2006-12-16 23:03:14 · 10 answers · asked by bulce g 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Your fate is in your hands. Life is what you make it. It's never beyond your control. Though some people don't realize this. Certain things are beyond your control (other people, the weather, how & where you're born etc) but it's still up to you how you react to everything, what you do with your life.
I believe that certain things are "meant to be" but you still have to take the steps that lead you to your destiny. If you do nothing, nothing happens.
2006-12-16 23:10:57 · answer #1 · answered by amp 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think of life as an equation. If you have a given set of variables the outcome will be the solution to the equation. If you want to change the outcome, one of the variables will need to change.
However, some equations will not have a known answer. Therefore the outcome will be blamed on fate when it was really the math that did the deed. Numbers do not lie, they are a constant. 1 + 1 = 2, so far as we understand them anyway. (As well as for the purpose of this argument.)
So if we take one person traveling down a highway on a collision course with another person traveling at the opposite direction and they die from the collision is it fate or is it "mass X speed + impact = death."
Peace.
2006-12-16 23:21:10 · answer #2 · answered by -Tequila17 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question, do you believe that someone or something has craved out your entire life and no matter how much you try the event written will occur no matter what. Or do you believe that we as humans are given "Free will" which allows us to control our fate, and that our lives are totally open end and what we do in life will affect the outcome in the end.
It all depends on where you place your fate, or if there was an event in your life that altered your thinking.
2006-12-16 23:12:55 · answer #3 · answered by philmasen 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course for a very thorough discussion on this matter one could read anything written by Jean Paul Sarte', the best known existentialist, but, in a nutshell, you do have a choice in everything, even though the choices are not always nice. Sartre would argue that if I walked outside and became terminated by a moving bus, I did have the choice to look both ways, or stay on the curb until no vehicle was around for miles (example, only). If I am dying of cancer I do have a myriad of choices of how much longer I want to live if I decide to kill myself, and how I prefer to die. Some great existentialist-thinking people reading this might cringe at my over-simplification, but then they do have the choice to let it go, or to write to you themselves.
2006-12-16 23:33:08 · answer #4 · answered by campin/dogs 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-14 10:18:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe fate means it's predetermined. Therefore it would be out of your control. Destiny however is what you make of it.
2006-12-16 23:13:03 · answer #6 · answered by St. Dave 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If i say you're deemed to be a loser for the rest of your life, that is your fate.
Are you gonna fight to alter your fate ?
That is the real answer.
2006-12-16 23:12:30 · answer #7 · answered by Tosh 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Man is the designer of his own destiny, however fate may have other ideas..
2006-12-16 23:14:02 · answer #8 · answered by AJ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Beyond your control... but you will have a hand in it... it's just that your hand is fully controlled by forces that are not you.
2006-12-17 00:04:02 · answer #9 · answered by Phil Knight 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
i guess...
2006-12-16 23:10:43 · answer #10 · answered by zoli_zly 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