A grand plan
I need to believe that … There has to be … There must be a “grand plan” out there. Life would be too depressing otherwise. I refuse to accept that life is a series of random error overlying the conscious choices we make. Our “predicament” can’t possibly be attributed, no matter how partial, to something as trivial as luck and/or chances. There would be no reason to live, or do, if that were the case. I would give up now and not bother trying.
A “grand plan” overseen by a benevolent … “thing” or “being” on the other hand offers hope. It holds out the possibility that things would change and that a better day would come. It suggests that our current scenario is temporal and that our pain and anguish would pass. Sooner or later. I might even buy the argument that my suffering is functional and that I am to learn something from the experience. But only if it was a means to an end that is far better than my present. A grand plan is a contract obligating me to continue living and struggling in return for those golden days where I pine for nothing more.
I need to believe there is a “grand plan” out there.
Posted on September 26th, 2003 by jl
Filed under: Notable: Personal
don’t hope so much…..
>:-(
Hm…here’s something to keep you thinking: What if our existence (human beings) plays only a small role in this Grand Plan? Meaning what if we and other living things are merely part of a ‘plan’ - maybe to keep the world in balance? - ecoogical?
Think of what the Grand Plan will be for, say, a horse or a cow? To serve us? I don’t think so…to serve the universe? Following your line of thinking…it’ll be to serve the Grand Plan. We might not be that significant after all in the scheme of things.
But given the ability to think and have a conscience, I do believe we have a role to play…a destiny if you like…but what that destiny is…well…for now, it’ll be up to you to define it I guess.
Jikon: There is a Grand Plan alright and we are definitely part of it. Whether it is significant or not depends on us..
Do not lose hope.
dun think too much lah…
wahh! this post sound so deep for me. wena is right… i dun wanna think that much.
holy cow!!! you’re too deep man… u seriously need a break… GO AND RELAX!!!
For sure that is a ‘grand plan’. And destiny, of course. It is good to have the ah ‘Q’ spirit. un? *hehe* Cheer up man, not that bad after all. It can only be better when the worst comes. ;>
Jikon, maybe you don’t need a blog
Maybe you need a discussion forum
Maybe you need usenet. Christ almighty, that’s a brilliant idea. I’ve not been on usenet for YEARS. Got to go find me the nearest usenet server now…
THEN you can debate to no end all these issues.
By the way. You do know that whether or not there is some ‘divine plan’ is totally dependent on whether you believe it to be or not. If you believe it to be so be it.
To be contradictory, this is a certainty. Events unfold with a large degree of uncertainty. And there is very often little individual control on the course of such events. How you choose to interpret this is up to you.
Personally my own view is, I’ve x amount of time on earth. God knows if there’s an afterlife - I choose to believe so. My own goal is like the army’s - Be all you can etc… Why? Because it seems to me to be the most sensible option. And I would repeat emphasize ‘it seems to me’.
What you make of your own life is up to you.
Rob, you must have something burning to wax philosophical like that…
A propos your argument: if you believed in something, then logically, you could subsume all events as part of the grand plan, therefore there would be no “uncertainty” or “random error”.
perhaps you need to face a couple of random errors before realising what the grand plan is all about…
just a thot….
got another better plan… go and grab a bottle of tuak from frymysquid. i just pass him 5.
will distract u from thinking of ur grand plan. :p
Jikon,
If I believe in a ‘Divine Plan’ that need not change the belief I have that there is a lot of uncertainty in this existence.
Now, if I believed in predestination.. that would be a different question.
By the way, which is worse?
Living in a world with some degree of uncertainty (but also quite a lot of predictability) - what I believe our world to be.
Or living in an existence that is predetermined?
make that 4… i buggered one myself… hahahaha… do i see things in a clearer light now? NO! Does it help? NO! In short… just say FUCK EVERYTHING and drown yourself in Tuak… hahahaha
I believe in a Grand Plan. Everything that has happened in my life has led me to this day, at this moment commenting on this blog. It’s weird.
Every single moment, we come to a crossroad of choices; every single choice leading to a new and different crossroad. Had one of your choices - say one in 1979 been any different than the way you made it back then - your life today would have been completely different. In fact, your life might even have been completely erased had you taken a different path.
Haven’t you ever pondered even once that perhaps you led a charmed life? That perhaps some of the decisions you have made have been “guided” by an unseen force? Some of our choices bring us joy and happiness and perhaps even material gain, while others caused nothing but misery and pain.
You might think that this is all simple cause and effect - It’s logical enough, isn’t it? What’s illogical about all of it is how we sometimes make certain choices beyond our own comprehension.
I think there is a grand plan. And the beauty of it is that we still have some measure of control over the course of our lives.
Conclusion…..
Every situations in our past, present as well as future lives happen, whether good, bad, happy, sad, sorrow etc., for a reason not necessary understood by individual at that moment of time.
It could mean to want us to learn and grow from it. So is there a Grand Plan out there?
YES! There are one for everybody. When time comes, you will “take it” anyhow…..
I despretly hope their is a grand plan, or else, i mite as well follow the plans of the anime “tri gun” and live life with as little pain, and as much pleasuer as possible before i come to my end.
I would like to belive in a devine beeing, and i do hope that their is one, wish he would send me a sign so bright that it would force me to belive, eitherway, i don’t like the idea of predestonation, althow i sometimes think it may be true.