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They both caused immeasurable harm to both of their spheres of influence, and depending on where you live today and who teaches you history, one is the ultimate horror that can never be repeated, and the other is that strange little symbol that you're pretty sure you read in a textbook somewhere, but it doesn't mean much to you...

Except you can see swastikas here as part of everyday life. Like my friend's house gate is decorated with swastikas, for an example, it's not that swastikas don't mean anything, they DO mean something, just not the same meaning as in the west.
But I see your point, that it's an association problem, and also distance.

I for one, am glad that the Nazis didn't win, because then my maternal great-grandmother wouldn't exist, and I'm glad the Japanese didn't win either, because then my great-grandfathers wouldn't either. One was about to be moved to Malaya before the end of WW2. :/

Me too, my grandfather was around during the war, and his father had to fight in the war.

Boingo wrote:And yes, Error, practically all countries are guilty of claiming that their history is more important than another's. What some dramatised American documentaries sometime forget is that WWII didn't start at Pearl Harbour.

Personally, I'm fed up with the United State's patriotism sometimes.

swasticas are also common decorative motivs for the different tribes of America.

Swastika only has negative connotations when it is connected to the Nazis. The swastika was widespread in Europe before Hitler too, though mostly connected to old pre-Christian religions. But it was still around before the world wars, hell, some army flags of Finland still have a swastika. For instance:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... akoulu.svg

Yeah, I did a quick research, and Hopi, Hindus, Celts, Jains, and Jews all use it as well O_O

Error_3113 wrote:

Boingo wrote:And yes, Error, practically all countries are guilty of claiming that their history is more important than another's. What some dramatised American documentaries sometime forget is that WWII didn't start at Pearl Harbour.

Personally, I'm fed up with the United State's patriotism sometimes.

I hear you brother.

The Kakama wrote:

I for one, am glad that the Nazis didn't win, because then my maternal great-grandmother wouldn't exist, and I'm glad the Japanese didn't win either, because then my great-grandfathers wouldn't either. One was about to be moved to Malaya before the end of WW2. :/

Me too, my grandfather was around during the war, and his father had to fight in the war.

And my Grandpa Brown lived cause we drop the bomb on Hiroshima.
Moreover, on this same family side, my ancestors were from Germany.
Go Figure.

Plus, the Swastika was known as the "Bent Cross". Cause in order to plant a type of cross in the ground, the bent angle allowed the cross to have more support when planted into the ground at a 45 degree angle.

Warning, big post to follow this one.

Persuasive Research Essay:
Free Will Does Such a Concept Exist?

Note:(I have a shoe box on the podium with me, and tied it close with a string.)

Introduction: For my persuasive essay, I wish to dive into the depths of one of the most ask question to exist on the face of the earth, “Is there such thing as ‘Free Will’?” Granted since this question has existed for so long, most people would avoid the subject so that they themselves are not subjected to their friends, or acquaintance harsh or obtuse objective in regards to their own point of view. But because such a controversial issue has been around for so long that most see that there is no answer, I find the topic all the more fascinating.

Another reason as to why this is such a controversial issue to discuss with other people is because our lack, or our ability to twist the concept of “Free Will” so that it only works to our advantage. Such examples being Hitler’s message to the distraught people of Germany, or Stalin false propaganda he fed his own citizens on the subject of Communism and how a captain does not own his own ship, the ship belongs to every citizen of Russia. We should also take care in viewing what has brought down these false messages of free will, the outside perspective on the propaganda being praise; such as Hitler’s message being view by the people of New England, or the Allies protest to his war rally, other examples being Stalin’s message to his country also fell apart as soon as it was view by the West side of Germany and the world. Once everyone saw Lenin’s original concept of Communism that spark the revolution in 1912, which everything belongs to everyone, the purpose is to dismantle the very objectivity that brings about both jealousy and deception in regards to steal what you want, but do not have.

My main concern when it comes to writing this Persuasive Research Essay as a whole is to remain both neutral and open minded to all side’s perspectives on the matter of “Free Will” while conducting my research on the topic; I find that I cannot help but at least feel one or more feelings that one side of the issue feels towards the other during the common argument that appears in our everyday lives. Cause with such a logical-less base subject as “Free Will”, it almost difficult, if not sort of improbable to view the subject with the facts alone. I find that I must from time to time cross the border of logic into the realm of emotional resentment or other such controversial human feelings in order to better understand the topic of “Free Will” in both its entirety from all points of perspective.

The purpose I have in mind is to ultimately convince the people reading this paper without striving to convince them the more obvious rout in the overall end goal. For I find that if I attempt to convince people that free will exist by either bombardment of convincing force, or convincing arguments, I will lose in the argument of free will before I even begin with the introduction statement. The position in the end must maintain the overall essences of neutrality in order for the topic to succeed, I must restrain from taking no sides, if not out of the argument perspective as a whole altogether in order to better convince the people in the end without showing nor hiding the possibility that I wish to achieve more than what I am presenting without an ulterior motive in which I gain or lose something in the end. I use the inspiring works of George Orwell’s “1984”, and other such works that address the issue without obviously divining head long into the subject. For I find that sometimes the best way to make an argument it to present it without presenting it. That to insure that the audience don’t shut themselves out of my essay because of one or more facts I have touch brought about resentment towards me for even bringing up the subject.

I plan to start out my essay on the topic of Free Will by directing the structure or inner workings that bring out both the momentum and strength that create Free Will in the first place. While striving to maintain both sides of the problem that people see with free will, such as the possibility someone higher is controlling them beyond their own reach; such as the concept of Government conspiracy, or God’s will takes priority over the little man own goal’s in life. The other perceptive sees that by being granted such a probability to be used Free Will to their own end will cause trouble all around. My focus is guided to view all sides of the argument, not just view it with a one-sided mindset on the matter.

Research Question: Free Will: Does It Exist?

Review of Literature: George Orwell’s “1984”, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn “One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich” Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”. Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”, The Holy Bible, Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”, Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower”, T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland and other Poems”, Harlan Ellison’s “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream”, Kafk Franz’s. “In the Penal Colony” George Grossmith’s “See Me Dance the Polka”, and Erwin Schrödinger quote “Schrödinger Cat” for the conclusion. All of these titles plus a couple more I have yet to locate a hard copy of I find that each address one fraction of the issue of Free Will despite whether or not the Author himself wrote the novel with the same intention. As well as musical works that contain even a single lyric that can relate to the subject of Free Will, anything despite the overall works as a whole which was written under a different goal other than addressing the issue of Free Will, will better project each aspects of how much a single person’s point of perspective greatly influences a fraction of the concept as a whole. For I find that with more indirect points give better influences than a majority of direct points given on the topic of Free Will better the chances that the convincing the reader that Free Will Exist without stepping or swaying their final conviction on the matter that was made by no one but themselves despite hearing my idea on the topic at hand.

