Do you honestly believe one's character definitely determines his fate?

Please no. Someone just asked a quesiton about free will. It’s utterly annoying seeing everyone bicker.

I can imagine how it does when I think of how many successful people out there are complete tool bags.

@rpmpseudonym , sorry, I don’t want to create fluther chaos, I am just curious what others may think.

Look down a few questions and read the comments on the post on free will. Lots of stuff going on there.

The first definition of personality in dictionary.com says “the visible aspect of one’s character as it impresses others”

As I see it, attitude directs thoughts; thoughts direct actions; and as above, actions are that visible aspect of ones character. So, change your attitude, you change your life.

@snowberry, well-put but so many have changed attitude for the better and are still stuck in a rut, same outcome! Could there be something more to it?

Well… it plays a role, a big one, sure, but being a nice guy isn’t going to keep you from getting cancer or something. Am I taking this completely the wrong way?

Hmm.. that would require me to believe in fate/destiny as opposed to…...oh forget it, I don’t want to get sucked in to that debate….

@ZEPHYRA It happened to me. I’m a totally different person now than I was, even 15 years ago. (I’m 55 now) It involves a great deal of hard work and being brutally honest with yourself, and never giving up on yourself. It helps if you have friends who refuse take your crap, and who see through all the smokescreen, folks who refuse to give up on you. I had to go searching to find friends like that. I took a bunch of classes, and changed my friends so I could become who I wanted to be. I’m still working on myself, but it’s a happier life for sure.

In short, you get to say how your life goes.

I don’t think there is such a thing as fate, and I don’t think anything completely determines the course of our lives in the sense of our having no choice. I think we have the power of choice and there are also things over which we have no control. What possible evidence could there be that says otherwise?

yes

I would say the opposite, one’s fate determines one’s personality.

Is it the flour, the eggs, the flavouring agent, the oven, the mixing bowl or the cook that determines whether a cake will be well received?

@DarkScribe good answer.

@YARNLADY

Thank you. I was concerned that my theological pedanticism was offending you.

@DarkScribe I enjoy discussions and even disagreements as long as they remain about the subject and not the person.