fate is a metphysical concept.
pre-determination is a weak and/or directed variant.
they rely upon religious assumptions to be coherent.
if you find some kind of "proof" for the functioning of either, you should simply assume that the "researchers" who carried out the stude built their methodology around their religious convictions, at one level or another.
or maybe they used regression analysis to correlate otherwise unrelated variables.
with regression analysis, i can establish the relative importance of levels of orange juice consumption as over against, say, volkswagen ownership in determining the causes of the vietnam war.
which is important.
like this question is.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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