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The future's not set. There's no fate but what we make for ourselves.

John Conner

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Peter Powers once whispered in my ear at the local RSL club "play the game or sit down, it's up to you"

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Love it. Love John Conner, love The Terminator.

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Me too! Awesome movies. :thumbup:


I did actually have my future told to me... by my ex, but that's another story. ;)

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In all seriousness, I don't think I would like to know what my future holds in case it is seriously bad.

What else would you think about if you knew what was gonna happen to you?

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I have had my cards read a few times and it has been very accurate. They have seen things about me that they could not possibly have known.

However, the accuracy is mainly about the past and present and who I am. I don't think any predictions have ever come true other than extremely vague ones anyway, because I think the future is not set. To be honest, I have found most readers don't say that much about the future as they do the past.

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Very hard to foreacst the future, all one can really do is indicate the sort of options that might come up, but when they DO come up its up to the individual to choose the actual way they deal with those options. So to take a cliched example, one can forecast the arrival of a tall dark stranger, but its then up to the subject to decide how to react to and deal with that stranger. Thats where the element of shaping your own future comes in.
As an astrologer I can only show someone the paths that might be open to them and which might be a good option - I can't force them to follow those paths.

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"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams.

There is no future, no past, only the present moment, right now. If you are focusing on anything else then you aren't really present in your own life.

"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear but around in awareness." - James Thurber

Knob gags will follow.

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There is a school of thought that it's all been determined anyway, we have no free will, we do what we have to do. There is no bad, no good, just stuff.

Anxiety and fear are functions of time, if time doesn't exist then you take this away.

I will leave it with Bill Hicks:

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The World is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round, and it has thrills and chills and is very brightly coloured, and it's very loud. And it's fun, for a while.

Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they've begun to question, 'Is this real, or is this just a ride?', and other people have remembered, and they've come back to us and they say 'Hey, don't worry. Don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.' and we KILL THOSE PEOPLE.

"Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride! SHUT HIM UP! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account, and my family. This just has to be real."

It's just a ride.

But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that. You ever noticed that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter, because ... It's just a ride.

And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear wants you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead see all of us as one.

Here's what we can do to change the world right now, to a better ride:

Take all that money we spent on weapons and defence each year and instead spend it feeding, clothing, and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and WE CAN EXPLORE SPACE, TOGETHER, BOTH INNER AND OUTER, forever ... in peace.
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I went to get my palm read once, but the door was locked and a sign said 'closed due to unforeseen circumstances'

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:lol:

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Do you notice how you never see the newspaper headline "Fortune Teller scoops $20m Jackpot in the Lotto" ?

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:D
That's cos trying to foretell your own future is a seriously bad idea! Rarely works, cos you can't be objective and your predictions are inevitably coloured by your own thoughts.

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Riiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggghhhhhhhhhtttttttttttt...... .........

:whistle:

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:lol:

Unlike many people in the 'New Age' environment at least I have a sense of humour and non-believers don't offend me :D