The Personality of God? [!OT]

[Dragonrider]

I said fate would be like a God. I wasn't speaking of fate as a theory, but in this case more of (not an entity) a pair of eyes. It is the course of things, but in the end it is what decides what goes on, and how it goes on, and it would always be "watching". Now, fate is just a theory, and it is in no way an entity, but speaking 'symbolically' it sort of does decide what happens. Fate is the supposed power, force, or principle that predetermines all events that have happened /happen/ will happen (supposedly). That is where I made my comparison (I noted not as a God that most people worship, but as an omnipotent being). A dictatorship of sorts where we have very little choice in anything.

However, I believe very little in any of this... so I could be speaking with less reason than I should.

[melfice]

Well, in that meaning Fate is like "Murphy's law"

But fate is nothing, we build our own destiny, is what i think, or what i like to think.

[Dragonrider]

Same here.

[mrwiseman]

IRT Melfice & DR: We could have "free will" but then everything we'd do has been decided since the creation of the Universe; another possibility is that fate does not exist but then we wouldn't even have free will to decide on our own destiny (*). Our best hopes are that the Universe is probabilistic.

(*): We always have the illusion of free will anyways.