For those who believe in Fate...?
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I was hurt in an accident that took the life's off my family. my wife and little daughter and my wife was pregnant..I was in such horrible pain for so many years.got disabled, lost my home, and everything, i owned, the pain was terrible for years., I used to get my pistol and get in my dark bedroom and put one bullet in the chamber and spin it, and I would tell God, that if my pain wasn't going to go away some day, to please allow the bullet to go off as I put it to my head, I did this a number of times, it took hours sometimes to be able too pull that trigger,fate?I am still in horrible pain, I take  narcotics now , finally a  Doctor prescribed  me some pain pills.after years of no help. but I have cut my wrists twice,. the pain, & emotionally it was just so bad, and i do believe in God and the spirit, and I dont know where I would have gone, but I didnt care, the pain was just so much and still some times I wont to die, and I plan it out, and maybe I will kill myself and maybe I wont, but I trust in my God and try to live in the spirit. and if God wonts to punish me, if I kill myself, then so be it.
19422
Ok this is how i see sothing like this. we all have a fate &#92; manafest destiney but this can be over come and changed some times with will power &#92; free choise. see with the cement truck yes it is fate to get hit but will power will say get out of the way. those it over comes fate and bam you cange your fate and destiney.
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Do you believe in reincarnation?
255145
...maybe something a little vague but powerful? It's been so long since I read Hamlet.\n\n    It is sometimes said that man makes his own fate. This is perhaps true of Hamlet and Claudius in the Shakespeare classic Hamlet. Both men had some degree of control over their fate, and the fate of others. That they chose not to recognize it is proof of both their self destructive personalites and the genius of playwright William Shakespeare.
784190
That depends.  In this scenario, is the future set in stone (aka fate) or do we have a role in what happens in the future?
66560
I think knowing there would be happiness would give hope in the sad times.  That would probably make it all ok.  But I have to admit, I like not knowing.  I may like the hope of possibility more than the hope of the definite.  And that makes me hopeful, since I can't be guaranteed anything.  Hmmm... I may have answered my own question that is completely different than this one.  Wow.  That is amazing.
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Hearing things like that just make me feel all warm inside.\nDo you believe in fate?\nIf fate has destined us to meet , we one day will.\nPatience is a virtue.\n\nI think this conversation should continue privately.
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There are a number of psychics and divination services out there that claim to be able to see the future. In my belief, a skilled individual can catch glimpses of it, but the future is fluid and always changing so what they see is not guaranteed to happen.
246602
I believe that fate sets certain requirements for our life; specific lessons and goals we must learn and complete. How and when we learn or complete them are not predetermined, and the path we take is shaped by our decisions and actions. The lessons and goals themselves, however, must be completed before we die. I believe death is inevitable also, but how and when we die is also determined by what we as individuals do. In other words, our path is not set, but our milestones are.
539779
You are right.\nPrayers change the course of fate.\nIt is a matter of experience
862182
Fate is not a Christian teaching. God does have a plan and a way God would like us to choose and give instructions in the Bible and through sermons and religious study but God does not force us to make any decission and does not impose God's will on us. We are the master of our own destiny but with God and following God's direction we can achieve great and wounderous things and have God's assistance in doing so. If we choose another way we loose God's help and God may try to steer us in a different direction especially if the road we are on is truly dangerous. Even then we choose to follow the path we are on or change course.\n\nIt is all our choice.
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did it ever occur to anyone that what they believe will happen to them? i mean, if an atheist thinks that when they die, that's it, then that is probably what will happen to them. i'm just saying, if i die believing i'm gonna be a frog in my next life, it's MY belief, so it will be MY idea of the afterlife or heaven. it's the same as christians interpritation of heaven. some people think it's gonna be angels in diapers playing harps others think it's gonna be one big kegger...it's all depending on what you believe.
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about half of us do.  i think i do about 47% of the time.  just to tempt fate i suppose. and life is more interesting that way
162151
i do. if you really are destined to be with, then that's fate.
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I believe it is all planned ahead of time by God. If you study the Christian Bible, it really opens your eyes. It's kinda neat in a way to think about, becuase sometimes I think about how I could have been born ANYWHERE. In a poverish country, to a wealthy or poor family, with disabilities, etc. but I was chose to be born in New Jersey and 100% healthy. I'm a Christian like the person you spoke to, and would say that YES things such as our gender, where we are born, are fated. However, God also allows us to make our own decisions. So if a person commits a crime and goes to jail, or a person does something negative, I feel that it was their mistake that they chose to do and that things like that aren't fated.
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Nothing happens by chance.  There are two things that control our lives; fate and destiny.  Destiny is the lesson we were born in this life to learn.  We cannot change this.  Fate is the things that happen that we make choices on to help us learn the lessons.  There is a reason for everything that happens.  We are allowd to make choices.  We are given help(signs), and after we live our lives, if we made the right choices, we move on to another life and another lesson.
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I truely believe in reicarnation. i think we have lessons to learn and have to come back again and again , until we have learnt those lessons. Its all to do with Karma .