Saturday, October 13, 2007

Skepticism like Descartes

The idea I discovered using the skeptical approach by Descartes was that I believe in destiny. By reviewing all of my past activity and determining that not all of the outcomes were brought on by my own direct action or choice it stands to reason that I have a destiny rather just free will. Due to the time and place one action may occur that I would never have chosen for myself. For example, I met my husband to be at a party that I would not have gone to had a friend not invited me. Then found out that even though I had never met him before we crossed paths more than once, including him staying with my next door neighbor when we were in 3rd grade despite the fact that we grew up over 300 miles apart. Because our paths seemed to be so intertwined it seems that had we not met at that party we would have met eventually down the line. I do not call that free will. I call that destiny.

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