Do you believe in destiny or freewill? What about dreams that come true?

I don't know if the page I recommend to you will be useful or not. But it was mighty useful for me. It is basically a transliteration of a dialogue between a Hindu religious Head(By the way the H.H in the article stands for His Holiness not by Hindu Head ) and a Disciple. You can check it out at http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/articles/The_Riddle_of_Fate_and_Free.htm If you don't believe in reincarnation, maybe you might have some trouble understanding it. But if you do check it out, tell me what you think of it.

Hi there. Very rarely do I have dreams actually come true because mine are just too farfetched. However, I'm sure I've had at least a couple come true in my lifetime. I'm sure they could come true depending on how down-to-earth they were. Without knowing your situation (what kind of dreams actually came true for you), it's hard to determine what actually happened there. I don't really believe in destiny other than the fact that we choose our own. Every person chooses his and her own because we have complete free will. We've been given this gift of being able to choose to whatever extent we want. What we choose (using our free will) determines our destiny. I don't think there are predetermined things that are destined to happen as you mentioned. I believe God sees all things and already knows what going to happen, but He's given us free will to choose what we will do. He allows us to live our lives how we want and doesn't try to control them. He knew your dreams were going to come true, but perhaps it was because of something that you chose in your own life. (Once again, it's hard to determine since I don't know the exact situation.) God wouldn't put His hands on our lives to control them because that would completely spoil free will. I hope that makes sense. Good discussion. It's nice to think deep sometimes. Your post definitely helped. I hope you find the answers you're looking for. Take care.

I believe in 'free-will' but not as a total free-will.. after all we don't choose where we are born, etc.. I think our life and all life is made up of choices.. our own and all choices made all through time before us.. The bible does say that some are destined to find the rescue of Christ in this life.. and some are not! I think God can 'destine' some things in our life.. for his purposes, or in answer to someone's prayers, or our own.. But I don't really see our life as being planned out in advance by God (or ourselves).. What I believe is that the creator could see all possibilities, of all things, from the 'beginning', then he set out to do all things in order to bring about the best possible 'end' result.. When people followed 'the gods' it seemed there was a lot of belief in human destinies being planned out by 'the gods' or maybe just one of them.. A lot of times, those destinies seemed a bit painful, whether it was a great conqueror inflicting pain, or some sad irony that seemed to bite a more common person.. - I do however believe in dreams! As you've said as a putting of things together in our subconscious or even warnings from our sub conscious.. I also think we have what I think of as high spiritual dreams, which have a deep spiritual message, or even ones that are from God... I also fancy myself a bit of a dream interpreter and will sometimes go on Yahoo Answers and see if there are any dreams being asked to be interpreted and spend a fun day doing that..

We decide our destiny before we are born into each life....Free will always exists and its up to us to NOT see it as so black and white since it isnt and it IS connected to our destiny...Dreams..well thats a topic all its own..and yes I've had many a dream that has come true but every dream I have and remember is connected to my life be it a solution to a current situation or a warning or mental note of something to come in the future..thats what MOST (but not all) dreams really are about...its our deeper us helping our waking us if that makes sense.