maaaaaaaaan...i have had discussion about this with at least three different people about these two things within the last month or so...
the 1st was with my friend Wes...
2nd, my homegurl Jackie...
& 3rd...yesterday, my mom....
and it's amazing to me how everyone has their own idea of what exactly is the deal with these two things....
so now, i thought i'd share the topic with my hbcu fam :-)
it's hard to talk about fate and destiny without bringing the Almighty Creator into the equation....
but anyway...I'd just like to know....all of you....how do you feel about destiny and fate? do you even believe in either of them? to what degree?
Wes was saying that he thinks that certain things that happen in life are not of fate or destiny...but by chance, rather....
an example he used was someone winning the lottery....
HE says that the person wins by chance....
I say that the person wins by fate....because to consider the fact that millions & millions try the lottery ALL THE TIME....and of ALL of them, that ONE person actually made it....it might have been meant for that to happen...
but THEN...i asked him if certain things that happen between people....is fate/destiny or chance....and used the example of how we met....5 years ago....which was by a HAIR.......and he was like well....he thinks that was fate....so we agreed that at least perhaps fate/destiny pertains to how people meet...
but I don't know - I think it might go further than that....much further...
and the final question is....the SCARY question is....do you feel everyone's destiny is predetermined at their birth????
THAT was the REAL nitty gritty head-bumper....in all of the discussions I had.....
you'd like to think that, for example, maybe Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was meant to do all that he did....God sent him here for a reason....Dr. King did what he came to do...and kept moving....
BUT....the individual who was responsible for having **** Dr. King....you would like to THINK...that God wouldn't put that person on this earth....to take the life of another...especially of someone so significant to mankind....
so with that said, how would predetermination work? was the person who **** Dr. King actually meant to do something positive with his life...but did this evil act instead?
in connection to the question of "predetermination," another one was often proposed: do we really have freedom of choice as human beings...only if believe our destinations in life truly are already predetermined?
the story of Judas from The Bible was introduced in me & Wes' convo...and I kept asking, "If Judas & the other disciples were told in advance that one of them would betray Jesus...wouldn't that the future was already written...and therefore, whoever it ended up being...really had no choice???"....also, the story of Peter denying Jesus...I was like, if Jesus had already told him in advance that he would deny him....what else could he possibly do? Jesus already said it was gonna HAPPEN!! It's not like Peter had the control of proving Jesus wrong...ya know? but anyway...
what do you all think...?
