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delena
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Date Posted: 11:44:50 05/15/01 Tue
In reply to:
Inn
's message, "Re: ickle question...ish!" on 06:33:32 05/15/01 Tue
well, i saw that movie, Final Destination, and i can tell you that while it was great entertainment and creepy, it had no basis in real life. i don't believe that fate, or death, works so hard to mold our lives to something other than what we choose.
we are human beings, and as such we have something called Free Will. whether for good or ill, it is ours.
predestination is a little abstract for me, because when we finally come to the penultimate moment where our destiny and our free will come together to make that "predetermined" event happen..........we can always say "No, thank you. I don't think I want that."
So now where is predestination after we tell it to shove off? Up the creek, that's where. Now, if I were as romantic as i used to be, and not this bitter and cynical lone wolf that i have become, perhaps i'd feel differently. but it all comes down to choices and free will. take my marriage for example. i felt that i was meant for my mate, and it felt so right (as one of many of my kindred spirits), but i always could have said "No, thank you. I don't think I want this" when the minister said, "And do you take this man....?"
see what i mean?
as for the chaos theory, my analogy of waiting at the light was not meant to be taken this way. this was not to illustrate chaos theory (of which i believe in wholeheartedly, and so does most everyone else, though they usually call it "murphy's law" in layman's terms). my analogy of the light and two different paths was to illustrate the reality of the multiverse, parallel universes that exist alongside ours and sometimes influence ours in miniscule, quantum ways.
chaos theory is something completely different. it is the possibility of anything and everything that can happen in any given situation. which coincides with the multiverse reality but does not illustrate it. actually, chaos theory illustrates all outcomes (forseeable and not) for any single event.
perhaps you've heard this analogy: a fish flaps its tail in boston harbor and instead of tranquil waters you get a tsunami in tokyo. or perhaps this very same fish flaps its tail at the very same time, and instead of a tsunami you get a violent undertow off the coast of florida and twelve people die.
doesn't always have to be something catastrophic (though in the course of dispassionate nature there is no catastrophe or benevolence; nature simply is). but chaos theory usually works that way.
anyway, that's all i wanted to say. :0)
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