Bloody hell JD, you certainly know how to cheer a girl up.
John Doe said
Jan 14 8:40 PM, 2022
Syl wrote:
Bloody hell JD, you certainly know how to cheer a girl up.
Perhaps this is slightly better.
Digger said
Jan 14 8:42 PM, 2022
Syl wrote:
Sliding doors?
I dont think I believe in fate. If someone is running late, misses their train, it crashes, everyone aboard dies, so that person has had a lucky escape...is that fate?
If so, is fate now waiting to claim back the life it should have taken and didn't?
It sounds like a sequel to 'Final Destination' to me.
I've related the story on here of how I missed one of the Manchester bombings by minutes because I decided to wash my hair before I went to work. I'm still here 35 years later.
John Doe said
Jan 14 8:45 PM, 2022
Digger wrote:
Syl wrote:
Sliding doors?
I dont think I believe in fate. If someone is running late, misses their train, it crashes, everyone aboard dies, so that person has had a lucky escape...is that fate?
If so, is fate now waiting to claim back the life it should have taken and didn't?
It sounds like a sequel to 'Final Destination' to me.
I've related the story on here of how I missed one of the Manchester bombings by minutes because I decided to wash my hair before I went to work. I'm still here 35 years later.
You were able to wash your hair when you were a toddler?
You were very advanced Digs.
Digger said
Jan 14 8:46 PM, 2022
John Doe wrote:
There is no such thing as fate as far as I am concerned.
If there was what have the starving women/children being laughingly dismembered alive in African hellholes by well fed soldiers, the starving, the children dying of cancer, the victims of torture and death by serial killers, natural disasters etc done to deserve their 'fate'?
Why do the most ruthless and evil people do so very well?
Life is ultimately meaningless, it's a demolition derby. I have no children so my line will come to an end after 4 billion years of evolution.
Dawkins said it well in his classic nearly 50 years ago about being mere gene replication machines.
"Was there to be any end to the gradual improvement in the techniques and artifices used by the replicators to ensure their own continuation in the world? There would be plenty of time for improvement. What weird engines of self-preservation would the millennia bring forth? Four thousand million years on, what was to be the fate of the ancient replicators?
They did not die out, for they are past masters of the survival arts. But do not look for them floating loose in the sea; they gave up that cavalier freedom long ago. Now they swarm in huge colonies, safe inside gigantic lumbering robots, sealed off from the outside world, communicating with it by tortuous indirect routes, manipulating it by remote control.
They are in you and in me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines."
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene.
-- Edited by John Doe on Friday 14th of January 2022 03:37:49 PM
How many times have you wished some dreadful death or punishment on a murdering paedophile? Don't you wish, if it were possible, that they might come back in another life and experience the same fate?
Digger said
Jan 14 8:48 PM, 2022
John Doe wrote:
Digger wrote:
Syl wrote:
Sliding doors?
I dont think I believe in fate. If someone is running late, misses their train, it crashes, everyone aboard dies, so that person has had a lucky escape...is that fate?
If so, is fate now waiting to claim back the life it should have taken and didn't?
It sounds like a sequel to 'Final Destination' to me.
I've related the story on here of how I missed one of the Manchester bombings by minutes because I decided to wash my hair before I went to work. I'm still here 35 years later.
You were able to wash your hair when you were a toddler?
You were very advanced Digs.
It was 1996 I think....not 35 years ago....more like 28
Magica said
Jan 14 8:49 PM, 2022
I believe in fate. I remember back in the 70s, I was running for a bus to go to a pub. The bus drive off I was so angry. A short while later the IRA threw a bomb into the pub I would have been in if I hadn't missed the bus!
John Doe said
Jan 14 9:18 PM, 2022
Digger wrote:
John Doe wrote:
Digger wrote:
Syl wrote:
Sliding doors?
I dont think I believe in fate. If someone is running late, misses their train, it crashes, everyone aboard dies, so that person has had a lucky escape...is that fate?
If so, is fate now waiting to claim back the life it should have taken and didn't?
It sounds like a sequel to 'Final Destination' to me.
I've related the story on here of how I missed one of the Manchester bombings by minutes because I decided to wash my hair before I went to work. I'm still here 35 years later.
You were able to wash your hair when you were a toddler?
You were very advanced Digs.
It was 1996 I think....not 35 years ago....more like 28
Ah I remembered you were 32 this year.
Syl said
Jan 14 11:56 PM, 2022
Digger wrote:
Syl wrote:
Sliding doors?
I dont think I believe in fate. If someone is running late, misses their train, it crashes, everyone aboard dies, so that person has had a lucky escape...is that fate?
If so, is fate now waiting to claim back the life it should have taken and didn't?
It sounds like a sequel to 'Final Destination' to me.
I've related the story on here of how I missed one of the Manchester bombings by minutes because I decided to wash my hair before I went to work. I'm still here 35 years later.
