Are all our actions in life pre destined ?Or is it just a chain reaction?

I believe that all of us have pre-ordained destinies but how we get there isn't carved in stone yet. We have choices. We have different paths that we can take but in the end we will reach the same destination that has been written for us.

Kiran! I feel that all our actions are predestined. I agree with your stone imagery though I wish to add my own interpretaton to it. Whether you throw a stone, throw many stones or do not throw a stone at all are predestined actions. SImilarly whether you are going to be in the vicinity where a stone is going to hit you also is a predestined action. THere are many human beings in the drama of life and the thinking and action of each individual has an impact on another; here it does become a chain reaction , be it in family or in society. In life every event does affect another person concerned but if you go to the origin of the event you would realise it is beyond your control. THis tracing is possible in narrow circles but in society or the world at large it is even more difficult.What goes around comes around; true. but why did this have to go around? Therein is the action predestined.

It is not true every religion are of the opinion that everything in life is pre-destined. Our life journey is always in a dynamic state rather than static stage. Whatever activity we do daily accumulate, add or substrate from our original amount of 'karma' charting the future path of our destiny in present earthly life and beyond. Life itself is a big circle constantly turning, where mankind only constitute a tiny part of this big revolving circle of universal truth, nothing is pre-destined or pre-determined by the true maker of our universe, each man will get and receive from whatever deed and action he had done during his life jouirney, a hand that plant a bad seed, will receive rotten fruit, or vice versa, it is all a fair game as far as our action go, you can call it chain-reaction, or ripple phenomenon, or domino effect, which ever it is, the end result is the same for everyone and in every where.

I think that it is a little bit of both I think a lot of things are predestined like who you end up with and such but something's I belive are just a chain reaction that I belive is why we have free will

hi kiran! i believe that we are destined for something but we are to do some actions so we reach to that destiny. sometimes there are just certain things that no matter how hard we pursue to reach it we never can it's because it was not meant for us. i hope you get my point friend. it's a matter of acting to reach everything you want. but not everything you want will be given.it is because you are not destined for it.

I think you are correct kiran8. No one can tell if our lives are predestined and neither can anyone prove it. The ripple effect is a practical view of how the world goes. It's pretty simple to understand. There's a cause, there's an effect.

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Hello Kiran ji. indeed it is matter of beliefs. So who beliefs in super power who control all of us they beliefs that what we are and what we will be predetermined. Only the super power make us. But super power never come before us. They do all thing from ourself. Our deeds are will of super power. And our deed decide what we will be in our life.

It is a form of chain reaction. Though not that much. I think it's more like a tree.. or more like a particle of water going through a tree to the top. You come up from the roots to the trunc and you have a big tunnel and so many ways and choices.. then you "grow up" and gotta choose from one of those big branches.. then so on from one of those other smaller branches. you can't ever go back sadly. you can only look forward and try to guide your way although looking from the inside you'll never be able to see your point of reach.. until you get to a tip where you find either a leaf that falls and has it's purpose or for very very few of us a flower-fruit that seeds and grows other trees that other particles of water would help grow.. yes, we are that small but have so much purpose in life and the big picture. it's all random and it is based on free will but it's a blind free will because we don't REALLY know what our choices will bring out in our future. but somehow it all fits in a cycle that repeats just in other forms. That is the way of nature.

I think it's both. I know it's confusing when you try to understand it but i really think it's both. I mean, it's like a magazine quiz where you try to find out what kind of personality you have. You are given a series of questions then a bunch of answers then those answers would lead you to another questions and so on and so forth until you reach the end of the quiz and find out what your personality is. The cycle itself is the chain reaction, however, the choices/answers you are given are pre-destined. :D I hope I got the point across. :D

I've talked about this with a lot of religious and non-religious folk. The best answer I've heard from a religious person is that God has given every person free-will, but knows how each person will act because he created them, and so can make his plans for the future accordingly. I believe in no God, and therefor that every person has free will and can do whatever they want. I think that the chain reaction, as you described, is a very good way to put it. Every action affects other people, despite whether or not they know it. A good way to see that is like the idea of "paying it forward."