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No offense but that's a line. Predestination theology is Joe's (false) religion. 
My life is NOT pre-destined. I have free will. Shtuff happens for sure. Some is circumstance, some is prior decisions - be they good or bad, some is genetic, some is environment, some is just unexplained random events coinciding.
But its how I REACT to life happenings that makes the difference. And my reaction is completely MY CHOICE and within MY POWER.
As the wise King said: EC 9.11 ...rather, time and chance happen to all of them.
It's called LIFE. TAKE INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY for it!
My life is NOT pre-destined. I have free will. Shtuff happens for sure. Some is circumstance, some is prior decisions - be they good or bad, some is genetic, some is environment, some is just unexplained random events coinciding.
But its how I REACT to life happenings that makes the difference. And my reaction is completely MY CHOICE and within MY POWER.
As the wise King said: EC 9.11 ...rather, time and chance happen to all of them.
It's called LIFE. TAKE INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY for it!
This summer weather has me craving chicken salad.
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No offense but that's a line. Predestination theology is Joe's (false) religion.
My life is NOT pre-destined. I have free will. Shtuff happens for sure. Some is circumstance, some is prior decisions - be they good or bad, some is genetic, some is environment, some is just unexplained random events coinciding.
But its how I REACT to life happenings that makes the difference. And my reaction is completely MY CHOICE and within MY POWER.
As the wise King said: EC 9.11 ...rather, time and chance happen to all of them.
It's called LIFE. TAKE INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY for it!
My life is NOT pre-destined. I have free will. Shtuff happens for sure. Some is circumstance, some is prior decisions - be they good or bad, some is genetic, some is environment, some is just unexplained random events coinciding.
But its how I REACT to life happenings that makes the difference. And my reaction is completely MY CHOICE and within MY POWER.
As the wise King said: EC 9.11 ...rather, time and chance happen to all of them.
It's called LIFE. TAKE INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY for it!
But, there are things I feel that are out of your control. But, eventually they work out to be a better situation, most times. At least that how it is for me.
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Technically, everything *does* happen for a reason, but what that means is that there's a reason for everything that happens, i.e., a cause for every effect. Things don't happen without a cause, or without a reason. I don't think things happen to shape a person's life; I think a person's life is shaped by how they react to what affects their life. Yes, what happens to you has a cause, but it's not some ethereal predestination that is in control. Hell, it might be that someone sneezed a week ago in Puerto Rico. Butterfly effect and all that.
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Technically, everything *does* happen for a reason, but what that means is that there's a reason for everything that happens, i.e., a cause for every effect. Things don't happen without a cause, or without a reason. I don't think things happen to shape a person's life; I think a person's life is shaped by how they react to what affects their life. Yes, what happens to you has a cause, but it's not some ethereal predestination that is in control. Hell, it might be that someone sneezed a week ago in Puerto Rico. Butterfly effect and all that.
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Technically, everything *does* happen for a reason, but what that means is that there's a reason for everything that happens, i.e., a cause for every effect. Things don't happen without a cause, or without a reason. I don't think things happen to shape a person's life; I think a person's life is shaped by how they react to what affects their life. Yes, what happens to you has a cause, but it's not some ethereal predestination that is in control. Hell, it might be that someone sneezed a week ago in Puerto Rico. Butterfly effect and all that.
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