Friday, April 5, 2013

Who Is In Control?


Do we control the direction of our lives, or do forces outside of our control determine our destiny? 





Based upon personal experience or the experiences of others, answer the above question.  DO NOT use "I" in your response.

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  2. actually can work both ways. We control our own decisions that make the moves our lives take so we control our destiny (where we live and the choices we make) in that kind of situation but we do not control the elements so we can decide to live a good life until we are old and work towards that but we can't control the earthquake that just happened or the bomb that the other country just dropped on our land. If we get caught in a situation like that then our destiny will change us. It may change us emotionally, physically or mentally and can also change our location of existence and also make it impossible to live that long good life the way we had decided.

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  3. Forces outside of our control determine our destiny,because there are many things we would prefer to do that the forces outside do not allow.

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  4. Your destiny is both determined by yourself and forces that are out of your control.You decide how you live your life but somtimes things don't come out as you expect them to, in other words things happen the way they are suppose to. No one knows why but thats how it is.

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  5. Our destiny is controlled by outside forces that effect a individual in a positive or negative way. Effecting the mental and emotional parts of a individual and causing them to do what they do.

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  6. people can only help direct the way there life goes. Thow no one can know exactly how there life nor can they have control over there life. The outside life force that no one can predict.Such as sickness,family casualty,love,and death.These outside life forces have much control over how our life may begin, proceed,and therefore one may say that destiny is in charge of our life.

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  7. We create our own destiny in many occasions, but sometimes we are not in control of our lives depending on the problems that other people create for our selfs. In many occasions the people that are close to us make decisions that affect us and change our path,but we never know our destiny.

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  8. Do we control the direction of our lives, or do forces outside of our control determine our destiny?

    - People sometimes blame the outside world for the mistakes they have made, in this statement both are correct. Some people do control the direction of their lives only if they take their steps carefully. Sometimes our outside forces determines our destiny this statement is also very true only because of the saying "Life is like a box of chocolate you never know what you're gonna get", not knowing what's coming next lets the outside forces control what we do, any specific happening can change our lives in one blink. Humans face obstacles everyday also peer pressure and other sorts, forces can concour anybody but only if you let it, don't let the outside forces determine your destiny, you determine the outside forces and take control of your destiny.

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  9. We are the owners of our lives. The choices we make shape the direction of our life. The environment we live in has an impact on those choices, indirectly affecting the path we choose to follow in life, but does not decide our destiny. Destiny is not written for us,but written by us. We decide what we want, when we want it, and how we want it.

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  10. We hold our future in our own hands.Yet we dont always get to go the direction we want to.We do control the direction of our lives.Your life can be chosen by you if you allow yourself to be led by God.

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  11. We control the directions in our life because its our choice wheather its right or wrong.

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  12. Yes, we control the direction of our lives by the choices we make.People that do wrong things like steal or do drugs see their outcome in life when their locked up or die.

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  13. sometimes well most of the time your surroundings can determine your future like if you have a negative surrounding you have to be SUPER focused on life and school work!!!!

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  14. Our lives are controlled by outside forces. These forces may include Karma or the forces of a deity

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  15. Us as people we don't control the direction of our life, the one that change our path way is God. Yes people do try in in changing it and some actually do change it but we all know that god always wants us in the right direction.

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  16. You determine your destiny. Forces out of our control gives you options and choices, but you decide what to choose and what to do.

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  17. For the most part we are in control of ourselves, we manage our life based on decisions we make. The direction we decide to take is all on us, on the positive or negative choices we make. We do have control of our life, but there are still many factors of which we have no control of. These factors are somewhat obstacles that every individual must face in order to continue the direction they have chosen.

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  18. Life has a funny way of showing us who is in control at times, but sometimes outside forces prevoke and help determine the destiny ahead of eveyone. We play a large role in how we decide to live our lifes and change the outcome, sometimes life brings things down but its all up to ones self to fix it and change our destiny.

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  19. Based on one's life experiences, everybody's opinion is going to be different, but the truth is that it can go both ways. One might agree with the reason of self control of our lives as well as outside forces being an impact in our lives. One may agree that everybody has the right to make their own choices based on the beliefs and feelings. They are independent and civiled to realized that they do whatever they want to do. On the other hand, one might also agree that forces outside of our control determine our destiny, people let other people control them based on peer pressure or other reasons but either way there might be consequences. Depending on the environment or community around can determine your destiny, people let it get in their hoping it helps the succeed but actually sometimes it actually brings them down.

