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fate vs. free will
Monday. 4.30.07 11:54 am
In psychology, they call this dilemmna our "locus of control." There are two types of people: The internals, who believe all that happens is under their control, and the externals, who believe whatever happens is based on circumstance. I think for most of my life, I've fallen into the category of externals, letting whatever happen, just happen to me. (It's not a good thing.)

My brother is reading Julius Caesar for school right now, and I picked it up and started reading and it has this neat quote here:

We at the height are ready to decline.
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures. (IV.ii.269–276)

and I think I'll let my entry end right there

your thoughts much appreciated

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catatonicloki elessar257 Dilated
3 Comments.


that is a neat quote i think i'm an external to, but i don't think thats all bad, i think i have some internals.
» catatonicloki on 2007-04-30 06:33:48

What if you're in between?

Can't you be in between?
I don't believe that everything is out of my control and I know that everything isn't IN my control.
There's a balance and that's where I am.
» elessar257 on 2007-04-30 07:58:05

Wow, I think I'm an external.
My whole life depends on what season or month it is, or what the weather is like. And it goes in cycles.
I mean, it probably doesn't actually work that way, but sometimes it really seems like it.
» Sarah on 2007-05-01 12:49:49

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