Reason

Fate exists only in the eyes of the faithful. The term for fate or destiny can be best summed up in the Turkish/Arabic word kismet which means the unavoidable destiny as set by Allah. Allah has given you life, a home, a wife, some kids, then death, maybe. Or Allah may give you life, issues, disabilities, retardation, mental degradation and a life laced with confusion and destruction. You have a chance to either live happily or in pain. But no choice at the matter according to western cultural understandings of Allah, God the Father or Elohim. Those who worship and function under an external locus of control are subject to the whims of a higher power. Not necessarily intelligent; however, this being has full control over your existence and all you do is follow the path set before you. Some may have set before them a path of happiness and youthful vigor; while others will suffer and die in vain. Because an image of the higher power is unknown, I have begun to assume that we are all subject to the external forces of a child. We are no more than the play things of a stubborn youth. He or she plays with us as though we are toys. And, much like the God as written in the Hebrew and Christian Bible he or she loves us unconditionally; we are their favorite toy. Within their imagination we are created and watched over. We can be tormented with or made happy. We can be born into poverty and fall into a life of crime or we can exist in the highest part of our society. This is based on the child. We are foolish to follow blindly our fate. Fate lacks control. You can't control your destiny unless you are free from the tyranny of the child creator.