They dont even understand the premise of the question. Talkin bout covid restrictions and government 😂

Fate is real, it does exist for all of us. Our fate is to die. Free will is real, it exists for all of us. Our free will determines how we live.

This is excruciating. Wtf are they talking about? What does fate have to do with government? I can’t.

I feel like we have control to an extent. We can't ignore "conditioning" and "manipulation"

“If there is not equal access of information then there is no free will…just the illusion of it”

Free will determines your fate. Plain and simple 🤦🏾‍♀️

From a mathematical, physically standpoint. We are objects within the universe that are being acted upon by other objects in the universe. Our actions are constantly impacted by the motion of other objects within the universe. Essential we are dominos. Even accounting for Quantum mechanics, there is still a limited number of options/most probable options. Joe made the point about Genetics, and there are those predispositions. There aren't many ways to change our underlying genetics that are available. Epigenetics allows us to influence which genes are active, but doing so in a targeted way is not feasible atm to my knowledge. A lot of our trajectory is predetermined to my current knowledge. Any influence from outside factors in determining our actions is a corruption of free will. Our current actions impact our future actions, so even the first corruption has dire consequences.

Next time y'all try to have a philosophical discussion, please invite an actual philosopher on the pod to set some parameters.

‘Fate’ and ‘Free Will’ ARE real and they hold hands. I’ve had some instances where I tried to prevent some things from happening and even with the preventative measures I did, the situation STILL happened.

I feel like FREE WILL determines your FATE. Example, Ish brought up Dark Matter, Jason’s decision to not have the baby was his free will choice that he made, his girl choice to respect it and not have the child resulted in their fate being that Jason didn’t have a family and was unhappy while his girl succeeded. Jason went to another reality in hopes to change his fate What I do in my life determines where I go, the where I go or end up part is my fate. If you stream on twitch, KZfaq, do KZfaq shorts, promote yourself a bunch etc your fate could be you being a Kai Cenat level streamer. I hope that makes sense

We all have free will. It’s the consequences that may alter if we decide to exercise our free will or not.

If a guy gets shot in the eye by a stray bullet and is now blind, is he blind by fate or free will?

Nobody understands “free will” so conversations around it are always frustrating. Most people think free will just means “making choices”. And, yeah, of course, we can make choices. Lol. That’s not worth discussing because everybody agrees with that. Free will doesn’t exist because we have genetics, and we have environment, and those two things are the domino block for every decision we will ever make. If I think of a color, and you reverse time, and I think of a color again, I’m always gonna think of the same color. Because my whole life has led to me picking that color. In the moment, you have choice, but when you zoom out and look at your whole life in totality, it could only ever go one way.

Fate is broad. Fate said Joe Budden would be an entertainer. That’s fate. His free will comes into play when he chooses how he spins his fate,ie; podcast, rapper, guy in club that sits cross-cross- apple sauce on the table. They aren’t exclusive of each other. Having free will is having the choice to lay in bed/ or get up and hustle. The fate side of it is when you believe, even with no proof, that your meant to entertain, or sing, or produce, or ball, or marry this person for this kid, but the choices still take you to the fated path. This has been my Chocolate take!

People have fate confused, thinking that YOUR dreams are connected to it. Fate is whatever your destination is, and you have free will to influence your destination. This isn’t rocket science if you go beyond the shallow end of the pool. FREE WILL INFLUENCES YOUR FATE.

This is beyond your paygrade. Stay in ya lane.

If you had Free Will, wouldnt you be able to determine every aspect of your life? The simple fact we are bound to necessities like eating, breathing, etc, shows why free will is a strange idea and concept.

Your vibe is infectious, love watching your content!

Was having this a convo about freee will and being black the other day. When you choose to exercise your free will as a black person you realise how racist the people truly are. You thought is was bad when you fell in line.

Fate is what you agreed to learn, do, or accomplish before you get here (before your birth). Free will is the steps, methods, or journey you choose to take to fulfill your own prophecy.

They’re not assembled for this level of conversation. They’re talking freedom. Not freewill.

