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No. [<-- Useless single-line flat contradiction that can be deleted without affecting any of the actual arguments. EY.] You like to claim that "determined does not mean predetermined", but of course that's precisely what it means. If the state at time 10 is determined by time 9, and time 9 by time 8, etc., then it follows that the state at time 10 is completely derived from the state at time 1. The only way events can be not predetermined is if they're not determined by the events before them.
Your destiny may be fixed, or it may not, but whether it's fixed is irrelevant - what matters is whether it can be known. Our ignorance makes determinism indistinguishable from chance.