Or something like that.

I suddenly had the urge to post something like this after reading and watching a few things about the aspects of life. So, my question would be.

What is your view on life?

Is it written in stone or rather, pre-determined so that no matter what you do, that's your life?

Is it the view that you control your own destiny and fate so that you can choose your life exactly the way you want it?

Is your view based on equivalency (some may call it Karma or the principle of "What goes around, comes around") and follow that principle for the rest of your life?

Is your view a carefree one? Do you just sit back and let everything unravel before you (like "Whatever happens, happens" or "Whatever will be, will be")


Or is it one that isn't listed above?
In any case, this thread is about discussing the views on life and how it affects you.

Just pulled this one out of my head so it's a bit messy :heh:

Discuss

Is your view a carefree one? Do you just sit back and let everything unravel before you (like "Whatever happens, happens" or "Whatever will be, will be")

^ Thats me. My life is my life.
It's a good life and i also believe in karma but only slightly because that is basicaly like a God or something which i do not believe in.

Life is what you make of it.

Oh yeah, that too.

I don't believe in karma. In my opinion, although it may sound whiny, life simply isn't fair. So if karma were true, many of the great people I know wouldn't go through many things they have. Besides that, I just don't agree with that whole pre-determined fate stuff; I go along with more of what Angelic said. Plus, although I'm not Christian, for Christians: What sort of "God" would set you up to be a sinner and go to hell or to be a good person and go to heaven before you're even born? It'd be pretty messed up, I think.

Other than that, I just think life is for us to live however we see fit as long as we don't inflict harm on others and as long as we respect others.

I beleive in karma, however I beleive that it might not effect you in this life. (reincarnation). I also think that maybe it is destiny to have an option. If that makes sence...

For example, it might be fate that you meet a certain person. However, it is your choice if you want to befriend them.

I'm kindof in the gray area. :shifty:

To be truthfull 2, 3 and 4 are a mix up of what I view my own life is. I choose (and chose) my own "destiny" when I say that I am going to be a concert pianist or some sort of composer. Although I'm not a Buddhist (don't need to be) I have had a sence of Karma in me since I was little. The reason why is because whenever I did something wrong to someone (or something) in either a related or non-related instance, something would affect me because of it--mainly my concience, not physically, something bad would happen.

I have one of the most "weighty" consciences around. Lol.

But most of all, I'm pretty laid back as well. I TRY not to worry about bad things, and kinda have the "whatever happens, happens" attitude a lot.. except for revenge and my bad temper at times--Ha!

I beleive in karma, however I beleive that it might not effect you in this life. (reincarnation). I also think that maybe it is destiny to have an option. If that makes sence...

For example, it might be fate that you meet a certain person. However, it is your choice if you want to befriend them.

that is pretty much exactly what i think, except i also think you have to do all you can in the time that you have

I won't answer based on your criteria, because those rules itself limits what we think of life to your own expectations (you expect us to answer them in this following matter.) I'm not saying your making us answer it this way, but I'm going to ignore your criteria and answer truthfully what my view of life is.
(This means I did not read your post and yet answered the question you specified on the topic)

My view of life?

I always thought that life was hard, and that if you worked hard you will definately get the best.

I expected life to be the image of hard working, success, and fairness. I then see this life of uncertainty, cheapness, and lack of hard values. It led me to a view of life as being a life of nothing but walking on glass. No one can be trusted, and everyone was your enemy. My view changed when I've met some friends that showed me that life did have its good points.

My overall view of life:

Life is uncertainty. Full of black and white, and sometimes grey. Nothing is guaranteed, and you must fight for what you want to achieve. To get lost is easy, to find your way back is hard.

Nothing is written, or I guess there would be no real point to life. I mean, if its already done and over with. :/ But thats just me. I still believe in God, I just don't litterally follow everthing they tell me about him.

I believe in Karma, just not the way in which doing good or bad automatically determines whether good or bad things happen. I think thats just another part of life.

I personally just try to take life as it comes to me.

Life is uncertainty. Full of black and white, and sometimes grey. Nothing is guaranteed, and you must fight for what you want to achieve. To get lost is easy, to find your way back is hard.

^ That's very true.

I think that live if also a sum of the things you do and know since your born, which then reveal the consequences of that later on in your life. So actually fate (in my opinion) is nothing more than your past decisions.

My view on life

"You control your own destiny and fate so that you can choose your life exactly the way you want it."

