Uh, the only instance of which I’m aware that anybody has ever “had to get a tattoo right now” was in Nazi concentration camps (and the like,) and they were not given a choice of subject matter. As I can’t imagine the scenario in which I had no say in having something etched on my body, but I could choose what was depicted, I don’t think it’s a meaningful question.
Whether or not to watch Sophie’s Choice. Because it might diminish the difficulty of all future choices.
Do you believe in fate/destiny?
No. Life would be hard to bear if one believed one were just playing out a program, and was not a free agent.
That said, I can’t say I have enough information to have a strong belief in the opposite (i.e. free will.)
So, like a number of other big philosophical questions, it is one for which I prefer ignorance over delusion.
Oh, they sang about the world’s end —
felt it must be around the bend,
but the world, itself, was a stinkin’ lie.
False choices: live free and do or die.
Dying was always one option,
but like birthing or adoption,
choice assumed life and death could be controlled
like alchemists turning lead into gold.
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