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05-11-2009, 06:11 PM
"Fate or Choice?" I find that the answer to this question is completely irrelevant. It matter little if it is my fate to walk down the road that lies before me, or if was up to myself to choose that road. In the end one must make the choice to walk down that road or not. Who's to say wether if you were fated to make that choice, or if you arrived at it by sheer force of your own will. In the end I choose not to worry if I am controlled by fate. Maybe it is my fate to do so.
  Prepare for the worst. Hope for the best. Accept that which comes to pass.On another note the term "tempting fate" is a very ancient term that is very ingrained into European society. In elder times it was "tempting the fates". This is because once upon a time it was a common belief across almost all of the early European beliefs that fate was controlled by a trio of sister goddesses. Tempting the fates, was an act so bold as to temp the goddesses to change the fate they had laid out before you. In general this was rarely a good thing.  The Honored of Valhöll are: Acidreptile: my spiritual brother, smilexfreak7: milaya moya sestra Tsuzuki: my dark goddess, =Kanji: the eternal wanderer, Zenit: future world conquer, Michieru: self proclaimed mastermind of genius and the rest of my family in the ~+VaMpiRe ClAn+~ 
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05-11-2009, 07:08 PM
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 Thanks for clarifying that. I hadn't had time to research it, and I generally don't like to make proclamations without fact-checking myself first. (I usually bear in mind that I may be full of it.) You know, if you hadn't registered before I did, I would have been "Odin." I'm glad it worked out this way -- you make a better Allfather than I would have.
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05-12-2009, 08:41 AM
It's like an argument of dimensions; it's complex, multilayered, potentially infinite, and frankly painful to even try to fully comprehend. Virtually everyone (including myself) is basically only limited to guessing -- whether some would like to admit it or not.
IMO, either intelligent answer is logical because it's such an incredibly broad concept. With that said, I'll go ahead and gamble that it's both.
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05-15-2009, 08:12 PM
 *Pumpums avy scares me just a little bit lol*I don't really think there is a thing like fate, everything is a choice you make. It just depends on how hard you are willing to work. When people talk about fate it always makes me feel like they just want comfort in thinking they can control everything that happens around them.
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05-15-2009, 09:27 PM
i believe that destiny has a final destination that everyone must meet, but the road that you choose is not just a straight line. it is a constantly changing road. a persons path will consistently change directions with every decision made. you may go down one path but future decisions will move you down different roads but eventually there is an end. every decision has a second or 100th effect. like if you got an apple in your lunch. you can choose to either eat it or to leave it alone. along with the decision you choose you will be given other choices, continuously change the road you walk. if you want to be a lawyer your path will open according to your decision. if you decide you want to change course half way through then the path moves to your new decision.
lets say your destiny is to be a musician. you will travel many roads and make many decisions that are your own before you find it. i once heard from someone that there are people who are given preordained destinies, such as martin luther king junior, ghandi, even hitler had such a destiny in order to better change the course of the world, even if it is destructive.  "Im too drunk to taste this chicken" - colonel sanders
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