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Bless<\/em> is a word I am extremely reluctant to use.<\/p>\n If we look on good fortune as blessings, we must also look on ill fortune as curses. Either of those is an implicit acceptance of pre-destiny. Either of those is also an implicit acceptance of benign and malign superior entities which are capable of manipulating our fate.<\/p>\n There are no words I know which are capable of encapsulating my thoughts on this topic.\u00a0 But even knowing I will surely fail, I’ll try anyway.<\/p>\n Good fortune indicates luck.\u00a0 What is luck, save favorable fate<\/a>?\u00a0 What is fate but an acceptance of strictures beyond our control?\u00a0 If we can neither control nor influence our own destiny, what then?<\/p>\n Is all that remains to quietly accept the vagaries of fate?<\/p>\n How can we timidly accept that something outside our understanding has predetermined our every thought and deed?<\/p>\n If there is predetermination then it must be absolute.\u00a0 It cannot be partial, for if predetermination is only partial then predetermination does not exist at all.<\/p>\n If we accept absolute predetermination, then since\u00a0all actions are predetermined we must also accept that absolutely nothing<\/em><\/strong> we do matters.<\/p>\n If we accept nothing we do matters, then we must ultimately accept that we are nothing.<\/p>\n Nothing<\/strong>… means we must accept that we are not even stardust.<\/p>\n Formed from the dust of dead stars, we are.#thought<\/a><\/p>\n — C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) May 22, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n