zephyr's Aeonity Blog - Fatalism as an option

Fatalism as an option	Sep 14th, 2006 9:54:45 pm - Subscribe
I went to the mountain today to pray. I watched the birds and listened to the cicadas. Something that I'd been thinking before clicked. Just like you can't get to be a good fighter without getting hit, you can't fully learn to live without being dealt some crappy hands. I don't know why, but it all goes together. It has nothing to do with odds. Odds can be used to describe what is, but they cannot be used to determine the outcome: there is only one outcome. Odds are only useful for describing what is, not for determining what the outcome will be. Somebody may say, there is a 40 percent chance of A and a 50 percent chance of B, but they will be wrong. There is only one chance: 100% of what will happen will be. Let's say you are going to roll a die, and unknown to you, the die will land with six dots up. You, on that roll, have a 100% chance of rolling a six, and 0% chance of rolling anything else. You only say that you have an even 100% divided by six chance of landing on any one side because you don't know what you will get. The odds are descriptive, not actual. If you knew, you'd know. The odds of a winning horse winning are 100%, the odds of it raining on a rainy afternoon are 100%. There is not more than one outcome. We are only in suspense because this outcome is hidden from us, thus causing the illusion of multiple outcomes.
mood: resigned What's up?: I wonder if I will still be a fatalist tomorrow. Actually, I don't think I truly am one today. I don't believe all that crap that I just wrote.	(1) comments

	bloggydahg	September 15th, 2006
	thats right out of calivinism or christian predeterminism. I appreciate your thoughts and when you say "you can't fully learn to live without being dealt some crappy hands." also, though, im feeling like i should throw out my calender and my work schedule because who knows what will happen tomorrow? the inevitability of retrospect causes us to have only one outcome but never rules out what could/may have been. Just like people have different perceptions of the world, this world may only have one outcome but i wouldnt be so quick to rule out others. exclusivism is a dangerous misconception especially when it stems out of theory of religions or religious beliefs. first time reader of your recent blogs, keep your dukes up.