(12-09-2022, 12:59 PM)NewJagsCity Wrote:

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(12-09-2022, 09:18 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: Have you ever thought about how the tiniest little decisions can affect your life in a big way?  Turning left instead of right, or saying yes instead of no, and something extremely significant happens as a result that wouldn't have happened otherwise.  Looking back on my life, this has happened to me several times.  I made a seemingly insignificant decision, one thing led to another, and my life wound up where it never would have been if I had not made that tiny insignificant decision.

It's kind of scary when you think about it.  Because life is coming at you all the time, and you may be dodging bullets you aren't even aware of.

Not trying to be a dick head here, but doesn't this post kind of invalidate your signature?

But in answer to the post; yes, all the time.  For bad and good.

Good point.  But I do believe that, in spite of the appearance that we are making these little life-altering decisions, ultimately, we don't actually have free will.  I believe in causal determinism.  So what I refer to as a "decision" in my post is actually a calculation which is made inevitable by preceding events and outside forces.     

So, your inevitable next question might be, why do I say that the idea, that little decisions lead to major outcomes, is scary, if these little decisions are inevitable and nothing else could have happened?  I don't know.

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