Fate

Fate: Decision or Decided?
Guide or Prophet?
Construction or Destruction?

Decision:
Let’s see it in terms of Fate as the decision in our lives. Then Fate is the being that pre-decides our life. How can he know what I’ll do, or how can he know what to make me decide? Does he know I will mover this chess piece? Does he already know, and if so, does he force me to?
So how can Fate decide that I will love, and if he does, does feeling or love exist? Is love more powerful then Fate, able to overpower him in any situation presented in life? All of the decisions we make in life come through Fate’s mind first. So in effect, our decisions are his personal decisions for us. Our action is his will?
So his control is just a will. Sheer will is a force that cannot hold it’s ground against feelings, love. So Fate’s will is nothing. A bleak empty nothingness, created by Fate to scare us into believing we are controlled. Or maybe created to guide us towards something.
Perhaps we are being guided toward right. Maybe he wishes to guide me towards wrong. How can one know which is which? Does Fate know? Does Fate create wrong and right? If so, should all right be Fate’s right? Or does he create right for each individual?
If Fate is the decision in each of our lives then one thing is certain: We are nobody. We are puppets of Fate, placed in a world for sheer entertainment. We are like a television show, being watched, as we act to a script set in place that can never be changed.

Decided:
Now we come to the subject of decided. Fate has decided what we will do, he has written our script and now we act by it. Every time another person is born, Fate has a script written especially for that person, and places it in their mind. So Fate, knows everything.
Well he must, if he is able to know what will happen to each of us, and be able to tell us what we will do. Fate is knowledge and control. He passes on his knowledge and control from time to time. Take Albert Einstein for instance, a genius that contributed greatly to the world with his vast intelligence. Fate would have had to give him that information for him to know it. Take a look at George W. Bush. He was the president of the United States of America. For him to come to that status, Fate passed on some control, or the ability to gain the control.
Knowledge and Control have now become the most important things in the world. Each individual should strive for ultimate knowledge and control. Knowledge of what? Control over whom? What do these words symbolize to each individual, or to Fate. What does Fate want when he passes on his knowledge and control?
When we look at Fate as having decided our lives, we can know one thing: want doesn’t exist. We can’t want to do something, because we are already going to do it. The want we feel is the control being exerted over us, forcing us to do things, we think we want to do. Our thoughts are also meaningless. We think what Fate wants us to think, and we only know what Fate wants us to. Our feelings are being controlled also, along with our senses and what we say. In short, we are nothing.







Guide:
As a guide, Fate seems a little less scary. Yes, Fate still knows everything, but only steers us in the right direction. He helps us to see the right, or in some cases, the wrong. You may ask why he would want someone to see the wrong instead of right. The answer is simple.
In a world where all people do right, nothing is wrong, and the world runs in a simple yet effective manor. A perfect world. Harmonic, melodious, rhythmic. When one puts in a wrong, the system is undone, thrown out of whack, and released from perfection. When that wrong enters, the world challenging.
The wrongs of the world are challenges. Challenges meant to test the limit of those who do right. Challenges meant to make one see what benefits a wrong has. For instance, stealing. Stealing is way to make money, obtain items and food, at very little or no cost. People see wrongs as wrong, but there is an element of curiosity involved. Some may want to know what it is like to steal, or how it feels to have vast amounts of money. They may wish to switch sides, and become wrong in order to become powerful and knowledgeable.
These wrongs are to remind us that the right easy, but the wrong is easier. No one in this world can say that they have never done anything wrong in their life. It may be as simple as a lie, or as large as murder. The fact of the matter is, the world would not be so challenging without the wrong. The minds of the people would be controlled, which we have already established, is not what Fate is doing as a guide. So Fate puts the wrong in, to keep control out.
With Fate as a guide, on thing is certain: we are in control. We do what we want, and we are guided to know how to do, (or how to want in some cases) what we want. Fate becomes a model, and a friend.


Prophet:
As a prophet Fate will have very little control. He will be like an oracle, one that waits for a person to find him. Hidden deep in the confines of the world, waiting for the right person to come. When that person comes he will answer all of the questions that said person has to ask. He will still know everything.
The road to reaching a prophet or “Oracle” would be tough. The oracle would know all, be able to answer every question, and have the ability to appropriately communicate with that person. One may think that finding an Oracle would first entail finding one’s “Inner Self.” That is incorrect. To find an Oracle, one can’t go wasting their time knowing who they are first, for that is the reason for the Oracle’s existence.
When found, the Oracle will be plied with questions. These questions will include: Who am I? Who are you? How do you know everything? What am I meant for? What do I do next? If you know everything what am I thinking now? These are the questions that everyone wants to learn the answers to. What should be asked are these questions: Why would you tell me the answers? Is there a purpose that I learn the answers? Why solely me? What has driven me to find you? And why have I found you now?
In the first set of questions there is not a single why. In the second set there are mostly why’s. In all children, there comes a time when they will begin to ask only why. Why this? Why that? “Why is my hat blue?” “Well because it was made like that Johnny.” “Why?” These questions are asked because of a longing for an oracle figure to answer them. This is the beginning of the search for the oracle.
With Fate as the oracle one thing is certain: People seek knowledge. Everyone wants to know, why they are here, what they are for, why they do what they do. When Fate is found one will learn the answers. However, no one knows how to find Fate, so when will he be found?






