text; un: alucard

[reposing]

Forgive me for asking such a question, but I'm in the middle of a project and I'm waiting for things to process. So I thought I might as well ask.

Your idea of "fate", should you believe in it. Does such a linear path bring you any comfort at all?

Or is it perhaps worth fighting against, if you aren't satisfied with your destiny?

Might as well have conversation on it.

Comments

[reposing]

If a sick beggar spends his life homeless, he is then fated to be as such? No matter the good he attempts to enact?

[hagrides]

In my experience, fate is not typically concerned with such things as whether one person has a home. It dictates the ends and births of worlds and kingdoms, but individuals still possess the power to change their situation.

[reposing]

I would not underestimate how powerless so many people are. Though I suppose nor should one underestimate how much power they have to do what's right, and yet choose not to.

[hagrides]

Free will is one of the most marvelous things mortals possess, but it can be used for good or ill.

[reposing]

When do you decide it's a matter of fate, then.

[hagrides]

When your 'choices' are to do something or allow destruction of entire worlds, one can consider that a matter of fate. Speaking from experience.

[reposing]

In what way is that fate and not down to a choice? I'm not saying I would idealistically choose to allow the destruction of worlds, but it is a choice nonetheless.

[hagrides]

Perhaps. But it is a choice that not one in my line, over hundreds of thousands of years, has decided upon the other supposed option.