Do you think that we control our own fate? Or do you think that our fate is planned?

I believe you control your own destiny. This does not however imply that you can control your day to day events but you can definitely steer the ship towards your goals!

I think we live planned experiences. But we have multiple possible endings and can choose the direction we are headed in.

Even if you don't believe in fate, there are a finite amount of people you'll ever meet in your life, the world won't change much while you are a live, so you will most likely have a set experience with it. So many factors in life are going to be constant. It's the little choices and experiences we choose to remain in that define us in the end I think.

I think that our lives are pre-planned, but although its planned, we don't know what the plan is so it's still up to us to live. Too many things have happened in my life to make me think anything but that my life has a purpose and a destiny - and that's my being a Christian completely aside. I've just had so much happen in life that I can't ignore. Life isn't pointless, and I seriously doubt that it was meant to be slogged through. All life has meaning, and we're meant to find it and live it. That's when you get someone who says they've lived well and have learned from life rather than life learning from them. Those are truly happy people. All that can only happen with a plan in place. If there wasn't, all life would be meaningless.

Ahhh, the old fate versus self-determination debate.

A belief in fate means that you have no control over your life. Even the decisions that you make are fated. Meaning that you really have no control over the decisions that you make. It was already determined. Even if you become aware of an event in your life that is supposed to happen in the future, because of fate there is nothing you can do, no decision that you can make, that will turn aside that event from happening. In fact, a belief in fate, means that every decision you make to avoid it, will bring you to it. Greek mythology covers this subject pretty well.

On the other hand, there is the belief in self-determination. We create our own fate. I tend to believe in this. In consideration of your own life. Every decision that you have made in your life to this point has brought you to where you are now. This is self-determination. Although there are many people, especially those who are living in less than desirable circumstances, who blame their life on uncontrollable events. I think they do this because they don't want to take responsibility for their circumstances. It must be someone else's fault that I'm in this situation. Hence a belief in fate where our lives are determined by outside influences.

Ahhhhh, philosophy. Can blow a few brain cells:)

I think a fate exists with every decision we make. So in a way you can control which fate you choose. People who believed they're fate is planned might be scared of change. But then again who says it wasn't fate that planned for a person to make that decision to change. Lol

My brain has entered into an infinite-philosophical-loop

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I think that this is more of a religious question. But you can still I honestly believe that we do have the choice do make decisions, and our actions are based on our decisions. And the decisions we make today affect who we are, and where we go tomorrow.

You choose your own destiny, your own path but like always you must deal with the concequences of your actions.

I believe our fate is planned and we go through things for a reason.

You know this is so funny I was just discussing this question with my mother but really It all depends on how you look at it! There are possibilities in which you can control your own fate like for example you want to become a doctor but you're studying nursing - in that case you can control your fate - you can switch your major to that profession. In a case such as death - if death comes for you - you can't really run away from it - you can't pack your bags and move somewhere else cause death will follow you whatever you go - meaning this fate you cannot change no matter what you do! So basically I think our fate is planned but the roads we take really depends on us! And actually this is a really good example I read this book by Sherrilyn Kenyon called Sins of the Night (I think that's what it was called) and in there I read something very important one of the characters say "something as simple as you're supposed to turn right down a street one day. In your bones you know it, and yet for reasons no one understands, you decide to debunk fate and go left. Now instead of meeting the spouse of your dreams and having a house full of kids, you get flattened by an ice-cream truck and spend the next five years in physical therapy recovering from the injuries; or worse, you die from it. And all because you exercised free will and turned the opposite way on a whim. " So see this is what I think some people say that books are written just for people who like to read but without books we really wouldn't know what life is really all about - cause really books are taken from reality! So in my opinion on fate in some cases we definitely can control our fate!