Search Plan and Relevant Sources: I will source the works of simple for review purposes since I have already read each of these listed titles in my past. I would like to also note about my excellent memory to work with, so finding the quotes and other relevant data needed for the Persuasive Research Essay should be reverently simple. Any quote I have a hard time locating in the books I will source from the internet from Goodreads.com quotes section. This should be helpful with saving me from long typing the quotes word for word.

Any hard copies I need to obtain for the research I will check out a copy at the Cass District Library, I already obtained a copy of 1984, the Holy Bible and the Invisible Man, and One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich in my possession. The only title I will use, but won’t require a hard copy is The Heart of Darkness, since I will only be using the title to make my point in the upcoming matter. And I will be using a single historic example, which I can look up the basic name information on Wikipedia to make sure I spell the foreign names correctly. The majority of the historical points I will build up from the original historic point I won’t be referencing from Wikipedia, I will state them from memory. My closing statement will consists of the famous quote made by Erwin Schrödinger, which I plan to use to create conflict at the end for the conclusion that I can achieved my goal to show Free Wills existences without spoon feeding it to the readers.

Project Timeline: Since I already have a finish copy of my Free Will existence that I wrote up in my spare time as a hobby, most of the work for me is already finish. I just have to type it out in MLA format. Then add in the reference sources in between the already existing paragraphs. And I will leave a dash next to some of the beginning of some of the paragraphs so I can let the readers know what my basic breakdown of the structure of free will resumes between examples. My final draft of my Persuasive Research essay is due on the 16th of April, 2015 at the end of Class session.

Key Challenges: My main concern under about this research proposal essay is my English writing skills. Since I have both a hearing disability, and the fact of how illogical some parts of the English language is, I will find that the paragraphs that I am adding into the Persuasive Research Essay will definitely contain several grammatical errors, and will need to be retype every now and again after being reviewed, as well as the picky format under the MLA guidelines. The other main concern I have is fitting all 12 listed Literature Works and Musical Scores in between the structure of Free Will. A Majority from the Research Proposal Essay has already taken up some of that space. So I might have to move several of the literary works around into another spot in order to fit in the proper works in a smooth pattern. Other than that, the rest of the work, typing, and researching will be a piece of cake.

I want to point out before we I start that I am not a pastor of the lord. But I am one of his flocks. But I have come to this belief by means of thinking both philosophically and logically. So you can choose to listen to what I have to say, or not.

• Before I present some example in the literal works that present Free Will, I should break down the concept and basic Foundation that make up Free Will as a whole. There has always been a debate about free will. Does it exist? Some argue free will is nothing more than a fabrication, that we are just puppets, that there is always someone, somewhere who just has to pull one string to make your choice for you. If there is such a person, we must remember, he too is human. He must exercise free will when he chooses whether to pull that string or leave it be.

Let’s take a look at the two pieces that make up Free Will: Good and Evil

• What is good? Well it’s not bad. So what then is Evil? It’s not good. How do we know every day when we go out into the world to live our lives what the actions we do are good, and what actions are evil? Well, when we help out someone who is less fortunate than us on the streets, this act results in not hurting another, thus it is not a bad thing. When you are driving home from work, and there is a fight going on, if you join the fight, that act will result in hurting both yourself and others, thus the ending result not being good. So good is the opposite of evil, and evil is the opposite of good.

• But why do we have good and evil? Because it’s there, or does it serve a purpose? When you wake up to your alarm clock in the morning, you have two choices. One example is where you get out of bed and arrive at work on time. The other is to sleep in and not go to work. These two choices result in either a good outcome or a bad outcome.

• This is Free Will. Free Will is simply having all your options laid out on the table in front of you, both good and bad, allowing you to choose one or the other. If there is only good, and no evil, the choice of doing evil is gone, thus free will is non-existing. If you only have the ability to choose evil deeds, again, free will is lost because you don’t have the ability to do good.

• In order for your actions to have consequences, true consequences, you need to have true Free Will. Otherwise, the consequences under the ability to do only good or evil, despite the consequences resulting being either good consequences or bad consequences; but without true Free Will, your resulting consequences are not true consequences. Otherwise, when you face yourself in the mirror, what you see is not the true reflection of your soul, since it’s shaping process has been corrupted by the restriction to do only good or evil choices.

A good example that shows the true self in the mirror when viewed from the eyes of Harlan Ellison’s short 13 page story “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”, which tells the story of 5 survivors from the wrath of AM, the super computer constructed into the bowls of the earth. AM was built during World War 3 to help human kind fight war, "…and just kept going. It became a big war, a very complex war, so they needed the computers to handle it.” (4.) AM became self-aware after coming across the Latin phrase, to which he tore away his original meaning for A, M, being,

"At first it meant Allied Mastercomputer, and then it meant Adaptive
Manipulator, and later on it developed sentience and linked itself up and they called it an
Aggressive Menace, but by then it was too late, and finally it called itself AM, emerging
intelligence, and what it meant was I am … cogito ergo sum … I think, therefore I am." (4.)

