The topic of 'fate' always interests me. I think there are many ways in which you can approach it. There's the obvious philosophy of questioning the whats the hows the whens and the wheres. Then there's the psychological level of, well what does this mean for me? I think a lot of people can prescribe fate to a situation, by assuming that because something has been serendipitous (a pleasant coincidence) for them in particular, it must mean it was meant to happen. But then you could also spin it on it's head, and argue that you had only attributed that meaning to that particular situation in order to make it an a) bearable situation or b) something which has the potential to be profound.
I'm not really sure what kind of a tangent I'm going off on here. I was discussing pre-determinism with someone one time, and we were talking about the science behind it and how physically, the chemical build up of a persons body is on a cycle and completely replaces itself every (what I think to be) 7 years. (?) So, even if something really profound happens to you say, 10 years down the line, you could then look at it biologically, and begin to question whether it really was meant to happen in a fateful sense, because biologically speaking you are a completely different person altogether. Would fate then work in the same way? What would the implications be of that?
I think I am a believer of fate in someways, but like you, I'm completely accepting of the fact that I'll never be able to empirically prove this. Perhaps it is just me adding a whole bunch of meaning to my life, whether that be religiously, spiritually or merely psychologically. Nonetheless, it's very interesting, and I'll stop rambling now!
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