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	Fatalism
		Fatalism was present among the ancient Stoics, and it pervades much of the thought of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam.
		Fatalism is in general the view which holds that all events in the history of the world, and, in particular, the actions and incidents which make up the story of each individual life, are determined by fate.
		Fatalism in general has been inclined to overlook immediate antecedents and to dwell rather upon remote and external causes as the agency which somehow moulds the course of events.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txn/fatalism.htm (2428 words)

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		Fatalism is a belief that we have to accept the outcome of events, and that we cannot do anything that will change the outcome, because events are determined by something over which we have no control.
		Fatalism may be consistent with a belief that events are caused by a determining principle or force in the universe, such as God.
		Fatalism can be used to justify failure to prevent personal injury; failure to prevent death; failure to prevent injustice; failure to prevent discrimination, failure to prevent damage to property, failure to prevent damage to the environment.
	www.angelfire.com /md2/timewarp/fatalism.html (1834 words)

	Fatalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fatalism is the view that human deliberation and actions are pointless and ineffectual in determining events, because whatever will be will be.
		Fatalism is a very prominent features in many religions, especially in Islam where the concept kismet forms one of the bases of the faith.
		Traditionally, Christianity has rejected fatalism, though some believe that theological determinism leads to, or is itself, a form of fatalism (an idea largely rejected by determinists themselves).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fatalism (518 words)

	Fatalism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Fatalism is the view that we are powerless to do anything other than what we actually do.
		The interest in arguments for fatalism lies at least as much in the question of how the conclusion may be avoided as in the question of whether it is true.
		If it did we could solve the argument for fatalism which is based on causal determinism simply by pointing out that, if determinism is true, the fact that Jones will mow the lawn is entailed by a proposition about initial conditions and laws of nature, so that the latter is merely a soft fact.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/fatalism (8396 words)

	Timeless Block-Universe Determinism
		Fatalism merely claims that the future is frozen, predecided -- not that that future is orderly or predictable.
		Fatalism is superior, except for the misconceptions about it that distort what it really asserts and does not assert.
		My theory of block-universe fatalism, or block universe determinism, is driven by explanatory coherence and explanatory power which reconciles the facts of the world where these facts have been out of joint and unreconciled for ages.
	www.egodeath.com /blockuniversedeterminism.htm (7150 words)

	Purtill on Fatalism and Truth
		Richard Purtill's recent contribution to the fatalism debate does not, I think, succeed in the author's intent of proving that the omnitemporality of truth implies fatalism, nor that the past is unchangeable in a non- trivial sense, nor that the consequences of his argument are not detrimental to logic and theology.
		Richard Purtill's recent contribution to the fatalism debate does not, I think, succeed in the author's intent of proving that the omnitemporality of truth implies fatalism, nor that the past is unchangeable in a non-trivial sense, nor that the consequences of his argument are not detrimental to logic and theology.
		First, by "fatalism" he means the doctrine "that there is nothing we can do now which will make any statement about the future either true or false."{1} But this is not at all what fatalism holds.
	www.leaderu.com /offices/billcraig/docs/purtill.html (2304 words)

	PCC NTIAGQ, 26 Nov 2000: Calvinism is Fatalism Since God Decreed All Things Unchangeably?
		I suppose that by ‘fatalism’ you are referring to the thinking or philosophy that all things are fated to happen by inevitable destiny or necessity.
		Fatalism, if it believes in the existence of God at all, presupposes a god who is impersonal, powerless and who does not care, whereas Calvinism presupposes a God who is personal, sovereign and caring.
		Fatalism would insist that whatever happens, the elect will somehow be dragged into the kingdom of God, while the reprobate is prevented from entering the kingdom of God no matter how he pleads to be let in.
	www76.pair.com /lbc/weeklyQA/wklyQA_001126.htm (523 words)

	"Objections to the Doctrine of Predestination Answered " by Loraine Boettner
		Fatalism holds that all events come to pass through the working of a blind, unintelligent, impersonal, non-moral force which cannot be distinguished from physical necessity, and which carries us helplessly within its grasp as a mighty river carries a piece of wood.
		Fatalism, with its idea of irresistible, impersonal, abstract power, has no room for moral ideas, while Predestination makes these the rule of action for God and man. Fatalism has no place for and offers no incentives to religion, love, mercy, holiness, justice, or wisdom, while Predestination gives these the strongest conceivable basis.
		Luther says that the doctrine of Fatalism among the heathen is a proof that “the knowledge of Predestination and of the prescience of God, was no less left in the world than the notion of divinity itself.” In the history of philosophy Materialism has proven itself essentially fatalistic.
	www.the-highway.com /objections1_Boettner.html (1098 words)

