Fate and Destiny?

Question

What do you think of these two, and what is your opinion on it?

Answer 1

I know but you didn't give me best answer before so I'm not going to tell you.

Answer 2

When it comes to things that decide what we become,things cannot be determined by fate,though at times most of us give into the fact that we feel destined to do something or something was fated to be. It's all about that person's mindset. I believe in fate and destiny. it is our fate as humans to die,but at the same time,it is our destiny to live on forever through our children. It's something that you kind of have to get multiple views on. People decide what they are to become and what path they will take in their life,that is their destiny. What becomes of them going down that path is their fate. That's just how I look at it.

Answer 3

Of course we all have free will, and to that extent destiny doesn't exist -- but at the same token let me tell you - I mean 2 or 3 major experiences I had in life could not have been coincidence...I don't want to bore you guys with the details. Alot of my friends believe in ghosts, and I believe in guardian angels, so I believe that if your guardian angel steers you in the right direction, or steers another person in your direction, that could be perceived as destiny. But as a hollywood movie once said, destiny can bring you only so far - at the end, its your own choice.

Answer 4

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.

The word "Kismet" (alt., rarely, "Kismat") derives from the Arabic word "qismah", and entered the English language via the Turkish word "qismet" meaning either "the will\save Allah" or "portion, lot or fate". In English, the word is synonymous with "Fate" or "Destiny".

Destiny may be envisaged as fore-ordained by the Divine (for example, the Protestant concept of predestination) or by human will (for example, the American concept of Manifest Destiny).

A sense of destiny in its oldest human sense is in the soldier's fatalistic image of the "bullet that has your name on it" or the moment when your number "comes up," or a romance that was "meant to be." The human sense that there must be a hidden purpose in the random lottery governs the selection of Theseus to be among the youths to be sacrificed to the Minotaur. Many Greek legends and tales teach the futility of trying to outmaneuver an inexorable fate that has been correctly predicted.

Destiny may be seen as a fixed sequence events that is inevitable and unchangeable, or that individuals choose their own destiny by choosing different paths throughout their life.

Answer 5

it both means the same


my oplnlon is that
in life you can't achieve your destiny.
once u achieve it other will arise!

Answer 6

God has a plan for our lives but it is up to us to follow it. so it is very easy to miss your destony.

Answer 7

I believe.....
Our lives are mapped out for us even before we enter our mothers womb......And we are the ones who choose it even before we start.........
Blessed Be
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