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TED-ED 

What really happened to Oedipus? - Stephen Esposito

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a9Wuz7MvUE)


Is fate absolute?

Oedipus was abandoned by his parents at an early age by the trust of the Temple of Apollo. This time, when he visited the Temple of Delphi Apollo and heard that he killed his father and took his mother, he left the family (not blood ties). However, he eventually killed his biological father, welcomed his biological mother as a wife, and eventually killed her.
Was this Oedipus' fate ever absolute? I don't think so.
I think the fate of an oracle can change depending on how it is interpreted in the end. Taking Korea's 'Three-Year Pass Story' as an example, there was a pass that said that if you fall from this pass, you will only live for three years. When an old man lamented that he could only live for three years after falling on this pass, he came up with a plan that if someone could only live for three years, wouldn't it be another three years if he fell before he died, and the problem was solved. In this way, people come up with different outcomes depending on their interpretation, such as "There is half a water left" and "There is only half a water left."
And, from a modern point of view, there are many kinds of deaths, like social death. Similarly, a trust that welcomes a mother as a wife can be transferred by posting a marriage registration.
So I think fate is absolute, but it's not necessarily absolute.

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