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Fate, as a certain predestination, does not exist. Such a fate would leave no leeway. A person would become an automaton that executes someone's program laid down from above.
The option with a strictly predetermined fate leaves no room for moral choice and for a righteous life.
If we talk about Buddhism (in which I understand a little) sometimes fate is understood as the law of kamma. However, kamma is also not a hard-coded program, but a variation in a given corridor of possibilities.
I would say that one can only talk about fate in the present and past. In this case, fate is the fact of making certain decisions in the life already lived or the life being lived.
If we consider fate in the future, then this is a different matter. Of course, you can imagine that everything is predetermined and prepared. But I suggest that this is not the case. After all, our life is a series of events in which we make the decision ourselves (except, of course, super – riches-such as a broken leg on ice, a brick falling on our head, a car hitting us, heart failure, and so on).
If we turn to religion, then in Christianity there is no fate in store. “Everything is God's will,” they say. But just tell me, since God will decide your fate for you, then it makes sense to wash away your sins in churches and hope for the kingdom of heaven, if God has prepared hell for you. And could he have prepared it? No. For the Lord has given us the great right of free will. And if there is free will, then falling into hell or ascending to heaven is a matter of making the right life decisions.
So, I think that the concept of fate can be considered in two time frames and takes place in such a way that we call life experience or life itself. In the future, I think, there is no definite fate. It will only appear when we make a choice.
A person has no destiny because a person is an all-powerful subject, a pawn, a puppet that is controlled by a higher power.
A person can make a contract with the devil for 1 wish, but in return he sends his soul to hell.
I think not, which is why I argue with some people around me. In my view, it looks like this:
If there is a destiny, then whatever I do will always be what I am meant to be. from which it follows that all the benefits can be obtained without moving. And something I doubt that if there really were destinies, then someone would be doomed to die without being born – what kind of cameo role would it be?
Therefore, if we talk about fate, then use this word in the sense of what has already been passed, our own history
I wrote the answer and thought about it. Initially, I argued that fate is such a past tense, such as a person with a difficult fate, but you can also say that “this person will have a difficult fate.” After thinking about different contexts, I came to the conclusion that “fate” is a term, and therefore it really exists, at least on a verbal level. As Death said in the famous Terry Pratchett, ” TAKE THE UNIVERSE, GRIND IT TO THE SMALLEST POWDER, SIFT IT THROUGH THE SMALLEST SIEVE, AND SHOW ME THE ATOM OF JUSTICE OR THE MOLECULE OF PITY. AND YET.. Death waved his hand, ” YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS A PERFECT ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS.. JUSTICE IN A UNIVERSE THAT CAN BE JUDGED BY ITS STANDARDS.”, that is, the very existence of the concept already affects the fate of people, therefore, regardless of the belief in mysticism or fortune tellers, fate exists.
Ask Sarah Connor. She thought not, and in the movie “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” even carved these words with a knife on the table.
This is a joke, of course. In fact, we shape our own destiny, every second, by our actions, decisions, and even thoughts. And, of course, communication with other people. So there is a fate, but it is only a tangle of variable probabilities.
There is only the present moment, just as every day is today, and never tomorrow or yesterday. Fate as a predestination of everything does not exist, since there are an infinitely large number of probabilistic processes and phenomena in the world. But even if we leave this out of consideration, we can see the meaningfulness and meaninglessness of the concept of predestination on the example of games: in tic-tac-toe 3×3, with both opponents fully knowing the options on the playing field, there will always be a draw. A more complicated example: checkers. When playing with a strong program like Chinook, a person has a high probability of losing, an unlikely draw, and an almost impossible win. But even with this knowledge, it is impossible to fully predict exactly what path the game will take. An example is even more complicated: the game of Go. The number of options on the board exceeds the number of atoms in the galaxy. Self-learning programs on powerful computers already surpass people in the power of the game, but the best players on the planet can still sometimes oppose something. At the same time, a person will not be able to predict the course of the game in all possible variants in advance, even up to a quarter of the game. Life is more complicated than any board game, and a person as a player constantly makes his own moves, on which something depends. There is not enough computing power to pre-define or predict the exact path of life. You have a brain with billions of neurons and connections between them, and humanity has more than 7 billion brains. The behavior of such a complex system is beyond precise calculation and direct control. You are part of this system, so your life is also not calculated and predetermined at the same time. The show continues all the time! You are a spectator, an actor, a director, a screenwriter, and a producer.
If we talk about fate as something predestined to happen or happen to a person not by his will, no matter positive or negative, then my opinion is that such a phenomenon definitely exists in the lives of quite a lot of people (We do not choose where we are born, who our parents are, or even what our name is).
