We do not have free choice at all — and we do not need it…

Question from the Internet:

“Jean de la Fontaine said, “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it”. What do you think?”

This is logical. After all, if there is a predetermined destiny, even the “road one took to avoid it” is also part of that destiny. So from the person’s point of view, he made a choice to avoid his destiny, but from a systemic point of view, the choice was already part of one’s destiny, already predetermined.

These are nice, philosophical musings, but with our very limited, inherently egocentric, subjective mind which is convinced about free choice, independent decisions, we cannot yet comprehend, even imagine what “fate/destiny” means.

It is all purposeful by evolution. We would not be able to exist without this illusory sense of freedom, individualism. It takes a long and gradual preparation, an immense amount of inner self-change until we emerge from this “dream”, illusion we feel ourselves in and reach the state that we can comprehend and most importantly tolerate that truth: that we have always existed in a fully deterministic system, with our unique, individual cogwheel role “set in stone”, moreover we are already fulfilling our predetermined role without knowing about it.

By then we will understand that our life is not about what we do, choose, but it is about the “why”. We will have to go through this unique “educational process” in order to understand the system we exist in and its plan of development.

Then by the end of the process, when we reach the point of “zero free choice”, at the same time we will tangibly, realistically feel as if we ourselves designed and operated the whole system, actually holding the Universe in our hands.