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can anybody choose differently from what they do? WHEN they do?

We employ procrastination and rashness to express beliefs about acting in order to survive. Thus choosing is seen as a matter of gefühl with events/options and Self - a melt of remembered choices becoming experiences and projected trajectories stemming from those memories projected into time-not-lived to converge at a desired result. Hopefully. Or the lunatic's way ;-) utter trust - acceptance that things become what they become; rolling with the ball and making the best of it.

It's all a matter of attitude and character. The point being that one chooses, and WHEN, as one IS. Choosing then is the amalgamation of doing and being - the convergence in the now that makes destiny, as one's actions ripple into the universe.


Fine sounding words, but the problem, pipanny, is in directing your rippling towards a raison d'etre. Poor mankind. He has been shoved onstage during the second act of a three act play and he doesn't know the lines. He knows the language but he doesn't know the plot and denouement, so he wings it.

We all are hard wired to operate in a universe with a directional (progressive) system of time. The paradox involved is that directional time requires a beginning. This we can't conceptualize. And unsatisfactorly, this leaves us to speculate that time is non-directional. But if time is, in fact, non-directional then we must conclude that all things happened at once and so the idea of progressive time itself must be an illusion.

Poor me, poor you, poor mankind.

Last edited by themilum; 07/26/06 09:52 AM.