything else was created. This includes everything in life, from birth to marriage to death. Everything we do including our everyday action has been written down even including what time I will pick my hand up to rub my eyes. It seemed a bit extreme to me but that is how it was taught to me. Problem with it as you can already guess is how to reconcile this with how can we be judge for our actions then?

There are a few things to think about here.

1. If every action is pre determined, how can we be judged based on our action and end up in heaven and hell? It won't be just and God is supposed to be just.

2. God is omniscient /Al aleem. Even if free will doesn't exist doesn't God knowing everything including the future invalidate free will? If God knows I will kill someone tomorrow, do I have a choice not to kill someone tomorrow? Because if I have a choice to not kill and I don't kill, God would be wrong and he won't be omniscient. If I don't have a choice not to kill then free will doesn't exist.

3. If God can intervene and change our destiny, was that also written in lauhe mahfuz already? Or will God rewrite it? Does God know himself that eventually he has to rewrite/change my destiny? If so, why go through this hassle and why not write my destiny as the way he was gonna write it anyway to begin with?

4. In Quran it has been Mentioned multiple times about God hardening or sealing the hearts of disbelievers. Also been mentioned nothing happens without God's wills. The same problem exist here regarding a just God.

The story of Musa and khidr come into my mind where khidr kills a kid and tells Musa that that kid will grow up to cause trouble to his parents and become a disbeliever. Where is the free will? Why send the kid to earth to begin with if he had no other choice but to become a disbeliever to begin with?

I am curious to see what others were taught about qadr or pre destination. How does the sunni and Shia sect look at it largely? I am curious to hear about the mutazili and asharite per

Hi,

David Hawkins and other authors have stated that the date and time of death are set at birth. According to Hawkins, using muscle testing this statement calibrates as 'true'.

What are your thoughts and sentiments on this? Is the length of our experience predetermined? If it is, why and by who (our Higher Self)? Are we experiencing simultaneous incarnations that each have a definitive objective that must be achieved in a certain time?

Bec

Received dental predetermination for work on one (1) tooth:

Root canal plus crown, incl. filling, post and core for just over $2,700!! Joke, b.s., or actually somewhat in line? Claim pre-determination was send to our primary and secondary health insurances and most (if not all ) is covered, but still....is that normal or is the dental studio milking the system?

I saw the following post on r/Christianity and wanted to talk about it. https://old.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/f8go6c/the_devil_doesnt_want_a_spiritual_awakening/

It is true that our conception of the devil has changed over time. Originally, Satan was "God's prosecutor" (see book of Job), rather than an adversary trying to overthrow God.

Nevertheless, a significant number of modern Christians believe that Satan is the personification of evil, and the opposite of sorts of God. It is to these people that I am addressing this post.

Christians are confident that God will defeat Satan in the final battle. Why doesn't Satan know this as well? If he knows with 100% certainty that God will defeat him in the final battle between good and evil, with eternal torture on the line, then he would presumably not choose to rebel against god. Satan is thought to be more clever/wise than any human, and can only be resisted through the assistance of a higher power.

There are two possibilities here. Either Satan knows something that we don't, and the final battle between good and evil is not predetermined, and God could lose, or alternatively, Satan does not have free will. This has two consequences. The first is that Satan is not then responsible for his crimes (he has no control), but then even more importantly, someone else is responsible for his crimes. If Satan is not acting on free will, then he is doing God's will. Thus, if Satan is tempting us towards evil, he is doing so directly on behalf of God. This would imply that God has a partially evil nature.

If God is partially evil, and both tempting us, but also assisting us to "be good" and follow the frequently arbitrary law he passed down to us, then he cannot be said to be loving, and in fact we could only be said to be puppets for his amusement. While Christians may be quick to say that since he created the universe, he has the right to treat us as he will, but perhaps the creation of the universe was not a moral or loving act, and should not have been done. To quote Douglas Adams: "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

I recognize this is just the problem of evil (God cannot be omnipotent and omnibenevolent given the presence of evil), but it is framed in a way I find particularly interesting.

I learnt about this idea while learning abt Boethius, and this seemed to be the most puzzling of his ideas. I would love to see some modern arguments and explaination on the same.

Hi everyone, I went for my initial consultation regarding a breast reduction. My doctor's office let me know my Highmark insurance is requiring a "predetermination". Has anyone else dealt with this? If you have, do you have any advice, or stories how it went for you?

Thanks!

