do you believe in destiny?
By shav9292
@shav9292 (928)
India
2 responses
@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
19 Jul 08
I think we are given a journey with choices we must make but I think if we make the right choices we reach where we are supposed to be, if that sounds sensible, but i also believe if we do not listen to that inner voice and make the wrong choice it is harder to get back to where we were supposed top be although i think we do eventually get there.
@shav9292 (928)
• India
19 Jul 08
yeah you are absolutely right.if i am taking it in the right way.what you mean to say is life is like a video game if you take the right choice you will progress and complete the game,if you are not able to you wind up.
but the ending of the game already decided right????
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@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
19 Jul 08
yes I believe you have understood what i mean...i really do believe that.
@Hayley_N (525)
• Argentina
24 Jul 08
The cool thing about being a human is the ability to make decisions. The best thing about being an American is the freedom to follow your heart and go for your dreams. Everyone I believe has a special purpose in life. You may never know what that purpose is...you may have already fulfilled it by effecting some stranger by a kind act....even through simple common courtesy. A fated phone call that stops someone from feeling full of despair and alone. Stopping to help a stranger in a car accident. Answering a desperate question from a troubled soul here on this web site. Voting in an election changes lives...contributing to your local school....when you gave to the local food bank....in a million careless ways you could be changing the faith and fate and aiding someone else find their voice or destiny. You never know when or where or how you could touch a life...and make it better. Is it destiny or fate? Is it both?
Bad things happen to good people...it isn't fair...is that destiny or fate? Or is it a case of bad times make you stronger for your destiny or fate? Hard question...I guess it does come down to faith or belief...
@Hayley_N (525)
• Argentina
24 Jul 08
The problem with this issue is that you can never really know for sure. If all things are destined to be and we have no free choice, then everything I do will happen, does happen, and has happened. My answering this question was guaranteed from the beginning, and people who end up sitting on their couch waiting for the love of their life were destined to do this. There is no way to test whether my choices are free or not.
My actual view is that we have free choice within the limits of our situation and the seeming randomness of events. Of course nothing is truly random, it's just that we don't know enough to be able to predict and understand everything that does happen. Within this framework of destiny, we can make many small choices that, over the course of a lifetime, add up to significantly impact what we do and who we became.
Still, in the longest run we are the victims of destiny - we all die, and eventually humanity will die, the various bits of the universe will either expand and fall apart or colllapse and be reborn, leaving us with no choice in the matter. Luckily we don't live in the long run, and in the short run choice can matter a lot.
