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[pietistic]

I'm curious how many people believe in fate here.

If you do, do you believe fates can be changed?

If you don't, what do you believe in?

Comments

[hylights]

Whenever I hear about fate, it usually involves only a select few people. Like figures from legend. I don't know that fate intervenes for everyone.

[pietistic]

Perhaps it is that some fates are merely smaller but no less important than others.

[hylights]

You raise a good point. There's no reason that a fate should be momentous. It may be that those are the only kind recorded.

[pietistic]

It is true, though, I think it could be that the big ones are only made possible by the many small ones that line the path.

[hylights]

Like stepping stones along the way.

It's a weighty question - what brought it to mind for you?

[pietistic]

Exactly.

I suppose it's a thought that comes to my mind often for years. I suppose I often find myself searching for understanding of why things have happened and to what end they are for.

[hylights]

Is there no other purpose that you can see?

[pietistic]

Not clearly, no.

[hylights]

I hope it is a comfort, to think on what the reasons may be. I find it can be sad, though no less meaningful, to wonder at the purpose of it all.