There are such concepts as freedom of choice or free will, when it is implied that a person's decisions, behavior or actions affect their future, thereby, roughly speaking, changing it for the worse or for the better. Such a definition of fate (which, in one way or another, is not completely predetermined and can always change) does not fit the definition of fate itself, although it seems a reasonable compromise. But it is also impossible to exclude free will as a phenomenon.�
A lot depends on how to imagine fate. It may be something written down in a book, whether in advance or not, in sufficient detail to allow us to judge the full or partial correspondence of what is written and what is happening in reality, or it may be something more ephemeral, something that cannot be imagined, something that cannot be known, what is not imagined and what is higher than us. After all, if you look from a religious point of view, it turns out that in one way or another the Almighty takes part in our fate, perhaps thereby making our fate more than completely predetermined in detail.�
One way or another, it is very difficult to know your fate reliably, maybe because of imperfect methods of cognition and/or because fate is basically unknowable. In a sense, believing in fate is like believing in aliens, Adam and Eve, or Santa Claus. I rarely think about it myself. Of course, I don't rule out something like this, but I don't think I need to think about it often.
There is no reason to believe that free will exists. At least I don't know. All relevant scientific ideas (theories) indicate that the future has no alternative: we have a finite amount of matter that changes with a finite amount of energy in accordance with a finite number of universal principles (laws of nature).�
And, as far as I know, there is nothing in any of the known properties of matter and the principles of its interaction that would give grounds to assume that the results of the interaction of particle A with particle B with energy C will differ regardless of the number of repetitions.
If we consider this question in a broader context, taking into account the existing scientific assumptions (hypotheses), then, as far as I know, so far only the principle of quantum uncertainty is suitable for the role of a randomness generator, which would allow us to assume that each interaction of particle A with particle B with energy C can have at least two different results.�
But this is inaccurate. The uncertainty principle states that the results of the interaction of particle A with particle B with energy C can be measured with a certain accuracy, and not that this interaction can have different possible outcomes.
Simply put, science now knows for sure that it can't predict the future accurately, but it doesn't know exactly how inaccurate the future is. �
This means that even if only one scenario is possible, we will not be able to find out about it yet. So the future is both immutable and unpredictable.�
So it should still be fun to live — like watching Game of Thrones while living in a bunker with an HBO subscription as the only way to communicate with the outside world: when you start season three, you won't even know about the Red Wedding — but that doesn't change the content of episode nine as you watch it.�
PS And if you still want spoilers, you can create and run a full-scale simulation of our reality, repeating 1 in 1 the amount of matter, energy and the laws of nature (provided that you know exactly both) – and you know what you will get then? Our reality. In which you also ask a question about fate, and I also answer you: yes, but not about our honor.
Before you speak, define your destiny.
If fate is understood as an already inevitable series of events and whatever you do will come true what should come true-no, this does not exist. Then there would be no meaning to life at all, and it would not be life, but existence. In this sense, fate does not exist.
Karma is not fate. Karma is a piggy bank of good and bad deeds. That's all. If we talk about some predispositions, then in general, in this regard, the character of a person determines his fate. In general, fate is a religious concept and it is better to recognize this concept from the point of view of a particular religion. For non-believers, there is no fate.
There is a destiny. This is an antonym for the free will that a free person has.
Fate is the definition. How cold or hot it is.
Fate is the sum of all the circumstances that were predetermined and thus affect your life, despite your wishes. Or the result of this sum is fate.
Once again, fate is something that someone decided for you and prepared for you, not necessarily even having intentions in your direction. These are not necessarily “higher” forces, such as god/gods, force majeure circumstances, or a command from above. It is quite possible that your fate was prepared for you by a work colleague, relatives, acquaintances, or even an accident of being.
Your life consists of a chain of events and circumstances, some of which are predetermined. But the other part is determined by yourself. The volume of parts depends on how active you are.
By creating your own circumstances, you change your life, which means you change the result, which takes you out of the influence of external factors. And if you are super-active, and some of the circumstances that you have created yourself outweigh the external factors critically, you will take your life into your own hands.
Fate is just another definition. Don't live by definitions, don't put your life in a box.
For me, fate can be a convenient excuse for those who do not want to do anything with their lives. If we consider it in this way, of course.
Well here's an example: Well, this is my life, well, this is my fate, what can you do? What can you do? change it and that's it.
If you look at the plan-for example, a person gets acquainted under incredible circumstances with an incredible person, while many conditions coincided, which in principle cannot coincide, it would seem, then here I would rather agree that there is a fate.
Fate, karma, God's will-all these things exist to somehow justify what is happening to people and to yourself. And since a person sees what he wants, that is, perceives reality as he has learned, then over time he becomes more and more convinced of this, although it happens the other way around. Nevertheless, answering the question, we can say that yes – fate exists, but only in the minds of some people, because reality is a very subjective thing, and we try to adapt it to ourselves in such ways.