Do You Believe in Fate?

[ArtsieAng Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close ArtsieAng]

BoardGirl

I guess I like to believe that I have at least a little free will, but, would I really know if this free will was actually scripted?

My question, exactly!

[taffy19 Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close taffy19]

That is exactly how I feel. Why was my niece's meeting at the World Trade Center on 9/11 cancelled a half hour before the planes hit? On the other hand, why did other people make it to work that day? Why was I in a car accident that should have claimed my life but I walked away from it (well, hobbled anyway).
And why do I NEVER win Megabucks???

This is exactly why I wonder often if fate does exist? Your niece was stopped by a certain event and it wasn't her doing in this case. We can control a lot but not everything. You can't control where you are born or if your family gave you healthy genes. Some people are sick from childhood on and they didn't make that choice either. The hospital may have made a mistake or the parents took drugs that later were proven to be dangerous or something else went wrong but we don't know why. We have choices trying to keep our health if we have it.

I believe in Karma as you feel it all around you.

[JudyS Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JudyS]

I knew of a guy one time who met and married an exotic dancer named Destiny. That was a man who literally took his Destiny into his own hands.

Steve, is that a true story or are you just making a joke?

By the way, I like the kitty wrestling picture in your sig! Do you know those kitties, or did you just find the video on the web?

[hope54 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close hope54]

I think we control our interaction with our fate, thus creating the multiplicity of variables and possible outcomes that define human existence.

Pat

OK - I can't come up with pithy sentences like Pat! But I love these type of discussions. In looking back at the 53 years of my life, I have come to some conclusions that may or may not be universal. Things happen in life that are good and bad. In the vulnerability of childhood one doesn't have control of what they experience: nurturing vs non-nuturing parents, a stable home or chaotic home. And how childhood is experienced sets the tone for how life is lived into adulthood. Is childhood fate or karma? But as adults the choices can be made to integrate past experiences to become well rounded individuals. Choice. Yet the early imprinting of a chaotic childhood can make life very difficult. Fate?

For me the bottom line is that each experience I have had as a child and adult makes me who I am. Maturity (integration) is an increasing recognition of the basis of my daily choices. Fate, karma and choice are integrated.

Then there is the whole piece of the Divine. Do I embrace the concept of a spiritual dimension. How does that fit into the life journey, fate and karma. So many questions....so little time.

Hope

[camachinist Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close camachinist]

While some prefer to seperate, I find the continuum of time, space, matter, energy and thought to be quite sensible. Someday we will evolve beyond our primitive barbarism and embrace that which occupies the realm of the possible, infinitely.

How's that for "pithy"?

In simple language, "you ain't seen nothin yet"....

Pat

[mshatty Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close mshatty]

In simple language, "you ain't seen nothin yet"....

Pat

Now that would be pithy.

[emba2005 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close emba2005]

To be or Not To be

Forgot who first said it,

If it is to be, it is up to me!