What determines the fate of each individual? Is man a creator and mover of his life, or does he live at the effect of forces over which he has little control? Does free will exist or are our lives determined by outside factors—and if so, what are those factors? How does life work: is there a Supreme Force that intervenes in our lives? Or is everything pre-determined from the beginning of time? Or is life just random, full of coincidence and accident? Or is there some other control mechanism we do not perceive?

What determines the fate of each individual?

The individual.

Is man a creator and mover of his life, or does he live at the effect of forces over which he has little control?

Which man are you talking about?

Does free will exist or are our lives determined by outside factors—and if so, what are those factors?

If you don't know then you do.

How does life work: is there a Supreme Force that intervenes in our lives?

My father used to beat me with a belt.

That may not seem like a supreme force to you, but at the time it sure felt like a supreme force to me.

Or is everything pre-determined from the beginning of time?

Of course it is. How else could I know the answer to these questions.

Or is life just random, full of coincidence and accident?

What is coincidence but two incidences coinciding?

Or is there some other control mechanism we do not perceive?

Do you feel that you have no control over your actions?

If not, then who is it that you perceive to have control over you?

Are you a marionette doll, or are you the puller of your own strings?

OK that's does it. I am convinced you have way too much time on your hands, and I am wasting to much time on questions few can answer. lol That's it, Smiless, have to go get an asprin.. lol

Choice determines the fate of the individual. Choice is everything. The chioce of the parents, society, and people who were around when the individual came into the world. Their choices and the choices the individual make decides the fate of the individual. Things in the universe that lack the ability to choose events and actions are subject to the laws of the universe and the laws of physics, which some might argue were the decision of a higher power but that is left to speculation. In choas there is order and in order there is choas. Something happens becuase of nothing and Nothing happens because of something. Fate is the embodiment of every decision made up to now and in the future till there are no more choices that can be made. Nature is the control and choice defines the boundaries and limits....imo. Just a thought on it.