The decisions we make ultimately decide our fate. We have free will, but our decisions do have consequences

The lowkey “cmon Joe” @1:38 had me in stitches 😂

The real slavery is thinking we all came from a boat and that we weren’t already over here lol

Either you going make shit happen, watch shit happen or not know what happened - Mixtape Joe

Great topic!!!

You determine your fate based off of your actions. You have free will to make tho actions. Those decisions can be made harder or easier by surrounding conditions tho

They are not smart enough to have this conversation

“Wanna leave me In the streets pealed. Well if not happens it happens I believe in free will” Joe Budden Quote.

Did all the people that died at the hands of a drunk driver make that choice? Was it free will? What about people born with severe illness or disabilities? Did they choose that type of life?

Free will is for those who create the rules. Fate is for those who are under the rules. For those who have free will, they create their fate and that of others who don't have free will.

NY was sayin uncle during Covid. Traveled to 4 different states during that time and NY was super inside and on punishment. Felt surreal

During Covid, CHOICE was taken away, more so for healthcare workers tan any other sector. Everything changed for everyone, except healthcare workers, WE still left the house to go to work. We had a CHOICE to either get vaccinated or not. If you got the Vax, you kept your job, if you didn't, you were prohibited from returning to work, without pay. Was it a choice, or was CHOICE taken away?

Some things are cause/effect and some things are meant to happen.. be kind to yourself either way 💙💡

Religious folk also believe in free will, giving more credence to your surrendering to a higher power

Freedom and free will are different. During Covid, there wasn’t a much freedom BUT you had the free will to believe what you wanted about the situation

Freedom is an illusion between the people with power and those without.

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He read the definition to fate and they veered all the way from the topic. Lol

I always viewed free will as us setting the ball in motion and fate being all the circumstances that will occur simultaneously to make that ball land in a certain place at a certain time. We have some power to change it's direction after the fact through any available means, but we're pretty limited when it comes to predicting the behavior of all the other forces (ie wind or any obstacles). Math is the closest thing we have to a form of algorithmic predestination.

Free will isn’t freedom from consequence, you have a choice to go off someone that don’t mean you won’t be put in jail for it

We can not know for certain whether our lives are governed by Fate or Freewill or both. As unenlightened human beings, we are not capable of acquiring this knowledge. However, we are capable of feeling what guides us. Sometimes, the feeling of what guides us is so strong, that it takes control of our lives🤷🏾‍♂️

Fate and Free will are intertwined. The only way that free will can be exacted is if there are certain levels of a preordained resources, then that Fate in turn creates more Fate for your self others to exact more Free Will.

We have freedom, not free will. There’s a difference

Mel right is life's going right people think it's fate... and Joe is right there is no free will in America

Fate, is already knowing which path you will or would have chosen.

Ive heard black ups and fed ex drivers say they couldn't deliver to certain areas. The companies told them not too

I don't believe they grasped the question.

Which pateron episode was this deeper discussed

You have the freedom to choose to do what you want, but you don't have the freedom to chose what you want to do. You may have the freedom to make a choice, but your fate/destiny isn't determined solely by your choices. Your future's determined by your predispositions in combination with your circumstances. If you had enough info, you could probably map out an entire person's life based on who they are and what will they'll encounter.

I was outside the whole time during COVID-19 in California. I got my haircut in California. 4:12 💯

Even if fate is real that doesn't change the fact that as a fallible person the position of not knowing what's about to happen means that you have the free will to choose what you're about to do. Whether or not there is some order Behind These choices and all of these experiences does not make you no longer have to experience it like this. Free Will is a description of our human experience. Determinism is the technical pieces behind it which we do not experience but technically live within

I think they are missing the point here. You can do what you want, but it comes with consequences.

