do you believe in fate?

Question

i believe our lives are a road taking us to our ultimate destination ...some peoples paths are long, some short but we all have a purpose to being here. that purpose may be that you are here to learn lessons or to give lessons to help other people to learn what they are meant to know...i believe that we all get what we are meant to have in this life, be it money ,success, good luck, bad luck....the secret is to look for the lesson and learn from it. the time you die is pre-set...how often have you heard of the old man who smoked and drank his whole life and lived to 100....then theres the young fit athlete who drops down dead in their 20s? do you agree with this theory?

i believe the destination is not changeable but the route we take is

Answer 1

I absolutely believe in fate. I believe it is unchangeable and that things will happen regardless of anything we do to either bring it about or prevent it.

Answer 2

I understand how you feel about life in general by your own answer to your question, but how can you think that our lives are so predestined when we have "choice". Isn't life about what choices we make, surely we mould and alter our lives according to the choices that we have?A woman may marry a man (one choice) but then it turns out he isn't what she wants anymore and they don't love each other so they separate and she marries some one else (another choice) i relish the idea that something happen by fate, the fact that once we got lost on the way to the motor way and when we finally reached it we were delayed for 6 hours because there had been an awful accident which involved about 15 cars (and i am seriously not joking, luckily as a woman i DO have a bad sense of direction!!!) i'd love to say it was fate that we were delayed and so were not hurt in the accident and even worse, but then i had to question how so many people could have been so unlucky?

I never understand why people say, "God has our lives already mapped out for us" surely by insinuating that God has a control over time and that our lives are already happening in a future we haven't arrived at yet, suggests that there is the possiblitiy to reach that time by time travel, which then insinuates that there is such a thing as time travel and that one day we'll have the ability to do so, but this then completly dimisses that whole exsistence of god. Doesn't it???...oh its tuesday and this is just TOO philosophical!!

Hehe!

Answer 3

We live in a universe and we are all part of a particle. I believe that in some ways fate can lend a hand, but we all have the freedom to make choices in life, it is those choices that dictate the path we follow, and the choices we make dictate what route our lives go along. (Fate just chucks in the odd spanner in the works along the way.)
It matters more to those we leave behind when our number comes up, and we are all sadly influenced by those we have loved and lost. It matters not if our time is pre-set or not.
I have yet to work out why I am still here and what future purpose might be in store for me, but I would rather have given my life up for the two children I lost to have a full happy life!
Winston Churchill said when asked about how he felt about meeting his maker 'I am prepared for meeting my maker, but is my maker prepared for the ordeal of meeting me?' I feel the same way when I see bad people living long happy wealthy lives, and good ones getting a load of sxxt thrown at them in life!

Answer 4

Hi
Destiny, fate, karma, call it what you will are all created by you the individual not by some outside force: if you make a positive cause, a positive effect happens. Your destiny is determined by all your past and present actions or causes--in thought, word and deed--and these will all have their effects in your life and environment. In this sense, your destiny is inescapable. However, since we are 100% responsible for what happens in our lives--due to this strict law of cause and effect --we have 100% control over our lives. We can change our destiny--change our destination, as it were--or to free ourselves from what we thought to be an inevitable fate. We do not have to be a ship drifting on a 'sea of suffering' we have, deep within our lives, the power to change 'poison into elixir'.

Answer 5

I'm not the one who often worries about what fate is going to bring forward to me next. I am a believer of that you have to make it your own.

However, there have been occasions in my life that i think that it was sheer fate, and it what meant to be or happen. I often think of those moments, as a lesson to learn, whether it is i have put myself in that situation or not.

Sometimes we skip opportunities to make new ones. To me life is a learning curve.

Answer 6

Destiny vs. fate
Destiny is regarded by some as fate, a fixed timeline of events that is inevitable and unchangeable, and the future knowable through means of divination. This has led to an assumption of divination as fortune-telling, though the actual practice accounts for the self-determination of individual people and an unknowable future. In divination, destiny takes on a meaning different from its common usage.

