This is a VERY long post so be aware. (Also, I apologize for any language mistakes, english is not my first language).

Have you ever heard about the story of Oedipus? I have been deeply interested in this greek tragedy since I first read it because of how well it represents my philosophy about the external and internal world.

Giving you a backstory, Greek mythology affirmed the existence of three divine figures, the three Moiras, who, accompanied by other deities, determined the destiny of humans. The moiras were spinners, one of whom spun the thread of life (representing birth), the other wove the thread (representing life itself) and the last cut this thread (representing death).

The greek tragedy tell us the story of Oedipus, son of Laius, King of Thebes, and his wife Jocasta. When consulting the oracle about his son's fate, Laius discovers that Oedipus would kill him and marry Jocasta. Terrified, Laius orders a servant to abandon the baby between Thebes and Corinth with his feet tied to a tree so that he dies. However, a shepherd finds Oedipus, and the king of Corinth, Polybus, adopts him and raises him as his legitimate son. Upon becoming an adult, Oedipus consults the oracle, who enlightens him about his sentence cursed by the gods: that he would kill his father and marry his mother. Distraught, Oedipus flees Corinth so that his destiny would not be fulfilled. On the way to Thebes, Oedipus meets Laius, with whom, without knowing that he was his father and the king of Thebes, he has a disagreement, killing him.

At the entrance to Thebes, Oedipus comes across the Sphinx, a mythological figure with the body of a lion and the head of a woman. The sphinx tormented the population of Thebes by asking them riddles, and anyone who did not answer them correctly was killed. Oedipus answers the riddle correctly and the sphinx kills itself after a human answers its riddle, and Oedipus is considered a hero of the Theban people. With no king in the city, Oedipus takes office, marrying the queen, Jocasta, who he did not know was his mother.

Horrified by the death of the king of Thebes, Laius, and without knowing that he killed him, the new king, Oedipus, announces that the murderer, if caught, would have his eyes gouged out as punishment. As the tragedy unfolds, Oedipus discovers that the man he killed was the king of Thebes and his father. Distraught, Oedipus gouged out his own eyes and left the city of Thebes, wandering aimlessly until his death.

The notion of fatalism is expressed in the story, because, no matter how much all the main characters (Oedipus, Laius and Jocasta) tried to escape their destinies, they were unable to do so.

I have been fascinated by this greek tragedy for a long time. Because of how well it shows that no one can hide from fate and that destiny will always arrive. The Chaos theory explains about underlying patterns and deterministic laws of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. The butterfly effect, an underlying principle of chaos, describes how a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state. A metaphor for this behavior is that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil can cause a tornado in Texas. If you are interested, search about the chaotic pendulum experiment.

We can relate to that as unattractive males, a few changes in our genes would bring drastic differences to our lives. A few milimeters of bone (Leg bone), and many other factors that determine attractiveness as a male could bring a dratically positive effect to our romantic/sexual lives. And even though many of us try to run away from if (with self improvement), we still fail. Because, like Oedipus, we try to hide from our fate and from our genes, but, also like Oedipus, we end up just confirming it.

I'm a predeterminist, I believe that every event has a cause that is necessary for it to happen. I also believe that those same causes are determined, written. Either by a physical representation of a divine being or by a concept of fate/destiny.

TLDR: Fate is inevitable, and small changes make huge differences. Finding peace in our destiny is the struggle of our lives, the ultimate task to achieve Karma. To become a better being.