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Do you believe in fate?

robtex

robtex

Veteran Member
I thought it would be a nice topic for Valentines day. I was wondering how many you believe in fate, cosmic or otherwise and if so why ? If you do how does it affect your life and the choices you make?

I personally do not believe in fate because without a belief in a higher power I can't imagine what else would coordinate such an effort.

Here is an entertaining link with info for those with faith in fate:
http://www.findyourfate.com/
 
dawny0826

dawny0826

Mother Heathen
I believe in the higher power...so I believe to some extent God's got his hands on everything that happens in my life. Call it fate...call it His will...whatever floats your boat. :)
 
robtex

robtex

Veteran Member
dawny0826 said:
Call it fate...call it His will...whatever floats your boat. :)
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Dawny tell us how it floats your boat. Did you meet your husband by chance or was that fate?
 
dawny0826

dawny0826

Mother Heathen
robtex said:
Dawny tell us how it floats your boat. Did you meet your husband by chance or was that fate?
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We worked together. I think it was a combo of fate and chance.

When he came into the picture, I was just getting out of a relationship.

I was really drawn to him and we had so little in common. It works though! We've been married for 5 years and have two children together! Still happy!
 
Buttercup

Buttercup

Veteran Member
I rather like the idea of believing in fate. It's mysterious and keeps you thinking. I would not bet on it nor buy or sell anything according to 'supposed' fate but I think it is quite a romantic notion. I enjoy talking about it.

When I met my current husband Rick I had an overwhelming feeling of 'fate' the night I met him and also several times for a year afterward but before we started dating.

You will all think I am psycho but one night at work (I was the weather observer at the airport and he was an air traffic controller) I was listening to music and reading the lyrics in the booklet when I heard these words very loudly and clearly in my head, "HE"S COMING!" I spun around, looked behind me and there off in the distance as I was sitting in the tower at 2am I could see his truck coming toward the airport. I had no idea he was coming. He was coming to see me. We weren't dating at the time either. I was so shook up I didn't tell him that story for months afterwards. I like to think of that occurence as 'Fate". :)
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Your Armageddon's day is Apr 17 2062
Your Armageddon's day is Apr 17 2062
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Wow, thats fifty some more years.
Too bad all the other things are pay.

I believe in fate, only it very slighty manipulates things. Some things will happen that can help you achieve what you set out to learn in this life, but something completly different can still happen.
 
jeffrey

jeffrey

†ßig Dog†
My wife and I both have an eerie feeling we knew each other in a previous life. I'm not sure that i even believe in reincarnation, but there's something there. Something brought us together.... again. Fate? Don't know.
 
Smoke

Smoke

Done here.
Luke Wolf said:
Your Armageddon's day is Apr 17 2062
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Mine is 12 Sep 2042. Not bad; I'd be 82. I'd like to do better, though. :D

We just had a thread about fate that didn't go anywhere. My answer: I don't believe in a fate we can't change, but I do believe in a destiny that we work out on our own.
 
BucephalusBB

BucephalusBB

ABACABB
I believe in fate.
I believe this world is based upon rules/patterns. Like Vigil said, cause and effect. Only to the extreme.
If an apple falls out of a tree, you can calculate when it will hit the ground. but you will only be close because you are only using the gravity and maybe wind in your calculations. But I think you can come closer if you put the moment of the day with it. even closer if you put the variables of clouded day or sunny day in your calculation. And if you consider all variables you get the exact answer.
Those patterns are not only available those calculations but also in fibonacci and the chaostheory. The even found out there is a pattern of how a string will form a knot when you put it in the pocket of your pants.
 
Mike182

Mike182

Flaming Queer
robtex said:
I thought it would be a nice topic for Valentines day. I was wondering how many you believe in fate, cosmic or otherwise and if so why ? If you do how does it affect your life and the choices you make?

I personally do not believe in fate because without a belief in a higher power I can't imagine what else would coordinate such an effort.

