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My sister’s posted the following question: Do you believe in destiny? Why or why not?
The following paragraphs are my posts or answer to her query…

Me:

•  Finally a worthy post!

• Fate is such a fickle word. It can mean many things to each one of you. I, for example, don’t believe in fate and such because I don’t like idea of something ruling my life. Now for some odd reason, us, humans, have this innate need or desire to thank whoever it is for the things that occur in our daily lives. 
  
  
• I always asked myself, why? Why do we need to give “gracias al Se~or” for all the good things in our lives? And we also curse whoever whenever bad shit happens. In other words, it’s like we have to place the blame on someone or something else. Just like children.

• If you think about it, God is the “grown up” version of the imaginary friend. Children have imaginary friends as a type of a comfort system when mommy and daddy said no to ice cream. They also know when and how to put a blame on something they know they did wrong. In other words, they know how to manipulate. Vatican, anyone?

• I know this sounds like another religion vs science discussion but I’m concerned on the matter of when did we lost so much faith on ourselves? We are more than capable of tasks even if we didn’t have any God(s). For example, if you got a job or the job, you don’t have to thank God. God is just the blanky and bib for whenever we are shoved down in life’s ardous journey. We are more than what the bible says. We are a species capable of doing wonderous and terrible things.
  
  
• God, to me, is just a psychological fact, an entity, a voice to our nullified subconcious, passed down generation to generation. It is culture and people depend on it because it’s learned behaviour being passed down for thousands and thousands of years.Therefore, fate and destiny is in our own hands. We are completely alone in this.

• If we talk about this even further then we tap on the subject of what makes us human.Take, for example, the rare but real cases of feral children. To them God is of equal or less importance in their lives. To them, He has nothing to do with anything. If we start the human culture from zero, with a fresh new mind, God would be a long lost idea as soon as the next generation. So what does that say about religion? Does God really exist then? What does that say about destiny or fate in that matter. 
  
  
• That’s its all in our heads. We’re still animals but our freakishly huge minds, thanks to our million of years of evolution, grants us an extraordinary engine for imagination and logic. It’s what differentiates from other animals. Even so, I can’t help to think that maybe just maybe there are some beings out there but what do they really do?

•  I agree with many comments posted here such as Tim Hyson’s and Nero Malave’s but guys, if you really want some answers, you have to broaden your views about these topics and don’t keep to a specific view. Which is what I did on the earlier comments. If I kept egging on God’s purpose, our purpose, etc. Le estariamos dandole vuelta al caso hasta que nos salgan canas. I went beyond religion and philosophical. I went to history and some psychological facts which, to my understanding, gives some sort of proof or peace of mind to what our purpose really is.
  
  But even I can’t help to wonder what if they’re really is a big guy out there. So, thanks to college and philosophy class, I’ve come to terms with the God issue.

• Thousands of years ago, Greece came to age and gave man it’s first insight to logical thinking. One man in particular named Epicurus, a greek philosopher, has a particular outlook on life. In Athens, Epicurus taught 18 year old men his philosophy. Materialism. To many of you, this sounds as a vague and poor way to live your life but his philosophy also consist or rather, main point is happiness. To him happiness is achieved through pleasure. And what gives us pleasure in life is material things unfortunately. 
  
  He also explains that humans has 3 big disadvantages to reaching ultimate happiness. 1) God 2) Destiny 3) Death
  To him, people who believe that God is out there watching over, are concieted bastards. Why? Because God or Gods cannot chasten the human soul because they are perfect beings.In other words, why should these entities, who live in a perfect world with a perfect, immortal life, should disrupt their perfect lives with our imperfect lives?

•  Secondly, to Epicurus, the universe came to be because of atoms (Yes, greeks already knew atoms existed) clashing together and creating everything we know by chance or coincedence. Therefore, destiny does not exist. The universe is a product made by luck, there is no end.
  
  
• Third and lastly, death. Epicurus came up with a wonderful way of making death a whole lot better for those who fear it. He explains that deep down inside of us, what we fear is being obsolete, finitude. Which why we cry when a relationship ends. He says that death is the deprivation of all sensation and feelings. Since death deprives us of all that makes us, us then it cannot do us harm because we don’t feel anything to begin with. When one is alive, we know when it’s a bad or wrong feeling but in death we don’t know so why do we fear it?

•  It’s an ancient way of thinking but it’s my way of reacting to the world today. So young ones, there’s a whole lot of reason why or why you shouldn’t believe in God or whoever. That’s why I chose to be a Deist, a person who believes in deities but has nothing to do with the human race, with an Epicurean outlook because I believe every act I do will expose me to true happiness. 
  
  I don’t believe in divine intervention, I believe in myself. I don’t believe in luxury but instead in ataraxy or imperturbability, that my soul should be at peace. 
  I believe all this bullshit from 307 B.c. because it makes more sense to me than the bullshit we are fed today.
  

Posted 9 months ago