What is fate? Are our ultimate destinies pre-determined, the natural consequence of cause and effect while we are merely carried along for the ride, and if so what does it mean to talk of ‘free will’? And whether or not our destiny is already fixed... who or what -can be understood as the ultimate author of our fate?
For example, was it Ghandi’s fate to be instrumental in earning
India its independence from British colonial rule, and was it also his fate to be assassinated by a Hindu extremist. Was it Hitler’s fate to found a brutal fascist regime, instigate abominable racist exterminations, and to commit suicide in abject despair in a bunker beneath
Berlin. Was it Mother Teresa’s fate to help many in need, to be celebrated for that charity, and to die of old age, beloved by the world throughout?
But could they not have chosen differently? that there were other paths that could be taken, that what happened was not actually fate, but merely what just happened to occur? But we cannot alter the past. These events have happened. They do not change. But there is also 'Luck', and 'chance'. All random factors balance themselves out in the statistical average,
So I'll just shut the fuck up from now on.
