Is everything already determined ??

Pun said:

I hate to say it but I don't think everything is determined, there is no higher being, when we die we are rotting in the ground nothing more.

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I fail to see why you're seemingly saddened or rather upset. I find it fruitful to believe all my actions are not already predetermined. Predetermination seemingly devalorizes the meaningfulness of my actions and general significance to essentially absolute nothingness, seeing how they're not really my actions, they're the predeterminer's for he decided them, not me. I would purely be a pointless vessel, one of the predeterminer's many trivial playthings. I also find it fruitful to believe there's not an unfalsifiable, omniscient, omnipotent Grand Dictator, who watches my every move and dictates illogical and irrational guidelines I must follow, unless I want to be granted eternal damnation for not obeying him. The lack of an afterlife you insinuate, I also find fruitful. I'm quite positive I don't want to live forever, especially against my will.

I believe in soft-determinism, but I also have an understanding for hard-determinism.

Soft-determinism basically states that one's future depends upon their current actions. I believe that we, in fact, have free will and are able to make our own decisions. Yet, there are cases that make me believe that some people simply lack the mentality to make their own decisions; mental handicaps being the prime example. This is what also has me leaning towards hard-determinism.

In a nutshell: Hard-determinism constitutes that events are predetermined. I'm not going to get into that either

I honestly believe in libertarianism, but I'm not getting into that with a few people on this site.

Basically, I believe in free will.