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origin1
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Who's pulling the strings?
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Aug 10 05:39 UTC 2000 |
living and having studied in fast paced London i have become more
confused than ever with how much real independant choice i have when it
comes to personal rationalising and moral guidence concerning how to
conduct my life on this planet. Who do you think makes the key
decisions on how you live your life on this planet and further more if
its a force other than self where do you think the guideness and or
manipulation is coming from? I believe that it goes way above the
authority of national or international government or scripted religious
practice, but who or what "IT" is i just can't work out...Any
thoughts...
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ideaman
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response 1 of 3:
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Dec 2 14:46 UTC 2000 |
I believe that YOU make the key decisions on how you live your life on
this planet, or, in this universe for that matter. Once born we are
thrown headlong into the mass confusion and turmoil of the ever
evolving universe in which the only constant is change. Everybody's
circumstance is different from everyone else's depending on the time
period, and place, into which you were thrown, but how you react to
that circumstance is up to you. The only thing that is certain is that
you have a finite amount of time. What you do with it is up to you.
It's all in your attitude. To believe that there is a superior force
pulling all the strings is to give up all control of your life and live
with excuses. Every single day is a new adventure in which the most
unexpected things can happen. Enjoying them is what it's all about. I'm
content to know that I have a short period during which I can marvel at
riding the wave and contemplate the things that mankind will accomplish
before the ride is over. Perhaps we are the vehicle by which the
universe is getting to know itself. Becoming self aware, so to speak.
Maybe the earth is like a neuron, and we are the electrical impulses
which are extending our dendrites into space in search of other neurons
(planets with intelligent life) with which we will form a network of
intelligece which will pull the whole universe into beilng with self
awareness that will ask the same questions we are about it's own
existence. In which WE are pulling the strings.
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dipsy
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response 2 of 3:
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Dec 16 02:00 UTC 2000 |
I humbly disagree with the premise that to believe there is a force "pulling
all your strings" is to give up control over your life. Much to the contrary,
I see it as a freeing realization.
Consider, for a moment, a film. The lives of the characters onscreen have
been predetermined by a director, but the characters (not the actors, mind
you, the characters) have no awareness of the director. The characters,
nonetheless, live their lives full of complex decisions, and go through
thought processes in deciding what they will do.
Likewise, if history has been predetermined (by a supernatural entity, or
merely by the movement of atoms) this does not affect our ability to live our
lives however we choose. Our sincerest act of choosing has just been
preordained.
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response 3 of 3:
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Apr 23 01:04 UTC 2001 |
We're players in a complex game. Some "key decisions" about our lives
are rules of the game that we can't get around. (Wishing *hard* to be
a bird won't make me one, and jumping off a tall building flapping my
arms will just make me a splat-spot on the sidewalk.) Others are under
the power of other game players, some are under our own control. Many
other players are eager to influence our choices when something is ours
to decide (12 easy payment of $39.95! No, no Susan - don't play that
Draw 4 & Lose Turn card against me! Please marry me Nathan, our son
need to have a father!). If we're more than simpletons at playing the
game of life, we're often trying to influence the decisions that other
players get to make (about their own lives, about us, and about other
players).
People who think that they don't make any of the key decisions in their
own lives are much sought-after by unsavory players trying to get ahead
in the game by controlling others...
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