Just something I was thinking about tonight.


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fate /feɪt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[feyt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, fat·ed, fat·ing. –noun 1. something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot: It is always his fate to be left behind. 2. the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed; the decreed cause of events; time: Fate decreed that they would never meet again. 3. that which is inevitably predetermined; destiny: Death is our ineluctable fate. 4. a prophetic declaration of what must be: The oracle pronounced their fate. 5. death, destruction, or ruin. 6. the Fates, Classical Mythology. the three goddesses of destiny, known to the Greeks as the Moerae and to the Romans as the Parcae. –verb (used with object) 7. to predetermine, as by the decree of fate; destine (used in the passive): a person who was fated to be the savior of the country.

Do you believe religion and fate are mutually exclusive? I just wanted to hear what my other fellow TAs thought about this subject

No I do not.

Religion kills little babies

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as much as I dont believe in god and all that something makes me believe in it. im sure theres something deeper that binds us. something not necessarily religious. so to answer the question, yeah a big part of me does believe in fate.

Believing in fate would make me unimaginably depressed. So no.

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Originally posted by Walouf Believing in fate would make me unimaginably depressed. So no.

why? id should think it would make you the opposite of that

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Originally posted by RapidFire why? id should think it would make you the opposite of that

Not being in control of your future? Being a slave to whats been determined for you? Not cool!

Fate is like reading a book backwards & getting to the start of the book just as you are born. (obviously you reading the book in your mothers womb just before you come out of her vagina. The book was probably formed out of solidified placenta)

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fuck fate.

fuck everything.

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There are many here among us that think life is but a joke

I do. Everything happens for a reason.

Both are just beliefs.

One, you give up control over your own life and accept whatever is given to you, and the other you give up control over your own life and accept whatever is given to you.

Completely different things man.

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Originally posted by Sunsnail Not being in control of your future? Being a slave to whats been determined for you? Not cool!

hmm well I see it another way. I look at faith as more of something that relates to an invididual and not to the big picture. I guess in the end it connects us all but its mostly just focused on you and what becomes of your life. id say it gives you hope more than anything. to know deep down youre meant for something and that what you do matters.

in any case I dont really see it as control as per the fact that you dont realize its happening. so everything you do is still your choice. the outcome is what was meant to happen for you because of the way it happened. and who knows the laws and bounderies of it? ive just seen a few things happen that i know i couldnt explain without using the word. coinsidence is too small of a word with too little meaning to explain certain occourences.