I won't answer based on your criteria, because those rules itself limits what we think of life to your own expectations (you expect us to answer them in this following matter.) I'm not saying your making us answer it this way, but I'm going to ignore your criteria and answer truthfully what my view of life is.
(This means I did not read your post and yet answered the question you specified on the topic)

My view of life?

I always thought that life was hard, and that if you worked hard you will definately get the best.

I expected life to be the image of hard working, success, and fairness. I then see this life of uncertainty, cheapness, and lack of hard values. It led me to a view of life as being a life of nothing but walking on glass. No one can be trusted, and everyone was your enemy. My view changed when I've met some friends that showed me that life did have its good points.

My overall view of life:

Life is uncertainty. Full of black and white, and sometimes grey. Nothing is guaranteed, and you must fight for what you want to achieve. To get lost is easy, to find your way back is hard.

Replying to a thread without reading its first post is pretty stupid I must say.

Replying to a thread without reading its first post is pretty stupid I must say.


I won't answer based on your criteria, because those rules itself limits what we think of life to your own expectations (you expect us to answer them in this following matter.) I'm not saying your making us answer it this way, but I'm going to ignore your criteria and answer truthfully what my view of life is.
(This means I did not read your post and yet answered the question you specified on the topic)

Which he didn't do... I think I remember you being kinder Angelic... I'm not sure if I changed or you did but...

And since I already replied I guess I'll answer the topic as well. A simple answer would be the 4th choice. I don't care. Whatever happens, happens. I also have a more complex and darker view but... I don't feel like sharing. I'm sure people would be happier that way.

I won't answer based on your criteria, because those rules itself limits what we think of life to your own expectations (you expect us to answer them in this following matter.) I'm not saying your making us answer it this way, but I'm going to ignore your criteria and answer truthfully what my view of life is.
(This means I did not read your post and yet answered the question you specified on the topic)

My view of life?

I always thought that life was hard, and that if you worked hard you will definately get the best.

I expected life to be the image of hard working, success, and fairness. I then see this life of uncertainty, cheapness, and lack of hard values. It led me to a view of life as being a life of nothing but walking on glass. No one can be trusted, and everyone was your enemy. My view changed when I've met some friends that showed me that life did have its good points.

My overall view of life:

Life is uncertainty. Full of black and white, and sometimes grey. Nothing is guaranteed, and you must fight for what you want to achieve. To get lost is easy, to find your way back is hard.
I guess you didn't see it but the criteria up there isn't the only answers you can choose, you missed something in my post.

I think life is carefree and with a little karma. But there are so many other people who will try to affect you by stressing the importance of money and all that.

I find life really hard and difficult to live through. It's just confusing and it sometimes makes me want to die. I would like to be carefree but it's just not possible. I think people can change their fate. Nothing is set in stone in my opinion.

I believe that with enough determination you can do almost whatever you want with your life. I, however, don't have any determination at all and am happy to lead my life in the most passive way possible.

So, yeah, I just let things happen around me and I go along with it, but I like it that way because you never really know what's going to happen, and it's like everything that goes on is totally unplanned.

When life sucks, kick it in the balls :)

Haha Eternal I like that. When I read it, it sounded so innocent

Life is what you make of it.
So true. :) I dislike people blaming everything on fater or some higher instance... You're responsible for yourself, for everything you do and every decision you make, blaming it on your fate or praying to god to change things for you is imo a (too) easy excuse.
I'd like to believe in karma, it's a nice idea that good deeds will be rewarded and bad deeds punished (sadly that's not always reality though)... but in some sence it's true. Good things pay of very often in the end. You often receive kindness in return for being kind.

on a side note, I think people should care more about the environment... especially you guys in the USA, China and India *poke* it's about time to sign the Kyoto-Protocol... :/

I hate the idea of Karma, what goes around comes around, three-fold, whatever you call it. Heaven, hell, whatever.

I don't like the thought of people being bribed into doing good or scared out of doing bad. Just my opinion.

I don't like the thought of people being bribed into doing good or scared out of doing bad. Just my opinion.

Yeah, it does seem to be a pretty sad ploy for us to make undaring decisions which might ultimately lead to an uninteresting, unthoughtful, and way-too-innocent life. It can easily make a life go to waste.

And of course, Karma wouldn't make any sense, given that life is truly very unfair. -_-

Hmm... I was thinking this over...

I don't think life is set out in stone... but I think if we could go back in time we wouldn't be able to change it...

Yes Jaso, totally agree. If we went back in time, we'd just change the future and the present in both good and bad ways. That's what I think.

That's the opposite of what Jaso said. O.o Jaso, you're contradicting yourself.

