Do you believe in fate and if so please define it?

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When two people fall in love, was it coincidence that they were there at the same time or did some force guide their path that day? When a plane crashes, was it an unfortunate series of events that lead to it going down or had some force selected that time and place? When someone is hit by a drink-driver was it just bad luck or had someone chosen it to happen?

Some people like to believe that they are at the wheel and are in total control of their own destiny. Others like to believe that life is predetermined, that we are but actors placed upon the stage that is life. Others like to think that while they are at the wheel when they find themselves in a rut that is when fate steps in and gives them a nudge in the right direction.

The Greeks believed in the three fates, some swear to have seen the mothman. Others believe in Karma while some believe that God has a hand in peoples lives. So, my question is, do you believe in fate? Why or Why not? Please explain your answers as best you can.

Thanks.

? · Accepted Answer

I don't believe in fate at all, at least the way you mean it.  We are at the wheel, but we don't know where we are going, our steering is unresponsive, the brakes barely work and we keep dozing off!  Life is not scripted or planned.  Not even when we try to shape our future is it a sure thing.

Vash · Answer

It is in my opinion a combination of both, all at the same time.  It happens for a reason yes but you almost equally end up in that position out of your own free will.  No one can tell you to open a door yet you do why?  When I take a certain path at a fork in the road is it because I chose to or is it because it was meant for me to walk?  Yes somethings may destined for me and beyond my understanding.  But I am equally certain that I chose my own path, I won't be deterred.  I call this a combination of arrogance, ignorance and fear versus open-mindedness, and acceptance of something else out there.  I feel I am lead often but I am not afraid of the possibility of fate or destiny because I equally believe my instincts are telling me which path to take, and I most certainly chose out of my own free will.  I find it hard to keep track of karma, so if I had to account for karma I would not be accurate....so instead I now just try to send out good karma, unfortunately I can't always succeed.  Hope this is helpful.

&lt;OiO&gt; · Answer

Yes. I do believe in fate.
But order of things is not presumably prescribed by supernatural force or God has a hand on peoples lives but by us, fate is the the results of our actions/decisions making from our past, I believe in Hindu’s Law of Karma, Christianity accepts Law of Karma teaching for a reason, they did see some truth in this law and so did I.

lo · Answer

I don't believe in predetermined fate.  Stuff just happens.  Try not to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.  And try to be in the right places at the right times.  Steer your life.

Ren C · Answer

Fate is when a higher being controls your life. Basically anything and everything you do is leading up to your destiny.

I can't believe in fate. Things are too unpredictable. We have free will. 'Good' does not always surpass 'evil,' the wrong people are punished in courts, there are natural disasters, and etc.

? · Answer

i've got self assurance in possibilities, intense and coffee. some issues have a intense danger of happening, others much less so, yet could desire to nevertheless ensue. i do no longer think of it incredibly is supernatural, yet area of the technique it incredibly is the organic unfolding of existence we call the universe interior regulations approximately which we are gaining information of greater for all time. some refer to that technique as God, or a God continuum. i'm especially Deistic so i'm pleased with those words, yet I additionally understand the non-theist who prefers to apply yet another term.

bud85348 · Answer

This restraint of justice by mercy proves that God is love, and that such a God of love dominates the universes and in mercy controls the fate and judgment of all his creatures.

Taylor · Answer

fate is for those that cant control their own futures
i think that when something is uncontrollable (say love, because it cant be rationalized) then that is up to fate
but what we want to be in life, who you want to be, that should be in your hands

A · Answer

fate   /feɪt/ Show Spelled Pronunciation  [feyt] Show IPA Pronunciation  
noun, verb, fat⋅ed, fat⋅ing. 
–noun 1. something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot: It is always his fate to be left behind.  
2. the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed; the decreed cause of events; time: Fate decreed that they would never meet again.  
3. that which is inevitably predetermined; destiny: Death is our ineluctable fate.  
4. a prophetic declaration of what must be: The oracle pronounced their fate.  
5. death, destruction, or ruin. 
6. the Fates, Classical Mythology. the three goddesses of destiny, known to the Greeks as the Moerae and to the Romans as the Parcae. 
–verb (used with object) 7. to predetermine, as by the decree of fate; destine (used in the passive): a person who was fated to be the savior of the country.  


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Origin: 
1325–75; ME < L fātum utterance, decree of fate, destiny, orig. neut. of fātus, ptp. of fārī to speak

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Do you believe in fate and if so please define it?

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