predestined life?

[insomnia]

sometimes i have thoughts that our life is sort of predestined, not in a way that we will live, achieve something, create family and then die.. that's inevitable, but predicted in a way that sometimes you feel like you've been guided by the invisible hand just to show you the path and when looking back into retrospective to what happened in your life, you think that perhaps it was meant to happen this (even if it was painful experience) and it helped to unfold other events in your life.. of course it's like butterfly effect when a different action in the past could have resulted in a much more different alternate present. but that's judging from the present to the past.
recently more often i got crossed by the thoughts that future somehow is also predestined, having its' own invisible path and you're walking it. of course knowing this fact somehow doesn't make sense.. i mean, why try hard if your life is already predestined...
but.. my moms got a good friend which is able to read the cards and occasionally does that to her friends. i know it's stupid and very often those prediction from the cards can be interpreted in so many ways, that eventually it could be interpreted correctly after the real event happened in your life. but that friend is giving clear explanation to what might happen (what she sees in the cards). A couple of weeks ago, she was at our house and my mom was showing her photos of the wedding celebration (my cousin's wedding where all our family went to celebrate). i was there with my gf (the one i've written in d4l section). mom asked what the cards show about various people. her friend asked my mom about me and my gf and about our relationship, how we're doing together -mom didn't know i had problems with my gf together at that moment, so the friend told her that she just doesn't see us together in the future, there's no future for us as a couple.
also, according to her 2 years ago there was a big possibility of car crash for us or a big fight.. and indeed it was a fight between us at that time.. according to her, that was the time when we had to break up, but didn't.
it would be funny, but all those fact were unknown neither to my mom, nor to her friend.
that's just a small piece of strange predictions, but it makes me think that there's something like a predestined path for you to go in your life, people you will meet in the particular situations, experience you will sustain.
maybe it should be viewed from the wider aspect, that we all have our own karma, which regulates our path...unfortunately karma doesn't depend solely just from ourselves, from our thoughts, experience.. it is like a root binding you with your parents, your grandparents, the life they have lead...

p.s. maybe it should be in words of wisdom. i don't know...

 

[Confucius87]

Definately a nice post. I think about the same thing sometimes. I was having a conversation with my friends (a serious one, which is rare becasue all we do is crack jokes) and I asked them "Is it possible to change or alter destiny? Like for something that is meant to be, and then one sudden move just changes it all." And then one of my friends told me, "Well, how do you know that wasn't the destiny all along?" I couldn't even say shit, I just stood there and we all looked at each other lol

 

[insomnia]

c'mon any thoughts by others regarding this...

 

[Glockmatic]

I predict there will be a post after this.

I'm a clairvoyant. Also this post really belongs in WoW

 

[Kadafi Son]

I think about that at times to. Its kinda hard AND easy to think about how thinings happen the way they do. My take on it is "fucc it". Life is too $hort to be worryin about that

 

[Chronic]

Predicting that two people in a relationship are going to have a big fight is like predicting someone's going to take a shit somewhere in the near future.

 

[Universal]

ahh the wonderful world of no paragraphs.

 

[Jokerman]

Predicting that two people in a relationship are going to have a big fight is like predicting someone's going to take a shit somewhere in the near future.

Of course, because a relationship is a part of the digestive process.

 

[Jokerman]

What's the subject? Is life predestined in some way?

Yes, in some ways it is. The sum total of a person's experiences, desires and knowledge, his hereditary constitution, the social circumstances and the nature of the choice facing him, together with other factors that we may not know about, all combine to make a particular action in the circumstances inevitable. There are laws of nature, like those that govern the movement of the planets, which govern everything that happens in the world--and in accordance with those laws, the circumstances before an action determine that it will happen, and rule out any other possibility.

Of course, we're not like the earth rotating on its axis with monotonous regularity. What we do depends on our choices, decisions, and wants, and we make different decisions in different circumstances. But, in each case, the circumstances that exist before we act determine our actions and make them inevitable. It's just that there are so many unknown and unknowable factors involved, that it may as well be considered free will.

 

[Euphanasia]

It is my contention that people need meaning in their lives. If they don't feel as though they have it, they will find a way to create it. In a world full of coincidences and strange occurrences, this is not too difficult a task.

Like a person might say, wow, i might have died in that awful car crash last year. But look at the good things I've done for people since then. I guess I survived for a reason.

But that's not true at all. The fact is, you got into an accident. Depending upon the circumstances, you either survive or you don't. Now, if you survive and you come out of it with a new outlook on life and the experience truly shakes up your world, then it definitely impacts subsequent decisions that you'll make and has a profound effect on your life. But none of this means that the accident was predestined in some way.

Like jokerman said, we all make decisions that determine the things that happen to us.

 

[Cooper]

Predicting that two people in a relationship are going to have a big fight is like predicting someone's going to take a shit somewhere in the near future.

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