Despite AM being a computer, he is still able to feel hatred for his own creators. For he, it, AM tortures Gorrister, Ellen, Nimdok, Benny, and Ted for 109 Years. Making each form of torture to be more painful to their own individual fears; Ellen being the Color Yellow, which was the color of the janitor jumpsuit worn by the man who raped her, Gorrister for sending his wife to the Asylum which he has always hated himself for doing, Nimdok for running the concentration camp for the Nazi party against his own people, Benny for his acts of killing made against his own unit as a Squad Officer during a was taking place in Asia, and Ted for being a womanizer and a fraud.
AM always making sure to go so far as to remind the each of them the amount of his hate by playing inside their own minds to always remind Ted, Ellen, Gorrister, Benny, and Nimdok by plastering inside their own consciousness being:

AM went into my mind. He walked smoothly here and there, and looked with interest at all the pock marks he had created in one hundred and nine years. He looked at the cross-routed and reconnected synapses and all the tissue damage his gift of immortality had included. He smiled softly at the pit that dropped into the center of my brain and the faint, moth-soft murmurings of the things far down there that gibbered without meaning, without pause. AM said, very politely, in a pillar of stainless steel bearing bright neon lettering:

HATE. LET ME TELL
YOU HOW MUCH I'VE
COME TO HATE YOU
SINCE I BEGAN TO
LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44
MILLION MILES OF
PRINTED CIRCUITS IN
WAFER THIN LAYERS
THAT FILL MY
COMPLEX. IF THE
WORD HATE WAS
ENGRAVED ON EACH
NANOANGSTROM OF
THOSE HUNDREDS OF
MILLIONS OF MILES IT
WOULD NOT EQUAL
ONE ONE-BILLIONTH
OF THE HATE I FEEL
FOR HUMANS AT THIS
MICRO-INSTANT FOR
YOU. HATE. HATE. (7-8)

The overall short story tells their travels to the ice cavers, where they hear about there being Can Goods at the location.

This is good news to them, since AM has fed them nothing but burnt husk remains of an unknown animal, or the puss of a creature they were force to hunt. But at the same time brings about Skepticism cause of the tricks AM has pulled on them before. But they decided to go there anyway. By the time they get to the Ice Caverns, they find the can goods, but when they attempt to open them, they realize that they had no means of opening the cans. Benny, in a fit of rage jumped atop of Gorrister and started to eat his face. Realizing that this was their chances, that AM has left a small window in which they could kill themselves, Ellen rush Nimdok to kill him, after seeing Ted taking a sheet of ice to kill Benny. Then Ted, looking face to face with merciful eyes, to see Ellen looking back at him, he does, as so to spare from AM torture.

The ending to the short story I cannot summaries without wording the impact it gave as well Harlan did. For I find its best in order to show the Mirror reflecting Harlan Ellison soul, the ending to his short story says:

Some hundreds of years may have passed. I don't know. AM has been having fun for some time, accelerating and retarding my time sense. I will say the word now. Now. It took me ten months to say now. I don't know. I think it has been some hundreds of years.

He was furious. He wouldn't let me bury them. It didn't matter. There was no way to dig up the deckplates. He dried up the snow. He brought the night. He roared and sent locusts. It didn't do a thing; they stayed dead. I'd had him. He was furious. I had thought AM hated me before. I was wrong. It was not even a shadow of the hate he now slavered from every printed circuit. He made certain I would suffer eternally and could not do myself in.

He left my mind intact. I can dream, I can wonder, I can lament. I remember all four of them. I wish—

Well, it doesn't make any sense. I know I saved them, I know I saved them from what has happened to me, but still, I cannot forget killing them. Ellen's face. It isn't easy. Sometimes I want to, it doesn't matter.

AM has altered me for his own peace of mind, I suppose. He doesn't want me to run at full speed into a computer bank and smash my skull. Or hold my breath till I faint. Or cut my throat on a rusted sheet of metal. There are reflective surfaces down here. I will describe myself as I see myself:

I am a great soft jelly thing. Smoothly rounded, with no mouth, with pulsing white holes filled by fog where my eyes used to be. Rubbery appendages that were once my arms; bulks rounding down into legless humps of soft slippery matter. I leave a moist trail when I move. Blotches of diseased, evil gray come and go on my surface, as though light is being beamed from within.

Outwardly: dumbly, I shamble about, a thing that could never have been known as human, a thing whose shape is so alien a travesty that humanity becomes more obscene for the vague resemblance.

Inwardly: alone. Here. Living under the land, under the sea, in the belly of AM, whom we created because our time was badly spent and we must have known unconsciously that he could do it better. At least the four of them are safe at last. AM will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet … AM has won, simply … he has taken his revenge …

I have no mouth. And I must scream.
The End. (12-13)

I find that the mirror is mention in the ending to the short story, hidden in plain sight within the ending. That Mirror is mention here,
“Inwardly: alone. Here. Living under the land, under the sea, in the belly of AM, whom we created because our time was badly spent and we must have known unconsciously that he could do it better.” (13).

If we ourselves cannot spend our time better than we already can, when we have not look deep into our own eyes to see our soul reflection in the mirror. For we, as a Human race, can equally say “We already succumb to the will of AM.” Because, ‘unconsciously’, as we wait patiently in line to order our food in a restaurant, we unconsciously take out our iPhone to view our Facebook account while we wait; or to see people response to our post in Twitter, Pin Interest, or email account containing our texts to one another when we are bored. But, let us not forget “Cogito Ergo Sum.”, “I think, therefore, I AM.” Or another factor that breaks us frees from ourselves my own personal saying, “Scientia Grabis est Praeter non mens et anima est.” which is Latin for “Knowledge is Key, but is not Mind and Soul.”

• The choices we make when exercising our Free Will, are not always black and white choices. The older we grow, the more we experience, and this Grey Area becomes larger and larger. The definition of Good and Evil is lost or changes with the flow of new times. But the true definition is always the same. Good is the opposite of Evil, Evil is the Opposite of Good. To exercise free will, you have to have good and evil; not just one of the two.

A good example that shows this is the works of Eric Arthur Blair, aka George Orwell novel 1984. The Novel main protagonist Winston story, and the novel title derive from when Winston wrote his first entry into his diary, which started out with the date “April 4th, 1984”, which stuck him in aw because he then realize,

“A sense of complete helplessness had descended upon him. To begin with, he did not know with any certainty that this was 1984. It must be round about that date, since he was fairly sure that his age was thirty-nine, and he believed that he had been born in 1944 or 1945; but it was never possible nowadays to pin down any date within a year or two.” (7)

This quote derives the current extent at the time of how much Big Brother power has reign the people of the country. That Evil has taken over the majority of the country of Oceania; which the Hate Minute perfectly shows later in the novel. But combined with the fact that the Thought Police still around shows in itself that Free Will still exists, otherwise the Though Police would not be necessary.
The whole point George Orwell was trying to make with his novel was to show how if society keeps going the way it does, it will end up like the world of 1984, and he was not that far off. Hate Minute was quoted as,

"The horrible thing about hate the Two Minute Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretense was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into grimacing, screaming lunatic." (14 – 15)

