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Originally Posted by ilovetv
Actually, only God can "control" or prevent any of this.
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This is called defeatism: a mind set of expecting, accepting, or being resigned to defeat. We might as well shut down the science of nutrition and health because everything is hopeless.
I once had an obese neighbor who believed that, "your days are numbered by God from when you're born". So, no matter what you do, it's not going to help you or hurt you. If God intends you to live to the age of 65 or 75, that's it, you can't change it no matter what.
So, once a person says something like that, you should know that you can't have a logical conversation with that person. In her case, it was a fiction that allowed her to continue her addiction to fast food. About the last 8 years of her life consisted of her health going steadily down hill. She often wondered aloud, "where are my golden years?" But she never let up on her fast food addiction and eventually died from a massive stroke.
One thing I learned from her is that you can't reason with someone who believes that everything is determined in advance by a higher power.