Do you believe in fate, karma, destiny or any of that stuff, why or why not? 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. –verb (used with object) 7.  to predetermine, as by the decree of fate; destine (used in the passive): a person who was fated to be the savior of the country. Karma generic acomplia – –noun 1.  Hinduism, Buddhism . action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation: in Hinduism one of the means of reaching Brahman. Compare bhakti ( def. 1 ) , jnana. 2.  Theosophy . [...]