ghetto oedipus

all of this fate and free will stuff is super confusing. even after discusson after discussion after discusion, i sill feel quite confused. not in the way that i dont know what is going on but that i have now even more unanswered questions than i did before.

what if you could change your fate
who decides your fate
when wil you reach your fate
whare will your fate take you
and how are you able to live your own life when the outcome has already been decided.
we have been in the other direction as well. questioning if fate is even in existance.

since the last blog i have not really made much progress on my personal opinion. we can never really know the truth behind it unless we had personal experience therefore i have been baseing my thoughts off of those of others. i have not had a fate based experience and i feel that is the only way i could truly come to a verdict. untill then i will simply hope someone else finds the soulution. until then i will live my life just wondering if my life has already been determined

free will or fate?.......

this is a challenging question. mainly because i cant think of an experience to back my decision or even help me come to a decision. i think free will and fate can sometimes tie in together. like when you follow your heart that will assure the outcome of your fate. but if you go around second guessing yourself all of the time or making your decision based off of others then it is your insecurity or someone else determining your outcome in life. where with fate your life is already planned out. you could also argue that if you really have a fate in life then it will happen no matter what choices are made. that things will, in the end, balence out and you will follow through with your destiny.
i would like to believe that you have a fate just so some of the pressure is lifted off of your shoulders. you can do whatever and no matter what, you will acomplish the same thing. but what if your fate ended negativly. then it would suck to live your life knowing that it just a pile of crap and you had no ability to change it.

would you rather?

I would definetly rather live an average joe life until i was eighty as opposed to a fabulous rich and faomous life till i was twenty. As they say life gets so amazing when you make it over the hill. wether it is amazingyl boring or amazingly great, i would like to decide based on my own experience.Ii do have to admit that the fabulus life is in the back of my mind. i mean who wouldnt love to be rembered for thousands of years and have so much fun every night of their life? but then you are reminded that dying that soon you would be missing out on so much of everything.

childhood memories

I spacifically remember loving the Disney movie Pochahontas. I was practicaly obsessed. I would go to school with one arm out of its sleve because i just had to look like her. I think I was even Pochahontas not once for halloween but twice. I rember thinking John Smith was one of the most handsome men. Now i know that in real life he was a fat old english man. It kind of kills the fantasy. But even so i still love the movie and i always will.

siddhartha and philosophy

I think that the location of our mentality as well as the age has an impact on our philosophyand way of thinking. Siddhartha was written in the early 1900s by a german man. So it is not only written by a man from a different culture than our own but he is also writing about a different culture than his own.

high school metaphor

High school could easily be compared to a wave. Waves that line the coast. Before waves roll on to the shore they are out at sea just waiting with all of the other waves. We start out as freshmen and are unsure about everything. All the other waves are your friends from middle school who are also waiting to get into the scene and stereotypes of high school. As you near the end of your freshman year and the duration of your sophomaore year you are getting sucked closer and closer to shore. You begin to hang around with upper classmen, attend parties, you may even throw your own party. Once you are at the peak of the wave , the highest point of intensity, you have made it to your jounior year. You start to struggle to stay on top. In the final stage of the wave you fold over and are rushing at top speed toward the beach. As a senior you are having as much fun as possible, yet at the same time you are reminded that the future, or the beach, is closer than you think. Finally the wave hits land and you are done. Now you feel alone again but in a different way. You now have to face the challenges of being out on your own. You no longer have the your parents, or the gulf, protecting you. You are forced to relearn your surroundings and ride another wave all over again.

icons are fun

The Olympic representing are a major icon. Representing peace and fellowship they are known worldwide. It is a way to bring nations together through entertainment and competition. It also represents tradition and consistancy because of the fact that it happens anually. It represents motivation and passion. The atheletes train all their life with the hopes of winning an object plated in gold. The five different colors on each individual ring reflrect the diversity of those involved.