Fate

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Fate. The dictionary describes fate as “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.” A lot of people link fate and destiny together. Sometimes fate is tied to unpleasant events such as an unpleasant, or even disastrous outcome, or event. There are plenty of people that believe that it is impossible to change one's fate, because some higher power has already set our life on its course and nothing we do can ever change that. If you try and point out times where people have avoided an accident as an example of changing one's fate, these people will just say that it was your fate to avoid that particular accident. This is the type of argument that you can never win, if you are trying to debate these people. Not everyone believes that it is our fate to perform in a certain way and have certain events affect us.

There have been experiments conducted that deduce the behavioral patterns of a particular person. This can be done by having them play simple games that establish a pattern of behavior. This pattern can be used to predict, what I like to call, the “low end” of fate. This is where you can reasonably predict what will happen during the game, if that person is playing it. This will be the fate that they make for themselves during the game. While it is not as dramatic as studying the fate of people in the world by what has happened to them, it is an indicator that some of our fate is caused directly by us and our habits. For example, if a person jogs every day and runs across a certain street for years and one day gets hit by a car on that street, some would say that he caused his or her own fate by always going that way. I am not so sure about this, but it was worth repeating.

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One thing is for sure, if a person steps in front of an oncoming train, or jumps off of a building to kill themselves, they are responsible for the act and it would be hard to say that it was their fate, unless you were a psychiatrist treating them who said that sooner or later their illness would compel them to commit suicide. Not all suicides are mentally ill people and that is why I say what I did. It would be much harder to say someone was responsible for their fate if they were the victim of extenuating circumstances. A case in point might be a person that is walking along a road that they were diverted to for some reason and a piece of a plane falls out of the sky and kills them:
1. it is not a road that they normally travel.
2. they certainly had nothing to do with the aircraft part falling on them.

Fate is a double sided coin. There are many stories about people who have survived incredible odds and sometimes even came out without a scratch. One of my favorites tells about a crew member of a bomber in World War II. The plane was hit and went up in flames. He was able to jump out at about 10,000 feet, but had no parachute. He said that he would rather die from the fall than be burned alive. Down he plunged and on the way down he decided to try and utilize everything that he had been taught on landing with a military chute. He hit the ground and rolled, breaking the bones in his ankles, but miraculously he survived. Those people that always quote fate said that it just wasn't his fate to die at that time. The same was true for the mountain climber who got his arm caught in a crevice near a mountain top and finally had to saw it off with a knife to escape.

Scientists are beginning to abandon the fate theory. As they get closer to things like time travel, some are beginning to think that they will be able to change any outcome if this is perfected. There have long been theories that hold that changing past outcomes will change future events and this might even mean that if someone went back in time from this period and changed the smallest thing, it might mean that some of us here today might have never been born. This still sounds like nonsense to most scientists, because most believe that while we may be able to go forward in time, we will never really be able to go back. Some feel that the closest we will ever come to that, is another dimension in the multidimensional theory that says that there is a dimension for every possible outcome of our actions. In other words we might be able to go to one of these other dimensions and change something. As for traveling to the future, if we go into a space ship that was traveling many times the speed of light, our time would slow down so that if we returned to earth, it could be hundreds of years in the future even thought it felt only like a few years to us.

Will it ever be possible to see future events and avoid them? I have talked about the black boxes that have been planted around the world that put out zeros and ones randomly and before a disaster seem to put out far more of one number than another. The problem here is that they don't show what the disaster is going to be, but they do indicate that we might know about it beforehand, subconsciously, since experiments have shown that it is our thoughts that effect this box. Can we see the future? It looks like we all may be able to do this and don't even realize it. If we can somehow harness this ability and move it to our conscious minds we could literally change our fate.