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Has anybody else ever wondered if there's a correlation between how some people can absolutely love music that you think is atrocious, and the fact that some people can adamantly believe things that you think are utterly ridiculous?
And can you actually choose what you believe, any more than you can choose what music you like? Or are both of those things outside of your conscious control? And if you aren't in control of them then what is?
I realize that this is off topic, but dang it puzzles the heck out of me.
"All is foreseen, and freedom of choice is granted."
Ethics of the Fathers. 3:15
This precept has been one of the guiding principles of the last fifty years of my life, along with Micah 6:8.And one for the road.
This precept has been one of the guiding principles of the last fifty years of my life, along with Micah 6:8.
But in trying to understand, accept, and forgive others, music can give us some unique insights because we seem to have so little control over what we do and don't like. Yet somewhere in us are reasons why we do what we do, why we like what we like, and why we believe what we believe. They're not simply the free will choices that we would like to think they are. And accepting that, about ourselves and about others can seem to challenge the very basis of many people's faiths...the idea that we choose, or don't choose to believe.
To forgive others for what they do, one must first understand why they do it...and part of why they do it, is us.