If the past can't be affected newly by the future, it has to know what the future has in store. Like if some guy died years ago, and you go back in time and end up killing the guy, the past knew it would happen. Get it? For that to work, it has to be connected somehow that doesn't allow you to go messing around with what happens.

EDIT: Funny, I'm willing to argue with myself about what I just said. Yeah, I could argue that the future doesn't know the past. The future doesn't exist to the past at all. Peple of the future just sort of pop into the past out of no where. That makes sense.

When life sucks, kick it in the balls :)

But since life's a bitch, that's impossible.

But since life's a bitch, that's impossible.

To live in a bitchy life you've got to be a bitch; and slap this one in the face when she does the same to you. :D

I see life as follows:

You need to do what you've got to do to be who you want to be. You decide, but you have to work hard towards it. Devote your life to what you want to be and don't slack. Be a good person and don't put anyone down. Karma is real, it's just not always there. But, you need your good Karma to get where you want to be. Nothing is predetermined. It's all the luck of the draw and by your own hand. Then again, lots in life is decided by others. Then again, isn't that event dependent on what you decide to do? If you didn't make certain choices, you wouldn't be there for that decision to be made by somebody else. Then again, some of it is luck. Where you're born and what family you're born into is something that can determine your whole life, and it's pretty much controlled by nobody that YOU are the one to be conceived. That's pretty much my view.

But since life's a bitch, that's impossible.

XD
Kick it in the boob?

You know, that would actually hurt.

AHAHAHHAHAA XD
Iono getting kicked it the balls would probably be equivilent~

Let me just say first of all that I'm very pessimistic. Sorry if that annoys you. :lol:


Is it written in stone or rather, pre-determined so that no matter what you do, that's your life?

I refuse to believe that it is. Your life is YOUR life. I don't believe in any religion either.

Is it the view that you control your own destiny and fate so that you can choose your life exactly the way you want it?

Somethings can limit your life, but other then that everything else is for you to chose.

Is your view based on equivalency (some may call it Karma or the principle of "What goes around, comes around") and follow that principle for the rest of your life?

No.

Is your view a carefree one? Do you just sit back and let everything unravel before you (like "Whatever happens, happens" or "Whatever will be, will be")

No, I don't like seeing things go wrong. I want to change things. If something gos wrong then I'm always there to protest it.

My view of life is simple, I live to serve God, make music, and help much as I can with peoples needs.

Life, the very question that has never gotten a solid answer of truth, I don't really have much to say, life depends on how the person treats it, it is like wall when you shout into it. When you shout into it, the sound echos and comes back to you. Life is similar, the way you treat life, is the way it treats you in return. But there's really not that much to say about life, it is mysterious and changes every day, every hour, and every second.

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Is it written in stone or rather, pre-determined so that no matter what you do, that's your life?

Some of life is written in stone, but you can change a few things in your life. It all depends on the path you choose to go.

Is it the view that you control your own destiny and fate so that you can choose your life exactly the way you want it?

I believe that my life will just unravel as a go and I'll have to break through the walls and rely on myself to continue.

Is your view based on equivalency (some may call it Karma or the principle of "What goes around, comes around") and follow that principle for the rest of your life?

I don't really believe in karma, but I'm sort of sceptical about the equivalency. Through all the hell I've gone through, I'm talented, but due to that, my life is hell and lonesome to balance it out. I'm an only child, and my parents worked almost the whole day when I was young. I wasn't an animal person and I didn't get along well with other people. Who do I have to rely on other than myself? And I still rely only on myself, maybe even more now that I realize it.

Is your view a carefree one? Do you just sit back and let everything unravel before you (like "Whatever happens, happens" or "Whatever will be, will be")

Things happen. You can't change the past. What reason is there to atone the past? What's happened has happened. I see no reason to try and change it to benefit your needs.

My view on life can pretty much be summed up on these two points:

1) Life is what you make it
2) Everything happens for a reason, the good and the bad. Though it is generally difficult to understand the bad times (it simply seems unfair) but hopefully there is a positive personal growth that occurs after passing through the bad time.

My view on life....

1. Do what you would like to do (Music-composing/singing,etc.)
2. Actually I don't really think about it much. :P

Why think about it, we are born, we live a life (Which we make the most of), we die. Mmm sorry if im being too blunt...

The presence of Deja Vu tells me at least I'm living a pre-determined path.

But eh, I don't even know what that path is, so I could try as hard as I can to change it, but its going to happen anyways. Whatever it is.