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How do we reconcile free will with destiny?
WILL & DESTINY
The Vikings wove the threads of fate
To roots of the World Tree,
Connecting all of life's events
And beings, even thee.
A web of causes and effects
Of agency and fate,
Weighted by their common past
And shaping future's gate.
The web of causes spirals wide
Where will and fate must dance
To music of the path we've walked,
Defining every chance.
A destiny that can be changed
By choices that arise
One's will is free but with constraints,
So find the path that's wise.
Our actions echo through the threads,
Although a tiny trail;
We're co-creators of what is,
Parts of a larger tale.
The chapters owned by destiny
Should not by us be feared;
The word is writ by your free will—
The Vikings called it "Wyrd."
“The Norse concept of "wyrd" is a profound and enigmatic idea rooted in the Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon worldview. It conveys a sense of fate, destiny, and interconnectedness, deeply intertwined with their beliefs about time, causality, and existence. Modern physics suggests similar complexity - quantum indeterminacy at micro levels coexisting with predictable patterns at macro scales. The word is ancestral to Modern English weird.”