Well, I guess we're still on the topic of destiny. I just remembered earlier today an episode of Supernatural that deals with destiny. The episode is the third one in season four called "In the Beginning." In this episode one of the main characters (Dean) is sent back in time to find his parents before he was born. Dean tries to kill the yellow-eyed demon who ends up killing his mom when Dean is little. Dean wants to prevent his family's deaths at the hands of the yellow-eyed demon and save his family so that he can be with his mom growing up. Dean doesn't prevent anything from happening, and his grandparents both die and his mother makes a deal with the demon to save her boyfriend (Dean's father). At the end of the episode, the angel who brought Dean back in time tells Dean that he couldn't have changed what happened and that it was destiny.
So if there is such thing as destiny, would we be able to change it? What if you knew how the future would turn out and tried to prevent it from happening, but it just happened in a different way? There's another episode of Supernatural where Sam replays one day over and over and everyday his brother Dean dies a different way. He goes around trying to prevent it from ever happening, but every single day Dean dies. In these scenarios there is free will to an extent. You can choose which path to follow and some events would be different, but the outcome would always be the same.
You see these types of episodes a lot in television (or at least I have) where one person has to relive some moment in time over and over until they change one thing that will end the time loop. So...could we change destiny?
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