I have a pretty specialized definition of fate, but i guess it still counts as fate. Free will only goes so far, I say. |
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Who here beleives in fate or destiny, that our path through life and the universes entire path is set? My personal opinion on all things like fate, destiny and luck is: "If you beleive there is such a thing, there is." |
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need to actually start like trying to LD i've pretty much started that now kinda.
I have a pretty specialized definition of fate, but i guess it still counts as fate. Free will only goes so far, I say. |
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Courtney est ma reine. Et oui, je suis roi.
Apprentice: Pastro
Apprentess: Courtney Mae
Adoptee: Rokuni
100% of the people I meet are idiots. If you are the one guy in the world who isn't an idiot, put this in your sig line.
I don't believe in fate very much. |
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I don't think there'd be any way to tell. How your death affects others might have something to do with fate, though. Your death would mean a lot more than the end of your life, you see. You can't control how your death would affect other events though, which is why I'm more inclined to think that fate has something to do with it. |
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Courtney est ma reine. Et oui, je suis roi.
Apprentice: Pastro
Apprentess: Courtney Mae
Adoptee: Rokuni
100% of the people I meet are idiots. If you are the one guy in the world who isn't an idiot, put this in your sig line.
I don't really believe in fate, but the artist in me wants to find fate in my life for dramatic purposes. |
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Super profundo on the early eve of your day
I think as someone else said , that fate can be thought of as free will . It all goes down to how much control we really have over ourselves , as in our conscious thought and whether we choose to think things , and if we had the exact same situation we may think differently , or if our brains follow a pattern and we were always going to make a certain decision , whether we wanted to or not . |
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Live on the edge , If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Ever seen What The Bleep Do We Know? It is pretty much saying how everyone has a considerable amount of control over their lives, other peoples lives, and the universe. It went into alot of other things as well, like how water can be affected by human emotions. Very, very interesting movie. I reccomend to all. |
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need to actually start like trying to LD i've pretty much started that now kinda.
I do not believe in fate, luck or coincidence. All of those take more faith than I can garner. |
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On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.
--Chinese Proverb
Raised Jdeadevil
Raised and raised by Eligos
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i believe in the existence of things, and the happenings of things, in which i am inextricably involved--my participation affects the process of happening, and the process of happening affects my participation. |
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gragl
I have always wanted to share my thoughts on this topic. |
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Assuming that all events are the product of an extremely large string of events stemming from the beginning of the universe, we could state that all things, assuming that all variables are taken into account (impossible for humans), are inevitable and predictable. For example, say that you were to flip a coin and it landed as heads. Though it appears to be a stroke of luck, the reason the coin actually landed as heads was because of such variables as the exact manner you threw it in, the density of the air, the gravity of the body on which you’re on (assuming Earth), and several other variables. With these variables in line, it was mathematically inevitable that the coin would fall onto heads and with all of these variables taken to account, it would surely be possible to predict the result of the coin toss before it happened. The coin flip in turn did not happen as a result if luck but due to a string of events in itself. For example, the reason you flipped the coin with your friend in the first place was in order to decide who would choose the TV channel. This in turn of course happened as a result of you meeting your friend in the first place, which also happened due several events that transpired before that; this is cause and affect. In summarization, you may be familiar with a similar philosophy if you’ve noted the methods of the Oracle from The Matrix. |
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I can because I know I can.
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On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.
--Chinese Proverb
Raised Jdeadevil
Raised and raised by Eligos
Dream Journal
The Fine Print: Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed are MINE.
People create destiny, fate etc. to give themselves a sense of reassurance. That things are all set and determined. People like this as they can be lazy and not try and change everything as things will fall into place no matter what happens. |
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99.99% of the teenage population does or has tried smoking pot. If you have and you've enjoyed it, copy & paste this into your signature line. Everyone else, you're lying!
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Mmk, give me a valid argument as to WHY fatalism is valid, Meanie. Then I'll deconstruct it for you CK style. |
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99.99% of the teenage population does or has tried smoking pot. If you have and you've enjoyed it, copy & paste this into your signature line. Everyone else, you're lying!
I already posted one 3 posts back. |
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I can because I know I can.
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“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” (or better yet: three...)
George Bernard Shaw
No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker. - Mikhail Bakunin
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These cool deep waters where I do dwell,unspoken secrets I long to tell.
Darkly in your dreams, nothing is as it seems and these images disguised so well.
Cry out to be unmasked by careful gleanings are the hidden deeper meanings..
I believe in fate. |
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"dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be
quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."
-William Dement
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naturals are what we call people who did all the right things accidentally
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