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Just something that ernee and I somewhat discussed.

ernee: do u believe in destiny? or sa free will? paki-elaborate po ng answer. salamat

me: hmm...in sense i do. i believe that everything we're going through right now has been pre- destined. that we came into this world with a purpose to learn and that we planned our course even before we start life. we are going through the things we should in order to achieve this greater purpose, everything happens for a reason and everything comes perfectly along with the plan. but in order to achieve this purpose we are still allowed to make conscious choices. what's is learning if you're spoon fed right?

ernee: yup! maraming salamat po. papabasa ko lang to sayo. kung ok lang, ano po reaction mo:

6 million Jews died in World War 2 in various concentration camps. Was it their destiny to die like animals or it is because it was due to the free will of one demented man (Hitler) and his minions who were willing to carry out their wholesale slaughter? While the Jews certainly did not wish their fate, certainly it was not just destiny that brought them to the concentration camps. Somebdoy had to arrest them, load them like cattle in trains, enslave them and finally kill them. Could it have been avoided? Of course, the kiling stopped because other men also exercizing their free wills fought the war and defeated the Nazis. It was the confluence of free wills acting in conspiracy that led to the deaths of 6 millions Jews.

The same was true with the hundreds of thousand of Filipinos who were massacred by the Japanese during the liberation of Manila. It may have been a perverted use of free will but people's lives have been lost and many more will die because of the perverted use of free will.

me: could it be that it happened because the world had to learn something and something as catastrophic as that could bring about this type of revolution? i read the book "embrace by the light" by betty eadie. the author experienced near death. she was given a glimpse of how we, as spirits decide on the path and the obstacles that we'll go through along our way even before we reach earth, which is our learning ground. she had a vision one time of a drunkard who lives like the trash of the community. but his spirit light was immensely powerful, it deludes even the spirit light of a very famous and powerful lawyer who works at the bldg where the drunkard would usually stay. the drunkard was actually a kin spirit of the lawyer whose only purpose was help him. he was placed there so that everyday the lawyer would see him and realize what a big help he can be to rest of humanity. he was not trash after all. but a guinea pig. a means to an end. everything happens for a reason.

i believe that. people died back then, people were abused and murdered, rights were trampled on for a reason. didn't mankind, or the majority of it, learned from such a devastating ordeal? sometimes we are not to look at destiny as something that we would come across as a person. destiny is for the world. got my point? hmmm, im really enjoying this ernee...hahaha...hope im helping you. whatever your reasons are for asking me such.

ernee: ako rin nag-eenjoy salamat ulit kelangan ko lang ng maraming ideas. nahihirapan kasi akong iexplain yung pinaniniwalaan ko (na katulad nga ng sayo). does it follow ba na kapag you believe in destiny you are debunking the idea of free will? kasi di ba pag ganun, ibig sabihin, destiny and free will cannot co-exist?

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I always believed that a higer power is at work with everything that we do. Let me rephrase an old thought paper I passed before when I was still in college.

I believe that everything has purpose for happening. I believe that the smallest thing affefcts everything else adversely. I believe that we are travelers set into course without a map but with enough power to yearn for the end that is obscured to us but is powerfully tempting. I believe that we set along this road with a definite end with which we only discover along the way. I believe that all people we meet and see are there for a reason, and we are to understand and recognize this reason if we are to succeed in finding our rightful path. I believe that second chances are available and that free will may or may not help us along the way.

Everything happens for a reason. Everything is perfect. You are perfect. I am.