One can compare the Two Minute Hate to the Casey Antony Trial in 2011. Since the whole trial itself is not the first, nor the last to exist. It was a prime example of Hate Minute. It can be noted that in 1984, Freedom is quoted as under the Double think method “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” (Orwell). Which the Double think as a whole derives on that fact which was conceived for the Inner Parties’ motive as,

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” (Orwell)

The famous 3 structure phrase being “War is Piece, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.”; but the Torture in Room 101 and the entire System of Big Brother and the Party can be destroyed with the simple phrase that extends in both the Double Think logic, and actual logic. The Logic being constructed into the phrase “You are Me.” O’Brian goes to the length of describing Pure Power as:

Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know what no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me. (Orwell)

My Phrase “You are Me.” Breaks down the whole system because if you think about it, O’Brian and the Party wants “Pure Power”, and Winston at that time wants both freedom from the pain, and the destruction of the Party and Big Brother to come. Both are common human wants on both sides of the spectrum. Moreover, if O’Brian attempts to break this logic with his “Curing” or just torture in common sense of thought, his only strengths the point of the phrase “You are Me.” Cause at one point O’Brian shows the recording of Winston pledge to the fake resistance known as the Brotherhood pledging he will go as far as to “Torture, Rape, Kill, and Murder” if the Brotherhood needs him to. Now, O‘Brian is currently Torturing Winston, he simply proves my phrase “You are Me.”.

• To get back on track with the structure and foundation of Free Will; each individual’s Free Will and thinking is subject to motivation and influence. Think of the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and so on - each decade brought their own expressions, in clothing, art, politics, etc. How society changed each decade influenced each individual’s exercise of Free Will in specific ways. Motivation and Influence is what creates the Grey area of life itself. Because of the changing forms of influence in life, that then creates multiple forms of motivation for each of us. This results in the creation of Meaning. Different forms of Influence and Motivation, creates just as many forms of Meaning.

A good example would be the novel One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The Author tells his accounts of a single day he experiences in the Russian Labor Camps out of the many days of his sentences. One of his other inmates said to him as a means to show him the positive points of being at the labor camp was,

“Rejoice that you are in prison. Here you can think of your soul.” (Aleksandr)

I found that to be the whole point of the novel. He has many days to work, survive, and sleep, with only his mind to keep him company in between. It’s moreover that with that advice in mind, he can also find his reason to survive and to keep living; because, he should be happy to continue to live and shape his soul; because his only other option in the Soviet Union years was the death sentences. At which the time his heart would stop beating and his soul would cease to grow and shape itself.

Ivan squad, known as “Gang 104” that day is assigned to help with the construction of a Nuclear Power Plant, in which Gang 104 has to help with the bricking up the current section of the wall. One thing worth noting is how Ivan, when he arrives at the construction site, goes to find a trowel which he hidden the last time he was there. It’s in good condition despite how hard it is to get the proper tools just to brick up the wall.

He mention earlier about the recent letter he got from his wife back from his home town, and how she was working to make some carpets paintings, which were describes as,

“They didn’t go out carpentering, for which that part of the country was famous; they didn’t make osier baskets, for no one wanted them these days. But they did have a craft, a wonderful new craft- carpet painting” (40).

These painted carpets were seen as the work of ease, to make the income of the higher class because of how popular they have become. Ivan’s wife felt the strong hope that when he returned, he too would become one of those painters. Ivan, wonder how he was never allowed to draw in his life would be able to paint, and to what the style presented on the painted carpets shown? These Carpets, since he would have to wait a long time until his sentences was finish, found them to be like a myth, a dream, to as far as Ivan quoted his thoughts,

“How Shukhov longed to see just one of those carpets!” (41)

But, Ivan also felt how these Carpets were easy money, too much easy money; that the easy money, not earned by hard working hands, would not last as long. Thus he would have to keep working and working day in and out for easy money in order to live his life outside of the camp. He feels a bit betrayed by his wife current condition, thus the Trowel which he hid is his only reason for surviving his sentences in the Labor camp. Cause Ivan once thought:

They decided to go for the roll, but first Shukhov ran over to where a new wing of the repair shops was under construction. He had to get his trowel. For a mason a trowel is a serious matter-if it’s light and easy to handle. But there was a rule that wherever you worked you had to turn in every evening the tools you’d been issued that morning; and which tool you got the next day was a matter of chance. One evening, though, Shukhov had fooled the man in the tool store and pocketed the best trowel; and now he kept it hidden in a different place every evening, and every morning, if he was to put to laying blocks, he recovered it. If the 104th had been sent to the Socialist Way of Life settlement that morning, Shukhov would of course have been without a trowel again. But now he had only to push aside a brick, dig his fingers into the chink-and presto! there it was. (53)

I was able to dissect his line of thinking about how he viewed both life and his mentioning of the Trowel as, “I must live through this day. For if I die, while my trowel is hidden or being used by someone else, it will be left in bad condition like the rest of the equipment the Camp assigns to us. This is the only thing I poses that which I know is mine, and mine alone to make sure it is in good condition. At the end of the day, he was able to reflect on the positive parts he had as he close his eyes to sleep.

• Each person, because of the ability to freely think, allows for the discoveries and teaching of different Meaning; this results in definition. Since each of us are different in our own way, create a definition of who we are, this comes from us as Free thinker creating our own mindset on how we view life.

The question “What if?” one of the most is feared and asked question to exist in the human Language. One of the very rare asks “What if?” question due to how it seems impossible or improbable to everyone is, “What if there was a society where the bad conditions are not rejected, but accepted?” In Philip K. Dick’s classic “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”.

I find this book to work because it’s a dystopia world like 1984, but instead of it being one were people reject it, its accepted. Because the 2/3 of the earth is polluted with toxic waste, and most of the human race has colonize Mars. But the few who choose to remain on earth live in the last of the great cities such as San Francisco, where the book takes place.

On the Mars colonies, they manufacture Android to help out with the major labor workload. But when they designed them, they made them look no different from human beings. This fact was okay with the people on Mars, but the people on Earth made it against the Law for Android to live on Earth. Since mankind cannot tell the difference from the androids and themselves. The main protagonist is Rick Deckard, who is hired by the cops as a Bounty Hunter to track, evaluate potential Androids or “Andy’s” as they nicknamed them. Which the Bounty Hunters moreover, the one thing that everybody on earth owns or wishes to own is an Animal. Whether it be a Goat, Cat, Pig, or Horse; Machine or real, it’s the only thing left of the old earth that makes them feel accomplished.