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  20. Both things affect out destiny. Unfortunately, mostly outside factors such as money, haters, and different circumstances determine most people's destiny. Not to mention the goverment, most of our life desicions are pre determined.

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  21. God is in control of our(people)destiny he has the final say so of it all.

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  22. to me destiney is already laid out. From the begining of time what ever happens is going to occur. God is the reason some people have great things occur as well as test when times get rough. To me life is something that cannot be predicted. In the end your destiny is in gods hands allow it to play out and when times get hard remember what doesnt kill you makes you stronger its up to you to see your destiny all the way out

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  23. God has had our Destiny plained since before we where even born. Our life was predicted before it started. To me I really do beleive that it goes both ways. We are incontrol of our own Destiny but others can influence us into loosing focuse. Its just up to us to make the right choice. Atthe end of the day we are doing what we chose to do.

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  24. Forces control our lives to a certain degree. For an example, we know whats deemed to be right, and whats deemed to be wrong. These forces have allowed us to have knowledge, morals, and self worth. Although, the Higher Power has deemed it right to do this, doesnt mean that you have to. He has given you a choice, but every choice in life has consequences, and with that being said - we have the choice to follow the higher power (God) laws and instructions; either way, in the end you will be rewarded or punished! Who knows?

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  25. We chose our own destiny. Even though forces out of our control can influence our decisions. But also,our past experiences could change us for the better or the worse.

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  26. It could go both ways but you mainly you control the direction that your life is going. for instance like school if you do what you got to do in class then you well graduate high school an be going to College,but if you dont then you might be on the side of the highway with a sign i will work for food.

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  27. No we control the direction of our lives.We take the choices and paths that lead us up to this point.It dont matter about the forces we cant control they dont make our destiny only we do.

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  28. Our lives are not set by destiny. We the people have the ability to change what's going to happen in our future. Anything that we all do or have done is changing our future right now. The decision we all make determine what's going to happen in our lives.

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  29. Destiny determines what forces influence our lives to ensure we encounter the life experiences that we require for our continued development. Destiny is essentially a series of opportunities that enable us to learn lessons, acquire new abilities, develop our consciousness and help others.Fate is an agent that predetermines and orders the course of events. It means that events are "meant to be" and are set in motion by an external force or intelligence.

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  30. For the most part our outside forces or surroundings controls our destiny. For instance material things is something we all want. If it wasn't for those things we would't want to work hard to get them. Everything that is done for a reason. Determination is the key.

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  31. we control our path, but outside forces is what make us choose our path.

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  32. Destiny is an aspect of life that takes its own course. No matter how one tries to make a change to their life, there will be obstacles that will surface. Life is a roller-coaster ride that you have no choice on how fast or how many loops the track makes. All you can really do is sit back and enjoy the ride. Because although there are downhills to life there are also points in your life that will make you feel like you're exactly where you're suppose to be.

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  33. You are in control of your own direction of your life because the chooses you make depend on you. Nobody should be able to control you other than yourself. But then again forces might have a slight impact on you depending on what It is , but if you know right from wrong and good from bad than you should be set! Whatever choice you make just know you have to answer to god!

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  34. We chose our decisions whether they're right or wrong. We desire a future, a future we can control. Other forces may make some of our decisions but they can't make all of our decisions we are in control of our life.

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  35. In our lives as humans we dont have our destiny when we are born.Our destiny begings when we grow up and learn from our mistakes. The time we live in life will help us choose our right path of life. If our destiny was already chosen why so much badness in this world. I dout that our destiny is already chosen when we are born. We have our own life and nobody controls it but you. You are in charge of what you know is right. only you can choose the right path in youre life.

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  36. As a human, a belief would be that one does both. The Superior force controls destiny as well as the person. An example would be a person who goes to college and gets a degree, they would be able to control their destiny by making the decision to go to college. The Superior force also controls, but by control meaning take over when needed. The answer to the question would be best answered by what one means when the word control is used.

