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Originally Posted by Onward2wards
I believe life is a choice to a degree. You can't make a choice if you legitimately don't know your options. You can't make a good choice if you do not believe you have any options. Also, we're not all powerful.
Believing that life is a choice, and spreading that belief, can be empowering. It is not empowering if it is used to blame or diminish people however, including ourselves.
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Isn't the former assertion kind of the same as 'ignorance of the law is no excuse'? I have a ton of things wrong with my brain lately so I may or may not be making sense lol. *1
Even in a situation where we are mostly powerless, there are micro choices (Hahaha!).
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And by the way, I'm only just recently a tester for a free will paradigm. I was arguing fate, in all ways fate, for over 3 decades, due both to astrology, and my pique at the unfairness of life and the world.
Either way, both have their pros and cons and I believe a mixture of them are behind everything on earth.
ETA: *1) a lawyer once screamed that at me, and it left a real impression!
*2) because I'm amused by the recent ascendance of the phrase micro aggression.