Death

[rvS]

Short story I found interestin, let me know what you think.

There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the market-place I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture; now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there death will not find me.

The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the market-place and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, I said, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Bagdad for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

- came across this story, thought some might enjoy reading it /images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[FrankLu99]

PWND

[Demana]

Comes down to a simple question:

Is there such a thing as fate?

[IronDragon1]

Did you get this from Scary Stories 2 dude cause I'm pretty sure something like that was in there

[FrankieFish]

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Comes down to a simple question:

Is there such a thing as fate?

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BOOM! The singularity erupts. Particles bounce, according to the laws of physics. Time passes. Gases form. Time passes. Things start to spin around quite a bit. Stuff gets solid.

More time passes. I am born. More time passes. I just replied to your post.

Free will? Or could it have been predetermined based on the laws of physics that started when those first particles starting bouncing around?

Does God not play dice with the universe, or is God the universe's dice?

[Demana]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Comes down to a simple question:

Is there such a thing as fate?

[/ QUOTE ]

BOOM! The singularity erupts. Particles bounce, according to the laws of physics. Time passes. Gases form. Time passes. Things start to spin around quite a bit. Stuff gets solid.

More time passes. I am born. More time passes. I just replied to your post.

Free will? Or could it have been predetermined based on the laws of physics that started when those first particles starting bouncing around?

Does God not play dice with the universe, or is God the universe's dice?

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Good to see that I am not the only one to post a philosophical question that has no answer /images/graemlins/smile.gif

btw - The existence of God is still in debate. Check the archives /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[pokerrookie]

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Does God not play dice with the universe, or is God the universe's dice?

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Are dice games +EV?

[FrankieFish]

[ QUOTE ]
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Does God not play dice with the universe, or is God the universe's dice?

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Are dice games +EV?

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Are you the house?

[antifish225]

Interesting story.....does fate exist....try this exercise:
- think of one event in your life (getting a job, meeting a girl/boy, deciding to go to a specific resteruant on a specific night)......
- think how insignificant that seemed at the time
- think how that one event forever changed to course of your life

After doing this (and I have done it a thousand times) - you MAY come to that same conclusion that I have - there is no such thing as fate.....life is a random series of events that can unfold in a million different directions......puts things in perspective (especially when you flop a set and loose to runner runner quads)....perspective

[Michael Davis]

I don't see how your exercise has anything at all to do with determining fate. Usually, your data is the type used to "prove" fate. I think it is equally ineffective trying to disprove it.

-Michael

[FrankieFish]

Does a cannonball have a trajectory or a fate?

[Demana]

Neither