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Do you believe in fate / destiny?

philologos · 2010-01-06 00:50:42

Do you believe in such a thing as fate, that things are destined to occur to you, or that there is a driving influence in events in your life that you really cannot control?

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#92 06-01-2010 6:13pm
Davidius

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slipss wrote: »

Does the absence of randomness equate to predetermination? Is predetermination in this sense the same as Destiny or Fate? Is destiny/fate fatilism, fatalism being what lotsaspicey described?

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Well if you knew all the variables, laws etc. and it was found that randomness did not exist then essentially everything would follow a set course and you could find out what exactly was going to happen. There'd be nothing to move it from a course that's already been set which I suppose would mean that everything's already be determined, regardless of whether there's an intelligence behind it.

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