Your ideal future?

[Xamol Na]

Inspired by cindys money topic.

 

So, what would your ideal future be? This is without winning the lottery etc.

 

Mine is fairly simple. Ideally, I'd like to get a job as a psychotherapist and hypnotherapist. Meet someone and buy a house together. Get married and have a "big, white wedding." Then have children. Ideally two boys and a girl; James, Connor and Sienna. I'd like to send them to a nice school aswell. They local comp was terrible when I went there and it's gone seriously downhill now.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

pretty close to out of time for what i intended for my future, and... wouldn't have been very good at it anyway... so barring ideal, second best... by a wide margin... would be to live to retire in decent enough health to enjoy it, move somewhere nice, and talk my friends and family into coming along. i'm picturing some kind of tropical compound.... without the koolaid.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

um, also - transporters. and flying cars. must have.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

... and my sister has healthy kids, and i get to be around them instead of far away, and she names at least one after my grandma instead of al the catholic saints she's into now which are fine, but i was gonna name one after grandma... and someone should.

[Talya]

to be able to put my daughter through Uni and watch her doing something she really enjoys with her life and her being happy...some grand-kids would be nice too! For me, I would actually like to meet someone that I could love and trust for the rest of my life. Plus get early retirement in my mid fifties, so I can enjoy my hard earned pension!

[Locke]

Dunno. Ask God.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

he has not revealed that to me.

[Locke]

And until He does, I don't have an answer.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

and whatever answer i think i have will turn out to be the wrong one, just on a statistical basis.

 

what are the odds of figuring any of it out anyway.

[Locke]

I don't think that's a statistical question.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i've always thought of it that way. not just for this question, but for questions about the future in general.

 

what are the odds that anyone could guess the actual future out of all the potential ones?

 

or in this case, predict what the ideal future would be out of all the possible ones.

 

when i try to predict what will be an ideal anything i am inevitably mistaken.

 

might just be me tho.

[Locke]

When I graduate high school, my plan is to fast and pray until God reveals to me what He wants me to do. I don't think we have to choose.

[Niniel]

In my prayer I ask for what is good for me. What that is I don´t know. I´m fully aware that my own decisions are not always the best for me in the long run. That has been painfully obvious. I hope that myself and those around me will stay healthy. In the ideal future there would be no more wars of course and no more starving people.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i don't think we choose whether we think we are or not, but the more we try to the more we struggle.

[Guest PiotrekS]

We always choose, just not always the future consequences. Sometimes we just choose who we are.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

won't start the free will debate, just... don't believe we have as much as we think we do, or much at all.

[Locke]

Imo, the whole premise of Creation is free will.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

imo ... the whole premise of creation is god's will. and nothing stands against god's will.

 

but... not debating it.

[Locke]

God's will is free will.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

*not debating free will*

[Guest PiotrekS]

*watching the free will debate*

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

nothing to see here, move along.

[Guest PiotrekS]

Am I free to choose to move along?

 

Free will makes for a really convoluted subject so I guess not debating it makes sense.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

you think you are free but you will do what it is your nature to do.

 

*not debating it*

[Guest PiotrekS]

what is my nature?

 

Convoluted - both my nature and the subject of free will.

 

Moving along.

 

Might be back to note the development of the debate though