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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 703727" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>I do not want to trivialize this, but look at it another way. Life is a continuum. From Dumbo to Wild Ride.</p><p></p><p>All of the rides, Dumbo and all of them are controlled by forces beyond our control. Disneyland engineers, or terrorists, or computers, or some kid who decides to dismantle something. It is not that we have free will. Just the opposite. To a point, we can decide which ride we want to go on. Some people choose one kind of ride, others, something different. But once we are on board...the ride is largely out of our control. We can only decide how we respond. To whatever happens, and there is a way that we can decide to embrace what happens. I believe that. Largely this has to do with our temperament. But also with our attitudes, the words we tell ourselves. But there is a range of possible choices even when we have ceded control to the ride There were some people in the holocaust that prayed to G-d before they died. They remained calm and unafraid. There were some people who spit in the guards face. There were people who embraced their loved ones, and their were people who clawed and struck anybody they could, friend or foe, to escape.</p><p></p><p>I want to learn how to be one of the people who prayed to G-d and embraced my loved ones. I do not want to run from life. The reality of my life right now is so far from what I would want it to be. But you know what? I am not</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 703727, member: 18958"] I do not want to trivialize this, but look at it another way. Life is a continuum. From Dumbo to Wild Ride. All of the rides, Dumbo and all of them are controlled by forces beyond our control. Disneyland engineers, or terrorists, or computers, or some kid who decides to dismantle something. It is not that we have free will. Just the opposite. To a point, we can decide which ride we want to go on. Some people choose one kind of ride, others, something different. But once we are on board...the ride is largely out of our control. We can only decide how we respond. To whatever happens, and there is a way that we can decide to embrace what happens. I believe that. Largely this has to do with our temperament. But also with our attitudes, the words we tell ourselves. But there is a range of possible choices even when we have ceded control to the ride There were some people in the holocaust that prayed to G-d before they died. They remained calm and unafraid. There were some people who spit in the guards face. There were people who embraced their loved ones, and their were people who clawed and struck anybody they could, friend or foe, to escape. I want to learn how to be one of the people who prayed to G-d and embraced my loved ones. I do not want to run from life. The reality of my life right now is so far from what I would want it to be. But you know what? I am not [/QUOTE]
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