tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9977765.post3967880003357680200..comments2023-04-03T05:54:25.463-04:00Comments on Pass The Potatoes: Fate versus Destiny - My TakeRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18199256286484810951noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9977765.post-55436083347608148132010-12-12T15:09:43.416-05:002010-12-12T15:09:43.416-05:00Fate seems to me to be the way that our destiny en...Fate seems to me to be the way that our destiny ends. Only being in seventh grade I don't have the best expirience (or spelling:)) but if fate is how our journey through life ends, then destiny is the road to get there. For example, in ancient Greece, Cassandras destiny was to speak the future and her fate was to be killed by her lovers wife. All of us have a fate and destiny, but we can choose how control it. There is no one that is telling you how to live your life or what your purpose. I like to think of it as money. You can spend your destiny on anything you want, but your fate is an inevitable ending to your account. If you spend your life wisely you can put off fate for a while. I laugh out loud whenever someone says that it was fate that made something happen. It may have been lucky but fate had nothing to do with it.Crazy Hippie Chickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550596890274749880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9977765.post-53693826201619492922008-01-25T15:13:00.000-05:002008-01-25T15:13:00.000-05:00Yea, I tried to structure the question not as a un...Yea, I tried to structure the question not as a universal truth but more in what it means to you. I was aware of what the dictionary had to say but I think these things can mean very different things to people. I have no idea if/what the universal truth for destiny/fate is but if what you believe helps you get through the day who is to say it isn't real?Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18199256286484810951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9977765.post-47646928951440370382008-01-23T20:19:00.000-05:002008-01-23T20:19:00.000-05:00After thinking about this some more, I have come t...After thinking about this some more, I have come to the conclusion that Socrete's would have loved your orignal question and tore it apart. There is no clear answer - at least not one with any concrete proof to offer.<BR/><BR/>No one can finitely prove that there is a force or God ( save the arguments) and no one can finitely prove that there isn't. I feel the same true of fate/destiny. Until someone shows you the script you can't say there is, but until you can explain the unexplainable, there leaves reasonable doubt that some other design may be present. Believe what you will.<BR/><BR/>As for there definitions and conotations - Webster says they are analogous.<BR/><BR/>It makes me thoughtful of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason" How do you know? Do things happen for something or merely because of something else?<BR/><BR/>The mud thickens.CMShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16643629650728230261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9977765.post-78197831673061998322008-01-23T13:58:00.000-05:002008-01-23T13:58:00.000-05:00I'm not saying there is a pre-defined path, that i...I'm not saying there is a pre-defined path, that is fate. I'm just saying you may have a particular destiny, an end-point, that you are here for. How you get there is up to you. Hell, you may not even find your way to that destiny, but it is there saying 'come to me, beavis'. <BR/><BR/>I suppose your destiny could be to just an example to others. ;)Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18199256286484810951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9977765.post-18377879105953138892008-01-23T13:55:00.000-05:002008-01-23T13:55:00.000-05:00Everyone has the same destiny. To Die. Other tha...Everyone has the same destiny. To Die. Other than that I can not agree with a pre-defined plan for you upon birth.<BR/><BR/>No mystical chalk board with your name that says "Soandso is suppose to do .... in there life".<BR/><BR/>We need to just face reality are realize we are just animals, just more evolved. There is no bigger force than us planning our life.<BR/><BR/>- JoeSilent Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18276004291564899711noreply@blogger.com