King Laius went to the oracle to learn he would die at the hands of his son. So, he tempted fate and left his son to die. If you lived back then, would you go to the oracle to learn your future? Would you want to know of evil that may come your way? Why?
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Back in that time I think that I would not want to know my future. If I did know my future and it was bad I would try to change it. If it was good then I would try to hurry it along.If there was any evil coming my way I would want to know. that way I can prepare myself for whatever is coming. Knowing my luck though it would be something completely horrid.
ReplyDeleteGoing to the oracle during this time period was a common thing to do. Personally, I do not think that I would go. I would be scared to learn of any evil in my life. If I learned that there was anything bad coming to me I would spend my entire life trying to avoid it. Living scared is no way to live. I would want to live my life and whatever happens, happens.
ReplyDeleteif i lived back in this time i wouldnt of wanted to know my future. if there was evil coming my way, i'd deal with it as it came, if something happens it happens. in opedius case he ran away from home to figure out that he was destine to kill his parents. in fear he would he fled. which caused him to kill his biological parents in which he was unaware of. if he wouldnt of went to the oracle to figure out his fate he wouldnt of had a problem and no one would of been put in harms way. if he would of just stayed in his happy life with his unbioloical parents there would of been no guilt for him to live with. learning about his future didnt push him into anything good, it pushed him into harms way. therefor it caused him greef and anger for him to deal with for the rest of his life. nothing postive came from him learning his "future".
ReplyDeletePersonally, if I had lived back in that time I would not want to learn of my future. The Oracle at the Temple of Delphi's visions were always correct and could not be evaded. Although they would never fail to be wrong, they weren't always the way the person thought they would turn out. Of course, an example of this is in Oedipus Rex, and another is when someone went to the Oracle of Delphi and asked about who would win the war. The oracle said "A great empire will fall." Of course the person thought they'd win, however, it was their own empire that fell. So if I had a false vision, I would be pretty PO'd.
ReplyDeleteIf I lived back then, I would not go to an oracle to see my future. First, is because if I new something bad was going to come my way, I would live my life feeling worried and afraid and I wouldn't want that. Also, if I knew something good was going to come my way, when it actually comes, I'm not going to be excited anymore because I knew it was already going to happen. If King Laios hadn't went to the oracle, he wouldn't have known what was going to happen and tempt the fate of him and his family. So nothing good came out of Laios going to the oracle. I would rather live my life without any weight on my shoulders and deal with my problems as they come.
ReplyDeleteI certainly wouldn't go to the oracle and learn of my future because i dont need to worry about things that hav not occurred yet, and i wouldnt want to try to prevent what is inevitable. The Gods are over controlling and i would try to raise a rebellion agianst them to rid the world of their infamous folly with the greek peoples personal lives.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't go to the oracle for the exact reason of knowing the future. Sometimes its for the best to let fate take control. Maybe he needed to die for a very good reason and now his son has to pay for his actions. I do not blame Lauis for doing that. I blame the fact of humans always having the will to live, which can turn for the worst. The oracle could have been wrong all the same. There could be many reasons but we shall never know.
ReplyDeleteIf i lived back in that time i would never go to an oracle. I would not want to know if there was evil in my future. Once I learned about my future I would spend the rest of my life dwelling on every word i heard. I would rather just live my life and not just wait for what the oracle told me to happen.Some things are ment to happen, and like in the story no matter how hard you try to change them it is still ment to happen.So if people learned to knowledge of their future it would dictate the rest of their lives because they may not like what they hear and want to change it.
ReplyDeleteIf I lived in this time, I would go to the oracle to find out my fate.It would be interesting to find out things about your life that you don't know yet. I would mostly like to know when I was going to die. I would like to know because if I was going to die while im young, I would live my life differently than if i was going to live to be old. Whether the oracle predicted a good fate or bad, I would just live my life. It's not like living differently because of the oracle would change anything. It would still come true. So, I would like to know my fate.
