Life is random. There can be some amazing serendipity which probably isn’t as ‘lucky’ as I might presume they are.

Life is random and is directed by what we put into it, how others effect our lives, disease, natural disasters, how many children or no children, your sexual orientation, etc. It is all a chance, no matter what you put into it. You may work hard and have every opportunity. You look both ways and get hit by a bus anyway. the believer would think that was a terrible way to look at life. It is just reality and reality isn't always pleasant. We do our best and that's it.

Though, I will occasionally invoke some diety's name when playing games of chance to jab my religious friends/collect data on "divine interventions"

We have free will to choose or not to choose what we decide to do no matter what the outcome is, as we can't predict that but we can use something called common sense, which a lot don't use anymore when making choices. Fate is like saying that someone knows someone's destiny. One can make an assumption or draw upon a conclusion to that decision but who's to say what the initial outcome will be.

There is no fate but, the one you choose. Choice and random events but, it is your choices that expose you to those random events.

We are fated to behave in certain ways by our genes, and the universe is fated to heat death.

Fate eliminates choice, and that is unacceptable. In a hall with a hundred doors, there are one hundred choices. One may be influenced in a number of ways, but in the end, the choice is yours. The idea of fate belongs to all those notions of supernatural control and has no place in the mind of a free thinker.

nah i dont

The only "fate" I believe in is the one I create for myself. Sometimes sh__ happens. What matters is how I choose to respond to it and that choice can affect what happens next.

Fate as a consequence of choices or actions not of divine intervention or predetermination.

I believe in free will and the effects of all the choices we make in a life time. No fate, no destiny, and no pre-ordination. I do believe in the oxford comma....

It seems that for some, life tends to take on a purpose. They are led, almost pushed in a particular direction. While others go through life with no apparent direction at all.

Even though I believe in fate I may have a different definition than others. I believe for every action there is a consequence and I see that as fate not some higher power having control or influence over your actions.

yes!

I voted no.
I think that people who believe in fate are more likely to believe in the supernatural, like their life is controlled by some outside force.