Destiny and Reality

These are my posts from two different threads. One asking if I believe in destiny, and one asking what is reality for me.

Two things so unlike, yet not really so.

Read on to find out.

For those people saying that we make our own destiny, by destiny's definition alone, how can you make it? When it is defined as: an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future. So if it will inevitably happen in the future, how can you make it? Even without you doing anything, whatever your destiny may be, would still happen. This is also the same with people saying that they believe in destiny but they also believe in free will. That is a lot of bull. You cannot believe in two things that means the exact opposite of each other. You cannot have a life where you have free will, and you have destiny. It's only either you have free will, or you have destiny. I believe in the matrix mantra that: free will is an illusion made to control us. It would seem that in our life, we are somehow in control, that we somehow have the choice of what to do and what not to do, or where to go with our life, but the sad truth is: all these "seeming choices" presented to us are mere illusion. As the fact proves that, even before we were born, we have already been encoded with everything that we would be using in our life. Our DNA that determines our physical, mental characteristics, our attitudes and beliefs develop without our concious control. Events in our life shaped it. And we neither choose to be a paranoid jealous wife, or a passive husband. Just like in the case of Neo, it was inborn in him that he would always choose LOVE above any other ideals. Thus when presented with a choice, he always chooses LOVE. In that aspect, free will or choice becomes immaterial. Even your choosing is not important because it is already known what your choice would be. The idea of free will was made to make us believe that we are free. When in fact, fate and cruel circumstance would always rule our lives. I ask this of you, is it your free will now that you are reading this thread, browsing this forum, reading what I have written here? Is it?

Reality is what we perceive of it.
In the confine of our limited senses:
seeing, touching, hearing, tasting, smelling, and thinking
what we perceive and believe as true, is.
How are we to say what is real and what is not beyond what we can perceive?
That we may live in a "matrix world," is immaterial, because we'll never know that for sure.
As a philosopher once said, how are we to know the dream of a dream of a dream?
If one day you woke up from a dream of being a butterfly only to wake up a little later discovering you are a butterfly dreaming you were a man, what would you do?
Would you still believe then the reality of things around you?

What is sure is that we were given with the capacity to think, but that capacity is limited. It could never encompass the vastness of the universe, nor invent another sense of perception not given to us.

What is and what isn't are the same. They're mysteries beyond our grasps.