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I hailed the old white taxi, rushing across to were I am. It stopped and I rushed in. Then, the dark gloomy sky finally poured out its rain over the thirsty ground. I remember how it all started...
"I love you! Mea, I love you." " But.." "Please believe me. I'm sorry if it took me so long to tell you this." "But you're leaving." "I'll be back after 10 years...If you'll still be there." "10 years? I bet you'd be happily married by that time. You were never serious of what you say you know." "Married? With whom? Do not ever think of that 'coz it will never gonna happen. You're the only girl who I've been dreaming of to marry someday...because you are meant for me and even if you're not, I'll still marry you only if you let me. I am serious. I'll be back if you'll wait." " But that's too long." 'Then don't take this as a commitment. Just please accept my love for you. But you're free... you're always free to love some..." "I'll wait for you, don't worry. I love you too." "Thank you so much babe!I love you! I promise, by that time, I'll be a better man, a man you deserve. I'll be the best man for you, Mea." "You don't have to, I love you just the way you are. Don't make me cry, dear, go now. The plane may leave you." "I love you no matter what. Remember that always, okay?" "uhuh..i will. Please take care". Separated with a kiss in the forehead, he left. With teary eyes, I turned around. I didn't want to see him leaving. I cried and I begun to miss him.
He was my best friend since grade school. He was fat and dark ever since. But gifted with beautiful eyes and a cute dimple, he was indeed born with charisma. He was a friend of every girl. Sometimes, people thought he is someone like a gay or a sort of bisexual. But I know him more th...
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... nor must I bother to look for that man in the mirror.
At the arrival area, I saw a familiar image of a man I believed I have known. He is heading towards me. Lee is coming. Is he Marquin's friend who has been sending me those numerous Anthuriums? What would he tell me? Is Marquin not coming? What happened to him? I begun to panic and go crazy. I felt like my face is burning like being rubbed of something rough. My lips turned pale and my feet started to get cold. My whole body was sweating in ice cold dews. My heart trembled so fast. It suddenly stopped. Lee was now in front of me. For a moment, my heart stopped beating. Then a familiar smell reached into my senses. " I missed you so much my baby...Let's get marry" He said as his muscled arms wrapped my almost dead body. I can't move. I can't speak. Doubts went down the drain. "Marquin..." And the rest was history.
I stood there thinking for a long time. I saw all the busses come and go. Then in the distance, I saw the bus I had become so familiar with coming back.
Free will ultimately brought about the death of Romeo and Juliet. Obviously Juliet and Romeo’s ending was predetermined for them because it is after all a play. Which in some ways invalidates the debate of whether or not they had free will. However with a willing suspension of reality we can analyze the events that take place had this been a real situation. The events leading up to Romeo and Juliet’s untimely death are at best circumstantial, and each one is individually preventable. Some of the events could be considered fate on the premise of a chain reaction, however for my purposes I will say that had they not made the choice that had started the chain reaction it would not have happened. Therefore, it is still based upon free will.
It has been sincerely obvious that our own experience of some source that we do leads in result of our own free choices. For example, we probably believe that we freely chose to do the tasks and thoughts that come to us making us doing the task. However, we may start to wonder if our choices that we chose are actually free. As we read further into the Fifty Readings in Philosophy by Donald C. Abel, all the readers would argue about the thought of free will. The first reading “The System of Human Freedom” by Baron D’Holbach, Holbach argues that “human being are wholly physical entities and therefore wholly subject to the law of nature. We have a will, but our will is not free because it necessarily seeks our well-being and self-preservation.” For example, if was extremely thirsty and came upon a fountain of water but you knew that the water was poisonous. If I refrain from drinking the water, that is because of the strength of my desire to avoid drinking the poisonous water. If I was too drink the water, it was because I presented my desire of the water by having the water overpowering me for overseeing the poison within the water. Whether I drink or refrain from the water, my action are the reason of the out coming and effect of the motion I take next. Holbach concludes that every human action that is take like everything occurring in nature, “is necessary consequences of cause, visible or concealed, that are forced to act according to their proper nature.” (pg. 269)
Sergeant Major Morris told Mr. White. (fate vs. free will) type of theme stated in this quote because we observe that “The Monkey Paws” is full with questions about the power of people in their lives.
