Nihilism

[The Grand Nudger]

"Fatalism" has two connotations and I think both apply. Determinism is about one's fate being inevitable, which by definition makes it fatalistic; however, I was thinking of the more subjective psychological state of being resigned to one's fate.

The distinction between them is that fate, ala fatalism, asserts that no causal law or force can change the outcome of events.  In a fatalist universe..if a ball was fated to fall up on tuesdays..it would, no matter how hard gravity was pulling it down.   In a determinist universe, the ball falls down all day erryday. Similarly, if balls fell down because they were fated to...if gravity where to somehow reverse itself tomorrow......balls would still fall down.

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Like grandizer, i too feel it's often up to semantics.
And that while we might not have actual free will, we do have The illusion of free will, 

We have an experience of will..but whether or not that will is free is something we never have a direct experience of, even as illusion.  That part of the process is hidden from our view, and as observant things with rich perception this has to be one of the universes ironies.  Decisions come to us like a bolt of lightning.  There and done in an instant....even as the running commentary of our considerations and deliberations seems endless.