Task #3
When I think of my future, I don't think that there is a plan that is pre made plan that's prepared for me to be happy in life, I work on improving it myself. Sure, you could say that a more powerful being made me this way, so I can do what I was meant to do, but I don't think there's this big plan for humanity like everyone says.
In the book, the Alchemist, the main character, Santiago, learns that everything in life, from the fates of humanity to the direction of the wind, it was all written by the same hand. Yet, in the book, there was a king who said to the boy that the world's greatest lie was that when you get older, you believe more and more that fate will chose your path instead of you, yet throughout the whole book, it is made clear that Santiago was destined to achieve his goal, even characters in a book written by a religious guy can't make a solid argument that fate is either a thing or not.
I'm not going to name the flaws of religion, because that would be explaining about the flaws of people, and we all know that no one is perfect. I believe that there is a set path you can take with each action, and I also believe there is some things you can't avoid (like going to school if you want a job in law), but just because you set of a chain of events in motion, doesn't mean that a higher power planned that event well before your grandfather's grandfather was around.
There was one idea that made some sense about how Christianity viewed fate. In the bible, it is said that even if there is a path for you to follow, god can't make you follow the path, you can even go on another path, so I believe that this idea says that there is a fate for every path, but you are not locked into only going down that way in life.
In the end, I believe that there is no destined path you can't avoid in life, but rather that there is reactions to every action you take in life, and some things you can't avoid, while others you can completely prevent.
-NJ
In the book, the Alchemist, the main character, Santiago, learns that everything in life, from the fates of humanity to the direction of the wind, it was all written by the same hand. Yet, in the book, there was a king who said to the boy that the world's greatest lie was that when you get older, you believe more and more that fate will chose your path instead of you, yet throughout the whole book, it is made clear that Santiago was destined to achieve his goal, even characters in a book written by a religious guy can't make a solid argument that fate is either a thing or not.
I'm not going to name the flaws of religion, because that would be explaining about the flaws of people, and we all know that no one is perfect. I believe that there is a set path you can take with each action, and I also believe there is some things you can't avoid (like going to school if you want a job in law), but just because you set of a chain of events in motion, doesn't mean that a higher power planned that event well before your grandfather's grandfather was around.
There was one idea that made some sense about how Christianity viewed fate. In the bible, it is said that even if there is a path for you to follow, god can't make you follow the path, you can even go on another path, so I believe that this idea says that there is a fate for every path, but you are not locked into only going down that way in life.
In the end, I believe that there is no destined path you can't avoid in life, but rather that there is reactions to every action you take in life, and some things you can't avoid, while others you can completely prevent.
-NJ
I agree. And although your reaction may lead to one path, that doesn't mean you canit back track and follow a different one.
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