Fate and Belief

Fate:
1 : the will or principle or determining cause by which things in general are believed to come to be as they are or events to happen as they do: destiny.
2 : an inevitable and often adverse outcome, condition, or end.

Some people believe in fate, in a preset course for everything that cannot be altered no matter how much you try, what steps you take to avoid or evade the outcome that is set. A car accident that’s going to happen; you know it’s meant to be so you do everything to avoid it, only to realize that the steps you took TO avoid it caused the very thing you were trying to prevent. Ain’t that a bitch?

Some people don’t believe in fate, they argue that free-will and open thought processes immediately condemn fate to oblivion. How can something be predestined if you don’t even know what you’re going to do until the very moment you are in the midst of doing said thing?

And some people are in the middle. Multiple universe theory, where a universe is created for every possible option that could come to pass, whether or not it does indeed come to fruition in your current conscious universe or not (ie; fate is just living in motion for; if everything is fate, fate must exist).

What is right?

Well, we’ll never know. People have tried to answer this question as long as it has been posed. Some answer it absolutely; fate is God’s hand in motion; some answer it with uneasy curiosity; I do not know if fate exists or if fate is merely mocking me to think upon its existence to further its own eternal plan. The variable of fate is in every question, every philosophy, in science, in religion. Whether discussing Jean-Paul Sartre’s belief in complete indeterminism, Einstein’s theory of relativity or John Calvin’s intent teachings of predestination, fate will play a role.

No matter how true we may insist our beliefs are, in the end that’s all they ever are. Beliefs. Belief in what we proceed to think of as truth, belief in what we conceive are lies. Humans are predisposed to wondering and trying to place ideas in sections of right and wrong. It makes us uneasy to have anything hovering in the “well, I honestly don’t know” category in our brains.



So; fate, does it exist?

Or perhaps the better question, the more open minded question and the more intellectually honest question; do you believe it exists?