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[drifterforhire.livejournal.com]

So, I've got a question for you all.

Do you believe in fate and destiny? Or is life just a series of chance encounters and coincidences that lack any deeper significance?

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[seventh-gospel.livejournal.com]

Life is striving for that one goal.

[drifterforhire.livejournal.com]

What goal is that?

[dufuspinkanus.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. Is that like believing in Santa Claus or the Easter bunny?

[drifterforhire.livejournal.com]

I don't really know what those things are, but something like that. I don't believe in destiny.

[originaldragoon.livejournal.com]

I had asked a similar question a while back. I think the best answer is that it's a mixture of both.

[drifterforhire.livejournal.com]

I don't believe in destiny. It's just something people say to try and make sense of the basically senseless world around them.

[richter-abend.livejournal.com]

Fate is a cruel master.

[drifterforhire.livejournal.com]

I don't believe in fate.

[dynamic-pirate.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...I'm not so sure if I completely believe it's either of those things...I believe the past has more to do with the way life turns out, if you see where I'm going.

I tend to make my own destiny and I never thought about some unknown something out there having a plan for me...never thought things were all left up to chance either.

[drifterforhire.livejournal.com]

I don't have a past, so I have nothing to look back on, nothing to chain me down.

I live in the moment. My past is a blank slate and the future has yet to be written. There's no point in looking forward or behind.

[canhaswrenchpls.livejournal.com]

You forge your own destiny. You have to go out and find what you want.

[drifterforhire.livejournal.com]

I don't really know what it is I want. I don't really have a direction or a purpose other than just to survive. So I just live my life from moment to moment.

[gunbunnywaves.livejournal.com]

...Hmm... Fate exists, but it's hardly a static thing. It's constantly changing, which means that it's something that's virtually impossible to control. The difference between fate and chance is actually pretty small.

[drifterforhire.livejournal.com]

So, do you believe that some people can actually see into the future? I ... know some guy who claims he can, but I don't really believe it. Because the future has yet to be written, so how can someone claim to see something which doesn't exist yet?

[pandorabox]

I believe you make your own fate. What happens to you is governed by what you do and what choices you make. Certain things might happen to you and force you to make a choice, but in the end those circumstances don't govern your future. You do.

[drifterforhire.livejournal.com]

That's definitely the way I look at it. No cosmic being is controlling my actions, that's for sure! I live my life based on the choices I make in the here and now.

[doyouhearthem.livejournal.com]

Fate is determined by the strong, boy.

[drifterforhire.livejournal.com]

And who determines who is strong and who is weak, then?

I have a name, mister. It's Jet. Don't call me "boy."

[hates-cliches.livejournal.com]

I guess I would but...my life seems too...unfair to be fate.

[drifterforhire.livejournal.com]

Unfair? Life's unfair, buddy, so you might as well get used to it.

[needsmapquest.livejournal.com]

I just say screw it. If you work hard enough, you'll get what you want.

[drifterforhire.livejournal.com]

Amen to that! If I work hard enough and save up enough Gella, I can buy my own plot of land and spend the rest of my days in comfort and convenience.

[oceanicbutterfly]

I wouldn't call it fate, exactly, but the idea that life could just be up to chance is unbelievable to me.

[drifterforhire.livejournal.com]

Why not? Isn't life just a series of coincidences? We only see patterns in the events of our lives because humans have this need to organize things and make sense of the chaos around them. It's pretty meaningless, if you ask me.

[handywithscythe.livejournal.com]

Fate and Destiny are both prospering entities.

[drifterforhire.livejournal.com]

Who are you supposed to be? The Pale Rider?

[sunao-punch.livejournal.com]

Hm... I guess it was fate that I got to see Yoru again! We were meant to be together!

[drifterforhire.livejournal.com]

How do you know?

[samuraiprosecutor]

Life stems from the consequences of our actions, not fate nor the machinations of some higher power. A life is solely what you make of it.

[drifterforhire.livejournal.com]

That's what I believe, too. No cosmic entity is controlling my actions. Things turn out good or bad based on the decisions I make in the here and now.

[last-omega.livejournal.com]

Answer unknown and unimportant. One must work to achieve one's goals in either case.

[drifterforhire.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

Wait ... are you one of those "robot" things?

[and-dont-blink.livejournal.com]