atheist's and agnostics ,do you belive in destiny and fate?Also do you belive in soul mates?

Answer 1

Agnostic here. That is to say, I do not believe anything about the divine can be empirically proven in this life.

I do not believe in destiny, fate, or soul mates.

I believe in entropy, randomness, and application of desire and effort as energy.

I also believe that my Truth need not be your Truth, and that no one need hate or kill over it. Since we cannot prove the afterlife (if it exists, and in what shape) your perspective is as viable possible as mine. If your Truth requires you to persecute me or mine, however, I will resist it.

I believe in the principles of goodness and right treatment/thinking toward others, only because I suspect that there is some kind of karmic law at work.

But I can't prove any of my beliefs, or yours,thus, the need for the application of faith of some kind.

Answer 2

Nope.

Life is a result of taking advantage of coincidences. You have to work really hard and then recognize benefit when it comes along. There is no destiny or fate, but there are horrendous situations and impossible odds. There is nothing guiding whether we are born into those situations or not, the existence of something that would choose that is horrendous.

Soul mates also don't exist, but there are people that have characteristics that can help and hurt us. It's nice to believe in 'true love' and 'soul mates' but not realistic.

Answer 3

This isn't universal for atheists. But no, I don't believe in any of the things you listed. This isn't to say that one can't find personal meaning in life, or find their own "purpose" that feels right to them. But nobody is "destined" for anything in particular. Most things don't happen for any particular reason. The human mind is just desperate to always find associations for things.

I also certainly don't believe in "soul mates", from personal experience. Good relationships take time to build, as you grow and learn to know somebody. Ironically, relationships where two people immediately believe they're soul mates tend to end the quickest. That's because expecting a partner to be your perfect match only makes you amplify the inevitable flaws.

Answer 4

No, no and no.

Soul mates - there are 6 billion plus people on earth. If you're VERY determined, you might possibly date 600. So you've narrowed your odds to one in ten million of encountering your soul mate (assuming there is only one for each of us) yet people are constantly claiming they've found that one in ten million person, who conveniently almost always lives in the same country, state, town, and generally goes to the same local hangouts as they do.

Answer 5

No, no, and no. However, I do think that everything that happens is determined by the laws of physics and chemistry so in a sense, everything is predetermined. While I don't believe in "soul mates," I do think some people are unusually compatible.

Answer 6

No, I only believe in choices and living with those.

Soulmate is a term I use to refer to people I feel good around, but no I don't believe such thing exists since I don't believe in the concept of soul.
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Answer 7

Nope. 'Soul mate' is a nice way of describing one's perfect match - in my case I am lucky enough to be married to him - but I don't believe there was anything supernatural about our meeting or that we were necessarily the only one for each other.

Answer 8

I believed in fate for a bit but..

I can't be bothered anymore. I've come to realize I was fooling myself.

As for soulmates.. no.. don't believe in that either. One can be compatible with a lot of different people.

Answer 9

You might as well ask them if they believe in something larger than themselves. A non random plan for the universe would be awfully close to a higher power.

Answer 10

No to all three. I believe there are some people we are far more compatible with than others but I do not know if I would go as far as to term that 'soulmate'.