Some things don't mix well

   I don't think a person cannot realistically combine the ideas of determinism and free will. I think this because one cannot freely make a choice if everything that is going to happen is already predetermined. So logically, one would not be able to combine both ideas into one. But then again, since we may not have free will, it could be predetermined that we are not going to think that there can only be one answer, and so we think that they can. If it is predetermined, or if it is the free will to choose so, on one will ever know. It's kind of hard to think about.  But I guess that is where I stand, or where it was determined I stand.

Maybe I'm not so decisive

  If everything in the universe is predetermined, then maybe I don't make as many decisions as I thought I did. It is a weird concept to think about; that nothing I do is my choice.  It is actually kind of depressing if you think about it. You have no choice in what happens in your life, it is completely predetermined. And if everything is completely predetermined, can we ever really examine our lives? Is it predetermined that we will think about what we never had a choice in thinking? What would be the point?
    If some of the best philosophers in history said that we must examine our lives, than did they think that we had a choice in what happened in our lives? Did they not think that the world was as predetermined as it may actually be? It makes me wonder. What do you guys think?

Can it be bad and good?

         After this recent found information about the Salvation Army, it really got me thinking about how absolutely horrible some supposedly positive organizations can really be. How could this organization that gives to the poor also have such evil alternatives? But then again, so many other organizations do the same thing. Think about the Catholic Church. It preaches about loving thy neighbor and turning the other cheek, but yet some followers commit violent crimes in the name of God or the church.
        So can an organization be good and bad? I think yes, but it takes away from the purpose of promoting goodness. I think it also takes away from the purity of the virtueist or altruistic acts. I think that having impure alternatives takes away from a lot of goodness that is done by people.