Just think. Are everyday events your descisions or fate? Or both? or Neither. I want to see some wide variety of answers.
2007-02-09 13:15:27 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
If you know enough about a situation, the outcome will appear preordained to you. Those bores who are smart and have a very level head can steer you away from your death 9999 times out of 10000. To me it's like in Mothman Prophecies where the old prof tells the main guy that a window cleaner, twenty stories up, could tell a coming car collision down the street before they could, yet that window washer cannot, in the strictest sense, tell the future. I think dumb people are taken by surprise by their "fate" (for example, no education, no high-paying job; no trips to dentist, no teeth; etc.) whereas smart people aren't. The future is predictable to those who have been paying attention.
2007-02-09 13:23:16 · answer #1 · answered by Falstaff 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fate is nothing more than a word that humans use to explain things or happenings that seems predestined or just handed to us.
Life is a random roll of the dice. When it seems like the universe has gifted us with something we call it fate.
I would hate to think that fate controls my life. I would feel the loss of free choice. Yet, I do know there are times in life when it feels like the right thing at the right time comes to me just in time. Whether is be "fate", God's will, pure chance......it just happens.
Fate is just a word we use to explain things.
2007-02-09 16:16:16 · answer #2 · answered by clcalifornia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only to the extent of the level at which you are viewing the universe. From the macroscopic world that we are familiar with, occurances of luck and probability happen all the time.
Yet in the microscopic world of molecules, atoms and particles, patterns and systems of seemingly chaotic proportions can be graphed out and predicted with utmost accuracy; giving the world a strong sense of fatalism.
Yet, oddly enough, if you magnify your scope down one more level, into the quantum world, unpredictability rears its head again. This time, we can't even see things with even our strongest microscopes. It is a world that is BARELY detectable with our modern-day technologies. This lack of observation means the likelihood that one tiny incy-wincy-itty-bitty little particle of a particle is in one position in space and time compared to it being in another position in space in time, is completely unknown. All we can do is guess.
Thus, if we were to put a cat into a box, and we closed the box, the likelihood that the cat is no longer in the box, while extremely slight, is possible. In fact, because the cat is no longer being observed, it could be a friggin' hippo for all we know. That's to even say that what isn't observed is unknown, thus foreshortening all of existence to the level at which we can observe things.
So while so much of the world seems deterministic and mechanical under certain levels of magnification, in others, it a void of mystery that might as well be a matter of rolling a dice.
2007-02-09 15:01:42 · answer #3 · answered by Smokey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that some things are just meant to happen. But I don't think fate rules our lives. We make our own decisions. At least I hope...
2007-02-09 19:26:13 · answer #4 · answered by Barbara V 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have always had a hard time with this--If God is all knowing--than he know what we are going to do--He gives us free choice--but if He already knows all--is it free choice, fate--or are we just puppets? I just live life and figure I am screwed either way--I try and try but always things turn out bad--I must have been bad in my prior life--lol. We make choices whether pre-determined or fate no clue--life just sucks.
2007-02-09 13:53:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world seems to by ruled by a force or forces. We could say that God rules or we can say that nature rules. What ever conclusion that we come to, we should be able to see that there is something indescribable that plays a part in what happens. Luck can only be ruled a joke!
2007-02-09 13:29:37 · answer #6 · answered by timmeresque 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't decided, but I know fate is a darn good excuse at times.
2007-02-09 13:21:30 · answer #7 · answered by glacier_kn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope.
One of my favorite quotes reagarding this came from Han Solo in the original "Star Wars": "There's no all-powerful force controlling MY destiny. It's all simple tricks and nonsense."
2007-02-09 15:48:12 · answer #8 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is an example of Special Pleading, which is a logical fallacy. One notes that god botherers never manage to SHOW how they 'know' this. Thus, it is pure bullsh*t.
2016-05-24 19:13:14 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is fate besides others free will trust upon your own?
2007-02-09 13:26:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