Subject: RE: [FFML][rant]Destiny's Paradox
From: Sebastion Fitsroy
Date: 6/21/1998, 5:41 PM
To: "'Eric James'" <azhrael@hotmail.com>
CC: "'bastion@ix.netcom.com'" <bastion@ix.netcom.com>, "'ffml@fanfic.com'" <ffml@fanfic.com>

After staying up and reading Converging Series (missing 16 hours worth 
of sleep), I just couldn't help but sit there and let my brain 
overanalize some of the consequenses led to in that story.  

Never read it, but seeing the effects I think I'll avoid it.

Think about it for a a minute... there exists an infinite number of worlds, so it 
can be said that everything and anything must and will exist as well.  

[Bastion nodds head]
Yeah, that makes sense.

If you can concentrate on this concept without frying your brain, a 
simple answer rises to the front... if everything must exist, then 
destiny itself cannot.

[Bastion nodds head]
Yeah, that-
[Realization]
No wait a moment.

  For every thing good that happens to a 
character, there must also be a world where something bad happens 
instead, creating a balance. Life plays no favorites for a individual, 
as they recieve the random draw of the pot.  

You have a good point, but to me destiny conforms to these possibilities.


In this viewpoint, destiny 
is nothing more than blind chance... in effect, cancelling itself out, 
and causing what I call the Destiny Paradox. In creating a life, it also 
destroys it; happiness brings anger; peace causes war; 

Alright let me get you're thinking, you're saying destiny is me rolling the
dice and I make a guess of 6 and I happen to roll a 6?
If you view like that you are correct in that thinking, BUT you can also
view destiny like this:
I'm rolling some dice and I say I am going to roll a number, and I roll
a number.
To me, destiny is so vague that it fits all the different possible worlds,
and ones that seem specific are probably not, they just sound that
way.
Does that make sense?

16 cups of coffee 
cause endless ranting; etc.

And nil hours of sleep causes responses to rants.

Thank you for reading this! Feel free to flame/rant/etc...(you probably 
want to!) ^_^

Can you settle for a spark?

Azhrael

Bastion