	NursingCenter (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thus, cancer fatalism, as viewed by Powe and Johnson, 9 is a situational manifestation of fatalism in which individuals may feel powerless in the face of cancer and may view a diagnosis of cancer as a struggle against insurmountable odds.
		The authors defined fatalism as “health being a matter of fate or luck and beyond an individual's control.” This definition is the same as the one proposed by Vetter and colleagues 15 and Sugarek and colleagues, 16 but these studies were not specific to cancer screening.
		While cancer fatalism is believed to play a role in a patient's decision to participate in breast, cervical, colorectal, and skin cancer screening, only the studies by Powe 7 and Powe and Weinrich 35 offered free screening as a part of the research design.
	www.nursingcenter.com /prodev/cearticleprint.asp?CE_ID=445857 (7568 words)

	FATALISM (Jewish Encyclopedia) - BibleWiki
		The most striking example of fatalism found in the Talmud is the legend concerning Eleazar ben Pedat.
		This amora, being in very straitened circumstances, asked God in a dream how long he would suffer from his poverty, whereupon God answered him: "My son, wouldst thou have me overthrow the world?" (Ta'anit 25a), meaning thereby that Eleazar's poverty could not be helped because it was his fate to be poor.
		Strange as it may seem, the leading idea of this form of fatalism was nothing else than the deep-rooted belief in free will in matters of religion and morality.
	bible.tmtm.com /wiki/FATALISM_(Jewish_Encyclopedia) (561 words)

	Fatalism
		Fatalism is pretty obviously false, but we want to make sure no one gets demoralized by a naturalism that understands all our behavior as fully a function of environment and heredity.
		Since fatalism, as a response to the non-existence of free will, is a deeply mistaken response, one that confuses determinism for powerlessness, we needn’t pretend to have free will just to avoid it.
		As we’ve seen, fatalism (and some less virulent forms of being despondent about determinism) –; is determined by the reaching the false conclusion that it doesn’t matter what one does, that one’s fate is determined to be a particular outcome whatever one does.
	www.naturalism.org /fatalism.htm (2515 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Fatalism
		Fatalism is in general the view which holds that all events in the
		Fatalism in general has been inclined to overlook immediate antecedents and to dwell rather upon remote and external
		The Refutation of Fatalism of all types lies in the absurd and incredible consequences which they all entail.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05791a.htm (1261 words)

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		Abstract This paper will address the issue of fatalism from a sociological perspective and ask the question, “is there such a thing as Islamic fatalism?” As discussed previously, fatalism may stem, as Durkheim argued, from structural conditions such as inequality or extreme over regulation leading to what I have called structural fatalism.
		Due to the strong religious themes that are associated with analogic fatalism, I would however, predict religiosity to affect analogic fatalism in the expected direction with analogic fatalism decreasing, that is, more power is to cosmological forces, as measures of religiosity increase.
		And while one criticism could be an error in operationalizing analogic fatalism as a measure of religiosity it is also important to note that models measuring differences in analogic fatalism have controlled for religiosity so that these differences are consistent while holding views on religion constant.
	www.yale.edu /ccr/acevedo2.doc (9657 words)

	Essay36. On Fatalism
		Fatalism seems to have meaning only in context of a larger doctrine and this may be true about any other esoteric belief.
		If fatalism is a belief in an existence of some plan, design, and general course of life which is impossible to change, then fate may have an interpretation other than a mystical power or the will of gods.
		Fatalism, remarkably, has not one but two other ends of its scale, as if it were a two-dimension object.
	users.ids.net /~yuri/Essay36.html (4597 words)

	What is fatalism? What is determinism?
		Fatalism: The belief that "what will be will be," since all past, present, and future events have already been predetermined by God or another all-powerful force.
		In religion, this view may be called predestination; it holds that whether our souls go to heaven or hell is determined before we are born and is independent of our good deeds.
		Theological fatalism is an attempt to demonstrate a logical contradiction between an omniscient God and free will, where free will is defined as the ability to choose between alternatives.
	www.gotquestions.org /fatalism.html (1169 words)

	The Standard Argument for Fatalism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		So fatalism does not follow from the possibility (or existence, even) of some isolated "no win" situations in which the outcome is "fated" whatever we might do.
		Thus, as an argument for fatalism, the standard argument employs (2+), and (2+) is false.
		In order to have an argument for fatalism, the premise must be formulated in a way that indexes the second occurrence of K to the same world to which 'I take P' is indexed.
	www.niu.edu /phil/~buller/fatal.html (5193 words)

