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Date Posted: 19:12:27 09/02/03 Tue
Author: Lori
Subject: Well I think there are maybe "guidelines" (not just the right word here but I can't think of another one right now), not necessarily a precise plan as to what we are going to do in this life. I think there are certain lessons we are given in each life to learn and how we go about learning them is partially up to the decisions we make throughout our lives. We have direction & what the outcome is, depends on our choices. I never really had a specific plan either. Just a path to follow and make choices which would lead me down different roads & along the way I will hopefully learn what lessons I am supposed to.
In reply to: Jeannine 's message, "Fate, Free Will, or Just Dumb Luck?" on 01:35:40 09/02/03 Tue


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[> More - it blows my mind to think that if everyone has a "specific plan", how does it all work out. I mean, if I make one decision that sets someone else on a certain path, were they destined to be on that path, or if I would have made a different decision on the same matter, would I send someone else down a totally different path? If there are "plans" for everyone, how can this huge "web" of decisions interact. Boy that was weird. Did I even make any sense hahahahahahaha -- Lori, 19:17:56 09/02/03 Tue


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[> [> Very much sense! I agree, that web would be too huge to control. Millions of possibilities for each life form! And they all interact. Nope, that doesnīt look like a plan. Causes and effects are at work here, thatīs all, I guess. I read the theory the other day somewhere, that we arenīt here to "learn" anything. There is no karma either. This again would be a too huge web. Who decides what we have to learn? And why would we choose coming here to learn the hard way again, if we already have the knowledge? It said we are here to simply live life, and use the power of creating things. Well, just another theory.*g* -- Martina, 07:51:40 09/03/03 Wed


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[> [> yah, but don't we all have our own little webs? I have my web here in NH and Martina has a web in Germany, Lori has a web in the great midwest, and sometimes, when we choose, all our wee webs touch for a bit when we are here, on the World Wide WEB. It's like all the different plays on Broadway-- not everyone can be at all the shows at the same time. Of course we can all have our own different plans and webs. The fun parts are when all the little ones actually DO come together in big expansive ways. Aren't people still talking about coming together at a place like Woodstock? Aren't we all thrilled when we can escape our everyday web to come here on the WWWeb? I think alot more is possible than our limited thinking can even imagine. And the reason we forget the big picture is so that we can function in our small places rather than be awed at the perfection of it all. -- Lissa, 14:02:56 09/03/03 Wed


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