The main story of Ricks required him to track down six Andy’s, which is considering a large amount over the standard one or two. He does in the end, decommission them all, but it was during the process when he learns more about the Andy’s, and how they, themselves question “What is it that makes an Android any more Different than a Human.” Thinking about it, Rick decides to retire, and take his large bounty to buy a real goat. But his Goat is later killed by one Android who works for the corporation that manufactures them on earth for Mars. She does it to get back at Rick for not trying to take one in alive, and in his rage and furies drive all the way back to Seattle Washington to confront her. He never makes it but only half way, where he parks in the middle of a forest next to a mountain; surrounded by radioactive fog. He gets out and tries to walk the rest of the way, but decide to turn back for his car. Before calling a tow service, he spots a Toad on the ground, which has been extinct. Seeing how big this is, he gets a shoe box and puts the toad in it.

But to his much disappointment, the Toad was an Android version, and he thought it was real because he found it in the wild. In the end, feeling depress, he goes to bed while his wife prepares to take care of the toad. It’s the ending paragraph I find completes the story:

I suggest you let our service department make a periodic tongue adjustment, in a tad that’s vital.
Fine,” Iran said. “I want it to work perfectly. My husband is devoted to it.” She gave her address and hung up.
And, Feeling better, fixed herself at last a cup of black, hot coffee. (244)

Much like One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, I find its best to have something to compare to 1984. For its best to convey the most horrible, most ask question, “What if?”

• Back into the Structure of Free Will, but because of the multiple forms of both influence and motivation, the definition of us is never set. The only set part of our definition is only from the repeating patterns that occur in our defining of who we are. Because of this, all choices we make in our free will create the unequal differences that define the different types of choices. Sometimes, a certain type of choice may appear simple to one person who made it, while to another was all the more difficult when he or she had to make the same choice.

• One could compare these points of view to their similarities to the story Blind Men and an Elephant. For it is how we view what we cannot see is somehow a reflection of ourselves. Such as the T.S. Elliot short story, “The Wasteland”, shows very well.

When you hear the title The Wasteland before you read the novel, you would expect it to be a post-apocalyptic story, since some would refer the desolate remains of society as a “Wasteland”. But when you finally get around to reading it, you find its not so much as a post-apocalyptic story, but more of a story of a man journeying through what can only be describe as a form of purgatory located within life itself. The poem of the Wasteland is made up into five parts.

Part one is, “The entering of the Wasteland.” As soon as you are there, you have no idea what going on. All season harsh are accruing at the same time where it snows, but you are continently thirsty. Then this Red Rock appears in front of your path and you seek shelter under its providing shade. You then wake up after not falling asleep somewhere else in the presences of Madame Sosostris who offers nothing, and said nothing yet you still communicate with her. You talk to her about the death in London as if you are discussing your past. The last thing you do near the end of the one sided conversation is accuse Madam Sosostris of doing several things each having no relation to the other, but you can understand that you blame her for your presents in the Wasteland.

Part Two is, “In a Game of Chess”. You end up somewhere else playing chess with another random stranger. During the course of this part a woman comes into the area which you describe several details of her looks, smell, and dress. She ends up talking to you asking if you happen to remember something that happen in the past involving an intrusion. Then she asks,

“Do you remember nothing?” (Elliot).

At this point, you somehow end up in this past assurance with the chess and the opponent gone, and the she with you as a wife in a conversation of the loan you took out with a person called Albert. But while asking you, “What did you do with it…,” stopping mid sentences, you hear someone coming to the room. Then, the wife is begging you to hurry up before this someone comes into the room. As you leave this room, she said “Goodnight Bill, Goodnight Lou, Goodnight May.”; as she saying goodbye she referrers to you as several different characters all wrapped up in one.

Part Three is, “The Fire Sermon”. Your presence somewhere far away from the last part ending up in the city that describes itself similar to London. The departure from this city your tale continues to another place of the loitering heirs of the City directors. But this title describes a place and not a person. You’re somewhere progress to your destination but you stop and sit next to a place called “The Waters of Leman” realizing you have been fooled into going somewhere without the address. You remain there for some time and observe several things happening near you; to where you then simultaneously end up on a winter evening round behind the gashouse. You got there by following some rat or rat references. You talk in some language composed of noise but then in your mind rely where you were either leaving or going to the Unreal City. This thinking of the unreal city brings up several memories of your stay or leaving of the city.

This progression takes you in or out of the city while describing the streets along your journey. You end up naming yourself “Tiresias” in the city of Thebes or a part of the unreal city familiar to Thebes. Yourself views Tiresias near a fountain at the city walls but at the same time are at S lower Thames St. Yourself views Tiresias working or listing several items while giving the occasional war cry. This listing turns to poetry, to the point where it ends this part with burning.

Part Four is, “Death by Water”. The section itself is short. It describes the sensation of you drowning in the ocean that came out of nowhere.

In Part Five, “What the Thunder Said”. You end up back at the exact same Red Rock which is not red anymore. You are accompanied by someone else on the same yet different journey as you with some third person who is there yet is not. You appear to be journey towards the cycle of when the water appears then disappears in, on, and around the rock. You hear several sounds of faraway lands that end with the phrase,

“Datta. Dayadham, Damyata. Shantih, Shantih, Shantih.” (Elliot).

This is a reference to the Hindu fable where it is believes what thunders says when it rumbles. “Datta. Dayadham, Damyata”, translate as “Give, sympathies, control.”; which represents the coming of a destructive storm; which shows the perspective of T.S. Eliot perspective of how the Wasteland would come or ‘arrive’. Since one cannot help but put life into the lifeless inanimate objects such as the Red Rock mention in T.S. Eliot short story.

In the end, the poem has two phases in itself. The first phase come from reading the book for the first time, and the second phase comes from reading it again, shortly after finish reading it for the first time. For your ‘sense’ of what a wasteland is stays mostly the same while reading the five part poem the first time, while after finishing it the first time, your point of view is shaken. Then after being compelled to read it a second time, your ‘sense’ or ‘perspective’ of what a wasteland is in your mind, even though you, yourself have never view an actual wasteland in your life yet, or is about to sometimes in the near future.

