Certainly, it is true that a person’s entire life a series of events, all interrelated with one another. By your definition, if you get in car accident, then the fault is your own for entering the car in the first place. In a way, I would agree with that idea, as the effect is reasonably predictable.
However, what if you are walking outside, on a treeless plain, the skies are blue, there is no wind, you are watching carefully for gopher holes and then WHACK, you get creamed by a meteorite. Bad luck or are you responsible for this happenstance? I contend that it is bad luck because this eventuality is so far from predictability that I would not take ownership of it.
I do happen to be a very empowered person. I don’t rely on luck. Instead, I try to order my life in a way where I am making my luck.
Your perspective is very interesting and I would really enjoy a discussion on the subject. I met a woman once who, along with her entire family, believed in reincarnation. They had a very elaborate belief system. It was fascinating. Perhaps she was right and that is way things really are.
Or, I’ve often wondered, could it be that if you believe it then the strength of your believe actually makes it truth?
Perhaps we are all right.
But then this makes you the most “right” out of us all. For if the strength of your belief makes it true, then that is the ultimate self-determination.
