W does, at least when things are going wrong, when they are going right she does not think about it.
I do not. Oh there are things I can do nothing about, but that is not destiny. Just things have no control over. Other things I do have control over.
The Saxons said that our life is mapped out, but we can define the colour of our life. I think that meant the big things are beyond are control, but we get to choose the other bits.
Come to think of it what is 'destiny'?
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Destiny, do you believe in it?
Sex God
What's meant for you won't go by you. :mrgreen:
No I don't. And yes I do.
I don't believe in a pre-ordained, almost religeous interpretation of destiny, following a great plan, where if something goes right it's because it was meant to be, and vice versa.
But I do believe it is very difficult to escape the boundaries and limitations set by cultural/time/place/economic issues.
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I don't believe in a pre-ordained, almost religeous interpretation of destiny, following a great plan, where if something goes right it's because it was meant to be, and vice versa.
But I do believe it is very difficult to escape the boundaries and limitations set by cultural/time/place/economic issues.
Edited for spelling
Actually I heard a very interesting article on the radio the other day and it was saying that destiny exists and free will doesn't(at least in the short term). I will try and explain but it may not be very good.
Scientist have carried out a study mapping brain activity. The study showed that the body directed movement of the body before brain activity kicks in. Meaning I think that the body already knows whats going to happen before the brain does.
Scientist have carried out a study mapping brain activity. The study showed that the body directed movement of the body before brain activity kicks in. Meaning I think that the body already knows whats going to happen before the brain does.
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Actually I heard a very interesting article on the radio the other day and it was saying that destiny exists and free will doesn't(at least in the short term). I will try and explain but it may not be very good.
Scientist have carried out a study mapping brain activity. The study showed that the body directed movement of the body before brain activity kicks in. Meaning I think that the body already knows whats going to happen before the brain does.
The brain knows what's going to happen (it tells the muscles to move) but doesn't let on until it's too late :twisted:
Sexlightened
I dont really know if I believe in destiny, but I think I can control some of the things that are going to happen, but then is that just learning from past experiences then you can then control what might happen in the future.
Sexlightened
NO ! life is what you make it - you are in the driver's seat !
Sex God
nope
i do believe in karma though
i do believe in karma though
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NO ! life is what you make it - you are in the driver's seat !
I sort of agree here, but of course there are things that happen that are out of our own personal control.
Right time, wrong place, unforseen circumstances and all that! Free will does not apply then really.
I saw this thread first thing this morning, and deleted my response 3 times, as I feel I can not express in type what I actually feel.
I am with really, when life is going ok, we just get on with it, but if something happens we can often end up saying "oh well, thats just the way its meant to be then, it must be fate/destiny" or words to that effect.
Rambling really now.....
Sex God
Quote by bouncy332
nope
i do believe in karma though
I have my fingers crossed for karma
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I do believe things, good or bad, happen for a reason
Yes me too, and it can take a while or you may never figure out that reason.
FB waits very patiently
Sex God
Quote by Bonedigger
i believe in destiny......cant explain why :gagged:
and as for Karma......what goes around, comes around....most definately :twisted:
I bloody well hope so - and I love DG's 'what's meant for you, won't go by you'.
Sex God
I don't believe in determinism (that everything is pre-ordained) but I do believe that each individual will respond in a limited set of ways to a given situation.
There are people who seem especially lucky. I believe they often make their own luck - by stepping outside their automatic response to a situation.
There are people who seem especially lucky. I believe they often make their own luck - by stepping outside their automatic response to a situation.
i dont know, but i feel everything happens for a reason, even the shitty stuff.
to late to explain in detail, but even crappy stuff that has happened has ment my path turned and something good happened, but if the bad hadent then the good wouldnt have, but then i dont know what would have happened if the bad hadent happened.
confused??? yes i am lol
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sorry posting after a bottle of wine loads of great sex and mr sandman chasing me xx
to late to explain in detail, but even crappy stuff that has happened has ment my path turned and something good happened, but if the bad hadent then the good wouldnt have, but then i dont know what would have happened if the bad hadent happened.
confused??? yes i am lol
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sorry posting after a bottle of wine loads of great sex and mr sandman chasing me xx
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No I don't. And yes I do.
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But I do believe it is very difficult to escape the boundaries and limitations set by cultural/time/place/economic issues.
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I think that is what is meant by 'the shape of a life is set, but you choose the colour'. An old Saxon saying.
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Actually I heard a very interesting article on the radio the other day and it was saying that destiny exists and free will doesn't(at least in the short term). I will try and explain but it may not be very good.
Scientist have carried out a study mapping brain activity. The study showed that the body directed movement of the body before brain activity kicks in. Meaning I think that the body already knows whats going to happen before the brain does.
The brain knows what's going to happen (it tells the muscles to move) but doesn't let on until it's too late :twisted:
The lower brain does many things that the high brain simple does not think about, beating the heart, breathing, getting you to work each morning and it also responds in set patterns under certain circumstances. The lower, reptilian brain as it is sometimes called is a bit like a servant to the upper brain. It sits at the base of the skull keeping thinks running while the upper brain does all the thinking. The lower brain can learn, all the way though life and if the upper brain switches of or chooses to think about the meaning of life the lower brain will keep the body going.
Just how much the lower brain does and how the orders are given to it is open to augment, but it does run the heart and many other operations even if the upper brain has been cut out.
So yes the hand could be withdrawn from a flame and then afterward the upper brain say that hurt.
Quote by bouncy332There are many views about karma. I like the one that say bad people evoke bad responses from others. Good people, by their actions engender some what more pleasant responses.
nope
i do believe in karma though
So yes there is such a thing as karma.
...or as the Chinese sometimes said 'Heaven see with earthly eyes.'
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I don't believe in determinism (that everything is pre-ordained) but I do believe that each individual will respond in a limited set of ways to a given situation.
There are people who seem especially lucky. I believe they often make their own luck - by stepping outside their automatic response to a situation.
I think I'm with you Foxy. I don't believe in destiny. The people I perceive to be particularly lucky seem to be the ones who take risks rather than following the socially accepted route down the middle of the road. Knowing this does not, however, enable me to 'step outside the box'. I don't consider myself to be a 'lucky' person.
Sex God
Yeah like Ben i'm somewhere in between. If Karma suggests everything being interconnected and reactive then yes I firmly believe in butterflies. However some ways that Karma is described suggest predetermination so that would have to mean destiny as far as I understand it.
I don't believe we are masters of our destiny, but factors in it.
Chaos works for me.
I don't believe we are masters of our destiny, but factors in it.
Chaos works for me.
Quote by Silk and Big GI think karma is the result o f actions by both us and others, there is no destiny, just a per-disposition to an out come, but one we can effect and change, at least to a degree.
Yeah like Ben i'm somewhere in between. If Karma suggests everything being interconnected and reactive then yes I firmly believe in butterflies. However some ways that Karma is described suggest predetermination so that would have to mean destiny as far as I understand it.
I don't believe we are masters of our destiny, but factors in it.
Chaos works for me.
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