Is your path a well traveled one or a one few walk?
2007-11-08 03:33:13 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Each "path" is the result of choices we make. I am happy with my path which is the result of Christ working through my wife to bring me to it. I lead her to Christ, but her faith allowed me to see Jesus far more clearly.
2007-11-08 04:18:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
This is similar not only to the philosophical issues of free will and determanism but psychological theories of behavior.
Personally, I beleive in free will. Behaviorist B.F. Skinner believed we are all simply a product of our environments, and to a degree that is true. However, there is the 'problem' of defiant behavior.
The principles of behavior state that people behave because it is reinforcing. So if someone does something that is aversive (ie, lights themselves on fire) there must be something reinforcing in that act. I believe the reinforcing variable is the desire to choose, and take control. Or, in some cases, give up control. To try to explain this in behavioristic terms would cause a long chain of explainations such that it would be fruitless to find the beginning. I can think of nothing better to call this than free will.
In the philosophical theory of determinism, it agrees much with the concept of fate. You have a path that has been chosen for you. You can't consciously change that course. In free will, you do have control.
The path before me has been laid out, but it is by my choice, my free will that I am walking it at all. Remember, even if there is only one path, you can still walk in the grass.
2007-11-08 03:38:19 · answer #2 · answered by SurrepTRIXus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a loner. I walk alone through most of what I do in life. If it were meant for me to walk in a prearranged path I would have followed the rest of my family into the downward spiral of alcohol and drugs. Few people are so free of co-dependencies that they can do this. It is not a well traveled walk, but it is a good one. If it were not I would have been just as dead by now as I would have been if I followed others.
2007-11-08 04:00:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oh, I laid this path myself. I am sure there are many that walk similiar ones and ask "why" as often as I do! I don't give up control very easily so have a hard time asking for help - from people or from a higher power!
2007-11-08 17:43:28 · answer #4 · answered by dizzkat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The broad path of the world pampers my flesh, but will not take me to heaven. I therefore choose the narrow path, the one that leads me directly to the Lord.
2007-11-08 04:28:47 · answer #5 · answered by Dr. G™ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good question(s) ! ! !
I'm afraid I'm guilty of wandering off that narrow path at times. That's when I ask the Lord's forgiveness, and his guidance to get me back on the right path.
[Anjel, I'm curious. Heard that phrase about the "broad highway"? Think it means simply the "highway to happiness?" and not necessarily to heaven?]
2007-11-08 07:05:24 · answer #6 · answered by C Sunshine 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe God has chosen the path that i should walk, and try to walk. My steps have strayed off course time and again. I'd be lying if I told you differently!
2007-11-08 04:27:11 · answer #7 · answered by Semp-listic! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A bit of both. If the path is nice I stick to it, if not I meander past the mean peoople and laugh at them.
2007-11-08 03:37:52 · answer #8 · answered by Franklin 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
your life is written out for you when you are born
2007-11-08 03:48:48 · answer #9 · answered by Donna B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends on your POV.
2007-11-08 05:02:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