Start up post, etc. Made dozens of blogs in the past, none continued; might link to some of the old ones later; zanga, blogger, wordpress, maybe all of them.
Went out to smoke some of the new blend that Denny got me in town, tobacco burns, but it calms the mind in the worst storms. Can understand why it's lasted this long in society, but can't let myself have too much, been good about it all year. Once a month or so, just to get my head straight and sorted.
Kitten is sleeping on my lap. Unfortunately will have to wake him so I can write that literary analysis due tomorrow. Was given to us a month ago, just realized what I am going to write it on; Fate.
Doman and I had it out about this topic a few classes back. She blatantly ignored my argument in class, so time to make her understand by forcing her to read 10 pages on the subject. This is why you let me have my two cents, cause I can give the whole dollar if necessary to prove my point.
Fate is personified by Hesiod as three women, but before him, in the Illiad and the Odyssey, there is no such group. Fate is instead just a "force" or quite possibly the will of the gods in some interpretations. But I deny this. If it was the will of the gods, it could be and would be changed with their ever fickle natures. If it was a force, as with all forces, it could be circumvented. IT NEVER IS.
When talking about Fate, one needs to see it as a totality. It's the end product. It's the results of what is to come, but it's neither good nor bad. The problem some people have with Fate is that they don't like the outcome, so they try and change it; by this action they cause it. Also, if you take Fate in stride, it will also happen. This is because Fate isn't a person, it's has no thoughts, it's not a force, it has no power. Fate doesn't exist beyond the perception of it. Instead, Fate is just knowledge in it's purest construct.
Kitten has woken up, and is dead set on typing it seems.
This concept of Fate can be understood in pre-quantum physics, (at the quantum level this idea breaks down due to quantum probability and the impossibility of defining the location and direction of electrons, but we're going to guess the Greeks didn't know about that.) If you lived in a different universe but could still see this one, measure it, analyze it, and put all that information into a machine, you could simulate our universe as a virtual construct and play out the entirety of the life of the universe. You could see how everything, every atom, every person, every plant, how it would die, how it would thrive, and live, and love, and carry on. You would know when everything would happen, when it would happen, where it would happen and why. You would know Fate, because you would know what would happen before it did.
Now go one further than that, a person outside of your universe has a computer that can simulate your universe and ours. Now he can predict what you would do in response to that.
Go further again one universe, and a third observer could predict what he would do.
See how this is going?
Fate is a perfect understanding, but like all knowledge, for it to exist it has to have something that comprehends it. Makes one double think about a lot of things.
In this understanding, "free will" doesn't exist, but it feels like it does. The bouncing atoms and pumping chemicals makes it seem as though free will exists even though it doesn't. But, to those of us on the ground, for all intents and purposes it does. This thinking shouldn't change us into lazy 'what happens, happens' couch potatoes waiting for the world to come; it should galvanize us and make us want to prove me wrong. Because if I were right, this world would be a sad sad place.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0reAWsKUPU&feature=related
Likely to skip next semester and go to basic and AIT, 68W, Combat Medic (ahhh, see the name? yup.)
Basic would be nine weeks, AIT would be another 16. somewhere between 6 and 7 months to turn me into a butt-kicking-life-saving machine. I would graduate with my EMT certification, some amazing training under my belt as well as a nice chunk of change in the bank with a larger paycheck.
Major Gardner thinks it's a waste of my time, but I think I should do it. I'm waiting to hear from Sgt Byers on the topic as well.
See you later, Space Cowboy.
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