[lit-ideas] Re: The Final Finger of Fate
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:32:32 -0400
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> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: 9/15/2006 11:15:17 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Final Finger of Fate
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> >>Most of fate is very much in our hands.
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> As is our ability to argue about what fate is.
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Okay, what is fate? Personally, I don't believe in fate. I believe in
luck and coincidence.
> Heraclitus in the old fragment 121:
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> Character is fate.
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And what forms character?
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> Yet Bertie in _A Free Man?s Worship and Other Essays_:
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> The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death,
> because they are greater than anything he finds in himself,
> and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
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There's worshiping and then there's accepting. The fool denies. The
rewards of denial are great until it all comes crashing down. Case in
point, among many: Iraq. Maybe there needs to be a happy middle between
slavishly worshiping the inevitable and kicking and screaming against it.
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