[Kate!]

Do you believe your fate is mapped out and things happen in your life for a reason or do you think that you influence what happens to you by your choices?

I believe in fate and what will be will be.

[Niamh.]

No, that would mean we're just puppets. That's depressing

[AnnieK]

No, I don't believe in fate. I believe we make our own destinies and choices and I'm pretty happy with that. I have had some ****ty times and some amazing times but I don't believe it was pre-ordained.

[parmnion]

I believe in destiny.

[thesheriff443]

I do, because some things are beyond our control, we can influence fate by making choices but that will still not garantee the out come.

[Ramsay]

Nah we're nothing special

[joeysteele]

I'd have to say I lean more to believing in it than not.
So yes.

[Niamh.]

What about people born in war torn countries or countries in the middle of famines? They really drew the short fate straw

[Ant.]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

No, that would mean we're just puppets. That's depressing

As long as I'm a happy puppet I couldn't care if God's planned my entire life with a rich fit sexy TwinK

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ant.

As long as I'm a happy puppet I couldn't care if God's planned my entire life with a rich fit sexy TwinK

I think she did

[Ant.]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I think she did

Well you won't catch me complaining about fate

At least I know life's gonna get better now

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ant.

Well you won't catch me complaining about fate



At least I know life's gonna get better now

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

What about people born in war torn countries or countries in the middle of famines? They really drew the short fate straw

Il give you an example of trying to avoid your fate.

Father and son fled there war torn country and moved to Australia, they were recently murdered, shot dead while they attended church by an Australian extremist.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

Il give you an example of trying to avoid your fate.

Father and son fled there war torn country and moved to Australia, they were recently murdered, shot dead while they attended church by an Australian extremist.

Oh fgs

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Kate!

Do you believe your fate is mapped out and things happen in your life for a reason or do you think that you influence what happens to you by your choices?

I believe in fate and what will be will be.

...I believe that we have some life choices if we are the fortunate ones...and I believe that we find and attach our own ‘reason’...as in we try to find positives or we allow negatives to overwhelm more..?...


...if we are not the fortunate ones...as Niamh said...our whole lives may be given no life choices at all...so I guess yes there is fate as sadly many people are fated to have their entire lives mapped out for them...

[LeatherTrumpet]

No its nonsense and wishful thinking

supernatural powers are a human fictitious concept and fill an education void


nothing innately wrong with that as long as its realised

[bitontheslide]

I don't believe in fate, i do believe in luck, and that is no substitute for hard work, will and determination.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Kate!

Do you believe your fate is mapped out and things happen in your life for a reason or do you think that you influence what happens to you by your choices?

I believe in fate and what will be will be.

can you explain how it works with 6 billion people in the world?

[Livia]

You make your own luck, I think. I don't believe in fate.

[Toy Soldier]

IN THEORY the entire universe is made up entirely of physical interactions between particles and energy - a "knock on effect" so to speak... and therefore in theory every single minute thing that happens anywhere in existence is in a way predetermined. Not in any supernatural way, but just because everything is a result of cause and effect. Every single choice you make, every single thought you have, at any given second... every electron that fires in the mind of any living thing... is a result of the universe existing "exactly as it is right now". Which effectively means there is no such thing as "random" or "chance". When you roll a die it's not "random". You can't predict it because of the variables involved - but there are variables involved. What way was it facing to start with? How hard did you throw it? Did you spin it? How far did it drop? Because if all of those things were repeated exactly, the number would come up the same.

So I guess... yes, maybe? If everything came from "somewhere", then everything is the result of one infinitely complex equation. But if EVERYTHING is part of the equation... then maybe there are no variables after all. There's no outside influence to change anything in that equation. An equation that made me type this post, or have eggs for breakfast. It was always going to happen.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

IN THEORY the entire universe is made up entirely of physical interactions between particles and energy - a "knock on effect" so to speak... and therefore in theory every single minute thing that happens anywhere in existence is in a way predetermined. Not in any supernatural way, but just because everything is a result of cause and effect. Every single choice you make, every single thought you have, at any given second... every electron that fires in the mind of any living thing... is a result of the universe existing "exactly as it is right now". Which effectively means there is no such thing as "random" or "chance". When you roll a die it's not "random". You can't predict it because of the variables involved - but there are variables involved. What way was it facing to start with? How hard did you throw it? Did you spin it? How far did it drop? Because if all of those things were repeated exactly, the number would come up the same.

So I guess... yes, maybe? If everything came from "somewhere", then everything is the result of one infinitely complex equation. But if EVERYTHING is part of the equation... then maybe there are no variables after all. There's no outside influence to change anything in that equation. An equation that made me type this post, or have eggs for breakfast. It was always going to happen.

having said that TS i think by Fate people mean "ooh I ad such a bloody awful day at work and on the way home did I not step in a pile of dogg eggs --- ooooh bloody fate"

that said without the big bang, quantum physics and gravity the dog sh1t would not have been there...

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

having said that TS i think by Fate people mean "ooh I ad such a bloody awful day at work and on the way home did I not step in a pile of dogg eggs --- ooooh bloody fate"

that said without the big bang, quantum physics and gravity the dog sh1t would not have been there...

Exactly! All of the forces that lead to that dog, on that day, laying that turd on that exact spot of pavement were set in motion billions of years ago

[Twosugars]

No

[Tony Montana]

No.

[Marsh.]

I think both can exist side by side.