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		Fatalism is a pernicious doctrine as II Peter 2:1-3 states and many have followed their pernicious ways.
		Fatalism is dangerous doctrine and one who "contends for the faith, once delivered unto the saints" will certainly be contending against fatalism.
		We have tried to expose "fatalism" for what it truly is and show you some of the subtle ways it creeps in among God's people.
	members.aol.com /libcfl2/fatal2.htm (3488 words)

	Tachyons, Time Travel, and Divine Omniscience
		The problem of theological fatalism seemed especially acute since God's foreknowledge of some future event is itself a fact of past history and therefore temporally necessary; that is to say, it no longer has any potential to be otherwise.
		Our discussion of theological fatalism, however, makes the flaw in the reasoning clear: the fact that one has received a call from oneself entails not that one is not free to refrain from placing the call, but only that one will not in fact refrain from placing it.
		Further, the opponent of fatalism maintains that, if the contingent event were not to occur, then different propositions would have been true and God's foreknowledge would have been otherwise; the proponent of time travel contends that, if such rockets were to be built and function properly, then the timelike loops would not exist.
	www.leaderu.com /offices/billcraig/docs/tachyons.html (6496 words)

	Iranica.com - FATALISM
		What is also of significance concerning notions of fate and in the context of folklore and popular religion is the vast repertoire of metaphorical expressions, idiomatic phrases, and personifications of fate in the Persian language, attesting to a long history of belief in fatalism in the cultural history of Persia.
		The influence of fatalism, combined with the belief in the omnipotence of the Almighty, can also be detected in everyday rules of conduct.
		Astrological determinism, i.e., the belief in a pre-determined destiny ruled by the configurations of the planets and the stars which is the basis of astrology has been an extremely influential and tenacious belief in Persia in spite of strong opposition from religious authorities (Ebn Abi'l-H®ad^d, VI, pp.
	www.iranica.com /articles/v9f4/v9f423.html (1458 words)

	Fatalism - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Fatalism, doctrine that all events occur according to a fixed and inevitable destiny that individual will neither controls nor affects.
		Atomic Bomb : popular culture and the bomb: increasing fatalism
		The creation of nuclear weapons in particular has fundamentally altered contemporary apocalyptic thought, evoking widespread fatalism about the...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Fatalism.html (86 words)

	Vincent Cheung @ RMIWEB » Blog Archive » Determinism vs. Fatalism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		By "fatalism," I refer to the teaching that all events are predetermined by impersonal forces regardless of means, so that no matter what a person does, the same outcome will result.
		In fact, it is as different from fatalism as theism is different from paganism and atheism, since I affirm that all things are determined by the personal and sovereign God, and not by "blind, irrational forces."
		Under "fatalism" (as properly defined above), an event is predetermined in such a way that the same outcome will result "no matter what you do," that is, regardless of means.
	www.vincentcheung.com /2005/05/14/determinism-vs-fatalism (1084 words)

	Fatalism and true prophecy
		Fatalism is generally the belief that events are determined by fate and that nothing can be done to change it's outcome.
		Of course this is in conflict with the theory of free will, which allows people the freedom to choose their actions, which are not predetermined by any force other than their own will.
		Fatalism may be consistent with a belief that events are caused by a determining principle or force in the universe, such as God who determines everything.
	nostradamus.time-loops.net /Fatalism.htm (273 words)

	Search Results for "fatalism"
		...with graceful irony the determining forces of human history and environment; this fatalism characterizes all his novels.
		His early novels show the influence of Russian fatalism; De Vlaschaard (1907), his masterpiece, strikes a more optimistic note....
		His doctrines of apparent fatalism aroused the Pietists to secure his banishment, which he spent as...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?query=fatalism&db=db&filter=col65&Submit=Go (111 words)

	Jim Geraghty on Terminator 3 & Matrix Reloaded & Fatalism on National Review Online
		The concepts of predestination and fatalism have been central to some of the world's religions for centuries — most prominently in Calvinism and Islam.
		But the effect of Islam's fatalism on the extremists at the faith's fringes has been clear: The idea that every decision has already been made and every event reflects God's will has been used as an easy justification for terrorism.
		Earlier this year, Methodist minister and retired army officer Donald Sensing tackled how Islam's fatalism can be used to condone the effects of terrorism.
	www.nationalreview.com /geraghty/geraghty071103.asp (1073 words)

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