I believe things happen for a reason. They were meant to happen as they did/how they did/when they did for whatever reason - even do we not see the how/why/reasoning. And I believe this is an indicator of fate working.
I believe Karma will knock you on your ass for a wrong and give back for a right - but not all the time. One cannot believe in such ("what goes around, comes around" or "they will get theirs someday") without believing a bit in fate (IMO).
One can FIND anything (good/bad) if they look hard enough and talk themselves into a resolution or result. Kinda like reading a horoscope at the end of the day and finding a way to make it "fit" your actual day. Or reading it before commencing your day and putting yourself in a situation that makes the prophacy seem truth. Or reading the examples in the OP and finding fault or excuse in the reasoning behind what the fella told when it may be totally honest. Just like THERE could ACTUALLY be deceit by the fella and one could explain it away for not wishing to see that something does not seem to make sense in his tellings.
People can create a situation they wish for or wish NOT to have, just with their own actions/reactions in a given instance - some of the time.
I believe free will can affect outcomes in some things, but I also believe that things are gonna (or not) happen sometimes, no matter the will of the one trying to evoke (or thwart) such happening.
Good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people (sometimes in spades too). That is luck of the draw - or fate in my opinion. Or it would not happen. Good would always gravitate to those who are good and bad would gravitate to those who are bad. Now, again, this is just my opinion. But, distribution of good and bad across the board seems more fated than it does reward or punishment for being or living a certain way.
YEAH. I believe in signs.
Bodies alert (in some cases, many more than people realize) to danger. Seen or unseen.
We get heebie-geebies for some things we hear/see and know are off without being able to put a finger on why.
We sometimes can ask ourselves a question and instantly an answer will come back to us in our minds. When we fail to listen to that voice, we sometimes find we should have.
So, yeah I believe in signs. I believe our intuition gives us signs. Most people just ignore intuition. Too busy, think it bunk, whatever.
I get signs. Mine come in the form of butterflies in my stomach/chest. The butterflies come and bring a message. They are a sign of something out of the ordinary to occur. Not necessarily a good thing or a bad thing. Just SOME thing. And, I can have them at a given time on a given day, call the person that popped into my head when I got them. And, they will tell me that something occurred at that time on that day (or close to it). Can be good or bad. But it is always something. And, it is not just that is when they went to the tinkle pot and copped a squat. It will be something. Sometimes I know it is bad, sometimes I know it is good. Sometimes I cannot tell.
But, I have an uncanny knack for predicting things. Sometimes it just pops out of me or into my head. Sometimes it comes if I think or concentrate on something. And, yeah, I am sometimes wrong. But, most often? I am right.
So, I do believe in signs. And I listen when I get one.
Christine