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My first attempt at a blog

My name is Geoffrey, and I am a college student/athlete.  I am a computer science, graphic design, and mathematics major.  I have never used or written a blog before, but I have created and ran a few websites, mainly for class projects, but as this is my first blog I apologize in advance if it is not the best.  I don't really know what most people write on their blogs, but if anybody does read this feel free to drop a comment and give a suggestion as to what I should write about.  Maybe even subscribe so when I write my next post you can check to see if it is from your suggestion.  Thanks

Fate or Free Will?

I was told once that everything happens for a reason, and apparently most people have heard that, and they use that same phrase to comfort themselves when anything goes wrong.  But these same people, the ones who say, “everything happens for a reason” do not believe in fate.  Instead they believe they truly have free will.  But if everything happens for a reason, then it is only logical to assume that it was meant to happen at that time and therefore it was their fate, which means that no matter what had happened previously it would happen anyway.  So do we have free will, or is everything predetermined? Does everything happen for a reason?             Obviously, there is no true way to test whether we truly have free will or not, however, in believing in fate one admits that there is something ‘out there’ bigger than themselves.  Therefore, in the belief of fate one inadvertently believes in a higher power.  Because there cannot be fate without something pulling the strings, someth