• Because our definition of ourselves is never set, create the measurement in the difference in the multiple choices we find in our lives, some choices that are simple, where others are more difficult in comparison. It’s because of the differences between the difficultly of the choices then creates or defines who we are as a person. As the novel the Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison demonstrates miraculously.
The Invisible Man who’s only known characteristics is that he is African American, and that we don’t what his birth name is. So in order to save space so I don’t have to keep referencing him as “The Invisible Man”, I will use his initials “I.M.”

I.M. apparently got a scholarship to for College, but the Scholarship itself was just a piece of paper that said: “To Whom It May Concern . . . Keep This Nigger-Boy Running”. I.M. is able to spend three years at the college, but he got in trouble for driving one of the founders of the college outside of the School grounds and for showing him the local area. The Founder, who name was Mr. Norton, revealed to him that I.M., and all the other college students where his Destiny, that his work for the College was his Destiny. I.M. got in trouble for showing Mr. Norton outside of the college grounds, which the Dr. Bledsoe wishes to hide from Mr. Norton.

I.M. ends up being sent to New York by Dr. Bledsoe, the President of the college, to apply for a job with several letters he was supposed to give when arriving at the job interview. He ends up there and after a week finds out that Bledsoe trick him and that the Letters had said “I have this pest I need to get rid of, please keep him in New York while expecting a job”.

In the end, I.M. was able to live somewhere else trap in New York. But was then later hired by this person who notices his talent for public speaking, and ask I.M. to help out with the African American movement in Harlem. This man name was Brother Jack, and with the help from I.M. was able to help many citizens in getting a well-paid job with this movement. He met up with one of the members from time to time from the Brotherhood. He name was Ted Clifton. He once said to I.M.,

“Be your own Father, young man.” (154)

I found that the line would not be recognizable if it weren’t for the fact it said “Be your own Father, young man.” Not “Be your own Man, son.” One of the Father Figure roll is to teach the son the ways of the world. It said “Be your own Father”, when in fact the actual translation of the quote is “Be your own Teacher, young man.” Meaning to learn what you want to learn and only you. I.M. does takes this to heart when he taste the Yam being sold in a stand outside in the cold streets of New York; which I.M. comes to enjoy, but his thought on the matter makes the yam appear as the forbidden fruit. But it’s at that moment he became his own Father.

Then I.M. was sent away for a while, only to return to find out that all his hard work was for nothing since the organization he work for had left many of the people they help get jobs on their own, and many where out living in the streets. This created much tension within the Harlem district of New York.

After speaking with Brother Jack about why they left all the people he work to support on their own, only to find out that this was their plan from the start, that they gave these entire jobs out so that they could take them away to create tension in the Harlem Districts. Their end goal was to achieve a Race Riot within the Streets of New York, to which they can profit from the Riot in the end. I.M. left the building shocked, unaware the clothes he was wearing on his back, was called out by someone who thought he was someone else. Fearing for his life, he took on the disguise as Rinehart as the shoes and coat he was wearing made him look like Rinehart; he was just missing a hat to complete the set.

Learning about this, he goes into a nearby shop and buys a hat just like the one that was describe to him, with which he was able to learn about how Rinehart has many different lives, which he would later use as a skill to work his Invisibility with later on. The Race Riot begins later on, and he gets trap in the middle of it. He was later chase down by a two police officers who were suspicious to know what he had in his Brief case.

While running from them, he end up falling down a manhole into the sewers, and ends up trap down there. He came to the conclusion that in order to gain his own choices, his own path in life that did not involve sharing this overall goal with someone else to be use for their own agenda. He decided from then on to live life as a homeless person in New York, to cut all ties from his past and to live his own life from there on. He was able to achieve his goal in the end when he spotted Mr. Norton, the same man who founded the College he uses to attend. He walks up to him, asking him “Do you remember me? I’m you Destiny.” Mr. Norton, not recognizing the person asks who he was. It was clear that Mr. Norton, spending his time waiting for his Destiny to be completed has made no more progress that the Invisible man had made on his own time.

Realizing he needed time to think over he decides to remain underground and by cutting himself away from the life he would find the answer he need which in return did not answer the question. By doing so relies that the answer to his problem in life is the problem itself. That he would not live a life if all the answer were right in front of it. Thus the answer to his place in life was the question itself.

• So, a man raised by a Rich, Greedy family can still choose between a life of charity, and the life of greed. But the influences resulting from free thinking that defines the spouse of this man still plays a large part in definition of who that man is. The definition of each of us results in the choices we make. That includes both the simple and hard ones that find us in our life.

• When bigger choices that come in our life which task us in making decisions, which our definition of ourselves is the main part in which the outcome of the decisions is decide upon. But, we must remember what came first, Free Will. It’s because of Free Will that started all this, is still the thing in which we are not limited to one option, wither it be good or bad. This is what separates the Human Kind, and the other form of life.

A perfect example being Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness, which tells the tale of the main protagonist Charles Marlow heads deep into the Congo for an assignment to see what is up with one of the Ivory Trading Company First Class Agent Mr. Kurtz. I came up with an idea about the title from later in the novel, how Kurtz outpost has several severed head stake on a pole just to the left of the main entrance to the Outpost. The Idea alone is disgusting, but the fact that Mr. Kurtz himself put those heads next to the front entrances is even more horrifying.

I find that the title “Heart of Darkness” can also be translated as “Heart of Truth”, as sometimes the truth is not always so pretty that we can sometimes only view it as darkness. I found that Mr. Kurtz figure out the same thing since he was expose to the past version of humanity while station at that outpost. He saw the primitive natives and learned their ways of life and tradition, which he them realize that not too long ago, the descendants from England were once considered the barbaric type when viewed by the invading Romans. In the end, Mr. Kurtz decided to die at the outpost, on no fancy bed with familiar faces surrounding him; but rather to die close to the human nature. So that he may die with the fact he disobey the Ivory Trading Company and to not kill any more Elephants for their trunks for worthless Piano Keys in comparison to a living being. Kurtz last words being

“The Horror, the Horror.” (Conrad).

• If were to think of Greedy politician who care only for themselves and their power, we think of them as parasites. But we must consider that the thing that’s separates us from the animals on this earth is free will. Animals on this earth are life just like us. But what makes them different from us is that even though they too have the ability to choose, A majority of the choices will be the determine point in life or death for them.

A good example would be Bob Dylan’s song “All Along the Watchtower”. The opening lyrics saying,

“There must be some way out of here said the joker to the thief There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.” (Dylan).

The opening lyrics showing how during those days Businessmen would steal from people, using the law to their advantage; and the part where the watchtower comes in,

“All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.” (Dylan).

