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Do you believe in fate?

  • 03-10-2009 9:35pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭


    I personally don't. I believe that people can be more suited to certain activities and certain people than others, but that there's not only one person for everyone, and that most things happen through one's own design, or by chance.

    Your thoughts?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    Outside of sport, I don't believe in fate tbh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭VinnyTGM


    Short answer, no.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Nah, there are too many people in the world for it to be organsied by someone I don't care how divine they are.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Prof.Badass


    If I did I'd probably go crazy.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    yep...
    along with jebus and god and allah and...you get where im going with this...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Absolutely not!!!

    (I was destined to say that).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    dannym08 wrote: »
    yep...
    along with jebus and god and allah and...you get where im going with this...

    Hell?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 Ulsteryank


    Eh, to a certain extent. I believe in free will, but this could be influenced by karma, and the forces that be...i.e. fate?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    I believe in God based upon an eternal transcendant being who is the creator of all things, and I'm not talking about Elvis.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    Nope, not at all.

    I think that people who do are a bit thick too.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22 Maconkey


    Ulsteryank wrote: »
    Eh, to a certain extent. I believe in free will, but this could be influenced by karma, and the forces that be...i.e. fate?

    Said it in one for me ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭Jesus Juice


    Jesus,we talked about this in religion,my teacher is so brain dead she told a story about how a man crashed a couple of times before and then crashed again and died.
    She said it was fate,I told her about probability and she gave me detention.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,905 ✭✭✭✭Handsome Bob


    To believe in fate I would have to believe in predestination.............unfortunately I like to say **** you to predestination. ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    Dunno really.
    I believe in Karoma if that counts.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 JohnnyIrvine666


    I don't like the idea I'm not in control of my life so no


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Corkfeen


    No, it sounds a bit absurd that I was destined to make this post and there is nothing I can do about it. :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    I don't belive in fate per say but more as person's doom or wyrd.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyrd


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Clever answer

    No.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    no the path and the walker choose and also are presented to each other...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,217 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    I believe in changeable fate lol! Is that allowed? Ah no seriously, I believe you can have certain path mapped out but that it can be changed. Ultimately your choices are always going to decide your destiny, nothing else. But I do believe in predispostion.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,390 ✭✭✭The Big Red Button


    No, I don't.

    If I did, then why would I ever bother doing anything? Because the outcome wouldn't be any different anyways.

    You make your own luck and opportunities in life. Blaming some overall pre-destined plan of "fate" is a bit of a cop out in my opinion!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    i do :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭Darlughda


    There has got to be some things in life that cannot be explained neatly away. I love the shakesperean idea of character = fate,

    but, i reckon we all have free will ,nonetheless ,there are certain things in life we are just part and parcel of, like the grecian idea of the sisters of fate weaving out the inevitabilities of our lives.

    It does seem we are allotted a set of cards at the outset of our birth, and from there we choose to play our hand.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭SoWatchaWant


    Basically, I think fate is information that is inaccessible to man. All this **** like, "It's your destiny" is Hollywood bollocks. How the **** would you know anyway unless you've got omniscience?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Elba101


    It's kinda lazy to leave things to 'fate'

    GET UP OFF YOUR HOLE AND DO IT YOURSELF!!!

    But yeah i kinda do believe in it...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭Wurly


    I believe you create your own fate by your actions, decisions and mindset.


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