<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Dec 3, 2558 BE, at 8:25 AM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Yes, Destiny and Fate are usually thought of as predetermined. But as<br>
that may lead lazy humans to stop working and say 'Well, what will be,<br>
will be' philosophers tend to reason that humans still have to work to<br>
achieve their destiny. i.e. work ethic.<br>
<br>
Predestination leads to rather convoluted reasoning. :) anders<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I think the main use of fate in everyday life is to try to accept bad outcomes, such as cancer, accidents, and death. It's a way of saying "There was nothing I could do about it." I suspect that saying this does not really mean that the person totally believes in predestination/karma. Put another way, it's an ego defense mechanism.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In my opinion, most people who throw around these terms aren't really thinking all that deeply. It's sort of like people who say "God bless you" when you sneeze. I don't believe every last person saying that is thinking that there is a god and that god will do anything based on this speech act.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I've liked the Samuel Butler line on this since I first read it in one of Wayne Booth's books: ".</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">.. as luck would have it, Providence was on my side." </span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://author.to/DanUst</font></a></div></div></div></body></html>