Attendre
2002-09-20 || 10:18 p.m.

Another multiple entry day.

I suddenly remembered what I had planned to write about earlier.

An absolute basic tenet of Catholicism is a belief in free will.

An absolute basic tenet of Calvinism is a belief in predeterminism.

Today, Year 3 were doing an assembly on babies. They re-enacted the story of Elizabeth and Zechariah - the parents of John the Baptist. Zechariah is in the temple when he is visited by the angel Gabriel telling him that he and Elizabeth will have the son they long for, he will be a great man and they must call him 'John'. Suddenly I thought, 'hang on, that's predetermined'. If the angel comes from another realm and knows the future, then everything must be predetermined in the sense that it is all happening at once and the angel has access to that information being not an earthly being.

You see, I think that is how you can link both ideas. We have free will within our own immediate perceptions, but life is all predetermined because time has no real meaning or explanation. And really its all like a dot. A point that exists into which we could all fold as one. Its what happens when you die, you become this point of light that both exists everywhere and nowhere both at once and all at once.