Do you believe in fate?

Nala

I have mixed opinions as to whether fate exists or not. Sometimes something seems like it was "meant to be", like a friendship, and then turns out it was wrong.
I'm just wondering if you think fate exists or not.

Stephen

No.

AdMMM

No.

Although I predict that as I get old and grey, I'll go to church every morning at 9am, to make my life less boring!

Mossy Monk

not at all

Sleepy

Nope, it's just another device mankind have invented to try make ourselves feel better about life.

Lump

No

BEAT

yes.

Suaimhneach

Yup, to a certain degree.

Barbie_666

yeah!

Raphael

No, I hate the thought that I have no control over my own life, and that everything I do is predetermined. Even if someone proved its real, I'm gonna keep not believing in it, i just hate the idea

Guess thats my fate

Tusky

I think its a silly idea... certain people just get on like a house on fire , or are extremely attracetd to each other . The idea of fate or 'one true love' in my opinion is rediculous.

blondie83

Yeah of course, there are some things that just can't be explained otherwise.:)

JackKelly

yea....wait,actually no.

not really anyway. There is too much happening for there to be a governing "fate"


like what things can't be explained otherwise?

KlodaX

Fate as in everything happens for a reason?

Yes I most definitly believe in that. Its about the only thing I know for sure. I'm not sure what does it, or why ... not that I mind not knowing ... but I'd bet my life that its all interlinked and that what you do is interlinked with something in the future and so is for a reason.

ando

not sure

[CALIBUR]

No

Mystic Fibrosis

Hell no.

sound_wave

fate...hogswash...

BKtje

No

Zulu

I'm wondering how many women said "yes"?

Kobie

Nope!!!

What would be the point in living if you never really had any choice how things would turn out? Good things happen to bad people & bad things happen to good people (and vice versa). There's not reason for it. Like the wise bumper sticker once said:

Sh!t happens!!!

sceptre

Originally posted by neev
I have mixed opinions as to whether fate exists or not. Sometimes something seems like it was "meant to be", like a friendship, and then turns out it was wrong.
I'm just wondering if you think fate exists or not.

You sound as if you're a little more concerned with fated relationships than fate in general.

Answer's still no.

Do you think "luck" actually exists outside of a concept? That some people are naturally "lucky" while other people are "unlucky" by their very nature? of course not. OK, some people have had a good long string of good things to happen to them while some people experience the opposite but can you honestly think that there's some kind of design and pre-destination coming inro play here? I rather hope not.

monument

No.

Lickle Lover

Everything happens for a reason and we have no control over it. Sometimes its good, sometimes its bad.

Of course Fate exists....and no matter how in control you think you are, we are governed by fate and what it has in store for us....

mad m

i say yes,

ok we might not have control over it or where it goes but it has happened to me once and have to say id do it all over again even now knowing what the out come was...nothing like that feeling......ah someone pass the tissues for god sake please!!!!! have mercy

sceptre

Originally posted by Lickle Lover
Everything happens for a reason and we have no control over it. Sometimes its good, sometimes its bad.

Of course Fate exists....and no matter how in control you think you are, we are governed by fate and what it has in store for us....

In that case, why do we punish criminals (for example). They're pushed by an external force into doing things that they've no control over so why should they be punished?

I suppose you can answer with "fate makes us do it" but extra points if you've got anything else

Unpossible

Although I predict that as I get old and grey, I'll go to church every morning at 9am, to make my life less boring!

I think thats faith not fate

so why should they be punished?

Its their fate to be punished

Yes I bleive that fate has paths for us, sometimes the path is clear sometimes not. Fate helps things work out.

A strange view of life was told to me by my accupuncturist (sp), she said that life was a series of challenges which are there to help mold us, if we step away from the challenge or we don't complete it then it will continue to repeat itself on us (face your challenges type of thing)

Gurgle

I don't think there is any such thing as fate, in the sense of a force which makes us follow a certain pre-defined path in our lives.
On the other hand, many things in a persons life are inevitable, due to that persons nature, the people around him and how the universe works. This version of fate depends on free will because under a given set of circumstances, you will make the same set of decisions every time.

So free will isn't predefined by fate, its predefined by how you think.

ravenhead

Originally posted by Zulu
I'm wondering how many women said "yes"?

I'm a woman & I say HELL NO..... We make our own choices in life ......

Sleepy

There is no God.
There is no Allah.
There is no Jehovah.
There is no Luck.
There is no Fate.
There is no "one special person" for anyone.
There is no Magic.
There are no miracles.
Horoscopes are bull**** peddaled to the naieve.
There is no Handsome Prince, Fairy Godmother or Pot of Gold.

Accept the above and you take the first step towards happiness, or at the very least, sanity.

ixoy

Fate is a cheap way of trying to explain your circumstances. There isn't some bizarre form of predetermined pattern to life, some reason for everything happening because it's leading to some final goal. It, much like faith (which can share many of the same conceits), is just another security blanket that we wrap around ourselves to try and comfort us against the mind-numbingly large potential possible directions our lives may go. It's also often an excuse to encourage a particular form of behavior - you don't have to change your ideology, or actions because hey! fate has determined this is for you.

I think though that the most offensive thing about the concept of fate is that it includes, at some level, the principle of a locked mindset and that your actions, by and large, are of no consequence (which was one of the major themes of "The Matrix" for what it's worth). It seems almost defeatist, pandering to resignation. You could try and prove it almost scientifically, if you wished, by claiming that if you know the state and velocity of every particle in the universe at a particular point then you can predict all subsequent actions but that's pure theory that can be refuted with other theory....