Post #2- Oedipus Rex

This play left me to consider the idea of free will, its limits and its opposition with the idea of fate. Since reading Oedipus Rex I have been debating the very idea of free will in my mind. Essentially, it seems, one could regard the situation either way. There is no denying that things will happen the way that they will happen, exactly, but at the same time we are left to fill in the pieces that complete this infinite puzzle. The decisions we make are still our choice, even if there is only one possible outcome- the outcome we choose. In any case, I now have a mind-boggling paradox to occupy my mind with when I am sitting in an elevator.

Post #1- Personal Passages

Maybe they come by land
Maybe they come by sea
Maybe they've already come
Maybe they come by me
Slipping into the twilight
I ride the broken wave tonight
An old song on the radio
You knew a long time ago
An old song on the radio
Going out over the ocean

Maybe it's World War I
Maybe its World War III
Maybe it's Vietnam
Maybe we're on TV
Falling into the tall grass
Melting into the tall grass
Spilling out over the lip and
Into the ocean
Into the ocean
-Carry by Patty Griffin

It's like I'm paranoid lookin' over my back
It's like a whirlwind inside of my head
It's like I can't stop what I'm hearing within
It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin
-Papercut by Linkin Park