Yeah, that's what most people think of when it comes to fate. And it ain't entirely wrong.
[ At least in the sense that some greater force has determined outcomes. ]
In my line of work though, it's a little more complicated than that. I guess it's better to say fate's more like causality. [ ...Man, recalling when he first got this explanation during training and he couldn't wrap his head around it. ] Like, some things have fixed outcomes. Things fall down, not up. If you flip a coin and you didn't do anythin' to mess with it, like it bein' a trick coin or flippin' it a certain way to make it land one side over the other, it's always gonna be 50-50 which side it lands on. It works like that 'cause fate's already defined those possibilities. Easy enough.
But when you start involvin' beings that think and feel, it becomes more like...let's say someone makes a certain choice. Fate might define, let's say maybe three different ways it could turn out. But then sometimes more possibilities just spring up dependin' on a hundred or a thousand other different things also happenin' and how those events impact that person and their circumstances. We can kinda see those possibilities and try to nudge things along a certain way, but until they happen, they're just possibilities.
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[ At least in the sense that some greater force has determined outcomes. ]
In my line of work though, it's a little more complicated than that. I guess it's better to say fate's more like causality. [ ...Man, recalling when he first got this explanation during training and he couldn't wrap his head around it. ] Like, some things have fixed outcomes. Things fall down, not up. If you flip a coin and you didn't do anythin' to mess with it, like it bein' a trick coin or flippin' it a certain way to make it land one side over the other, it's always gonna be 50-50 which side it lands on. It works like that 'cause fate's already defined those possibilities. Easy enough.
But when you start involvin' beings that think and feel, it becomes more like...let's say someone makes a certain choice. Fate might define, let's say maybe three different ways it could turn out. But then sometimes more possibilities just spring up dependin' on a hundred or a thousand other different things also happenin' and how those events impact that person and their circumstances. We can kinda see those possibilities and try to nudge things along a certain way, but until they happen, they're just possibilities.