The Only Question We Ever Really Need To Ask (Article I)

In my Intro to this series of articles on The Only Question We Ever Really Need To Ask, I made the initial assertion that determining whether our individual (yet relative and collective) story lines are based on fate or free-will could provide us with the one foundational truth to seek answers to all other questions we could possibly imagine. I also noted that the one true dictum that can define the one true reality on which the outcome of every future human inquiry lay is this: Nature by nature (of which human are mere constituents of) is entirely predictable even if what is predictable is not wholly determinable. In other words, life/nature follows an inherently predictable path that cannot be entirely known (from a human stand-point). If it is the truth we pursue in the answers we seek to every imaginable question that may matter to us (individually and collectively), then, knowing the truth regarding the nature of our existential experience is paramount. The question of whether our existential experience is based on personal choices related to free-willing or our futures play-out due to personal yet relative destinies based on fate is at the heart of the struggle to determine that one true reality.

- Currently, most of us believe in a human existential experience that is a combination of fate vs. free-will - a bit of nature and nurture, if you will - an inconvenient truth for some and a convenient lie in my personal opinion. For example: How could we believe that God is 'all-knowing' or 'all-powerful' and 'able to predict the future for what it is' if we also believe that humans have the capacity to determine their own futures based on free-will that makes such God-like predictions simply impossible? For, how can a God predict future events that are intricately related to the collective human existential experience if the humans concerned has the ability to make God's ability to predict untenable? This is not an attempt on my part to establish an argument for an all-knowing God or that we should pursue atheism believing in mankind's ability to determine their own future(s). But it is an attempt to draw the readers attention to a core-conflict relating to one of the core-beliefs concerning Nature and our existence. One cannot possibly argue for both - the ability of an all-knowing God to predict the future as well as the capacity of humans to determine their own futures! The two beliefs are not mutually exclusive and, therefore, cannot be both true.

- In Article II (which I intend to publish next week unless fate determined otherwise) I will demonstrate how a common misconception regarding the "choices" we make cause us to believe in our so called ability to control our individual destinies.