Oh, fine, our children would've been wee but they would've been ADORABLE, alright? Chain-smoking, wine-slurping, sarcastic egomaniacs of disreputable fashion sense but ADORABLE, DAMNIT.
You can obviously substitute whatever value you like for God in considering issues of predestination. I would qualify my belief in that I don't think every single little detail is planned out in advance (what would be the point of having free will at that point? And, yes, I definitely believe in free will.) but I do think that SOME things do, indeed, happen for a reason. It's not always easy to tell the reason. It's not always easy to tell which things happened for a reason.
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Date: 2010-07-06 09:06 pm (UTC)You can obviously substitute whatever value you like for God in considering issues of predestination. I would qualify my belief in that I don't think every single little detail is planned out in advance (what would be the point of having free will at that point? And, yes, I definitely believe in free will.) but I do think that SOME things do, indeed, happen for a reason. It's not always easy to tell the reason. It's not always easy to tell which things happened for a reason.