People will act to the maxim of what they see as satisfying to their needs mentally and physically. What one sees as satisfying depends on past experiences and natural hungers. The laws of nature control what actions a person is physically capable of committing.

So even while a person is physically capable of committing many acts at any time they will pick a certain one because of who they are and if you could take every variable into account you could predict exactly what they will do.

While I don't think fate controls one's life I do believe in fate if you're speaking of destiny being a factor in your life. I've seen fate in action many times in my life so I do believe in its truth. It's kind of like being in the right place at the right time. Most things you've done put you in that right place at that time and there is no way one could have driven themselves there.

I'll take an example or two from my life and I'll be anxious to know what you think of these things. In May 1996 I bought a Honda Civic Ex. I had never had a car with four seats before and wondered why I bought that at the time. I was strictly a two seater convertible person for years. My mother had a severe cerebral hemorrhage in October of 1996 and I needed that car to carry her wheelchair around and it fit in the back seat nicely. At about the same time my boss was clearing out his belongings from our Brooklyn office and moving up to the Catskill mountains. That was in the summer of '99. I was also working as a process server at the same time I was playing P.I. but that I could do at my leisure. In late September I got bored with it and left. This made me available to care for my mother and move back home just in time.

I had just settled a WCB case in early 1997 which gave me the means to eventually buy my own business. I sold that for double what I paid for it just after Mom died. Had I now been in the territory that wouldn't have happened. I took the proceeds and bought my condo which appreciated 2 and 1/2 times in the course of one year. Even if I sold below that, I'd have more than my money back. Right time, right place = Fate.

Many years ago I had dropped my mom off at the airport at JFK and wished her a happy trip home to Berlin, Germany. On my way home I had the queerest feeling inside. I had told my mother's boss I would take her place while she was gone and had done so many times before. I walked in the store the next morning and promptly announced I was leaving for Berlin by mid-week. I had a strong feeling I'd never see my grandmother again if I didn't. He pooh-pooed me but I left and enjoyed my trip. My grandmother was fine. Two weeks later I was on another plane headed back to Berlin to see my grandmother who had had a massive stroke and knew no one anymore. Fate? Yes, I believe it was! The last word I ever heard her say was "Puppa!" my nickname as I was growing up...it means doll. And that was it.

As everyone on this site already knows, I back science on every level, but I have to say, fate is definitely very, very real. I think that people can control their lives in terms of minor details, but on many levels, we have no control.

Now while I'm saying this, keep in mind destiny and fate are two different things.

Definition for fate -something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune

Definition for destiny- the predetermined, usually inevitable or irresistible, course of events

Fate is something that is definitely going to happen to a person, while destiny is what you are definitely, unavoidably going to do with your life, whether you like it or not. I think we have at least that much control over our lives.

I know to some, this argument may not make any sense, but you guys need to think about this. It's a tough topic to talk about, like life after death, or that sort of thing. The supernatural, paranormal, magical aspects of the universe aren't always obvious to the dull-minded, average person, but you never know, right?

We all have a fate to be somebody and do something, but that doesn't mean we have no say over our fate. We have free will and are able to make decisions in the present to alter the future. We may all have our own fates, but they are not set in stone.

I do believe that fate does exist. Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like. However, fate can be a misconseption; like the saying "everything happens for a reason," it's only a cover-up for the fact you don't have control over your own life.

If by "fate" you mean does random chance effect people's lives, then yes, of course. I think terms like "fate" and "destiny" get thrown around too much with out having a concrete definition behind them.

When you hold something heavy in your hand, hold it straight out in front of you, what would happen if you were to release it?

This is a simple prediction based on empirical wisdom. We all know the object will fall. How do we know this? How are we so sure it will fall, do we know the future? No. We've seen it happen a million times though and we somewhat understand the way mass and gravity work. Heavier things will accelerate to terminal velocity faster than lighter things because of their volume. The more volume per mass, the more or less something will be effected by the atmosphere. There is a lot involved with prediction, and the more complex something becomes the harder it is to predict.

