Quote Originally Posted by EDMUNDOSLOTH
As an impressionable teen-ager I was obliged to study works by many French writers both in English and their native French. This surprised me at the time but proved to be no burden as I came to be deeply embroiled in their philosophical postulations. (As an aside I even translated and put my own interpretation on some of the poetry)

The main debate raged around the question of us having free will to do as we please against destiny (or the gods) pre-determining our path.

I won't go into great detail but if you are interested I would point you towards Jean Anouilh-particularly "Antigone"; Jean Cocteau-"The Infernal Machine" and Jean-Paul Sartre "The Outsider".

My question to you is this: Do you subscribe to the idea that the only true freedom we have is the freedom to make our own decisions? (As I believe)
Or that everything has a laid-down path that we blindly follow?

Fo those of you with the free will to answer please do so. To all you others you have no choice but must respond.
I have always felt that we all take paths by choice. BUT I also feel that each choice has a predetermined outcome. It's what you do with the outcome that matters.