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Old 07-29-2005, 04:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Peace Pipe
Lately ive stopped thinking about what happens after death and started to try to rationalize how so many people conform to popular religion (there are many obvious answers but none of them are very strong reasons.)

The only concrete answer I have gotten was Fate, you have to have faith in god or else you'll go to hell.
You talking about fate or faith???
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Originally Posted by stoned_soldier
fate exists whether you deny it or not.. you're going to die, and along the way you conform yourself to your character/personality.. whatever actions may arise from the rest of your life, you will react to them in your own way

but look at it like this.. there is no possible way to change the past. that's fate. you're doomed to do what you like doing and you can't change that. even if you decide to change for someone else, you're getting pleasure from giving that person pleasure.
I don't quite agree. First off: Is suicide fate? Or free will?

Second: Doomed to do what you like doing? Please explain?

Third: Not being able to change what happened in the past is consistency of time, not fate!
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