2006-10-10 14:45:45 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Everyone shapes their own destiny by the choices they make. That is the absolute best thing about free will. I choose to steal or choose to work.
I think people believe shaping their own destiny is bad faith because if things go wrong, as inevitably they do, they do not want to take responsibility. It's better to say God's will or What will be rather than I made this happen...I had a choice, I choosed poorly. Notice, you hardly ever hear success as God's will, usually failure gets that label.
2006-10-10 14:50:27 · answer #1 · answered by vividtoy 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You don't sit around like a lump letting the ants eat your rump.
What's bad faith about that?
But there are certain things one cannot change. It's not just bad faith to frustrate oneself reshaping them...it's fruitless...its crazy-making. Hope can keep one going after something improbable, even impossible, and that quest can be meaningful and life-affirming, but if frustrated anger is the driving force that propels one (incrementally) toward an Impossible Dream, it'll eat him alive.
Take me for instance, trying to delete my Yahoo Answers account without deleting my yahoo email account---ENORMOUSLY inconvenient, worse than getting married and changing your maiden name.
I had my temper tantrum over not being able to, but now I am resolved that this little piece of me will be around to view for a long long time, and I will have to use strength of character to keep away from it. but honest to God, my YA account is like a loose tooth I can't keep fiddling with until it falls out. I'm not sure how I'm going to keep away. So many questions....
But what good is it doing me really? Or my family? And if it's doing anyone else any good, there are others who could give answers just as good or better.
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Well, enough about me. Accepting one's inability to shape ones own destiny, or at least certain aspects of it, may not be good faith exactly (though it could be.) I'll bet it turned a lot of folks into philosphers, though.
2006-10-11 19:31:18 · answer #2 · answered by miraclewhip 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i shape my own destiny. as to why do people believe it's bad faith i can only hazard a guess that it's because they believe in God and as such believe that everything is pre-determined therefore they are never responsible for their own actions
2006-10-11 16:20:50 · answer #3 · answered by bbq 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when u live in the moment there is no shaping of future ur lack of security in urself and god is disconnected partially till u come back to moment there is no duality when u say bad or good this is judgment infront of god's eyes no destiny ie written in the stone blessings
2006-10-10 21:54:37 · answer #4 · answered by george p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bullseye. Yes, we each create our lives and shape our own destiny.No god does it for you.Responsiblity.They don't believe it's their's or they don't want it.
2006-10-10 22:03:23 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there is no destiny..there´s free will but no destiny.....there´s God, though...........
2006-10-10 21:50:41 · answer #6 · answered by sr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
absolutely - we all create our reality -
watch the movies - what the bleep do we know, the secret (www.thesecret.tv)
check out this website particularly his podcasts - www.stevepavlina.com
2006-10-10 21:52:46 · answer #7 · answered by -skrowzdm- 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