“Just listen. Please,” only the desperation in his voice made me stay- well I guess that’s not true. Deeply I wanted to hear what he had to say but another side of me wanted t the apology. “Look,” he sounded as though he was on the brink of tears- and lots of them too. “I still love you.I still love you with everything I have. I was drunk and lost that night- I never called you because- because I was scared you would leave me. I’m hopelessly in love with you Abigail, I never wanted to hurt you,” in that moment he sounded so cliche that I wanted to slap him across the face. I noticed him beginning to shake his head. “I know the idiocy of what I just said made you laugh on the inside, but- the dearth of my sleep, I’ve missed you so much, please just-” I thought about it all, and the worst part is that I believed him and the only way to shut him up now, was to well. I leaned as close possible to him and wrapped my hands around his head pushing his soft lips against my own. Suddenly I realized it wasn’t him I ever needed, it was someone at all and my choice was
The snow curled in my hair and rushed against my rose red cheeks. My heart pounded and my stomach glitched up and down like a pixel. The lift dodged by a big old yellow sign reading: “The Sweet Express.” The words willowed in my mind over and over again. As if it was digging into my brain and placing itself in the category labeled fear.
‘To what extent can I determine my own destiny?’ Discuss in the light of theories, ideas and research encountered in the course.
Everything started a few years ago. It was a warm and beautiful night in Africa; the dark blue sky was full of stars… and those were the last things I remember before I woke up in a cold and wet floor. I do not know where I was, or why I my hands were tight behind my back.
the rain was pelting down on my head. My car had just broken down in
The Open Boat, by Steven Crane, demonstrates fate vs. free will. In this story the characters are subject to contemplating how their fate is being determined, however free will cannot be dismissed as a contributor to their situation. The fine line between fate and free will, if it exists, is hard to define.
Is there someone or something that always controls our decisions or do we have the power to choose our own destiny? For many ages, there have been debates by philosophers, scientists, and neuroscientists on the complicated issue of fate and freewill. I believe that fate and freewill coexist with each other and that every person is destined to succeed, but it is their freewill that either makes them succeed or unsuccessful. Fate is an unseen power that does control the major decisions of one’s life reminding one that everything in life happens for the better.
I peered around through the rain, desperately searching for some shelter, I was drowning out here. The trouble was, I wasn’t in the best part of town, and in fact it was more than a little dodgy. I know this is my home turf but even I had to be careful. At least I seemed to be the only one out here on such an awful night. The rain was so powerfully loud I couldn’t hear should anyone try and creep up on me. I also couldn’t see very far with the rain so heavy and of course there were no street lights, they’d been broken long ago. The one place I knew I could safely enter was the church, so I dashed.
The happenings of an individual’s life are undoubtedly owed to fate. As humans, we have control over nothing that happens to us. This is because life, though it may seem complex is actually just a simple equation. The equation of life is a person's genetics plus the random events that happen to the person throughout their life and the person is whatever the combination of the former two variables dictates. Everything you ever do is owed to a predetermined genetic code reacting to the random events life throws at you.
The three main assumptions we have discussed in class for the cause of events are Hard Determinism, Libertarianism, and Compatibilism, which is divided into Traditional Compatibilism and Deep-self Compatibilsim. As defined in lecture, Hard Determinism is the assumption that “the future is determined by the past,” Libertarianism is the assumption that “human beings are free,” and Compatibilism as a whole is the assumption that “free will is compatible with determinism” (Farley, PHIL 101, 2014.) Further delving into Compatibilism, Traditional Compatablism is the assumption that “we are free as long as we can do what we want to do without being constrained by outside forces,” and Deep-Self Compatibilism is the assumption that “we are free as long as we act on those desires that we deeply identify with” (Farley, PHIL 101, 2014.) The problem of free will forces us to reject one of the following: human beings have free will, the world is deterministic, or free will is incompatible with determinism because allowing each of these assumptions to exist would generate a contradiction. The most plausible solution to prevent a contradiction would be to reject that human beings have free will, while allowing the assumptions that the world is deterministic and free will is incompatible with determinism. It is plausible that the world is deterministic and that free will is incompatible with determinism, and thus, reject that the humans have free will. In other words, Hard Determinism is more plausible than Libertarianism and Compatibilism. Although it certainly seems to us that we have the power to rationally choose a course of action from among various alternatives, all previous events directly or indirectly cause us to form our decisions. A...