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Fate shapes us as much as we shape it...
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donkeyPUNCH
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LOL, your word is my command
I don't think that regret is a useful feeling, it's an un/conscious admission you're not happy with what you are, when ultimately, you could have never been anything different.
Accepting what you are, and looking at your mistakes as valuable learning tools, positive events, I feel would be more beneficial.
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How can you say that? Fate shapes us as much as we shape it... Seriously think about it... For example... If I never got in this one car accident I would of never got a new job and met the love of my life... What would of happened if I never went out that afternoon...? I was high that afternoon as well... What if I was sober? Seriously? That is fucking fate.
Fat is something that cannot be denied. I shaped my fate that evening as did fate shape my destiny that evening...
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If fate does exist, its not some external force.
What happens happens.
We definitely have an influence on our own destiny/path in life as do other people and things, but I don't think I believe in fate.
That's my view anyways.
What happens happens.
We definitely have an influence on our own destiny/path in life as do other people and things, but I don't think I believe in fate.
That's my view anyways.
well since you put it like that!
wait, hang on, what does that even mean? define "fate".
you didn't shape the car accident event - if it was fated it was always going to happen. you had nothing to do with it.
alasdair
I have always been a believer in fate or rather that my life is somewhat predetermined.
I like to look at my life as a blueprint, that has a beginning and an end of the physical form. Each path has a few different outcomes depending on my free will decisions. Now are those decisions pre-determined or are they a reflection of the type of growth [learning] that will help me to fulfill my reasons for this incarnation? Reincarnation is a part of my beliefs also as I think I come back to the human form to learn or fulfill various lessons.
I also sometimes look at my life as a picture of a big gnarly oak tree. Starting with the root system, which focuses its energies eventually into the trunk of the tree and that fans out into the branch system. Overlaying the 'blueprint' thought onto this, with each major elemental decision I can take a different route [fork-in-the-road] or rather fork in the root system. When I have a grasp on what I am here for, which for me at this time is unknown but I have ideas my spirit/body becomes the trunk of the tree. Than having a semi solidified outlook on life events than once again become predetermined with the fork in the road or rather branches. Than my life is meant for passing on a knowledge of what I believe.
What happens to one of my pinecones when they fall of my branches...
or what happens when I shed my leaves for the cold weather...
what happens if somebody/something chops me down...
Do I become firewood or mulch...
hmmm... I was raised catholic and confirmed under the influence of lsd [blu window pane]. Today I like to practice in terms of the golden rule, but at times I faulter. I can see how some think of 'fate' as a cop-out but to each there own I suppose?
Peace,
Seedless
I like to look at my life as a blueprint, that has a beginning and an end of the physical form. Each path has a few different outcomes depending on my free will decisions. Now are those decisions pre-determined or are they a reflection of the type of growth [learning] that will help me to fulfill my reasons for this incarnation? Reincarnation is a part of my beliefs also as I think I come back to the human form to learn or fulfill various lessons.
I also sometimes look at my life as a picture of a big gnarly oak tree. Starting with the root system, which focuses its energies eventually into the trunk of the tree and that fans out into the branch system. Overlaying the 'blueprint' thought onto this, with each major elemental decision I can take a different route [fork-in-the-road] or rather fork in the root system. When I have a grasp on what I am here for, which for me at this time is unknown but I have ideas my spirit/body becomes the trunk of the tree. Than having a semi solidified outlook on life events than once again become predetermined with the fork in the road or rather branches. Than my life is meant for passing on a knowledge of what I believe.
What happens to one of my pinecones when they fall of my branches...
or what happens when I shed my leaves for the cold weather...
what happens if somebody/something chops me down...
Do I become firewood or mulch...
hmmm... I was raised catholic and confirmed under the influence of lsd [blu window pane]. Today I like to practice in terms of the golden rule, but at times I faulter. I can see how some think of 'fate' as a cop-out but to each there own I suppose?
Peace,
Seedless
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Thank you for posting that, I love the way you compared life to an tree. I have the same beliefs bro. Do you still consider yourself Catholic? I was raised as a Protestant and did the whole Bible School and what not when I was younger and I ended up as a Buddhist much to the dismay of my overly zealous Christian uncle.
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I was going out to cop drugs and was driving a little fast. What if I decided not to cop that day? What if I was driving slower? I may of missed that van hitting me.
^ fate decided you would cop that day. if it was fated you were always going to cop that day. you wouldn't have been driving slower because you were fated to be drivinf at that speed. if it's fate, nothing you do changes it. it's going to happen.
alasdair
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