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RE: Fatalism and the Law of Attraction
I don't believe in fatalism. It is a well planned scheme at best by very rich and powerful individuals who control the mass media and/or the police.
"All is moving according to plan" is something a sinister manipulator would think anyways. The average man reacts to the every day's little things. Lack of ambition you might say, but power corrupts and absolute power... well... creates some really nasty fatalism XD.
From a generally curious standpoint, I feel the need to ask this:
If you don't believe in fatalism and you believe that it's a scheme created by powerful people, then why are some people more prone to seeking power and others not? Fatalism can be viewed from a victim standpoint of being at the mercy of fate, or how I view it and describe it above, as a simple connecting force that leads us from cause to effect. Are you saying some people are just "powerful" and others "aren't" and that's the way it is? It comes across as a pretty bleak outlook on existence and while I've felt like that at points in my life, it magically went away as soon as I stopped viewing life as a competition. If you take the power struggle out of the equation, then people are ultimately just where they're at in life because they haven't decided to change the part they are playing yet. Perhaps some people just prefer a life without having to make their own choices and other people enjoy a life of ruling others. Personally I enjoy just not participating in that system at all.
For powerful people, ambition is dubbed destiny, for weak it's just something fated to happen. There is nothing more to it. If people don't have power struggles or care about money and authority, then they have no concept of fatalism.
Interesting perspective, I'll have to ponder that one for a while. It seems that to exist is to desire and while we can avoid being ruled by our desires it doesn't mean we don't have them. Perhaps the ambition and power struggles just stem from unhealthy obsessions and when we are able to clear ourselves of unhealthy obsessions it just seems to matter less and less. Interesting indeed.
I assume you have heard the concept of "free will does not exist because it is an oxymoron". We can never be trull free as long as we want something.
Yes, and there is no way to desire less because that is a desire in and of itself.
thus it's impossible to be free, therefore we are slaves to our desires and our desires define what we consider fatalistic