People think that they're free to shape every aspect of their lives down to the very last moment. This reveals itself in sayings like "Life is what you make it", "If you choose to see the good/bad, you'll only ever experience the good/bad", "If you really want something in life then go work for it", "It's nobody else's fault but your own that you're.......". People think that their achievements are the result of merit and hardwork, but if you trace back far enough everything that leads to a particular event, there's always something that indicates what outcome was set to occur.

Parents, the original ripples in life, set the framework for most of what you'll experience. Sometimes, people are born under more than satisfactory conditions, which gives them a well-rounded life that grants just a bit more mobility than others. Other times, people are born under less than satisfactory conditions, which gives them a less than average quality of life and hardly any mobility. Now, these positions can change. Sometimes people on the upside move downwards, and people on the downside move upwards, but that's rarely because they chose to.

When you're born, your parents create a template. This template has information on what your childhood, adolescence, and adulthood will be like, what schools you'll go to, what friends you'll meet along the way, the personality that will develop because of those events, how your body will grow, what health conditions you'll develop, and so on. Of course, you don't get to look at this template, and your parents can only assume what's on it, but the information isn't changing.

It's a noble thing to say that you changed your life circumstances or made something happen, but did you really? If you were born at any other second or minute, could you confidently assume that your life would turn out the same way that it has now?

Hello!

This is more of a general question but if someone in particular is from Canada and has experience with Desjardins (especially during Covid), your input is welcomed!

I submitted an estimate online to Desjardins (my work group insurance) on February 25. The estimate is for a health care program that I have been recommended to do at a private hospital facility. My benefits are pretty great and cover 100% of hospitalizations including private and semi private rooms with no limit on number of days.

It said that usually these claims/predeterminations are processed within 5 business days but due to Covid it could be little delayed.

I’ve called customer service and they said my predetermination is in the process of being verified (it was a detailed estimate from the health facility with breakdown of treatment plans, professionals involved exact costs etc).

Does anyone have any idea of how long it usually takes to verify these things? The estimate is for a pretty hefty price and so I understand that it might take longer as they want to verify everything.

The weren’t able to give me a timeline on the phone and I’ve been waiting for a bit now (9 business days) and it’s kind of a time sensitive thing as it’s to do with my health. I’ve tried to explain that but of course the agents on the phone are just relaying the info they have and I 100% respect that.

Thanks in advance!

Tl;dr: submitted an estimate to get a predetermination of coverage through desjardins for health insurance. Told it’s in the process of being verified. Any ideas on how long that usually takes? Submitted on feb 25 and today is March 10 (9 business days).

I feel like i need to post to try to clarify a misunderstanding that people have with the doctrine of predetermination and how people believe this takes away peoples free will, this will be fairly long winded but hopefully by the end people can understand how we can have free will but also not choose to follow Christ without God first calling us.

Here goes...

How free will is viewed in terms of salvation is viewed differently based upon different peoples theology such as the arminians believe that some people desire to repent and be saved, others desire to flee from God and therefore reap eternal damnation, they dont however make it clear as to why people desire those two vastly differently things.

Calvinists believe that all human beings desire to flee from God unless the Holy Spirit performs a work of regeneration and with that regeneration comes a change to our nature and therefore a change to our desire so that we will freely repent and be saved, without that work from the Holy Spirit we cannot even see the option to salvation because of our nature as sinners.

While we are free to choose that salvation and have the freedom to choose what we want in life we cannot however choose our nature and change as and when we please only God can change our nature that is not a decision we can make ourselves.

Our minds have been darkened by sin and our desires turned to wicked impulses but this does not stop us from choosing what we do in this life. The key is that after the fall human beings lost all desire for God and therefore we do not seek to do good for God because of our sinful we nature, we do what is evil as our nature determines. We still choose based upon our desires and if we are by nature sinners then we will desire to do evil.

Augustine said that though we have our free will we have lost our liberty, the Royal liberty that the bible speaks of is the freedom or power to choose Christ as our own, but the Holy Spirit through the process of regeneration can give us the desire to seek Christ. Taking us from spiritual death into spiritual life and therefore giving us the ability to choose Christ freely.

The difference between this and determinism is that determinism teaches that our actions are completely controlled by something external to us and forces us to do things we do not want to do, this isn't freedom it is coercion. However the choices we make are determined by what's inside us, our desires, our nature. This is self-determinism the very ex

I am very new to Deism and just beginning to learn more about it. It reflects my thoughts in many ways, but one way it does not is that I have read so far that Diests believe in free will over predetermination, and I tend to believe the opposite. Is this a core principle, and if one believes in predetermination then they are not a diest?