Our lives are enriched with precious memories, treasures beyond value. But how much of the joy in our lives has resulted from the foresight of planning and how much has been brought about by fate? Is fate the greater power when it comes to happiness?
Which has contributed more to the wealth of your life and why?
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Foresight or Fate ...
what a fantastic topic of discussion ,considering some of the poor threads of recent weeks
surely fortune is a half empy half full glass analagy ?
if your positive person its planning and fore thought
if your negative in your out look its fate
having said that i believe you make your own luck..or is that risk taking ?
surely fortune is a half empy half full glass analagy ?
if your positive person its planning and fore thought
if your negative in your out look its fate
having said that i believe you make your own luck..or is that risk taking ?
I believe life is a mixture of foresight and fate. I believe in destiny. My destiny has been calling me since a young child, for a long time I fought it, believing it to be the will of man as opposed to Khama balancing and fate.
But destiny is a determined bitched and she got me in the end. A slut wasn't good enough for her, she wanted the whole whore!
But destiny is a determined bitched and she got me in the end. A slut wasn't good enough for her, she wanted the whole whore!
Sex God
Quote by SXBOY
if your positive person its planning and fore thought
if your negative in your out look its fate
having said that i believe you make your own luck..or is that risk taking ?
Good thread
I don't really believe that if you're a positive person you think you've planned your life, and if you're negative you think you're in the hands of fate. Of course, some people believe it is that cut and dried, but most people don't think like that. What negative people do though is think NEGATIVELY all the time.... thus, if they plan something they think it will go wrong, and if they believe in fate they think that only bad things are destined for them. Postive people tend to have a much more realistic approach to life. Geddit.
Anyways, I'm taking the thread off at a tangent and I don't really want to do that.
Personally, I think that happiness and fulfilment in life come from both planning (e.g. planning financially for the future, planning how you're going to rid yourself of a crap job and get a better one, planning how you're going to do in your horrid partner and how you are going to hide the body from discovery, getting yourself an education, and planning which countries you are going to visit when you sail round the world in 80 days, or whatever) and fate or luck (whatever you want to call it).
I have planned quite a bit, particularly to do with finance, job, etc.. but at the same time I certainly think that some of the most significant and life changing events in my have been purely chance occurances or meetings.
I think if you don't plan at all you're gonna end up unhappy, but if you try to plan EVERYTHING you're gonna end up a stress case. I think it's a balance between planning ahead and making clever choices and being chilled and confident enough to be lucky and take life as it comes.
Remember: we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: To hell with planning, whenever I try to plan something it invariably goes awry so I don't bother anymore....I take each day as it comes and get on with it!
As to fate, I do think that people and events are placed in our path at certain times of our lives because they are meant to happen. Some theologists believe that the natural order of the universe is chaos and I'd agree to a certain extent. Nature doesn't give a shit who lives and who dies .. all nature cares about is the pro-creation of all things. It's us who dress it up as civilisation, but then that can called be growth too - in accordance with nature's master plan - jeez. what a conflicting set of parameters!
.....is the answer to the universe 42 afterall?
As to fate, I do think that people and events are placed in our path at certain times of our lives because they are meant to happen. Some theologists believe that the natural order of the universe is chaos and I'd agree to a certain extent. Nature doesn't give a shit who lives and who dies .. all nature cares about is the pro-creation of all things. It's us who dress it up as civilisation, but then that can called be growth too - in accordance with nature's master plan - jeez. what a conflicting set of parameters!
.....is the answer to the universe 42 afterall?
A little of both really, i think that certain major situations and the meeting of certain souls we encounter during a lifetime are pre destined and un avoidable. When these "fates of destiny" occour we have a choice, a right and a wrong choice.
Imagine it like its a crossroad in lifes journey, the crossroad is unavoidable because its pre destined to be there, no sign posts as such, one way is the right road, the other way is the wrong road and you only have your instinct to use in deciding which road is the right one to take.
Dino.
Imagine it like its a crossroad in lifes journey, the crossroad is unavoidable because its pre destined to be there, no sign posts as such, one way is the right road, the other way is the wrong road and you only have your instinct to use in deciding which road is the right one to take.
Dino.
Sex God
you can plan many things in minute detail but always remember
1. there's always some stupid arse with the ability to bolox it up for you
2. Shit Happens!
so it's a combination of a bit of planning, dodging the idoit obstacles & taking advantage of opportunities when they arrive
(im slowly starting to listen to my own advice, finally)
1. there's always some stupid arse with the ability to bolox it up for you
2. Shit Happens!
so it's a combination of a bit of planning, dodging the idoit obstacles & taking advantage of opportunities when they arrive
(im slowly starting to listen to my own advice, finally)
I don't believe you can plan for most things - certainly not on a life changing scale. Been there and tried that a few times and managed to get everything turning out worse than they were to start with. Fate is another dubious term as it implies some predestined course for your life. I think we get chances by pure luck and we either grab them and risk it all on the throw of the dice or we forever wonder what if....
You just have to get out to get the chances, you make your own luck.
You just have to get out to get the chances, you make your own luck.