Although the words are used interchangeably, fate and destiny are distinct things. Modern usage defines fate as a power or agency that predetermines and orders the course of events. The definition of fate has it that events are ordered or "meant to be". Fate is used in regard to the finality of events as they have worked themselves out, and that same finality is projected into the future to become the inevitability of events as they will work themselves out. Fate also has a morbid association with finality in the form of "fatality". Destiny, or fate, used in the past tense is "one's lot" and includes the sum of events leading up to a currently achieved outcome (e.g. "it was her destiny to be leader", "it was his fate to be executed"). Fate is an outcome determined by an outside agency acting upon a person or entity; but with destiny the entity is participating in achieving an outcome that is directly related to itself. Participation happens wilfully.

Destiny in divinatory practice has none of the negative connotations of fate. Destiny has the same root as "destination": destine, to direct something towards a given end ("she is destined to be leader"). Without a subject's wilful participation, there is no destining. Destiny cannot be forced on someone; if they are forced into circumstances then that is their fate. As an example, there was a scene in the movie Whale Rider when the whales had beached, and Paikea walked up to the largest one and gently kissed it. She had reached a state of consciousness where a message she had absorbed from the mythology of her people, that she had memorized, sang, and enacted in dance on stage, moved from her subconscious mind to conscious awareness, where she was informed by the myth of the Whale Rider. Until then, there was doubt in the mind of the audience that she would be leader; circumstances looked dim; but in that moment she knew that she was leader, and she knew her destiny. Events, as they played out, had guided her to this place and this time. Her next act was made with full awareness--it was what the leader must do; it was what the first Whale Rider had done.

"Why did the whales beach? Did they do it for her benefit? Because she called them?" That is fate: the objective events, the opportunities and the limitations placed before us, the circumstances we are bound to that are beyond our control, and sometimes even beyond our meager understanding as to how they happen, but are a part of our destiny in that they shape us. Fate is a backdrop on which we play out our destiny. "Why did she ride the whale and become leader?" That is her destiny, what she determined will be, by directly participating in what was happening. She directed circumstances towards a certain outcome, and in doing so determined future circumstances. By participating in our destiny, we shape fate.

Answer 7

fate is something that draws the plan in your life... but we have to realise that the fate of today is the result of the past action (karma), maybe in the last life... we maybe born poor, but that doesnt mean that we should die in poverty.. we maybe sick all the time, but that doesnt mean that we should die in sickness.. we, to a certain limitation, can determine our future by our own karma... if we are blessed with kindness, we shouldnt let go(if we just believe in fate entirely), but we should reinforce it... so, what i have to say is that, i believe in fate.. but i dont depend on it... i work towards my fate.,,,:P

Answer 8

You create your own luck due to karma.
Bad actions have negative repercussions and vice versa...
Therefore No such thing as fate.

Answer 9

Fate and destiny primarily mean the same!

The destiny of a human being is fixed or variable. Can the control of destiny be exercised by one! Is it possible for a normal human being to take complete control of his destiny? Is it possible to manifest destiny?

Yes! It is possible to manifest destiny if you are able to understand the crux of life. The destiny of every human being rests with one. It is like a chest of gold the key of which is not immediately made available to us. Only having passed certain standards in life would the key become available to us?

To be able to manifest our own destiny there are some requisites fulfilling which one shall be able to manifest his own destiny? The moment one enters the domain of human life... the highest manifest stage in the cosmic life... one can reach the stage of enlightenment and finally salvation. Before that we need to take control of our destiny in totality. How?


Before we indulge further in the matter of destiny... we need to understand the reality of life!

The garb of a human being has been taken by our soul atman within. It is not vice versa. It is not within the competence of a body to inherit a soul atman within. That is just not possible. Our soul atman within has taken the body to purify itself of all the impurities contained within. Unless and until our soul atman is devoid of all the dross within... it can never become enlightened and gain salvation.

The goal of life belongs to our soul atman within. The body only does its bidding! It is only when the body sublimates itself entirely at the disposal of the atman soul within... can the body manifest destiny. The ego of the body has to be merged with the larger ego... the ego of God Almighty. Unless the body completely surrenders its ego and merges with the larger whole... the body can never manifest destiny.


Having realized the truth of life... submerging our ego with that of Almighty God... one does manifest destiny for ever. It is at this point our soul atman becomes governing. The ego of a human being having merged completely with the desires of the soul atman within... the soul atman becomes free to reach its goal at the earliest. More on destiny here- http://www.godrealized.com/destiny.html

Answer 10

I have always believed...

'There is no fate, but what you make'...

Quoted in Terminator 2....

Have a nice day.