fate

[rockchick114]

do you believe in fate & why?

[ummmm1]

You know what...............I think I do

But only recently so I can't explain why

[rockchick114]

well i believe fings happen for a reason but then agen i dnt but its depends on if its wat u want or ment to be if u randomly bump in to sum 1 u wnted 2 c dats fate also if u bump in 2 sum 1 who u dnt fink ur ever guna c dats also fate, or if u end up in da same place but u went different directions. so yeah i believe in fate ...but it never happends

[Llamatron]

Must....... not...... complain...... about......... text.......... speak.......

[luna-tic]

We all have the same road to take to our physical departure from this planet but it is our own free will that causes us to walk along different paths on that road. I believe certain energies when two people meet and have a bond for whatever reasons will both carry a binding force between them and this I think is even more prevalent within family so to some people when you speak of deja-vu they say,"It's just coincidence", but sometimes the experiences go beyond mere coincidence. Things happening to us for a reason and out of our control predetermined by a supernatural force may seem contrived but what is our real meaning for life?

[Llamatron]

Why does there have to be meaning?

[jake-the-peg]

This answer is probably waaaay out of what you were looking for but here goes.

A hundred years ago the universe was seen as something like a great piece of clockwork. We knew how every thing affected everything else and if you copuld put all the atoms back to where they were yesterday they'd all do the same thing again.

No so much fate as pre-destination.

Then there was a revolution we found that at very small scale atoms were truely random - not very complicated but really random -if you put them back they would not do the same thing again. And this affects everyday large things.

There is no pre-destination, truely random things can occur but we are so programmed in to look for patterns we see them where they don't exist.

All those optical illusions use the fact that we all expect to see patterns and it's the same in life. We look and see all the co-incidences and marvel. We don't see all the non-coincidences.

I didn't see someone my age wearing the same shirt as me driving the same sort of car this morning....I didn't see someone with my name in the obituary column either....etc etc.

fate is your subconcious messing with your head

[luna-tic]

Dear Llamatron, There doesn't have to be anything but experience of life whatever that may mean to the individual.

[redcrx]

i thought i did, but then i realised it was 'fat' n not 'fate'
hop ths ansrs qstn 4 u m8

[scoobysoo]

I think you have to Rockchick, else you'd go mad wondering why things happen. I believe we have control over our lives, but are at the same time guided in certain directions for unknown reasons. I'm not religious, so I think my belief in fate makes up for my lack of faith.

[Llamatron]

Sh1t happens.

[poolger]

To a certain extent I do, some things happen that are just too freaky to be coincidental but at the same time I dont think when young kids die or bad things happen to good people can be justified as happening for a reason.