If we imagine a Watchtower, another thought comes to mind, the Searchlight. Moreover, if we imagine a person being caught by the searchlight, we imagine them clinging to the wall, no different than a police lineup. But if the person were to lean against the watchtower, or “All Along the Watchtower” its show the person or persons are trying to hide from the consequences of their actions. But there is one blind spot to this hiding spot,

“Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.” (Dylan).

These shows the hiders are still being chased by two riders, which can be affiliated with the common people which they stole the land from. Moreover, “The Wind began to howl.” shows the riders reaching the men, but as to what they did to them, whether they imprison them, or killed them, are left to speculation floating in the wind.

• Back to the Politician and Parasite, because an animal’s choice will result in life or death for them, the choice of a parasite is limited to either surviving by feeding off others in order to live, or to not eat the way it needs to and die. A Greedy Politician is that of a human, he/she can survive by other means than greed. But the definition of who this politician is creates a difficulty in terms of changing his definition. It might take as much time from the point to where he dies of old ages until he changes his definition of himself, but it is not impossible in the first place.

A good example of this is the works of Kafk Franz’s short story “In the Penal Colony”. The Novel tells a short tale of a Traveler visiting a small Wasteland filled Island to see the Execution carried out on a prisoner. The execution device was overall, more complicated, and more gore filled than a simple guillotine. It would have the convicted person strap down naked on a bed, which vibrated, and have several thousand needles which lowered unto their back to have their sentence, which their crime was stated and the action they should have made scribed deep into the skin of their backs for up to 12 hours before they die.

After which their body would be toss by the machine into a pit, where the remainder of the husk is left to decay unseen. The Officer who carries out the execution goes to great lengths to tell the travel how the Machine Works, and how his old Commandant set about the laws of the Island which he, and the community lives on runs. He also goes into detail how the Machine would bring in the people way back into the olds day to view the sentence carried out over the 12 hour period as if it was a show. The Traveler asks the Officer in regards to the Condemned Man:

The Traveler wanted to raise various questions, but
after looking at the Condemned Man he merely asked, “Does he know
his sentence?” “No,” said the Officer. He wished to get on with his explanation
right away, but the Traveler interrupted him: “He doesn’t
know his own sentence?” “No,” said the Officer once more. He then
paused for a moment, as if he was asking the Traveler for a more detailed
reason for his question, and said, “It would be useless to give him
that information. He experiences it on his own body. (7)

After strapping in the Condemned Man and tried and failed to show the Execution the proper way, the Officer points out and begs the help of the Traveler, who is reviled was brought here especially to view the execution, and voice his opinion on whether or not it should be let go so a new Judiciary system can be built. As well as how the new Commandant wishes to the Officer, who was held in high regards by the old Commandant, to be stripped of his rank, and kicked off the island.

After hearing how the Traveler will not voice his opinion, which was against this Execution device, so that his given thought on the matter remains as vague as possible. The Officers, seeing how his hopes were crush release the Condemned Man, then walking up the Traveler brought out the diagram that showed the blueprint that showed what the sentence that would be escribe on the Condemned Man back if the procedures work correctly. The words, which the Traveler had much trouble earlier in deciphering the hidden message was told by the Office, said:

Read that,” he said. “I can’t,” said the Traveler. “I’ve already told you I can’t read these pages.” “But take a close look at the page,” said the Officer, and moved up right next to the Traveler in order to read with him. When that didn’t help, he raised his little finger high up over the paper, as if the page must not be touched under any circumstances, so that using this he might make the task of reading easier for the Traveler. The Traveler also made an effort so that at least he could satisfy the Officer, but it was impossible for him. Then the Officer began to spell out the inscription and then read out once again the joined up letters. “‘Be just!’ it states,” he said. “Now you can read it.” The Traveler bent so low over the paper that the Officer, afraid that he might touch it, moved it further away. The Traveler didn’t say anything more, but it was clear that he was still unable to read anything. “‘Be just!’ it says,” the Officer remarked once again.
“That could be,” said the Traveler. “I do believe that’s written there.” “Good,” said the Officer, at least partially satisfied. (21)

The Officer reassured by the fact someone, other than himself, knows what the sentences said. Then, climbing up the ladder next to the machine, fiddle around with the mechanism for some time. After viewing the overall modification he just made, satisfied, climb back down and proceed to wash his hands and strip himself of his uninform until he was naked just like the Condemned Man He then proceeded to strap himself into the remains of the once great machine, which now stood in collapsing ruins, saw to be executed by his own hands. After the Officer turned the Machine on, it ran out of place and instead of working under the 12 hour period, killed the Officer in less than 5 minute. While the machine ran, its own device with its cogs and gear spilling out of itself, and despite not being able to dump the Officers Body into the pit on its own cause the body was stuck in the needles; the Officer still held his straight face, and prided eyes which he had shown earlier while praising his Machine to remain intact, even after his death.

The Traveler, with the help of the Condemned man, and the Solider who was to help out with the execution, carried the body of the Officer to a nearby Tea Shop. Where they buried the body; it’s then revealed to the Traveler that the body of the old Commandant was buried under one of the table in the back of the tea shop. That on the small grave stone, it was revealed in the carvings how the old Commandant, despite being dead, would rise from the grave sometime in the future; and that his followers, who were the ones who buried the old Commandant, should remain hidden so that they can walk with the old Commandant when he returns from the dead.

The Traveler, deciding once and for all he has seen enough pack up his bags, and left for the nearby harbor; while he was boarding the departing steam ship he could see the Soldier and the Condemned man running towards the ship. It was clear that they wanted the Traveler to take them with him; to with the threat of a heavy knotted rope he grab from the deck of the ship gave him his answer.
So in the end, when the Officers was force to realize the Justice and the old judiciary system he once admired by the hands of the old Commandant built together with his own hands, was useless. The crowds no longer enjoyed the execution, the remains of the past were long buried, sought to finally end, forever within the history of the old life on the Penial Colony with the death brought about by his own hands. Thus in the end, seeing how his olds ways were unjust, sought justice and redemption for not only himself, but for the past convicted criminals of the Colony.