ReplyDeleteKnowing your future seems like an attractive prospect, but ultimately it would only make a life back then unpleasant. I'd only live my life according to the guidelines of the prophecy and how I interpreted them. I think it would deter me from leading the best life I could, in fear of muddling up the destiny that the gods had in mind for me. Any evil in the portent of the future that the Oracle revealed to me would haunt my mind in the years to come. It was folly for King Laius to attempt to defy the will of the gods. Which is why back then, I would steer clear of any oracle or seer.
ReplyDeleteIf i had the chance to go the oracle i would try to resist. I feel that if i knew what my fate was i would have to do everything i could to change any evil thing that was coming my way. Instead i would work to live my life to the fullest and put my faith in god. Because if i knew what was going to happen i would constantly be trying to prepare for the worst and be living in fear which would drive me insane. I feel it would ruin the life that i had left to live since life is full of surprises, if there weren't any than it wouldn't be called life.
ReplyDeleteIf I lived back then I wouldn't go to the oracle. I would never want to spend my life worrying about when I was going to die. I think knowing the future would make me go crazy. You have to live like your dying without being scared, and if I knew my fate I would be terrified I would want my life to just play out how its supposed to be. That's why I would never go to a orcale to learn my fate.
ReplyDeleteIf i lived during this time i would most deffitaly not go to the oracle and find out what my future held for me. If I was to find out that there was some kind of evil coming my way in the future i would always be trying to do whatever it look to make it not happen instead of living my life to the fullest. I would live everyday in fear wondering if thats the day something bad would happen. If somethings ment to happen its normally going to happen no matter how hard anyone trys to stop it. So back then if i had the chance to find my fate out i would deffitally not do it.
ReplyDeleteif i was alive at this time i would'nt go to an oracle to learn my fate. i want to be suprised by my life. even the good things. i think its more exciting to be suprised than to know whats coming. if i knew that something bad was going to happen i would do anything to prevent it. i would be worried every day knowing that something bad was going to happen. i would rather live my life not knowing what was going to happen then to know that something bad was coming.
ReplyDeleteFate the topic to me is very disputable. Many people want to know their fate others just want to live life for today. Personally I feel that fate is can determine how things will turn out, but I also believe that fate is always changing. So no I would not want to know my future. For one I want to live life to the fullest and if I am going to die then ok I don’t want to but ok. Another thing is that when you know the future you sometimes are so cautious that you cause the very thing that you were trying to stop to from happening. In case you are unaware of it by now my answer is no I would stay far away from Apollo’s oracle at Delphi.
ReplyDeleteIf I lived back then, I would not want to know my fate. My whole life I would be thinking if it will come true. Instead of doing what I want in life, I would being trying to change my fate. It would drive me insane if I knew my fate. I would worry about everything I do because somehow it would lead me even more to my fate. If my fate would happen back then, I would not want to know about it.
ReplyDeleteIf given the chance to see my future was actually possible, I would rather live my life not knowing what it had in store for me. Back then, being able to know what your future was would be a privelage, what they didn't know, is that your future will always depend on the choices you make during earlier years. Knowing my fate would make me want to seclude myself from the world. But if I was smart enough to know that you only have one life, I would never want to know how, and when my life is to end. So to me, I believe knowing your future is a great and powerful thing, but it ruins the life in which you have left to live. I would never want to experience such a bad predicament.
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I would not want to go to the oracle to know my future. I believe knowing my future and my evils will only make it worse. If you spend your hole life hiding from what may kill you or something that will hurt you your wasting your life. If it is your time to go then it is your time to go dont try to fight it. Knowing your future also takes exitement out of life .This is why i think knowing your fate and evils is bad.
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ReplyDeleteIf it was me and I had the chance to go to the oracal I think i would not go. There is a good reason why I would not want to go. I would not want to know what is going to happen in the future. If the news was bad I would become so parinoid about it happen I would become insane. Even if it was good news I would not want to find out the news that way, I would of liked to be surpised with the good news and not spoil it. So to me that is a good reason why I would not of went to an oracal to learn my future