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from you, unlike that woman, and will help you more than himself. And imagine, such a hooligan-joker who drinks beer and often comes late to work and meetings, and has trouble with money, yet his heart is big. Well then, draw your conclusions about how fate will deal with each. And I often tried in different books to hint at this before, and I said that this is called “intention,” and that no matter how beautiful a person may look, no matter how beautifully they present themselves in life, no matter how beautifully they speak, they are deceiving you, that not all that glitters is gold, this is logical. And that these people inside are like a worm-eaten apple. And since I see these souls, I always tried to remind my readers about this, that oh-oh-oh, and you yourselves too, readers, take note, that even if you have never once raised your voice at anyone, you may still have worm-ridden, worm-ridden intentions inside. And I can, you see, swear, but at the same time I never have malicious, slippery, worm-ridden intentions. And where there are worm-ridden intentions, what is always there? Rot, the soul rots. And such people, then all sorts of things happen to them. So it is very important to understand this, to already strive to understand not the human rules of the superficial world of people, but the heavenly ones.

So, what comes next in Wikipedia? “A common feature in the conceptions of fate in the archaic civilizations of the Ancient East was the still weak differentiation of the personal factor, as a result of which man was thought of as largely powerless before fate, whose power leveled all without distinction. The most ancient of the known conceptions of fate are recorded in Sumerian texts of the 3rd to early 2nd millennium BC, where it was designated by the word nam, which was possibly connected with the ‘Angel of Death’ (Nam-tar). Fate is primarily associated with death in the Sumerian poem Gilgamesh and the Land of the Living. At the same time, among the Sumerians there also appear positive conceptions of fate (nam-du — ‘favorable fate’), associated with the demand to ‘correspond as much as possible to one’s essence.’

In Ancient Egypt, fate (shai) was considered predetermined from a person’s very birth and was expressed in the pre-counted years of his life. However,