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Do You Believe In Fate?

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Turf Hitta:
I believe in fate in the sense that there are more factors out of your control than factors that you can con control that have the potential to act on your existence. But on the other hand, the factors that you can control can be the determining factors of whether or not you are a success. I do not believe in fate in the sense that everything is preplanned and there is no course of action to change your possibilities.

7even:

--- Quote from: Momo on April 01, 2008, 08:25:55 AM ---Do u believe whatever happens throughout ur life, its already bin written and planned out, and whatever happens, its meant to happen?

Or do u think life is full of random choices?do you think its down to random coincidences ?

do you elieve that what happens in our lifes is all down to our own choice and we control our lives and what we make of them is up to us?

--- End quote ---

NOOO to all your questions. I'm going to be very brief, because I'm not in the mood to post.

Question 1: NOOOO.. not even a little bit. How absurd would that be? No "higher entity" would give a damn about what the fuck happens in my life. Or your life, for that matter. Why the FUCK would all the BULLSHIT that happens in the world be meant to happen, anyways? People who think like that make me angry. Written my ass.

Question 2 and 3: Those come way closer to reality, but are all waaaay over-simplyfied. Technically, nothing is really random. That does not mean that everything is "meant to happen" or some bullshit-phrase similiar to that. LOL@black and white way of thinking.

Question 4: Not at all. Most importantly, there's this little thingy called genetics. Not our choice what genes we are born with, and trust me, they have waaaaaaay more influence on EVERYTHING in our lives than all those "you can do it!!!"-types of people would ever be willing to admit.

Narrator:
Yes, I believe in fate. The fate of the pale faces is to burn in hell for being Yakub Crew scum. It is Allah's will, destined to come.

Chief:

--- Quote from: Floydness on April 02, 2008, 01:49:13 PM ---I feel that everything in life sometimes happens for a reason but we still maintain some control of our destiny...

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that makes no sense  :P

bugger that, you control your fate to the fullest, your life can go in every direction, lifes all about opportunity, its what you do with it that counts.

Elevz:
I agree with 7even... The black and white reasoning here is ridiculous.

Down to a certain point, you can say that everything that happens is only a reaction to the other things that are happening, which happen as a logical reaction to other things, etc. You can compare this to rack breaking in a game of eight-ball: all the balls interact, and a highly complicated formula probably could predict exactly where each of the balls would end. It's all logical and predictable, albeit extremely complicated. To a certain degree, you could say the very same is constantly going on on a way larger scale, determining all the courses of existance. That's the world we as humans live in.

And yes, the environment obviously does influence who you are as a person. Great inventions become possible only after someone else made some other inventions first. It's a social environment you're born in, that determines your culture, your language and all the things you get in touch with. That's where you learn. That's what determines what happens to your genes, and how they evolve into a person.

One aspect of all of this should not be overlooked. Amidst all the influences, at the end of the day, you're still a human being. Human beings have a thinking faculty. They reason. No matter how comforting the thought of not being responsible for the things that happen in your life might be, the fact is that you're a thinking human being, and your thinking does influence the things you do. The things you do, influence what happens. Your life isn't totally beyond your control. Don't act like it is - don't back out of responsibility, because your life will become a mysterious misery if you practice what such beliefs preach.

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