75 points

What a strange wya of fear mongering.

I the end, you can only have one life path. Choosing to do something always implies choosing to not do other things.

So it’s an illusion to think that all those green paths are possible. Only one of them is possible.

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22 points

We all know the destination.

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17 points

Reborn as a Chinese pheasant girl just in time to comprehend that the Mongols riding to your village aren’t nice.

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15 points

At least you can fly.

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6 points

Ah yes. Amarillo.

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1 point

It’ll be a cold day in hell before I go to texas

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3 points

I don’t!

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6 points

No spoilers.

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4 points
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Only one of them is possible.

All of them are possible, but you can only choose one.

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60 points

Determinism be like: You are safely traveling along THE ONLY WAY.

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20 points

That kinda makes worrying about anything sound really dumb, doesn’t it?

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16 points

But you’ll worry anyway, as your anxiety is a product of your biochemistry, which is governed by deterministic processes.

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4 points

It makes absolutely no difference if you think about it. It’s not like choices are made for you even if the universe is determindric. If the world is or isn’t deterministic it’s not like anything would meaningfully be different - things would still be unpredictable to us. In an indeterministic universe randomness would play a part in outcomes, but that’s worthless to us. This meme is about choices anyways, randomness or determinism doesn’t matter in the end.

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3 points

First of all is determinism not proven and may be/get disproven by quantum mechanics.

Second of all it also validates your suffering because it’s seen as a determined thing to happen so that may give you some solice.

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43 points

Ah, nice! Almost didn’t have my existential crisis today, thanks for the reminder.

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9 points

Dust fills my eyes
Clouds roll by and I roll with them
Centuries cry
Orders fly and I fall again

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4 points

Taking ALL of the paths was never really an option though. Celebrate all the new paths that opened because of the one you chose instead of dwelling on the ones you didn’t.

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24 points

remain ignorant

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21 points

Good for you that you didn’t take that lower path cut short.

Who’s to say any of those other paths would have been any better or worse than your current path?

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