Do events in life occur by chance or happen by fate? Was it by chance that my teacher met his soul mate in the same dorm as him and they happened to get married later? Or was it fate that some people end up in the worst of situations? and Why is time perceived at different rates? Why is it that when you were younger, having a sense of time was irrelevant to your everyday life, but now as an experienced child time seems to be running out? Ex. When you're having a wonderful time with friends, time seems to fly by. On the other hand, when you're waiting for an appointment or such, time seems to occur as slow as a snail.
“Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. an alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper
Monday, August 12, 2013
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I always wondered about chance vs. fate... Have you heard of the His Dark Materials trilogy? (The first book, The Golden Compass, was made into a movie.) The book has a concept of an infinite number of universes, created by different outcomes of chance. For example, if I flip a coin and it lands heads, it means another universe just branched off from this one where the coin landed tails. According to that theory, the exact set of facts existing at THIS MOMENT in THIS UNIVERSE is a product of myriad results of chance, but all the other results exist too, in different universes parallel to this one.
But there's also the idea that everything is a result of everything else, like if I flip a coin the exact velocity and direction of the flip predetermines which side it will land on, even while it's still in the air. And so on. According to this theory, once the Big Bang happened, every event ever was already determined, which is pretty much the idea of fate. So which theory is correct...? We might never know :)
Hi Lisa! I actually haven't but I've heard of The Golden Compass book. I am really fascinated by the whole alternative universe theory though. Thanks for your input. You've really got me thinking now haha. Do you by chance have any videos or such on these theories?
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