In Control?
3 comments | posted Apr 4
Do we really have a choice, can we really choose our path, are we truly in control? We’d like to think so…but I wonder. Or are we just reactions to the previous actions before us? Are we not just the results of experiences with our environments, shaped and molded?
We like to think we have control of our feelings and passions, but where did they come from? Were they too, not engrained into us by our participation with the world around us? This is what makes us all connected, this butterfly effect…we are all parts of one whole circle of movement.
Our minds, feelings, desires, thoughts…do we really have control? or are they too the outcome of the income we’ve received? We can’t handle the thought of believing we don’t have control, but watch how I make you react to my words I’ve written here. Is it a reaction, or an uninfluenced choice?
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Charles Lee says:
Good thoughts... I don't know if a reaction is mutually exclusive from an uninfluenced choice. I think it depends to what degree we are (or able to be) influenced. I don't know if it is an either-or. Also, I think there is something to be said about our intuitions about reality. It appears that we do have choice. Although this is not an absolute thought, I wonder if the other option of fatalism is more probable. If fatalistic thinking is true, life is horrible trick someone/thing is playing on all of us... in this case, it wouldn't matter what I think...:->
posted Apr 9
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Travis Morgan says:
Charleslee, Good thoughts as well. Like you said, This raises the question, Can a choice we make not be influenced? And the other point, I agree, fatalism could be quite probable...I'm going to look into this more.
posted Apr 9
sainte alia says:
"Amor Fati"...
posted Jul 2