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Marianne: Life’s A Crapshoot

Posted by DFO

Nov. 6, 2009 5:32 p.m. • 7 comments

I saw the photo of the major smiling and holding a donut, just hours before he held out his gun and devastated the lives of thousands of soldiers and their families. In one instant, an entire community of soldiers and their families faced a new dynamic of total uncertainty in their lives: the place they considered the safest turned into a setting for a horrific nightmare. We never know what the next moment will bring on any given day or how those moments will evolve into whole new twists and turns of our existence or lack thereof. Life is definitely an ongoing crapshoot, and we’re reminded every day of how powerless we are in writing its script/Marianne Love, Slight Detour. More here.

Question: Do you view life as a crapshoot? Or do you think there’s a divine purpose to everything?

Seven comments on this post so far. Add yours!

sue on November 06 at 6:10 p.m.
Crapshoot. If I thought there was a divine purpose to any of life’s tragedies, I wouldn’t like God very much. But I do, so I think we’re able to create our own havoc, and nothing is pre-ordained. I’ve never understood that idea, because, really if it is, what’s the point of any effort on our part. I also think the brain is a fragile thing, that can get hi-jacked by drugs or mental illness, and that there’s not a whole lot we can do to protect everyone all the time. Life’s a crapshoot, for sure.
Charlie on November 06 at 8:35 p.m.
Whether you believe life is a crapshoot or not is your choice. IMO, you always have a choice, left, right, good, bad, etc., even to the very end if you are a believer, heaven or hell. So, in a way, yes it is a crapshoot because of the choices that are made.

I choose to believe because there is just to many unanswered questions that I don’t feel evolution can cause and no my relatives are not from apes. There has been at least three times I should have died, two by water and one by gun shot, I’m still here for whatever reason. Good luck, choose wisely in life.
Arch_Druid on November 06 at 8:51 p.m.
Belief doesn’t answer those questions either.
spokelooneh on November 06 at 11:04 p.m.
“that I don’t feel evolution can cause and no my relatives are not from apes.”
-Charlie

You haven’t the faintest idea about the theory of evolution, based on that statement.

And there is absolutely no conflict between evolution and belief in God. None. Zip. Nada.
Charlie on November 07 at 7:16 a.m.
Sorry Spoke, I do understand the THEORY of evolution, thanks for asking!!
spokelooneh on November 07 at 10:29 a.m.
It’s also the THEORY of gravity, Charlie, but I wouldn’t recommend testing it by jumping off the roof.
Arch_Druid on November 07 at 10:44 a.m.
Right, Spokelooneh, we already know that would be a mighty hard fall. On the other hand :) if the theory was only a theory, why aren’t we floating?

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