Fate, destiny, fortune, whatever you call it, do you believe in it?

No .

Depends what you call fate. I have a degree of belief in determinism but that's the sort of thing that's very difficult to explain and isn't really fate. Basically, yeah the future is set out but you can't know what it is until you get there and if you try to avoid something you will almost certainly succeed because your avoidence had to be factored into the origional equation and it would never have happened anyway unless you didn't try to avoid it.

So no.

There is no future, there is no past; there is only now,

and now is nothing.

No fate. Only life.


Well, I sort of believe in it, but not fully.

I'm SUPERSTITIOUS.

Not really.

I believe we make our own fate.

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I try really hard not to, I hate the entire concept (except in epic movies), but I have to say I find determinism hard to dispute.

**** no, only coincidences.

No, and what Mantha said.

We have a yes vote.

HE'S A WITCH! BURN HIM!

Yes, Thank God for Deja vu.

Yes and no. I don't believe in that whole "God has a plan for you" type of thing, but I do believe certain actions warrant certain consequences. Unless, of course, there's some sort of intervening factor. For instance, if you drop out of high school and don't even have a job, you're setting yourself up for a pretty poor life. But if, one day, you bought a lottery ticket when you were buying your smokes and ended up winning the lottery, your life would probably go in a different direction. Then again, if you dropped out of school and don't even have a job, you probably won't do anything useful with that money and end up right where you were before you won the lotto (possibly with added injuries and health problems).

This one truly makes the mind boggle. I belive in the same as what zed said in his first post, [SIZE="1"](and no, I'm not copying him.. I already though of this)[/SIZE] If fate is fate, then whatever you try to do will not change it, as you were meant to test fate in the first place.

E.G: If you throw a pencil on the floor and say "I have freewill" in an attempt to defy fate, your are contradicting yourself, as fate defined that to happen.

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This one truly makes the mind boggle. I belive in the same as what zed said in his first post, [SIZE="1"](and no, I'm not copying him.. I already though of this)[/SIZE] If fate is fate, then whatever you try to do will not change it, as you were meant to test fate in the first place.

E.G: If you throw a pencil on the floor and say "I have freewill" in an attempt to defy fate, your are contradicting yourself, as fate defined that to happen.

Thats not fate, thats Determinism