Here is an entertaining link with info for those with faith in fate:
http://www.findyourfate.com/
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niice link :biglaugh:

i believe in fate to an extent :eek:

i believe there are key events that are fated to happen in our lives, but how we deal with them is down to us. This fits with my chrisitian beliefs because i believe that we are to be tested in life (key events are fated to happen) but it is down to us to choose how to deal with them.
 
M

Moses the God Archetype*

Active Member
robtex said:
I thought it would be a nice topic for Valentines day. I was wondering how many you believe in fate, cosmic or otherwise and if so why ? If you do how does it affect your life and the choices you make?

I personally do not believe in fate because without a belief in a higher power I can't imagine what else would coordinate such an effort.

Here is an entertaining link with info for those with faith in fate:
http://www.findyourfate.com/
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Yes i do belive in fate, in a submissive placement but it really matters what the jivas's do with there choices in this life that sets up your final destiny or cause.......;)
 
michel

michel

Administrator Emeritus
Staff member
I believe in Fate. Our future, based upon each individual decision we ever make during our lives(of our own free will) is already mapped.


I always try to give an anology of this as being a game of chess. For every move, it is possible to compute every one of the possible responses. That gives us both free will, and choice, and allows for the fact that our fate is predestined.............but I would advocate that there is no need for a deity for those conditions to apply.

Take a beetle, walking across a littered floor. A computer could work out all the possible variables in the beetle's journey across the room. That implies even a computer can predict the possible fates at any one moment in time.
 
Engyo

Engyo

Prince of Dorkness!
robtex said:
I thought it would be a nice topic for Valentines day. I was wondering how many you believe in fate, cosmic or otherwise and if so why ? If you do how does it affect your life and the choices you make?

I personally do not believe in fate because without a belief in a higher power I can't imagine what else would coordinate such an effort.

Here is an entertaining link with info for those with faith in fate:
http://www.findyourfate.com/
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Actually, I subscribe to the Buddhist concept of karma; this is similar to fate, but is not fixed. Karma is actually under one's own control (at least in the future), as long as one is aware of the principle and acts in accord with it.
 
BucephalusBB

BucephalusBB

ABACABB
michel said:
I believe in Fate. Our future, based upon each individual decision we ever make during our lives(of our own free will) is already mapped.


I always try to give an anology of this as being a game of chess. For every move, it is possible to compute every one of the possible responses. That gives us both free will, and choice, and allows for the fact that our fate is predestined.............but I would advocate that there is no need for a deity for those conditions to apply.

Take a beetle, walking across a littered floor. A computer could work out all the possible variables in the beetle's journey across the room. That implies even a computer can predict the possible fates at any one moment in time.
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That's not fate, that's juist naming all possibillities wich are in case of infinite time, infinite possibillities..:sarcastic
 
cardero

cardero

Citizen Mod
I believe in fate in that events require our participation to happen. There is something to be said about being in a certain place at a certain time. I believe aspects of our lives can be compared to chapters in a book.
 
SoliDeoGloria

SoliDeoGloria

Active Member
In "Calvinism", the word "fate" is replaced with the word "predestined". The phonetic rendition of the Greek word in the NT of the Bible (Eph. 1:11, etc.) is pro-orizo. Rather than giving an idea that we are "robots" or "puppets", the definition for this word is "pre set/established boundaries" meaning that there are boundaries in which we are allowed to opperate. The "orizo" part of the word is where we get our word "horizon" from and it just means boundary.

Given this and other information and noticing certain trends in my life has caused me to most definitely believe in "fate"/"predestiny". What this belief does for me as far as choices goes, is make me more aware of inflences in my life and take those influences into consideration. I most definitley believe that we are not as much in control as our human pride demands us to believe.

I chuckled when, in the first two episodes of "Survivor", those who were sent to "Exile Island" were asked to ponder why "fate" has chosen them to be sent to "Exile Island".

Sincerely,
SoliDeoGloria
 
michel

michel

Administrator Emeritus
Staff member
Bouncing Ball said:
That's not fate, that's juist naming all possibillities wich are in case of infinite time, infinite possibillities..:sarcastic
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But that's the point, isn't it ? If you believe in Faith, and use intuition, you can work out which are the right moves. You have to have faith. Everything in life comes down to faith.
 
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