I am beginning to believe (audacity, audacity!!) in determinism.
Hear me out here.
Life cannot be fated, because events have not happend yet, so fate cannot be a factor.
Life is predictable though.
We fight off the idea of a defined, set, this-is-how-it-goes kind of reality on principles, of "well yes but if i had ____ then ____ instead of ____." or perhaps, "well _____ happened this time but LAST time we tried that, ____ happened."
but listen here.
I am a subscriber to the "we are products of our circumstance" notion. Simply, given your body type, (size, color, etc) and physical factors (brain structure, physical deformities, etc.) added onto the reality you percieve, shapes you wholly.
so yes, it is not fated to happen, because you could have done something different.
but you didn't.
you are a product, a variable with a fixed value. so given a situation with other set variables, no matter how much you debate, you are going to make the decision you make. maybe it's not the same as last time, but you probably have your reasons.
i do not believe in fate.
but i am starting to think that we are all variables in some grander equation, mixing and matching in infinite ways making countless solutions.
what problem are we solving?
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I think I'm here to solve boredom.
ReplyDeleteor at least make everyone really, really aggravated while they're bored. So that makes me like a negative under a radical or something else impossible like that.
Yay math jokes?
haha that was quite witty becca
ReplyDeleteThat was not bad. Oh math...everything is so explainable in math. It's very nicely planned out. I wonder how math even began because it is so well organized and complex.
ReplyDeleteI don't think physical factors and body type (you) shape you wholly. It's who you are around which shapes you the most. Say you are blue. You live with a group of people who are green. Then you notice a difference. They notice a difference. How they react to you shapes you. If you were not surrounded by people you would probably not even notice you were different. Color is a factor to the blue guy's perception.
I guess it's like that little saying about the tree that falls down when no ones around. It's all within the mind.
I still like to believe in some type of fate/destiny. It's what's around you that shapes you and it's what you accept ("see") that defines you. :)