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| user_21 Newbie United States Joined 5366 days ago 7 posts - 7 votes | Message 1 of 19 19 March 2010 at 6:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Forgive me if this is OT.
In a movie I saw a scene where a woman asks a man if he believes in destiny when meeting someone (soulamte). He asnwered "No I don't. I believe it is all ******. People meet because they happen to be in the right place at the right time." There is a word describing this incidence. I just can't seem to remember it. Does anyone know it? The word is not: coincidence, chance, synchronicity or...it's a small world. Edited by user_21 on 19 March 2010 at 7:05pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6785 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes  Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 2 of 19 19 March 2010 at 6:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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fate?
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| Quabazaa Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5611 days ago 414 posts - 543 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, French Studies: Japanese, Korean, Maori, Scottish Gaelic, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Written) | Message 3 of 19 19 March 2010 at 7:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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synchronicity?
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| user_21 Newbie United States Joined 5366 days ago 7 posts - 7 votes | Message 4 of 19 19 March 2010 at 7:06pm | IP Logged | ||
No. It's a descriptive term that has latin roots i wish to add. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5969 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 19 19 March 2010 at 7:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Karma?
I've heard the word used in the way you've described it. (not Latin though) NOUN: 1. Hinduism & Buddhism The total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person's existence, regarded as determining the person's destiny. 2. Fate; destiny. 3. Informal A distinctive aura, atmosphere, or feeling: There's bad karma around the house today. ETYMOLOGY: Sanskrit, deed, action that has consequences, karma; see kwer- in Indo-European roots 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| snoppingasusual Quadrilingual Hexaglot Groupie Lebanon Joined 5569 days ago 49 posts - 65 votes Speaks: Arabic (Egyptian), French*, English*, Arabic (Written)*, Arabic (Levantine)*, Spanish | Message 6 of 19 19 March 2010 at 7:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think that the word you are looking for is "fortune."
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| OlafP Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5437 days ago 261 posts - 667 votes Speaks: German*, French, English | Message 7 of 19 19 March 2010 at 7:34pm | IP Logged | ||
Fate, karma, synchronicity cannot be right, because they are more or less synonyms to destiny. The guy says that he does not believe in that. Instead:
Sounds like a mathematician to me. From a calculus of probability point of view this is perfectly correct. People tend to think that unlikely events contradict probablility, but they actually support it. The funniest thing is, though, that it's often scientifically inclined people who insist on the reality of free will, whereas there is no room for it in science at all. All scientific models strive for deterministic descriptions. Man is a pack of contradictions. BTW, I have no clue what that word could be. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5383 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 8 of 19 19 March 2010 at 7:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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probability?
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