Construction:
Fate’s knowledge and control are the building blocks for our mind. We as a whole want to know all of the answers to the “Big Questions.” We desire the knowledge and control that Fate owns. Before we are thrown into the wide world on our own, we attend school, to learn and grow. We quest for the knowledge, owned by each individual teacher and mentor.
The need for control is demonstrated by anyone who tries to become president. Even in ourselves we strive for control. Control over our lives, how we live, what we do and what we want. We wish to have control over what we become in like, and how we get there.
However, knowledge and control are two of the most uncertain things in the world. Control cannot be kept, and knowledge cannot be gained, unless one is able to understand what they are. When one knows what knowledge and control are, they will be able to harbor and keep said knowledge and control.
If Fate did not exist, the knowledge and control we strive for could not exist either. Fate keeps this world together by knowing, and passing on the knowledge and control he owns. There would be no quest, and people would be useless lumps on their couches, watching T.V. and eating pizza.
With Fate as the construction of our minds, one thing is certain: We can’t know, without understanding. This means that until we understand why, knowledge is either unobtainable, or useless. Unless we understand why we know or why we are, the knowledge we have, is useless.


Destruction:
Bringing the world to a close will also be Fate’s job. This is the apocalypse talked about many people in the world today. In fact, the apocalypse is not necessarily as scary as one thinks. Most people think about the apocalypse as being the end of the end, in which everyone dies in a fiery death ball of doom. This is incorrect. In fact, the end of the world is nothing more then the time in which Fate has passed all of his knowledge down to us, and there is nothing left to do but be.
This means that since Fate has all of the knowledge and control, and is passing it down little by little. Eventually we will have all the knowledge and control that Fate does, and there will be nothing left for Fate to do but end the world. Once the world has ended, which is not to say it is destroyed or otherwise gone, we will be left with nothing to do but think, and create new knowledge. Once we have reached this stage of life, Fate will essentially reboot the system, and all of the knowledge we create he will take in and use to make new worlds and new lives.
Now that Fate has created us, and used us to gain what he wanted, he will create more beings. Into these beings he will pour his wisdom, knowledge, and control, and let them do the same as us. Fate is essentially trying to fulfill the same quest as we are: to know everything. His quest for knowledge is our quest for knowledge, and while our quest for all of the knowledge is over, his will be just beginning.



In all six of these things that Fate may be, there is one thing in common: Fate is in control. Fate controls our very existence, our way of life. Many people believe that they are in control, that they do what they want. They are wrong. If we were in control, the universe would not work as it does. Somehow the universe was created, and we were placed in it to learn. We are here to move up in the rank of the world, to become high in our society’s order, and know all. This is the force that controls us. Overtime we have given this force a name. A name that strikes fear into many hearts, has created knowledge and thought, and has plagued the mind for ages. This name is Fate.



Reader comments:

**Good, but not clean enough.

**Fate brings up so many questions. That’s the beauty of it I think. If everyone knew, for sure, what Fate was and how it controls our lives, then no one would ask questions. No one would think for themselves. Everyone would let go and let their lives be controlled. For life to have meaning, a purpose, goals are important-striving to achieve things is a necessary part of life. If you believe in Fate, you might just relax and let Fate handle things. I don’t think that’s really helpful in having a fulfilling and adventurous life.

**Proven capable of higher thought, but now what? What are you doing with it? To flat out say someone is wrong seems very bold and unless you have no shadow of a doubt don’t say that (Someone smarter and wiser will come along). So opinionated. It’s like you’re babbling, use more that your word to convince us that you are correct.

**Fate? I really don’t have a definition of Fate. I think that Fate isn’t real. I think that it just happens. No one has a Fate… that is just the way it goes. Lucas I really liked your paper but I don’t get any message or anything from the two papers you wrote. I don’t really know what Fate is. I am looking forward to writing another response to your story. I hope this helps you some, with what you wanted.

**My first question: Is Fate male or female? To me, Fate would be an old woman with thin, but large hair. That is, if I believed in Fate. I don’t believe that some… thing is deciding what will happen to people or what people will happen to do. I don’t think that Fate is confiding in us, or any one person. Perhaps certain people who believe in Fate are controlled by it. Maybe Fate can only control people who believe in it. I don’t believe that Fate controls people. I believe that the media controls people. Maybe not all people, but most who read the newspaper and watch television, listen to the radio, or learn about events from word of mouth. I believe fear can control people. Or rather, certain people (George W. Bush) use fear to control people. Long after 9/11, Bush used the people’s fear of “Terrorists” to enter Iraq. Fate does not control people. People control people.

**Fate is a nonexistent concept as is destiny. To make people feel life has a meaning. Because some people can’t go unless the think there’s some reason for there existence. Which considering that it’s just to serve that purpose, the question doesn’t matter.

**Wow! That all comes to mind. I understood very little of it, but I think that is why it is so good. Very mature, and seems to be coming from an adult. I liked how you separated the roles of Fate in our lives. You gave Fate life and somewhat of a human form. Random thought: By putting it in Italics it made it seem more like thoughts because that is how thought is represented in books and on paper. I think even if you had not told me before I read it, it was your thoughts, I would have known from the font. Not much…but amazing!