James Hetfield closed Metallica's set with his devilish cackle and a wish that all our "good intentions would meet their intended destinies".
There is no resting for any one of us till we redeem our pledge in full, till we make all the people of India what destiny intended them to be.
"Here was the chance I had been waiting for," he later wrote, adding, "Destiny intended me to go!" Leaving behind his wife and three-year-old son, Jack, he headed off with little more than a sixty-pound pack, a handful of recruits, and a copy of Rudyard Kipling's poem "The Explorer".
"Let's find out, cutie, who is intended to you by destiny," the mystic says.
Parents place three objects intended to discern the child's destiny in front of the baby.
It included a call for America to return to the spirit of "divine providence" that the founders intended — before it was perverted by Manifest Destiny in the mid-19th century.
His theme in these books is that humans must arduously create their own natures and destinies (in The Magus, which he first intended to call The God-game, an apparently divine apparatus is dismantled at the end).
Called "Manifest Destiny," it was based on the belief that God intended the United States to extend its holdings and its power across the wide continent of North America over the native Indian tribes from the east coast to the west.
We take control of our own destinies, and become free in the way that God intended: submitting to Him entirely, free of any other attachment.
But on this precise Friday, by a melodramatic coincidence, her intended epitaph suddenly became apropos for them both, in a confusion of mortal destinies.
