(Untitled)

[about_that]

I've been thinking a lot about destiny. I mean, wtf?? My life is already planned out? I don't know, it doesn't seem very logical. I make choices, and the output of my actions are what determines my life and its direction, not some "everything happens for a reason" shit

Comments

[elaine24]

Christy I'm so glad you're having a blast. You're awesome, and you better keep updating, I like knowing what going on with you.

[murder_n_utopia]

i guess that's the whole idea behind religion. god has a plan for you. and everytime you make a decision, he knew you were going to make it and what the outcome would be. i don't think it very logical either.
and who knows christy, one day you decided to paint your toenails, some hot guy says something about how cool the color is and boom...you marry him. haha. jk
glad you're having a fun time. could you post your address once more for me so i could write you?
-Jillian

[essius]

My life is already planned out? I don't know, it doesn't seem very logical. I make choices, and the output of my actions are what determines my life and its direction, not some "everything happens for a reason" shit.

Your life is already planned out, but it shall still unfold according to your free choices. In other words, foreordination and free will are not incompatible with one another. Does everything happen for a reason? Perhaps not if you accept the popular interpretations of quantum mechanics; but that doesn't mean that reality as a whole doesn't have a Grand Purpose.

That saying is so crazy! "Everything happens for a reason??" People say that so often, but I don't think they really realize what they're saying. I think by everything, they mean the major events, because I'm pretty sure my decision to paint my toenails isn't exactly part of what one might call my destiny.

I have an essay on this subject. I'll post it in a second.

Ugh! And I hate it when people say that it's someone's "day" to die. It's like ok, you were

[essius]

Here is the essay. Certainly not my best work, but still something to think about. I welcome any and all comments. :-)

[about_that]

A very insightful essay, to be sure. I didn't have time to read it when you posted it, and then ended up forgetting about it, only to have rediscovered it now. Apologies.

I think we were discussing slightly different issues. You defined reason as, more or less, the cause of an action, the "why?" so to speak. In this, yes, there is always a reason as to why something occurred. But "everything happens for a reason," in what I was discussing, was more along the lines of the common usage, in your terms, everything happens for a "purpose." In particular, one common purpose, one great destiny. Does the fact that there is a reason behind every action mean that there is indeed one great destiny? This is what I fail to see. I don't see how my life is "already planned out." I see that it will unfold based on numerous reasons, but those reasons were not predestined. Do you see what I'm saying? I see how the little things, and ever the big things have a cause and effect, but I don't see how it leads to one "Grand Purpose."

[essius]

Well, as a theist, I believe that God works in all things, even the trivial and the coincidental, to bring him glory.

[_just_visiting_]

hi christy. it's nice to see that you are enjoying yourself and adjusting. :)