There is no free-will, free will means to do without consequences. Fate is something that must occur in your life. Simple

You can do what you want but you have to understand there will be consequences whether good or bad. Every action has a reaction

Growing old and dying, or well death period, is a fate thing. I think everything between life and death is free will.

that original argument is what got me locked in to the new cast and gave me the chance to enjoy this version of JBP more than the old cast

I’m spiritual and grew up religious and I was always taught we had free will. Never taught we have preordained destiny. Otherwise why would any of us try to do anything at all? Why not just let life happen to us

Will is everything that happens in between you living your life, fate is what happens at the end of your will, or life. Some people let life happen and some people keep themselves occupied while waiting for life to happen. And fate and will don't have to be negative or positive, the two can go both ways

Yes…this isn’t the forum for health information I’m not hear to learn that sought of material for podcasters👌🏿

Free will never makes sense. Every action is either determined by something else, or it’s random. Either way, no free will. Even if you have a soul, then something is causing *that* to have an action, or it’s random. Free will never enters the equation

Free will is the means to achieve your fate/purpose..

Low key these are the conversations I wanna hear from the jbp

Most people live with the illusion of control of their lives. Think on this, there are people who smoke 3 packs a day and live until they are 80, and then there are those who just get second-hand smoke and die early. Now what kind of control is that.

The Universe is a machine in complete balance with itself. Both Fate and Free Will are at work simultaneously. Not Fate as in no matter what decision you make you'll end up at a predetermined destination. Fate as in no matter what decision you make you'll end up exactly where you need to be. Now whether you recognize that or not is where Free Will comes into play Both Free Will and Fate hold hands with eachother the same way positive and negative run parallel. The way light and dark dont equate good and evil. Light and Dark run parallel. They define each other. Without one you wouldn't recognize the other if it were staring you in the face. Free Will and Fate work the exact same way. You need one to recognize when your facing the other. Take away 1 and the other ceases to exist or hold the same meaning.

I believe your fate is set based on your freewill choices

they completely missed the mark with all their answers... lol!! this question is BEYOND choosing to get up to go to work.... A more appropriate question would have been... "Joe, the success of your podcast, do you think you were always meant to be here with this level of success? or do you think it's because of the choices you've made?"

People like to associate "free will" with the ability to make a favorable choice out of all possible options. Sometimes the choices are not favorable no matter what you do. Just because you feel forced to choose a choice in order to avoid struggle, punishment or penalty it doesn't mean that you didn't have the CHOICE to go through that struggle, punishment or penalty. Of course nobody wants to do that but you CHOSE not to go through that and took the less favorable option to not feel it.

Well by that definition fate is non existent because how would you know what’s happening is going as planned you wouldn’t know the plan if there was a plan for you .

This conversation is very simple but easily over complicated. But it starts with understanding who and what God is.

Free will does not mean you are free of consequences where destiny there is no consequences for different choices because the outcome is the same. I have the free will to choose to punch somebody or not and the consequence is facing going to jail or not. And even in cases where something bad happens to you that’s completely out of your control, you still have the free will to choose how to deal with it. Personally I think fate/destiny is nothing more than the sum of choices you make with your free will.

Lol Ish's argument is kinda weak. Slaves had choices despite their condition....that's why some fought back ....some ran away...etc. And as soon as you're captured you're a slave fam

Free will is limited. Your fate is determined by the choices you make through influences of good, evil, etc. We live life on the rails of our society, government, lifestyle, influences, etc.

First off, certain things are predetermined (fated); your biology, environment, etc. Moreover, free will in part has to do with the ability to make your own choices/decisions free from the manipulation or control of others/forces. In reality, our fate is determined largely by our parents and upbringing, however it doesn't completely determine our outcome (it just has the probability to affect the outcome in a certain way-but we have the ability to alter our path/journey).Furthermore, the aspect of fate and free will are intimately linked. Obviously, there's some religious aspects to this discussion, but I'll omit for the purposes of simplicity Secondly, most people don't have free will due to social conditioning, manipulation by governments, organizations, etc., however; free will can give us the opportunity to make the decisions to put us in the best position possible for a desired outcome. All in all, free will is truly obtained (in my opinion) when you're able to reach a certain level of financial freedom where you're able to live the life that you want to live.

Where Ice at?

