Do you control your fate, or does your fate control you?

Question

Do you believe you are in control of your own destiny? Or do you think, everything was meant to be, and you can not change your ultimate fate?

Answer 1

we control the choices we make do we not, then we control what we become. I think there are things that are meant to be, but it doesn't mean they will be. Fate gives us many hands but we still are the ones that choose. Mind you all the hands we are dealt, eventually lead to death.

Answer 2

If there is a plan..there is nothing controlling us, just.. like say if u made a robot that only walks 3 steps forwards and 2 steps back, that would be the robots fate as the creator choose, so our fate would be similar, a lot longer and complicated, in the choices we make while being free just continues our path in fate, fate doesn't change our decisions, out decisions make fate, but the fate is already planned out... complicated.. that is what fate is, I believe in my theory, that there is a fate, but it doesn't change you, everything you do including wondering about fate itself is part of your fate, but I'm getting into quantum physics and trying to prove there are spirits, ghosts or a heaven..maybe even fate may be possible soon or in thousands of years or never.

Think about this.. if we knew what every atom in the world was doing at one point in time, we could use mathematics to know what each atom would do the next instance in time, and the next, and so predicting the future, we would need something to record every atom on earth at one single time, and a computer to work out what each of them done next, 2 things we don't have or cannot do.. and probably never will in a whole world situation.

To make the same theory simpler, imagine someone being brought up good and someone being brought up bad, based on the way they were both brought up you could guess or make assumptions about the future of the children, they would only be rough estimates but you would read the future, one child would most likely be mean or sad while the other happy, but maybe selfish or stuck up.

You could also think of choice in a different way, for there to be real choice there needs to be randomness, if we all made decisions at random, and each decision had no pattern or link to each other then we couldn't predict the next thing to happen.

Answer 3

You are in control of your own destiny. The whole "ultimate fate" thing is what Calvinists believe in, predestination. And the whole idea of predestination does not make sense at ALL to me, because if your fate is already predestined, then you could do whatever you wanted, good or bad, and still end up in heaven if you really were predestined that way.

Answer 4

I neither believe in fate nor destiny.
Fate is "a force or power that predetermines events"......that makes it meaningless to even wake up in the morning if theres some divine being thats already decided everything for you and all thats left is for you to act it out.
Destiny is "the inevitable fate to which a person is predestined"....same thing here.
I believe in making the best decisions I am able to, and learning to live with the consequences. I am in control of my own life.......the decisions I make are through my own, sometimes tilted and swayed, reasoning...for better or for worse I lead my footsteps where I want them to go.

Answer 5

To answer your question, when I was a little kid, I used to look up to the stars and pray to God that I'd get an A on my science tests. Every time I had a science test I did this. I never got A's. I got C's everytime. Why? Because God already had a plan for me. And it had nothing to do with acing science. Did I study and try my hardest for those tests? Yeah I did. But ultimately, it was up to God what I would eventually become in life. And he hadn't planned on me being a wiz at science either.

Oh and by the way, I'm not a scientist, or a doctor, or anything else that has to do with science. My career is what God wanted it to be. It has to do with helping others, with the skills God gave to me particluarly.

Answer 6

The control you think you have is illusory. Ego lets you believe you have any control over your life, you can guide it along but not control it. The ultimate fate of man is death and there is no getting out of it.

Answer 7

I think that within the limits of an active universe we can control our choices. Something like the fires in Southern California can change our plans for a trip to Disneyworld even if we planned a year in advance and saved our money and paid reservations and plane tickets. Also, co-ordinated vacations with other family menbers to meet there.

Answer 8

you could say that because of the way everyone thinks, there is no other way for things to happen. because of the way my brain is wired, and the wiring of people I have been affected by (such as the maker of this computer) I could not give any other answer than the one I am giving. so no, I think that everything has happened in the only way that was possible from the way things were set up. I have free will, but what I choose to do with it was predetermined. paradoxical, I know.

Answer 9

different than the undeniable fact that each little thing born dies sometime there isn't any destiny. we've very just about finished administration over our destinies yet all too many times choose to no longer use it. recommendations like destiny and destiny are a handy excuse for apathy and inactivity ( i'm no longer pointing arms here, i've got fallen into that strategies-set better than as quickly as). We compose our existence.

Answer 10

Fate meaning eternity:

Without Jesus, you will burn in the Lake of Fire with Satan.

This is one fate to look into.

John 3 16