May 31, 2008
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Writers Choice Featured Questions 6d: Fate
Weeeellllll….. yes and no. I believe in fate, but I also believe you make you own. I think there is a larger plan, but that there is also much variation in the details. So… say you went to a fortuneteller and they told you that your spouse would leave you in five years. You go home and file divorce papers the very next day, cause why wait on that kind of drama? Fate averted! But not really… you just sped up the timetable a bit. BUT! What if it turns out your ex-spouse then dies in a horrible auto accident five years later? Oops, they left you, but not the way you were thinking. All that time you could have spent together… now you feel like a complete heel. Or say, the fortuneteller says that you will die within the year, so you decide, the heck with it! and go on a complete bender… whatever you want, whenever you want it… drugs, sex, junkfood, etc… only to choke on a fishbone while you’re on your pigout. The fortuneteller was right, but it was a self-fulfilling prophecy. You made it true by your actions, maybe even hastened it.That’s why fortunetelling is such a pain in the butt. I read Tarot and palms and even dreams, but there’s a lot that can happen between the reading and the actual fulfillment of the augury. You choose the fate… like going to a magic show and picking a card, any card. You know what cards are available, but it’s your choice which you get. It’s all a matter of interpretation.
So fate exists, but it changes based on a whole chaos theorem of whatif decisions. You get what you pay for, except you don’t always get exactly what you expected. Fate is a monkey’s paw crapshoot.
May 31st
The Ludi Saeculares continues. In addition to Proserpine and Pluto/Dis, Diana, and the Moerae (Parcae), Latona, the Eilithyiae, and Terra Mater were honored. The games were performed by the Roman State to commemorate the end of one saeculum and the beginning of a new one in compliance with a sibylline mandate that so long as the games were kept, the empire should never fail. The saeculum was defined as the longest span of human life and was fixed in the Republic as an era of a hundred years. The ceremony took place in the Campus Martius near the Tiber at a spot known as Tarenturn or Terentum.
On this day, the annual Triple Blessings of the God Buddha is observed by Theravada Buddhists. To celebrate the god’s birth, enlightenment, and passage into Nirvana, shrines and houses are decorated with flowers and special prayer flags. Offerings of flowers, incense, and rice are also made. The Triple Blessing often lasts for three consecutive days.
Comments (4)
i believe in fate and destiny. although, i actually remember last semester while we doing ancient greek mythology during an english class and my teacher (a devoted almost preachy-like teacher) kept attempting to make it clear to us that we – as in they (because i won’t classify myself as a christian) – who follow the bible’s version of god believe in something called providence. but i really think that we should not discredit the Divinine who we all agree is all-intelligent. bearing that in mind, i think that between All That Is, the Universe and our Archetypes/Higher Selves/Soul has a roadmap to follow. we know we are on the right track with a feeling of immense/consistent bliss within ourselves. not to mistake bliss with happiness and even joy. joy is a fantastic state of being but it comes in different frequencies. wheareas bliss is an eternal flow in the Body, Heart and Mind that is actually indescribeable.
i think that although we may not know exactly and precisely to the fullest extent consciously be aware of our destiny – one can notice patterns or what deepak chopra refers to as your syncrhodestiny: “in retrospect, the narrative of our lives appears perfectly logical. we can easily follow the thread of continuity upon which we gathered our life’s experinces…we would participate in creating the adventures of our lives. the path would be clearly marked, and we would need no signposts, no clues and no coincidences.”
The question of fate is something I’ve been back and forth upon, but narrowing to a more succinct stance…Something is going to happen at any given point, and it’s our actions now that contribute to those points and everything before and afterward…I think there’s a misconception held by a lot of people who would try and avert certain outcomes of their lives as if time is sectional and separate from one moment to another…To say that one is assigned a particular fate usually comes with the concept that no matter what they do, the end result will remain the same…In all actuality, it’s because of what they do that brings them to said result…
That is a very interesting/cool way of looking at fate. I can’t say that I ever thought about it that way. I suppose like you, I partially believe in fate and partially not. I think that there is still some self-determination to be had alongside “fate.”
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