GOD/Jesus Christ is the creator of all things and controls everything while still giving Free Will to his creation to do what we want but while also knowing that God has given us the foundation on how to live with the life he gifted us which is to love God first with our heart soul mind and strength and love one another as Jesus Christ showed perfectly and then once that is established then we will follow his commandments for us correctly but as we see we tend to think God/Jesus Christ isn't real and is not the creator of all things so now we think we are the important ones on the planet but despite our disobedience towards God and God still loves us and God knowing that our spirit is what's more important that God knows that our spirit needs to be saved from eternal damnation and that he gave his only begotten son Jesus Christ who willingly die for our sins and rose on the third day so that we can have everlasting life and a everlasting relationship with God like he intended it from the very beginning before we disobey him and said we can do what we want without God and the only way to have everlasting life with God is to believe in Jesus Christ that he died for our sins and put our faith and trust in him like in John 3:16 FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON FOR WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHALL NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.

I think they conflating free-will with “personal potential” in some of these examples.

Why does this happen so much in black dude podcasts? Are they not listening to the question?

Of course you have free will, you've got no choice but to have it ;)

I think our destination in life is predetermined. I think the path we take to that destination is a free will parh.

From a perspective in California...free will to a certain point.

Their argument is more about how much you choose to allow yourself to be subject to the manipulation of the way our society is set up. Free will vs fate is a much broader conversation in the realm of existentialism in which the debate is centered around do you ACTUALLY make choices in your life? Or is everything pre-determined by a higher entity outside of humanity? For Marvel fans, think of the multiverse being allowed to exist or the Sacred Timeline being the only timeline that is allowed and present.

Ish looks like he's chosen to eat all the processed foods at the store. My guy has the I've been sitting on the couch eating all day body.

To an extent, I get that bringing govt into it makes it more about control and not fate. Also, for society to society, everyone can't entrepreneur. Everyone enjoys something because someone else is working to provide a service. Even in terms on health, modern medicine, etc. Workers are needed but there's a fine line that may cross into lack of choice...clearly from history lol.

Y’all definitely switched up the premise. Which it started in a sense of life free will/fate. To society free will/fate sense. To different topics

They all talking past each other.

Joe mixed up what freewill means, in freewill you always have a choice the pandemic thing didn’t take away your freewill because you still had the choice to follow the rules or not…

Everyone in these comments is smarter than that whole panel when it comes to this topic.

Hey Joe I u guys didn't mention what yall thought about Lauryn Hill performance

This is a good ass conversation.

I did a paper in school on this subject matter my senior year and honestly I kind of Improv most of my theory because I waited last minute to start it but I basically said it was 50/50 fate and destiny. Like the movie Jon Q for Example Denzel Washington made it his Destiny to get his son a new a heart by any means even if it meant the cost of his life but his son was already dying being as though his Fate was decided already for him because he was born with a condition he had no control over. So I said it's 50/50 and ultimately ended up getting a B on my project.

I hate when they say this can get deep well yal about this later . I’d really like to hear yal full opinion on a lot of these things . I thought this was an interesting conversation .

Both can be true at the same time. If I am not commanding my energy and if I haven't claimed sole/soul/sol authority over my energetic field and destiny, then someone else is commanding it. And that is not happenin' captain. Not on my watch. At the same time there is a Divine unseen hand orchestrating the events of my life behind the scenes. The key is staying so true to myself that I remain in divine alignment at all times so that I can stay on my divine path of destiny and hopefully ascend out of this biihhh. SolarahSpeaks has been one of the ABSOLUTE best at explaining alot of this and has been a complete game changer in my reality.

I think it's a lot of both

The two are linked free will creates fate. Free will is the input and fate is the output. Just like twins can have different outcomes because their free will is different. Based on where you are in life and the resources you have at your disposal some things can be impossible so if you try at it you are "fated" to fail but your free will created that fate as you could try to do something else.

what Flip said at the end made me magnify the fact that, aint no darkskins on this show lol

Ish is just a lot smarter than them. Great way to school them

This might sound confusing to some but I hope some will get it Free will is a past choice Fate is a present moment for example your free will choice will lead to your present fate

The only thing FREE in this world is AIR ain’t none FREE, not even FREEDOM!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Both. Like death is fated. We all know that we’re going to die one day. What we don’t know is the why,how,when,who,or what. No matter how much free will we have, nothing is going to stop it from happening.