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[Just a simple little post from username 'Bluemarine', but it's posted for everyone to see and the option to reply in any format you like is there, should you feel like it. Somebody sure has the burning desire to ask everyone a question (or piss off as many people as they can, depending).]

How many of you believe in an afterlife? Or...What I should ask is; how many of you understand that you're slaves to fate and destiny, no matter how unhappy yours might be?

You're welcome to try and change my mind on that front, if you think you have the intellect.

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[ From the username TheChancellor: ]

Feeling a little existential, are we? :)

Everyone is different. Worlds are different, too. The afterlife depends on the god.

Maybe we can’t change the destiny of all existence, but we can change the way we live within it. People have that power. What do you think?

[ normally, he wouldn’t bother… but he does have lived experience. ]

[ username Otacon ]

I've spent a long time feeling like I had no choice. My family's dark history just kept following me. But I made a choice and worked hard to stop it, and it's going well.

It's choices that define you and your action, and luck that makes up the rest. But on a level -- down in our genes -- there's a pre-determined amount that forms what will happen to you.

[An interesting username. He'll have to keep an eye out for this one in the future.]

More curious about what sort of people I'm living with, and whether they're worth engaging on the sort of level I truly crave. Are you going to answer my question? (:

Hence why I kept the language neutral on the matter of the afterlife; it seems pointless to push the matter when we're all in some sort of cosmic lightning rod. The question was simply whether you believed in it or not, and also understood that there is no escaping what you were meant to do, species-wide and uniquely.

I don't mean the fate set out for you by other humans, either; we're talking a grander concept here. Do you think that, out of all of the people in all of the universes that could possibly exist, your being here at this time in this place to talk to me is simply an accident, that we haven't intersected simply because that's how things are meant to be?

So you agree, essentially. After all, I'd personally argue that the burden of your family's history was an obstacle that you overcame, and overcome still, and so you're stronger for it.

...I might have worded my query in an inflammatory manner to test people's convictions, but that doesn't mean that I see fate as a chain. Quite the opposite really; it's comforting, something to give you strength when you're lost or in pain. Your choices, your luck, the people you meet, how you cope with situations; all your journey, uniquely you and purely happening as it's meant to be.

[Will this be the only time that Pucci's actually genuine in this post? Probably. Ssshhh.]

Exactly right! (´ ∀ ` *) What I mean is, no matter what your original fate was, you can make a choice to submit and do nothing, or act. And the actions you take are what matters.

Though it did sound of overly aggressive. Some people might take it as a challenge and start an old-fashioned Internet fight.

Well, I'd like to know your stance on the matter first! I know my own, naturally. :)

[Username: TheArchivist]

The End gets everyone eventually. There is no afterlife, no gods or powers of love and light. Just Terminus.

And not even that sometimes.

And destiny is a series of choices. You might not want it, you might not even know you chose it, but you did. You chose it a thousand times over in a thousand small ways.

I don’t believe in an afterlife. Not an organic one. I think there are ways to sustain a consciousness.

And it’s hard to talk about anything but my own experiences, but if you’re really asking, I don’t think this is an accident. I don’t think anything is an “accident” or “coincidence,” but I don’t think “fate” exists either.

People create the world they want to live in, or they die trying to convince themselves of something. Fate is a tool we use for that.

But the thought is nice. To think I was always supposed to end up in such a pleasant world.

well, this sure is cheerful!

You talk as though you're exempt from all of that.

Sustaining a consciousness can't exactly be called any sort of 'after', can it? It's simply
no, that's a debate we won't be having on here. Another day, maybe! It's interesting, at any rate.

As is your outlook, but that's a result of your experiences so it's worth reading all the same. At the end of it, until someone bodily unravels reality and finds the truth to report back to us all, it's all intangible uncertainties. If I ever manage to rewrite a universe or dig my fingers into the fabric of time, I'll let you know what the truth is! :p

Did I? I certainly don't think I am. In fact...Quite the opposite! I'm as set in my path as anyone else is, and I find it a great comfort. What about yourself?

Does it become more palatable if I add :) ? I can do that for you.

Oh, you didn't read before you replied, bless your heart! That's alright, I can say it again for you (: Whatever's after death is just what we deserve, and fate locks us into step. Does that clear things up for you, or should I try again :?

The certainty of an Archivist speaking from experience, I take it! I've heard of stranger.

[Pucci you don't know what the hell an Archivist is bar, uh, someone who archives. Don't talk like you know.]

But you've nailed it, yes! Over our lifetimes, there are so many choices with infinite possibilities; that we experience this particular linear path right now is our destiny. Some people despair over the idea, hence my asking.

Precisely! Finally, someone with sense about it; people get awfully uppity about the matter of free will, but I'd prefer to not freefall through life, myself. You are tested, and so your life changes accordingly. It's not that hard!

(Between you and me, I thought that might be a little funny to see. Maybe I'll get some angry pictures or something?)

I see!

Me? Well I don't know if I would call it fate, but I'm fully aware of the cycle of good and bad luck that makes up my life. I'm sure the phrasing might not matter to anyone else, but it carries the same inevitability.

Ah, you caught me! I didn't! Thank you for understanding and reiterating. It helps me terribly so. And a blessing, too! I'm a very lucky man. :)

Now, let me see if I can think about how to word my answer! Destiny, fate, death -- dear me, this is all such heavy stuff! It truly requires a little bit of consideration and weighing to I'm joking, of course. The answer is yes, and that is the case precisely.

;)

[ …maybe it’s not wise to reveal this to a stranger on the wide world of the “internet,” but the fact is that what’s done is done, and he also no longer has this power. ]

If those are the conditions for the truth, then I can tell you that all the world is a delusion of the people living in it. That’s reality. If there’s such a thing as “fate” in the universe, it is still being written.

Well, to experience it, it IS hard. I've seen a lot of people hurt and die.

ciao! ciao! i didn’t think there was any question about an afterlife is there? i mean every world could be a little different but there are many possibilities i don’t quite understand tho being a slave to fate or destiny??

I don't see much need to change your mind. I know the way of things when it comes to my own existence and where I go when I die.

If you wish to be a slave to whatever binds you that is as far as you will go.

Well, if you're going to be sarcastic about it...

Some people have particularly unpleasant destinies.

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