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fatalism

The view that the future is fixed, irrespective of our attempts to affect it. Seldom held as a philosophical doctrine, fatalism has been influential as an attitude towards life (as in Stoicism) and as a literary theme (for example, in the Oedipus legend).



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Before we fatalistically fall into the perspective that a sane, Christian country on earth is an exercise in futility, let us reflect on the Dark Ages, before we fall into our own: the barbaric Goths were converted to Catholicism and built the Gothic cathedrals
The two sides played their roles with deadly seriousness, the Confederates keeping fatalistically stiff upper lips and happily running to their imagined deaths.
In a sudden twist in the plot, Bob fatalistically begins to "perform" in the script against him -- that of a black man's stereotypically innate lust for white women that putatively justifies his brutal lynching.
 
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