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Originally Posted by ngdawg
So you increase your chances? Cheating death is a lot more exhilirating than having it...of course, I only cheated it....I believe in fate and the possibilty of 'no coincidence, no accident', but I certainly would do my best to decrease my chances at fate getting the upper hand.
If someone's playing in the street and know cars will be zooming down, they're tempting fate by increasing their chances of getting run over. If they're on the sidewalk doing the exact same thing, fate may slap them upside the head, but it's probably a lot less likely. I'll take the less likely any day.  |
If you believe in fate then it doesn't matter what you do. There is no such thing as "less likely". If it's supposed to happen it will happen no matter what you do or don't do.
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That was a good explanation Analog. I get what he is saying now.
However, guccilvr still implies that the ability to "cheat death" is possible, a la wearing a seatbelt. He said that there is no reason in wearing a seatbelt, because it was "your time to die" anyway. Well, if it was your time to die, and you can cheat that time, why not do it? Do you really want to die? I don't understand the logic of just "giving in" to death. Why would you ever just give in to dying?
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You can't cheat it. If it's time to die, you're going to die. If you live then you weren't supposed to be dead.... yet.