If life is all a game of circumstance,

[HowDidIGetPrem]

then drive and inspiration are the strongest attributes. People usually hit a point where they realize they could die at any moment, and I think it gets the point across. The house could randomly cave in, you could end up in a sudden car crash towards work, a comet off course could set its path towards earth, etc. But when you actually look at it, things don't happen without reason and if you could isolate the environments it'd be possible to see the house's structure was succumbing to its stress, someone staring down their phone during crucial intervals, and a comet slowly leaving it's orbit as it distances itself from the gravitational force pulling it.

My point is everything has cause and effect, even your positioning at the time of the accidents. I know all of my hobbies have definitely rose from interaction with others or the lack of it. And, past simply gaining hobbies, the hobbies sent me towards certain sites with extreme views and information I'd not have otherwise. That's all out of a person's control, even interest. It all began well before any of us could remember after all. But drive is different. The stars aligned for geniuses like Einstein, but, at any grim moment, he could've loss drive and all his effort thus far. You could push someone towards some profession or follow the path set for you, yet drive will always be the ultimate decider. In a world of circumstance, means aside, drive is what gets results. What I want to say is just provide morale support for the next guy. It's as simple as a single sentence and holds heavy influence.

Not sure this is the right subforum.

 

[Dreckerplayer]

then drive and inspiration are the strongest attributes. People usually hit a point where they realize they could die at any moment, and I think it gets the point across. The house could randomly cave in, you could end up in a sudden car crash towards work, a comet off course could set its path towards earth, etc. But when you actually look at it, things don't happen without reason and if you could isolate the environments it'd be possible to see the house's structure was succumbing to its stress, someone staring down their phone during crucial intervals, and a comet slowly leaving it's orbit as it distances itself from the gravitational force pulling it.

My point is everything has cause and effect, even your positioning at the time of the accidents. I know all of my hobbies have definitely rose from interaction with others or the lack of it. And, past simply gaining hobbies, the hobbies sent me towards certain sites with extreme views and information I'd not have otherwise. That's all out of a person's control, even interest. It all began well before any of us could remember after all. But drive is different. The stars aligned for geniuses like Einstein, but, at any grim moment, he could've loss drive and all his effort thus far. You could push someone towards some profession or follow the path set for you, yet drive will always be the ultimate decider. In a world of circumstance, means aside, drive is what gets results. What I want to say is just provide morale support for the next guy. It's as simple as a single sentence and holds heavy influence.

Not sure this is the right subforum.

Question is, what are you talking about?

 

[soretynha]

"A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe."

“You could not remove a single grain of sand from its place without thereby ... changing something throughout all parts of the immeasurable whole.”

The influence of our actions exponentially grow in the future.

 

[kimb]

I have to agree with this and I believe this reality extends to the individual. We'd like to think what makes up our person -- our personality, our conscious, and our beliefs are a result of our free will, but the evidence points to our minds being post-cognizant of our decisions. Free will is an illusion where our decisions are entirely based on predetermined environmental influences and evolutionary biology, and once we become aware of our choice, we unconsciously dupe ourselves into believing we were aware the entire time.

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Free will is an illusion, and the self is an illusion; these are truths. Why they're not widely acknowledge truths is what Im more interested in. The baring of these truths would have on the religious world for example would be tremendous, seeing as how most religions hinge on the truth of free will.

 

[HowDidIGetPrem]

I have to agree with this and I believe this reality extends to the individual. We'd like to think what makes up our person -- our personality, our conscious, and our beliefs are a result of our free will, but the evidence points to our minds being post-cognizant of our decisions. Free will is an illusion where our decisions are entirely based on predetermined environmental influences and evolutionary biology, and once we become aware of our choice, we unconsciously dupe ourselves into believing we were aware the entire time.

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Free will is an illusion, and the self is an illusion; these are truths. Why they're not widely acknowledge truths is what Im more interested in. The baring of these truths would have on the religious world for example would be tremendous, seeing as how most religions hinge on the truth of free will.

I don't think free will is false, just that the word can never be absolute.

Question is, what are you talking about?

Do you believe in fate or predestination? I'm saying everything happens due to circumstance, but morale support, while being an effect of circumstance itself, is the best way to ride against it. When someone's on track for something, you can either keep them on that track & limit their circumstances towards it, or let them go as they are to the whim of circumstance.

 

[Waindo]

Basically if you're not acquainted with your own circumstances, whatever those might be, you'll never be fortunate because no matter how good these circumstances get: you'll never get a break while being oblivious of them; so when "your turn" - the favorable circumstance comes, you'll still be without proper experience and without a proper tool set.

Instead of waiting for every puzzle to align into it's place, just use whatever you got at the given moment. Wake up every single day like it's your lucky day, like it's your last day: one day it will be the last day of your existence.

 

[Dreckerplayer]

I don't think free will is false, just that the word can never be absolute.



Do you believe in fate or predestination? I'm saying everything happens due to circumstance, but morale support, while being an effect of circumstance itself, is the best way to ride against it. When someone's on track for something, you can either keep them on that track & limit their circumstances towards it, or let them go as they are to the whim of circumstance.

whaaaat?

are you from planet earth?

If I ever decide to take self-importancy classes, i'd definitely take lessons from you.

 

[HowDidIGetPrem]

whaaaat?

are you from planet earth?

I'm writing you from Mars as of now.