I was thinking...
Being able to see the future must really suck. I mean really really suck. The thing is you have to weigh the different versions of the future. In one version seeing the future means that you might actually have a chance to change it, and that doesnt suck quite as much, but still sucks a little. I mean if you get to see something in the future shouldnt that be how it should be with no if ands or buts about it? I mean come on, if I look into something like a crystal ball, I want to see the truth...none of this maybe bullshit.
Now on the other hand, what if what you see really is the truth. If that is the future and it is set in stone, then that sucks even more. I mean I dont want to see that I will die in a car accident up the road and then try to circumvent fate by walking only to make fate go out of its way to hunt me down and get me in that car accident, that is just rude and inconsiderate of me, dont you think? This is the reason that prescience is a terrible power to have and just makes the world a really stupid place. Also for this reason, all fortune tellers, mystics and hocus pocus people and Bush government officials should be lined up and shot (I just dont like the Bush people).
The other thing about fate is that I dont really like to beleive it exists. My fate is what I make and whatever I do to make it. I dont like this because if fate determines when people get into relationships and meet people or whatever it is just retarded. By that standard, I should sit down on the couch, order a pizza and crack a couple of beers rather than going out and looking because when it is my time for a gf, she will beat down my door and claim me whether I choose her or not. While this is an interesting fiction, and I must admit, fairly tempting, I just dont see it happening. Fate can do whatever it does and if it (they in Greek mythology) really exist, they can kiss my ass because I am an irreverent sob and dont care. I also dare them right now to snip my thread in the pattern that is life and end it right now (I dont want to die esspecially, just I dont think it would happen).
well thats all I guess
Noodle out.
PS In Greek mythology, do you think that the the three crones with the one eye could be bribed with another eye?
PPS The Greek fates are three daughters of Zeus and they laugh as mortals try to cheat them and bypass death, but if I remember my disney correctly, they CAN be beaten and you can turn your thread to gold just like Herakles. Hmm I want my thread to turn to gold. And then steal it. Mmmmm...gold
PPPS Ok, Ill stop
posted by Discipulus @ 9:50 PM
2 Comments:
There is no such thing as fate. Every decision made by every creature and object is based, at least subconsciously, on previous experiences. If you were destined to die in a car accident, it would be because your decision of driving a car would be based on the knowledge that driving a car at that specific point in time would normally be a good idea, and some drunken teenager subconsciously decided that driving down that specific road at that specific point in time was the best course of action. The future can be estimated using knowledge gained from the present (the sun is going to run out of energy in 5 billion years!) but actually seeing the future is impossible. This has been scientifically proven using the laws of causality.
My point is that while there is no such thing in fate, you are not in complete control of your life. I could say, "You're destined to eat something," and end up being correct. Is that because the daughters of Zeus compelled you to eat something? No, it's because previous experience has told you that eating is a good idea. Some events may seem to occur at random (like the lottery) but even they can be traced back to, say, the configuration of the balls in the big case before the winning numbers were called. This way of thinking can be applied to any situation, such as meeting a girl or dying in a car accident, but its causes are a lot more subtle, so subtle that we don't even understand them. An important rule of life is that just because you don't know something exists doesn't mean it's not there.
There are a few exceptions to consider:
1. If every event that has ever happened is based on a previous event, then everything depends on the original configuration of the universe the instant after the Big Bang. This raises the issue of what caused the Big Bang.
2. Some scientists believe that on the quantum level, certain characteristics are chosen completely at random. This theory is still being heavily debated.
3. If there is a God, he could supposedly cause things to happen for no reason at all. This is partly why many scientists don't believe that God exists.
In conclusion, I take great pleasure in removing all romanticism from life.
~Brandon
For anybody who doesn't want to read through all that, quick summary:
*I generally agree with what Noodle said.
*Everything is preordained but we have no way of knowing what that is, except by well-educated guesses.
~Brandon
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