Come into My Tent, Stranger

Can fight fate = yes, I would want to know.
Can't fight fate = no, I wouldn't.

If it's inevitable, why know? It's not like you can do anything about it and it would just make life boring. Whether or not fate can be fought could be found with a simple test.

As for what I'd do? Assuming I have the cooperation of the fortune teller, I'd try to get it scientifically tested, so we can build a theory and improve our knowledge of the universe.

Nope. Mainly because I don't like spoilers!

My astrologer says that when you look at someone's future it's about knowing where you're headed, what path you're on, not that anything is set in stone so if I knew where I was headed I could do something to avoid the bad things or change the bad trends in my life. So yeah. I'd definitely want to know.

I don't know if I'd want to be able to do it myself though. That might be, I dunno, too much responsibility for me if people found out I could do that.

Noo that's freaky. They might tell you something you don't want to hear, and you try to avoid it, but avoiding leads you right into the horrible fate. I'd hate knowing I was gonna die soon.

I'd let life run its course, and not have me knowing what would happen to me.

Curiosity kills the cat, they say. This being a perfect example. I would certainly give in to the temptation to learn everything I can about my future simply because I'm an incredibly nosy person who, especially related to things about me, will take the time to pry every detail about something until I have everything I need.

...But your questions really reinforce a thought that I put across in a reply to a blog entry I stated.

If I was told I'd be killed by a car two weeks from the meeting, I would stay in the house that week. If I told that I would die because a murderer came into my house through a window, I would do anything I can to make sure that that didn't happen. I would try to fight the grim fates that the fortune teller gave me from occurring, yes. I would embrace the successes that she would read to me, and happily jump over the moon when I hear them. As a paranoid person, I will probably think of other ways that the event could happen, especially if the fortune wasn't very specific (like being killed by a car, instead of being murdered by a murderer who came into my house through a window).

I do think that there is an overlying destiny for all of us, and the things we do are predestined. But I'm very fickle in things, so there's no telling if I will still believe that if something like this were to happen. Part of me that is very adamant about fate believes that it will indeed catch up to me and make it happen, while another part of me thinks that the precaution from resisting it to happen will be enough to change it. But that leads me to question if that in itself would have been part of (as I said early) the overlying destiny. Like a page out of a book that will have affects to the characters and clash with the pages afterwards. I guess I do think that changing fates is possible, if it's known early enough to do anything about it.

I'd definitely want to know what my future is, provided that I'm told my path to the future is the right one. If it's not, then I'd just forget about it.

Ohai Minority Report!

As much as I'd probably say 'No, I don't want to know'. Me and my stupid compulsive nature would probably go back to the fortune teller eventually. The mere planting of the 'possibility' of knowing this stuff is almost as bad as knowing it in the first place... that's how my brain works for some weird-ass reason.

Although learning of the fates of others sounds interesting. Friends and family don't seem as removed... but if you could do it for, say, celebrities or something, I'd probably get a good kick of that!

I kind of believe you would be able to change it depending on what you decide to do until you find out because the fortune teller tells you what happens and you believe it. So if she told you you'd get hit by a car and you believed it and tried to avoid it by staying inside you would get because the car would hit your house either way. Oh wait. This makes no sense...

No. Because I would be completely paranoid about everything. Life would be boring because I would know what job I will have and everything that happens in my life I would know. Not something I would want.

No, I wouldn't. Most I might ask about is like... "what would have happened if I'd done [something] differently?" out of sheer curiosity, but even then I'd hesitate to do that because what if it was something important and I could have been in a much better place than I am right now? Would I dwell on it enough that it distracts me from the life I ended up with?

Mind you, I don't believe in telling the future or fate or anything like that, so I most likely wouldn't believe her anyway. :x

Reminds me of Slaughterouse 5. Anyhow, I really wouldn't want to know, I like to wake up each day, not knowing what to expect, and to be honest, I don't think you can really do anything to prevent what is fated to be, so I wouldn't be a recluse for the rest of my life, just to save myself from death.

Honestly, I really wouldn't want to know. Life is meant to be lived in the moment, not knowing what's supposed to happen in the future. If you don't enjoy all the little moments in life and make sure that you've done everything you can to make every day the best that it can possibly be, you're going to end up with regrets. If you found out that you were to die two weeks in the future from a car accident, you're now wasting all the time that could be spent enjoying life with paranoia, fear, and overall depression about death.

But then again, most of this boils down the a belief that fate and destiny truly exist, but that's an entire different topic =P

I wouldn't, personally. My paranoia is bad enough; I don't need to know all the bad things that are going to happen to me in advance. It'd just make it worse! Besides, what's the point of living life when you know what's going to happen? If you look too deeply, there are no more surprises, and that's just boring.

If I magically gained fortune-telling powers, I wouldn't even tell people I had them. I'd probably get bogged down with requests from friends and family members, if they believed me that is. Even if I was getting paid for it, I'd hate it. :/ That, and I'd be afraid that I'd let the power consume me -- if I did it for others, I'd start doing it for myself, and I'd get too reliant on it, thus life would become boring.

Once the fortune teller told me that s/he could, it would probably eat at me and I'd want to go see what my future 'holds'. I'd probably just ask a few questions like 'Would I do this....' or 'Am I really going to do this....', other than those small questions I wouldn't really ask anything else.

there has to be a joke in here somewhere :(

Pardon my almost-double post, but this is Poll of the Week!

*stickies*

No. Not to mention that there isn't anything like fate, it's just a belief people put in for reasons I do not care about. You decide your fate. You can't control everything, but most of the choices are open for you.

By the way, let's say I can see the future of someone asking me to come into a random tent.. I won't spoil you, but I don't see anything positive.