Choice.

I was on the coldplay message board and one of the boardies were discussing choices.

So here was what i put.

What makes us human is our ability to make choice....


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what would life be without the capability of choice?

No sense of ego, first and foremost.

No qualms...

how f-n boring is that?

How do we learn?

How do we grow?

without choice...

its just not so.



You may learn that life is about maintaining a delicate balance with choice. Life does happen to those that dont want the responsibilty of choice and then bitch about it soon after and life happens to all the rest that understand that choice is the paddle in the rowboat of life you travel in.

*humms* "Dont like the direction you are going to"-Josh Rouse

Extremes are okay too, but you know what is said about too much of a good or bad thing!!

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Kathy---of course life is full of choice. but choise doesn't have to be so concrete. choice doesn't have to be about one thing versus another. i think choice is best when it is an unconscious decision, when it's not fucking analyzed to death. when it just happens. fuck it, i'm not making any sense, i'm making a fucking conscious choice to go to bed.


Moi- I disagree a weeeee bit!



I think conscious choices are nice as well.

Like if you are wanting to get either a video game or go to the movies and its your choice. IN the end, its still a positive choice is you dont have the expectation of getting both and being greedy in that sense, when sooner or later, you can do the other.

Example...I choose to respond to your thread. I didnt have to but i felt that my interjection in this conversation would give you some newer insight to things that you question. The other option was I could have just lurked and watched from the side lines. But i didnt...and here is my choice in action.

Hi.


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StarlitePrism wrote:(Thats ME!!)


No sense of ego, first and foremost.



K-explain.


Moi-Do you really think that if choice wasnt an action that gets the ball rolling, that people would still have the same sense about them?

Think of the idea of the BORG, if you ever watched Star Trek. The creatures that all functioned under one "brain" in a sense.

Like i said, life does happen but we are the ultimate transitioners in life. It's like a little kid pointing at a hill and saying, HEY MOM!! I WANT TO GO THERE!! And the mom is like either OKAY! LET"S GO! And they travel to the top of the hill. OR...the mom could be like, NO! NOT TODAY! IT LOOKS LIKE RAIN SO WE SHOULD GO INDOORS!

And that was her choice. Sometimes choices dont all meet up and compromise....hence ego........and conflict, if both parties cant agree..like the little kid crying MOM!! WAHH!!! because the choice wasnt seen.

If we had no choices....the ego would either be severely repressed or it wouldnt exist and life would be much different, blander, and not really worth living.
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K-but why is that necessarily a conscious choice? and i'm being completely honest here, i didn't actually CHOOSE to make this thread in the way you're defining choice. it just happened. outside of my own will, if that makes any kind of sense at all. obviously it's still a choice, but not in the traditional sense, at least not as i understand it. basically i'm saying people should just let life happen to them and not think about everything they say and do. overanalyze it, i suppose.


Moi--Ah...so the plot thickens

*takes finger and dips into batter for tasting*

So, you felt the inclination to make a thread about choice and it really wasnt your will.....it was some other source that pushed you to do so...

and by that, you label that as life happening to you.

I believe that you are still the transitioner that allows that to be made possible...Even if it was an outside source, maybe god, maybe life representing god, maybe angels, or demons, or guides(if you believe in that, which i do)

You are then seen as a median for other things....representing life...I still believe it to be at least a subconscious choice as to whether or not you will see it to the day of light.

But then you must also see that you are being a bit hypocritical on your stance of saying that you dont like the idea of people overanalyzing life, when in fact, in order for you to reach your opinion and choice of perception on the matter, you too had to overanalyze to make your point seen by those that do the overanalyzing. You had to go to the level in order to be understood.....talk the talk and walk the language.


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And this is all that there is at this point.
Any comments??