Exactly, which proves that you can cheat death without fate hanging round to get you, like the grim reaper.
Syl said
Jan 14 11:59 PM, 2022
Magica wrote:
I believe in fate. I remember back in the 70s, I was running for a bus to go to a pub. The bus drive off I was so angry. A short while later the IRA threw a bomb into the pub I would have been in if I hadn't missed the bus!
You had a lucky escape, but what of the people who were in the pub?
I dont believe it was fate they were injured or died that day, they were just, sadly, in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Magica said
Jan 15 1:55 AM, 2022
Syl wrote:
Magica wrote:
I believe in fate. I remember back in the 70s, I was running for a bus to go to a pub. The bus drive off I was so angry. A short while later the IRA threw a bomb into the pub I would have been in if I hadn't missed the bus!
You had a lucky escape, but what of the people who were in the pub?
I dont believe it was fate they were injured or died that day, they were just, sadly, in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Maybe it was their fate, I don't know.
Syl said
Jan 15 1:27 PM, 2022
None of us really know Mags, we can all have a good guess though.
John Doe said
Jan 15 7:11 PM, 2022
What about this?
The poor bastard he stabbed lived a life of misery until his death.
Life is often not fair, but the people you presume to be horrible and living a life of Riley...maybe they are haunted by guilt, or ill health, or they have found that no one can stand the sight of them...life isn't always as it seems to the onlooker.
Magica said
Jan 15 8:17 PM, 2022
I really believe things happen for a reason. Not always known, but eventually comes to light.
I believe in fate. I remember back in the 70s, I was running for a bus to go to a pub. The bus drive off I was so angry. A short while later the IRA threw a bomb into the pub I would have been in if I hadn't missed the bus!
Johnny Rotten missed the Lockerbie flight because his wife had spent so long packing her suitcase.
They caught a later flight instead.
Magica said
Jan 16 7:04 AM, 2022
Vita wrote:
Magica wrote:
I believe in fate. I remember back in the 70s, I was running for a bus to go to a pub. The bus drive off I was so angry. A short while later the IRA threw a bomb into the pub I would have been in if I hadn't missed the bus!
Johnny Rotten missed the Lockerbie flight because his wife had spent so long packing her suitcase.
They caught a later flight instead.
Lucky man. He wasn't meant to be on the plane.
Magica said
Jan 16 7:12 AM, 2022
Vita wrote:
I would speak to the groom and tell him I know what he is doing, if he does this again, I will tell my friend. It would be a bluff. I would also tell the bridesmaid the same.
I wouldn't tell her because she wouldn't thank me and I don't want to ruin her big day or her life. Once a cheat always a cheat. All I can do is be there for her if she finds out.
Digger said
Jan 16 11:06 AM, 2022
Vita wrote:
Magica wrote:
I believe in fate. I remember back in the 70s, I was running for a bus to go to a pub. The bus drive off I was so angry. A short while later the IRA threw a bomb into the pub I would have been in if I hadn't missed the bus!
Johnny Rotten missed the Lockerbie flight because his wife had spent so long packing her suitcase.
They caught a later flight instead.
She said that no matter how she tried, she couldn't seem to get the suitcase packed.
Perhaps this is slightly better.
I've related the story on here of how I missed one of the Manchester bombings by minutes because I decided to wash my hair before I went to work. I'm still here 35 years later.
You were able to wash your hair when you were a toddler?
You were very advanced Digs.
How many times have you wished some dreadful death or punishment on a murdering paedophile? Don't you wish, if it were possible, that they might come back in another life and experience the same fate?
It was 1996 I think....not 35 years ago....more like 28
Ah I remembered you were 32 this year.
Exactly, which proves that you can cheat death without fate hanging round to get you, like the grim reaper.
You had a lucky escape, but what of the people who were in the pub?
I dont believe it was fate they were injured or died that day, they were just, sadly, in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Maybe it was their fate, I don't know.
None of us really know Mags, we can all have a good guess though.
What about this?
The poor bastard he stabbed lived a life of misery until his death.
Hardly seems fair does it?
Fate?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60010155
Nothing to do with fate.
Life is often not fair, but the people you presume to be horrible and living a life of Riley...maybe they are haunted by guilt, or ill health, or they have found that no one can stand the sight of them...life isn't always as it seems to the onlooker.
Johnny Rotten missed the Lockerbie flight because his wife had spent so long packing her suitcase.
They caught a later flight instead.
Lucky man. He wasn't meant to be on the plane.
I would speak to the groom and tell him I know what he is doing, if he does this again, I will tell my friend. It would be a bluff. I would also tell the bridesmaid the same.
I wouldn't tell her because she wouldn't thank me and I don't want to ruin her big day or her life. Once a cheat always a cheat. All I can do is be there for her if she finds out.
She said that no matter how she tried, she couldn't seem to get the suitcase packed.