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  37. Someone can forge their own destiny if there will is strong. Fate is just something of a excuse a barrier to overcome.For those who do overcome certain circumstances they're rewarded with what they tried so hard to achieve in life.

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  38. force outside of us choose our destiny because you can do watever you want the book on yo life have already been written by the lord himself.

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  39. To be honest we control our on destiny. Outside forces is like forks in the road and they are just obstacles in the way of us reaching our destination. But we all know right from wrong so we chose our on path and we know wether if something is the right or wrong thing to do we just have to show that we have the character an right state of mind to chose our destiny.

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  40. You control your life, you chose to do what you did or what your going to do. You control your own destiny.

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  41. We are in control of our own life.The decisions we make in life have an impact in our destiny.The forces out of our control can influence our choices,but cannot determine our destiny.

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  42. Life itself it's a mystery, whether we allow those mysteries or in another words outside forces take affect in our life it all depends on us. We have two choices we can either let every life experience affect the way we think and act or we can face the world at every obstacle and go against everything society and every other outside forces has to say and just do what we think its best. Your destiny is in your hands. you make the decision!

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  43. We all have are own destiny but we determine to follow it or ignore it.People should have no regrets in life everything happens for a reason only time can tell.

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  44. We (the people) control the directions of our lives. We choose to do the things that we do. the choices we make determines our destiny. so therefore, we are in control of everything we do whether it's positive or negative.

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  45. you are the only person to make the decision on how your life is going to be, nobody else can tell you what you are going to be in life, its either you choose to live life in great values, and live a wealthy life, or live in the gutters and live your life in poverty, you choose to go on in life or just stop carrying and suffer.

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  46. Destiny is determined by the choices that you make in life. One chooses to go either through the good path or the bad path , of course there will be things to try and stop you from doing the right thing but one must face them and pass them.

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  47. When it comes to our own lives we control whatinTheygs happen to us. The choices we make, how we treat people, the friends we choose. It all falls back on us. God can pave the way and show us where we should go but if we choose to do other wise instead of following his plan its our own decision our choice our fault. We are in control.

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  48. Our destiny depends on our character or even the actions we choose to do its depends on us.If one chooses to do good then the outcome is good but if one chooses to do bad then the outcome is bad

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  49. We control the direction of our lives. Forces outside our control can make us choose whether to go one way or another but it all depends on every decision we make. Our destiny is created by us.

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  50. we determine our own destiny, but sometimes other people courage us to do some negative things in life. Also, God has a plan for us in our life.

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  51. Forces that are not in our control determine our destiny. If something happens, it's going to happen for a reason. We can hope and hope for something to go the way we'd like, but if we're going to be realistic, we have no control over what's going to happen or how things will happen.

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  52. God is in control of our ( people ) destiny he has the final say so of it all.

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  53. We can choose but it will never end up the way we want it to be. If we always choose what's right from wrong it won't matter because and outside force won't care if its wrong and take you there. Outside forces will always intervene in people's lives and choose what's best for us at the end. Also our past experiences lead us towards the future.

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  54. One can control ones actions but one cannot control ones destiny. Meaning yes you can make choices and you can pick and choose what choice you want but the outcome isn't controlled by you. Let's say someone decides to rob a bank, he chose to do that but if he gets away with it or not is his destiny he isn't guaranteed that the choice he made will not or will not come with consequences and forethore more he wouldn't be able to choose his consequences. They'll be givin to him by someone else which he has no control over.

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  55. One controls their own life, yet outside forces do interfere. Always doing the right thing doesn't mean your life will be perfect; Even a saint experiences misfortunes. Being the villian doesn't necessarily mean losing either. We just have to go through life and hope our actions' consequences or our destiny is in our favor.

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  56. We can control our actions and our reactions but we can’t control what happens around us or the people that may walk in and out of our lives. At the end, what you’re surrounding by and your past experiences might determine your future as lessons learned. However only you can decide at the end of the day how you want to control your life.

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  57. At the beginning we are not in control, but after we understand what we are shooting for we can then control our destiny.

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  58. God is in control. God controls our life, God determined when he was going to bring you to earth and he chooses when your time on this earth is up. Even though sometimes people tend to not follow Gods orders and choose to live life the way they want to live it, God will always be in control.

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