> I don't believe in predestination or fate. We are
> not inextricably bound to some course, doomed to
> meet some preordained fate. We have the choice to
> make our future what we will.

I've been thinking a bit about this... Even if everything IS predestined, does it really make any difference to us?
As an example I'll use a silly little patience I sometimes play. (you put four cards on the table, if two cards are the same color, hearts and hearts or spades and spades not hearts and diamonds, you can put two more cards on them)
The moment I stop shuffling the deck and start playing there's no way of changing if I'll win or not... it's predestined. Now does this make the patience any less fun? No, at least I don't think so. I still have to play to find out...
Guess my point is that predestined isn't necissarily bad...

Briseis