For example: My jeep broke down so I don't have a ride anywhere. It's fair season and I'd b at the fairs doing who knows what. Is it by sheer luck or chance that I can't get to the fair or is there like an unseen force that is keeping from going. Fate. Lemme know what your thought are.
2007-09-21 05:00:41 · 14 answers · asked by stanfordg_35 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
This is an opportunity. Either think of a new way to get there, or think of what else you could be doing instead. Then keep your mind and eyes open so you can see that there is a lesson or an opportunity there you might have missed.
What you put out in your thoughts and actions is what creates the things that happen in our lives. Our consciousness is our fate, unless we change it.
2007-09-21 05:13:48 · answer #1 · answered by mfg 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No nothing is pre-determinded. It's all chance and choice. If my gas runs out of my car, it's because I didn't fill it up when I should have. If my colleague who was up for promotion doesn't show up to work for a while and I get promoted instead, it was just chance. If I don't get love from a guy I love, it is my bad choice. I choose whether to remain in my bad situation and keep getting hurt, or leave him and move on and find a person who loves me back. We make our fate in a lot of ways (choice). The rest is chance. And every chance or choice, provided us with opportunities. Opportunities are everywhere, that is why we feel that whatever happens happens for a reason. And not getting anything is opportunity too. Coz that opportunity gives us a chance to become stronger. Not sure if I am making sense...but that is what I feel.
2007-09-21 05:30:58 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I strongly believe that everything happens for a reason and life , much like nature, balances itself out. We all live and die, where everything in between is influenced by the choices that we make.
So, in your case, why did your jeep break down? Did you forget to maintain it? Did you forget to have it tuned? Were you hard on your jeep? Was your mind self-fulfilling a prophecy subconsciously?
You mentioned that you may have done something bad at the fair if you attended... Did your mind believe that the only way to avoid the fair was to neglect your car, subconsciously knowing it would break down eventually???
2007-09-21 05:14:04 · answer #3 · answered by tiffguam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if something like Fate existed, and if it was already wirtten, then:
a) There would be no way for us to read it.
b) If we could read it, it would create so many paradoxes, that our minds couldn't comprehend it.
So there is no reason for us to concern about it at all. Let's just take life as it comes and make the best of it.
Oh, and you reminded me of one of my favourite Max Payne qoutes:
"There are no choices. Nothing but a straight line. The illusion comes afterwards, when you ask "Why me?" and "What if?". When you look back and see the branches, like a pruned bonsai tree, or forked lightning. If you had done something differently, it wouldn't be you, it would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions." -Max Payne
2007-09-21 05:12:26 · answer #4 · answered by Kuborion 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is an unseen force keeping you from getting to the fair.
Its called laziness~
2007-09-21 05:04:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe in God's plan and believe everything happens for a reason. You can look at your life and see all the things that happened to you in the past and how it led you to a different path or taught you something you used later. I call it divine intervention.
2007-09-21 05:09:20 · answer #6 · answered by Lauren B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the information of each being the two impacts the so talked approximately as or assumed predetermined destiny, so activities that ensue interior the existence in actuality is the effect of the interaction of those and many different forces.
2016-10-05 03:09:44 · answer #7 · answered by gavilanes 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything is by chance. Actions taken will reshape chances.
Example= Play a slot machine at a casino and you may get rich or you could loose . Don't play nothing happens.
Invest your money-you may get rich or you may loose.
This goes for everything--you make a choice and chance happens
2007-09-21 07:08:17 · answer #8 · answered by Fred F 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Consequences of fate are all predetermined (according to philo books) but they will come to us as if they were there by chance. So between your two given options, i'd say both.
2007-09-21 05:09:20 · answer #9 · answered by oscar c 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you ask these kinds of questions a lot? lol
Careful. I used to. I quit when they started hurting my head. :P
I think you make of life what you will.
In the words of Serge Kahili King
"Energy flows where attention goes."
Good, decent words of wisdom.
2007-09-21 05:11:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