Fate is a personified concept of time, or an event. An event with, or seeming to have, purpose. Really though, if the human mind had the capacity, and the human body have the same capacity, we could know everything. The future, the past. Like a game of chess, you could be five steps ahead of any event you wanted to counter, or even follow every event to it's end, if there be one.

The complexity involved is so fucking intense though, that the brain needed to comprehend all of this would have to be bigger than the universe and be forever thinking. This is where, I think, the idea of the universe and all of existence being nothing more than God's thought process comes from.

fate all depends on what your religion is. For me since im a christian i believe that god has a fate already designed for us but he does give us a choice, yet he already knows what we will choose. That is what fate is...... not just some magic that happens but a course that will happen with your life

fate all depends on what your religion is. For me since im a christian i believe that god has a fate already designed for us but he does give us a choice, yet he already knows what we will choose. That is what fate is...... not just some magic that happens but a course that will happen with your life

Fate in a sense certainly exists and while it can not be proved, it can be reasoned using obvious logic. Everything that occurs does so because of a set of previous occurrences coming into conjunction. In the case of a person making a choice, the choice is decided upon using a large collection of categorized biases. All though biases are based upon others and so on. All of which leading back to a singular particle that developed down one path instead of only one other possible option and thus paved the way for the entire universe. Down to a simple electron, all are choices are inevitable. The bonding of two atoms being possible and two others being impossible is all due to the biases of those atoms, which are thusly because of the biases of an electron. If you continue down the scale you would find the particle that started the entire process leading up to what you choose to eat for dinner tonight. To say that the universe doesn't follow a set path would mean that random occurrences are possible. This is however not the case. An experiment to prove this statement and my argument as a whole, I'm using the word "prove" a bit strongly, would be to think critically about what a random occurrence is. If you can establish any sort happening or effect that is with a cause of any kind, then I am wrong. Keep in mind that unknown causes are still causes.

Fate is the only possible scenario due to mathematics. The fact that everything in the universe can be calculated lends itself to the fact that no matter what we do, the course of our life is already set as each microsecond is just the sum of the calculations made to get to this point in time. Even if you read this and think you will change something in your life to prove this isn’t so, the fact you are reading this was always intended, and any consequent actions on your part are just a result of the calculations which have taken place to lead you to read this. Even the firing of synapses in your brain could be calculated and predicted along their inevitable path and hence even your dreams would be predictable. Obviously this would never be possible as the amount of processing power required to predict it would be impossible to generate as it would need to predict itself and be in an infinite loop, and trying to calculate everything is a ridiculous concept so therefore can only ever be a theory. This is along the principles of the butterfly effect.

Moreover in my personal view based on no facts what so ever I think this can explain why we will never be able to time travel. Time, as we know it, is merely our perceived view on existence. We are purely viewing time in a state where everything exists and adheres to our laws of physics based purely on the speed at which we see it happening and we only exist at that speed. Everything in our lives has already happened, I have already died, the world has already ended, however we are viewing it at a much slower rate so have yet to catch up these events. If we managed to travel into the future we would be seeing calculations before they have taken place in the correct order in which case our laws of physics would not apply as every single calculation in the universe is dependent on those around it, water may cease to be liquid, or be water, metal may be gas etc. If we tried to go back in time we would be seeing calculations happening at a slower rate so their state would be different, every property of every molecule would change. I think life is like an old VHS video, we can only view it properly at a certain speed if we try to view it during fast forward it makes no sense, if we try to view it during rewind it makes no sense, however the beginning middle and end are set, the fact they exist on the tape means they have already happened and we are just viewing them at a set speed? i.e. fate exists and there is nothing we can do to change it!

Everything is pre-destined and no one can change his/her destiny.

A child was born in 1996 because I had attempted a letter to his mother on New Year's Eve 1969. His mother was born in August 1971. His father in 1973. Guess what? No one can fake the births of three people.