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In reply to the discussion: A thought on the horrifying airplane accident over France: [View all]Fla Dem
(23,352 posts)If they hadn't gone on that vacation, gone on that business trip, if they hadn't been on time, if they had booked a different fight, if the pilot hadn't stepped out of the cockpit. All of that conspired to have them on that flight. When, for whatever trigger of fate caused the co-pilot to decide to murder 105 people, and so he did.
FATE
noun
1. something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot:
It is always his fate to be left behind.
2. the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed; the decreed cause of events; time:
Fate decreed that they would never meet again.
3. that which is inevitably predetermined; destiny:
Death is our ineluctable fate.
4. a prophetic declaration of what must be:
The oracle pronounced their fate.
5. death, destruction, or ruin.
6. the Fates, Classical Mythology. the three goddesses of destiny, known to the Greeks as the Moerae and to the Romans as the Parcae.