Hindsight
September 14, 2009
Have you ever thought
What might have been
Or what better things could be?
A better car, a better house,
Or perhaps a better ‘me’?
Do you toss and turn
Awake at night
Sorting through ‘what ifs’?
Thinking of each turn you took
And what you might have missed?
Is guilt a frequent friend of yours,
Or regret your better half?
Do you live in yesterday;
Married to the past?
Why ponder things unchangeable
Or mull on what is done?
When living in the present
Is where you find the fun!
Oedipus Rex: Are Fate and Free Will Mutually Exclusive?
September 6, 2009
***I am not always the best at keeping things in a straight line, but I have done my best here. These are my thoughts today when I was thinking about fate, destiny, action, and free will. I am not an authoritarian on anything, but this is rather the truth as I see it and what I believe God has shown me.***This is something I wrote in one of my FB notes***
The paradox that is presented by foreknowledge and free will is one that would seem to be a nice contradiction to the idea of prophecy and free will or an All Knowing God and free will. Determinism vs. free will seems to always take into account that because something CAN be, it SHOULD be. For example, if God said to me that I was going die in a car accident on Tuesday, my human nature would tell me to avoid getting into a car on Tuesday. More than that, I could even take it a step further and opt not to leave the house at all on Tuesday. After all, I could be in a car accident where a car hits me as I am walking down the road right? Yet even if either or other alternatives are good alternatives that may prevent the foretold death, does it mean I should take those routes?
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