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[Alexandr Korol]

it turns out that nothing is accidental, and all the heavenly bodies are exactly where they must be, in those trajectories, and moving along the exact paths they should. And at the same time, you see, it seems by chance, and yet it is all as it should be. It is as if now, imagine, I simply throw furniture from my left hand, from my left palm, into an empty apartment, but it arranges itself in such a way that even if specialists thought about it for a year, they would not find a better option. And I just tossed it, and it spread itself out into the corners, all the furniture, throughout the apartment as needed. And if later it is calculated, it will turn out that everything was calculated. But I did not calculate it, yet the code of calculation is present within. This is very curious.

Well, since the theme of fortune led us to Tyche, and Tyche and fortune led to the mythological section “chance, accident,” then next, consequently, the theme of fate intertwines and overlaps with all of this. Wikipedia writes that “Fate is the totality of all events and circumstances that are predetermined and primarily influence the existence of a person, a people, etc.; the predetermination of events, actions; doom, fatum, fortuna, lot; a higher power, which may be conceived as nature or a deity; the ancient Greeks personified fate in the form of the Moirai (Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos), Tyche
Ate, Adrasteia, Heimarmene, Ananke; the ancient Romans in the form of the Parcae (Nona, Decima, Morta); a word often found in biographical texts. Fate is one of the key and universal categories of human culture, a mythologeme (Goran), an ontologeme (Losev), describing the fundamental relationship between Man and the World. In it are expressed the centuries-old experience of ‘the nationwide comprehension of freedom and necessity,’ an attempt to name those ‘forces that govern the world order and human behavior.’

The three chief characteristics of fate are totality, unknowability, and independence from human will. In the words of A. F. Losev, “fate is something that moves everything and at the same time is unknowable.” On the one hand, “fate takes no account of anyone or anything,” on the other, “fate, despite its ultimate alienation from those under its influence, does in fact concern itself with each one.” Thus fate is an external force that reduces the human