2006-07-07 11:58:48 · 6 answers · asked by theone999_9 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
hmmm, fate, are some things predetermined? well, yes, and no. It's all about choices and consequences. We always have free will, every decision, every circumstance, free will. Are there consequences for our choices that will come down the road and look like fate? Well, yes, that's karma for you. It may take a day, it may take a year, or it may take several lifetimes before karma comes back around, but it will. Once stepping on the Spiritual Path, karma is sped up, so consequences come back more quickly, thus allowing mind to make a better connection between action and consequence. Then one can begin co-operating with Spirit and learning the Spiritual Laws of Life. And when ready, Soul gets to learn how to step off this merry-go-round and go Home to God. Are you ready?
2006-07-08 07:57:58 · answer #1 · answered by shine_radiantstar 4 · 7⤊ 4⤋
Fate is the command of an ordered universe. It is an inescapable force imposed on all living things at the moment that life becomes viable-in people at birth, when a seed sprouts, etc. Because the motion toward a specific experience is so strong most of these imposed processes reach a nearly inevitible end. Some people fight to swim upstream, but eventually they tire and they drown anyway. Despondency, depression, fear are the result of not accepting the inevitable nature of fate.
2006-07-07 12:44:00 · answer #2 · answered by krisjb1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ancient (some greek philosophers for example) believed in "fatality" in the sense that everything is already determined. I believed the origin of such idea come from the fact that the ultimate fate of life is death.
However, this does not say anything about the time we are alive.
From the point of view of biology and psychology we are free (up to a certain point) to choose the next action we will make on reality. If it was not so, we would have less chance of responding adequately to a variable environment and would have less chance to stay alive. From this point of view "liberty" is synomyn of survival. The freer I am of chosing my action the more chance I have to live.
From the point of view of modern physics. There is also nothing to suggest that there is such a thing as "fatality" in reality. Our modern view of nature is based on quantum mechanics which is not deterministic. Basic in this theory is the indetermination of some fundamental state of reality, which can be influenced by the type of experience we choose to make on it.
Sometime I wonder if what someone perceive as the existence of a free will (looks like the image of God) in nature is not related to the profound perception of the indeterminism in quantum mechanics. Could we have such a perception (intuition)?
In physics some phenomena go in only one direction. The increase of entropy and the arrow of time for example (or the expansion of the Universe). Their relation with the fate of life are somewhat obvious (our death is an increase of entropy and its origin is probably related if not explained by it).
But then again, the increase of entropy may also be seen as part of the normal physical rules which, at the end, also make life possible (death itself, that of a star, like of living things, may have some usefuleness in the perpetuation of life). So again no evidence of "fate" in these phenomena.
From the point of view of time, the past exist and cannot be changed (but that does not make it more deterministic for that because of lost of information) while the future exist only in terms of possibilities. From the point of view of the physical laws we are limited in the possibilities but not at a level of determinism consistent with fatality. That is the possibilities are many.
From the point of view of living, hence fate does not exist. We are free!
The bad news (maybe) is that with freedom also comes responsability.
2006-07-07 18:52:30 · answer #3 · answered by setarcos 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fate exists...i think about all the time. I have living proof growing inside of me.
2006-07-07 12:20:32 · answer #4 · answered by Dazed and cONFUSED 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I put fate/destiny in the same file folder as luck.
I don't believe in it, but I carry around lucky charms anyway. If I'm wrong, then no problem. I got lucky charms. But if I'm right, then I still got nothing to worry about.
2006-07-07 12:11:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
maby cause its not realized,
2006-07-07 12:06:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