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carolinajazz said:
Maybe this will help!

Sayings like, “His time had come” and, “It was the will of God” are often heard whenever death or tragedy strikes. In West Africa, slogans such as “Man proposes, God disposes” are commonly painted on public transport vehicles and are posted as signs in shops. For many they are merely figures of speech. Oftentimes, though, they reflect a deep-seated belief in fatalism.

Just what is fatalism? The World Book Encyclopedia defines it as “the belief that events are determined by forces that human beings cannot control.” What are these “forces”? Thousands of years ago, the Babylonians believed that an individual’s fate was strongly influenced by the configuration of the stars at his birth.

The Greeks believed that fate was in the hands of three powerful goddesses who spun, measured, and cut the thread of life. However, it was Christendom’s theologians who came up with the idea that God himself determines a person’s fate!

Since a fatalist believes that the future is as inevitable and fixed as the past, he may easily hatch a perilous character trait. Which trait? The Encyclopedia of Theology answers: “The individual .*.*. feels helpless, an insignificant, expendable factor in social processes which seem to be inescapable. This induces a passivity which gratefully clutches at the superstitious explanation that everything depends on an enigmatic but sovereign fate.”

In the book of Ecclesiastes, Solomon further wrote: “I returned to see under the sun that the swift do not have the race, nor the mighty ones the battle, nor do the wise also have the food, nor do the understanding ones also have the riches, nor do even those having knowledge have the favor.” Why? He explained: “Because time and unforeseen occurrence befall them all.”—Ecclesiastes 9:11.

Rather than suggesting that everything in life is determined by fate, Solomon was pointing out that humans cannot accurately predict the outcome of any endeavor “because time and unforeseen occurrence befall them all.” Often, something happens to a person simply because he is in the right place at the right time, or we might say, in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Nope, doesn't help at all because after about two sentences of this crap I quit reading. Thanks for trying even though I have no idea what you were trying to accomplish.
 
Exum tearing his ACL is the worst news we could have gotten this offseason. There is no positive way to spin this. It totally sucks.

It's not that he was going to be some world-beating All-Star this season - perhaps he would've been the same as last season on offense and only a little stronger defensively. But he brings a totally different dynamic to the court than Burke or Cotton and it is going to be sorely missed. 6'5/6'6 point guards aren't a dime a dozen in the league.

The key to remaining competitive for a playoff spot without Exum is keeping everyone healthy (duh) but particularly Burks and Hood. I think those two have major game and neither one was able to display it consistently all last year. Burks was out, and Hood didn't come on til he got fully healthy the last month or two of the season. Both can be killers, and can take a lot of pressure of Hayward so that would be gigantic for us because Hayward can play a distributor/creator role for stints.
 
HighlandHomie said:
Exum tearing his ACL is the worst news we could have gotten this offseason.
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I disagree.

I would rather exum tear his ACL than:
Gobert
Burks
Hayward
Favors
Hood

It certainly sucks, but at least he is really young, so he should heal, and there is a chance he was/is never going to be very good anyway.

Those others that I listed we know that at the least they are all good rotation players.
 
HighlandHomie said:
Exum tearing his ACL is the worst news we could have gotten this offseason. There is no positive way to spin this. It totally sucks.

It's not that he was going to be some world-beating All-Star this season - perhaps he would've been the same as last season on offense and only a little stronger defensively. But he brings a totally different dynamic to the court than Burke or Cotton and it is going to be sorely missed. 6'5/6'6 point guards aren't a dime a dozen in the league.

The key to remaining competitive for a playoff spot without Exum is keeping everyone healthy (duh) but particularly Burks and Hood. I think those two have major game and neither one was able to display it consistently all last year. Burks was out, and Hood didn't come on til he got fully healthy the last month or two of the season. Both can be killers, and can take a lot of pressure of Hayward so that would be gigantic for us because Hayward can play a distributor/creator role for stints.
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IAWTP, well not the first paragraph. But the rest, yeah I agree.
 
♪alt13 said:
Yeah. I'm not religious at all. I find that not wanting stuff/facing the reality that I am going to lose everything I value including my existence and there is nothing I can do to stop it, gives me some peace. I don't worry about **** that I otherwise would.
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Like it.
 
ONE LOVE said:
Yeah but you can probably buy a self help book off the shelf and it'll probably give you the same advice... I'm sure somebody has already written a book already called "The Art of Letting Go" or some **** like that.


It's really nothing special, and when you see people who don't even have enough food to eat devoting their lives and donating $$$$ to temples so that those monks can get rich and gold gild their temple, to me it makes me sick.
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All the same **** could be said of Christianity, but that's beside the point. I'm not Buddhist I just think the Buddha shared a cool pov with the world. The temple thing seems weird to me. It seems to me to be the opposite of what Buddha was saying. I could be wrong and frankly I don't care. I don't think the Buddha is infallible. I take what I like and ignore the rest. The one thing I can say of Buddhism compared to the world religions is that I appreciate and agree with much more of it.
 
A comment from a Phoenix Suns fan on the Utah Jazz facebook page, lol I do in it a heartbeat:

John Merrifield · Seattle, Washington
If I owned the Suns I would give your guys Eric Bledsoe for Trey Burke and an unprotected 2016 1st round pick.
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
Nope, doesn't help at all because after about two sentences of this crap I quit reading. Thanks for trying even though I have no idea what you were trying to accomplish.
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Was just confirming your belief that "fate" does not control everyone's life! It's a false religious idea that started with the Babylonians or possibly the Egyptians, was strongly promulgated by the Greeks and is extremely popular in most churches of Christendom! However, it is not a Scriptural or Biblical teaching.
 
Jamezz said:
A comment from a Phoenix Suns fan on the Utah Jazz facebook page, lol I do in it a heartbeat:

John Merrifield · Seattle, Washington
If I owned the Suns I would give your guys Eric Bledsoe for Trey Burke and an unprotected 2016 1st round pick.
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I think he's trolling you...
 
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