Determinism

The story of our lives begin before we are born. The free will proponent gets down from the table, 'There! I bet you didn't predict that I would do that!'. The determinist reaches into his pocket and hands over a piece of paper on which is written, "To try to prove determinism false, the believer in free will will get on the table and dance the Polka."
The first three minutes of life are the most risky. The last three minutes of our lives are minutes we have no control over either. Even the suicidee faces the moment when doom is inevitable. And what of the three minutes before that, and so on. But freedom is a stubborn, even necessary, illusion.