In The Beginning Behind The Legend
In The Beginning
Written and Researched By:
Rene (aka EdenWrites)
Things we learned
Mary Campbell Winchester was a hunter from a family of hunters.
John Winchester was from a family of mechanics.
Sam and Dean were named after their paternal grandparents, Deanna and Samuel Campbell. (I find this odd since you would think John would have used a name from his family also-why just Mary’s family)
Mary made a deal with Azazel to save John’s life.
Mary’s deal was the reason Sam was fed demon blood at six months old.
Mary’s deal was also the reason she died when she walked in on the demon, Azazel.
John Winchester was totally unaware of Mary’s former life as a hunter.
Castiel said that we cannot change the past; all roads lead to the same destination.
Castiel does believe that what has not happened can be changed.
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From Merriam Webster Dictionary online
Main Entry:
des·tine
Pronunciation:
\ˈdes-tən\
Function:
transitive verb
Inflected Form(s):
des·tined; des·tin·ing
Etymology:
Middle English, from Anglo-French destiner, from Latin destinare, from de- + -stinare (akin to Latin stare to stand) — more at stand
Date:
14th century
1: to decree beforehand : predetermine 2a: to designate, assign, or dedicate in advance <the younger son was destined for the priesthood> <a trait that destines them to failure> 2b: to direct, devise, or set apart for a specific purpose or place <freight destined for European ports>
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Destiny, information from wikipedia
Destiny refers to a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual. It is a concept based on the belief that there is a fixed natural order to the universe.
Mary Campbell Winchester was a hunter from a family of hunters.
John Winchester was from a family of mechanics.
Sam and Dean were named after their paternal grandparents, Deanna and Samuel Campbell. (I find this odd since you would think John would have used a name from his family also-why just Mary’s family)
Mary made a deal with Azazel to save John’s life.
Mary’s deal was the reason Sam was fed demon blood at six months old.
Mary’s deal was also the reason she died when she walked in on the demon, Azazel.
John Winchester was totally unaware of Mary’s former life as a hunter.
Castiel said that we cannot change the past; all roads lead to the same destination.
Castiel does believe that what has not happened can be changed.
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From Merriam Webster Dictionary online
Main Entry:
des·tine
Pronunciation:
\ˈdes-tən\
Function:
transitive verb
Inflected Form(s):
des·tined; des·tin·ing
Etymology:
Middle English, from Anglo-French destiner, from Latin destinare, from de- + -stinare (akin to Latin stare to stand) — more at stand
Date:
14th century
1: to decree beforehand : predetermine 2a: to designate, assign, or dedicate in advance <the younger son was destined for the priesthood> <a trait that destines them to failure> 2b: to direct, devise, or set apart for a specific purpose or place <freight destined for European ports>
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Destiny, information from wikipedia
Destiny refers to a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual. It is a concept based on the belief that there is a fixed natural order to the universe.
Concepts of Destiny and Fate
Destiny may be envisaged as fore-ordained by the Divine (for example, the Protestant concept of predestination) or by human will (for example, the American concept of Manifest Destiny).
Destiny may be envisaged as fore-ordained by the Divine (for example, the Protestant concept of predestination) or by human will (for example, the American concept of Manifest Destiny).
A sense of destiny in its oldest human sense is in the soldier's fatalistic image of the "bullet that has your name on it" or the moment when your number "comes up," or a romance that was "meant to be." The human sense that there must be a hidden purpose in the random lottery governs the selection of Theseus to be among the youths to be sacrificed to the Minotaur.
Destiny may be seen either as a fixed sequence of events that is inevitable and unchangeable, or that individuals choose their own destiny by choosing different paths throughout their life. Destiny is fate, fate is destiny.
Destiny vs Fate
Although the words are used interchangeably in many cases, fate and destiny can be distinguished. Modern usage defines fate as a power or agency that predetermines and orders the course of events. Fate defines events as ordered or "inevitable". Fate is used in regard to the finality of events as they have worked themselves out; and that same sense of finality, projected into the future to become the inevitability of events as they will work themselves out, is Destiny. In classical and European mythology, there are three goddesses dispensing fate, The "Fates" known as Moirae in Greek mythology, as Parcae in Roman mythology, and Norns in Norse mythology; they determine the events of the world through the mystic spinning of threads that represent individual human destinies.
Although the words are used interchangeably in many cases, fate and destiny can be distinguished. Modern usage defines fate as a power or agency that predetermines and orders the course of events. Fate defines events as ordered or "inevitable". Fate is used in regard to the finality of events as they have worked themselves out; and that same sense of finality, projected into the future to become the inevitability of events as they will work themselves out, is Destiny. In classical and European mythology, there are three goddesses dispensing fate, The "Fates" known as Moirae in Greek mythology, as Parcae in Roman mythology, and Norns in Norse mythology; they determine the events of the world through the mystic spinning of threads that represent individual human destinies.
One word derivative of "fate" is "fatality", another "fatalism". Fate implies no choice, and ends fatally, with a death. Fate is an outcome determined by an outside agency acting upon a person or entity; but with destiny the entity is participating in achieving an outcome that is directly related to itself. Participation happens willfully.
Used in the past tense, "destiny" and "fate" are both more interchangeable, both imply "one's lot" or fortunes, and include the sum of events leading up to a currently achieved outcome (e.g. "it was her destiny to be leader" and "it was her fate to be leader").
Fate can involve things which are bound within and subject to larger networks. A set of mathematical functions arranged in a grid and interacting in defined ways is Fatelike. Likewise the individual statues in a larger work of counterpoint art are aesthetically Fated within the work. In each case Fate is external to every individual component, but integral to the network. Every component acts as Fate for every other component. The entire world can be seen as existing within such a network, a kind of mythical spiderweb controlled by unseen forces.
Fortune and Destiny (Gad and Meni) appear as gods in Isaiah 65:11.
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What is Destiny? Is there Free Will?
http://www.akgupta.com/Thoughts/destiny.htm
An excerpt:
One of the greatest and everlasting debates of humanity has been about the role of destiny in the lives of human beings. There was a time when it was almost an accepted fact of life that each and every event was governed by destiny of human beings. Astrology was considered a science. Then with the advent of modern times the importance of role of destiny as a concept started losing weight. Today, belief in destiny is considered a superstition by majority of people. And rightly so, since there seems to be no evidence for the irrevocability of destiny.