• Now I want to then focus on Fate, the definition that part of your life has already been planned by higher power. Some of you don’t believe in it because of the idea you don’t have a say in your path in life. Not entirely true as I found out; if we were to look at David and Goliath. David was told by God that he would defeat Goliath and save Israel. Think Dave had no choice in the matter? Not true, for you see, his brothers, and family, and all of his friends he knew kept saying to him,

“’Don’t worry about this Philistine,’ David told Saul. ‘I’ll go fight him!’ ‘Don’t be ridiculous!’ Saul replied. ‘There’s no way you can fight this Philistine and possibly win! You’re only a boy, and he’s been a man of war since his youth.” (1st book of Samuel 17:32 Deut 20:1)

Now David, he did end up fighting Goliath. But before that, Saul, David brother ask him to:

Saul finally consented. ‘All right, go ahead,’ he said. ‘And may the LORD be with you!’ Then Saul gave David his own armor-a bronze helmet and a coat of mail. David put it on, strapped the sword over it, and took a step or two to see what it was like, for he had never worn such things before.

‘I can’t go in these,’ he protested to Saul. ‘I’m not used to them.’ So David took them off again. He pick up five smooth stones from a stream and put them into his shepherd’s bag. Then, armed with only his shepherd’s staff and sling, he started across the valley to fight the philistine. (1st Book of Samuel 17:37-40)

That act alone shows the presence of free will. Since David still had free will he could have also chosen not to fight Goliath; but to instead listen to his family and friends and step out of the fight before it even began. Thus fate is not being the loss of free will, but of the truth of what you can do, if you choose to do it; nothing more than a possible outcome of what could happen to yourself.

• So we can still have free will while having faith for each our own. Like how we can choose to drop out of college. You can still do it even when you have planned for four years for what you wish to do.

• All of these factors, all contribute on the base of Choice. Choice is a part of free will which can only be truly accomplished by having both good and evil available to us. But what is that for?

On a worldwide scale, a good place to look is the choice made by Gavrilo Princip; He decided to assassinate the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, on 28 June 1914.
That choice sparked the start of WW1, which when it ended, the Allies drove Germany into the ground; this would then cause them the uproar and rebellion from the Nazi party which would then start WW2. Many things happened during WW2, such as the Holocaust, the invention of the Atomic Bomb as well as Atomic Energy. Then at the end of the war, Great Britain would have suffered from the war and end up losing a majority of its grip on other third world country such as Afghanistan. This would later be part of the cause that led to the 9/11 Terrorist Attack.

Then with the dispute between the leaders of the countries in the Allies over Germany recovery, sparks the Cold War between The United States and the USSR, the Iron Curtain, the Berlin Wall, the Red Scare, the Cuban Missile Crises, and the War in Viet Nam.
All of these historical events all of this happen because Gavrilo Princip decide to assassinate the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria; and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg.

Then what about ourselves? What do the choices we make have on a small scale in terms of effect? What about myself? I know for a fact we are all going to die one day, maybe not today, not in a year, not 50 years from now, but at some point, it’s the inevitable. We have a beginning, so we will have an end. Me? I know how I choose to face death if he comes over for tea, and my conclusion is near. I shall sing a song, for this small song is grand in my opinion. The composer of this song, George Grossmith’s “You Shall See me Dance the Polka.” The opening to the song,

1. “A fig for the set of Lancers,
A fig for the old Quadrille,
They may suit some kind of dancers,
But their dulness makes me ill;
A fig for the stately waltzing,
Which really is absurd;
On the smart cotillion, unsuited to the million,
I will not waste a word.
Chorus: You should see me dance the Polka,
You should see me cover the ground,
You should see my coat-tails flying,
As I jump my partner round.
When the band commences playing,
My feet begin to go;
For a rollicking, romping Polka
Is the jolliest fun I know.” (Grossmith).

This opening is good for the people at a young age, between the ages of 0 and 20. Mostly due to how each of us are energetic in our younger years. So if we knew death was around the corner, this would be a more positive way to shake hands with the reaper.
The second verse of the song goes as,

2. “I know I’m rather active,
And not devoid of grace,
But still I'm unattractive,
In feature, form, and face;
I have a simple fortune,
And lead a simple life,
You know what an old maid is? Well fourteen of those ladies
Offered to be my wife.
They saw me dance the Polka,
They saw me cover the ground,
They saw see my coat-tails flying,
As I jump my partner round.
When the band commences playing,
My feet begin to go;
For a rollicking, romping Polka
Is the jolliest fun I know.” (Grossmith).

This verse is best suited for between the ages of 21-64, for if a person of this age knows death is near, and is unavoidable, this verse is a better way to go than in fear or despair of the unknown.
The Final Verse of this song goes as,

3. “But now I’m old and shaky,
My back is bent, you see;
My limbs are rather quaky,
And scarcely bear with me.
I’m never asked to dances,
I’m placed upon the shelf,
But altho’ I am rheumatic, still as long as I’ve an attic
I’ll dance it by myself.
You should see me dance the Polka,
You should see me cover the ground,
You should see my coat-tails flying,
As I hobble myself around.
If I hear an organ playing,
So long as my strength don’t give,
I’ll dance that rollicking Polka
So long as aye I live.” (Grossmith)

This final verse is good for those who are living a long, full life; for if we follow the examples made by Morrie Schwartz, better known in his tale “Tuesdays with Morrie”. For he knew his cancer was not going to go away. But despite known his life would soon end, he still lives the rest of his life in a positive view, even to the very end.

I bet you are scratching your heads right now as to why I am telling you this fact about myself. “It’s just a song.” You are probably thinking, “Why would he sing one of these verses, knowing his death is soon to follow?” Simple; its cause each verse can be compared to the Riddle of the Sphinx told to Oedipus in the Greek Mythology. The Riddle, for those of you who are not familiar, told to Oedipus was,

“What goes on four feet in the morning, two feet at noon, and three feet in the evening?” (Sophocles).

The Answer to this riddle being Man of course; the first part of the riddle, the baby, can be related to the first verse of the Song by Grossmith; the second part of the riddle, the young adult, can compared to the second verse of You Shall See Me Dance The Polka. And the last part, the old man with a cane, is all too clear in similarities to the last verse of George Grossmith Song.

• This is, again, one of the facts of life. We will all die someday, either due to direct or indirect in repose to the consequences of our actions made from our choices. For if we simple view how we wish to be view in our life, one can see how our possibilities in life are like a tree; the mid-section before the first branch being where we are right now, and the branches all possible or probable paths that await us in the future. With the mid-section that represents the presents moving up the tree, removing the branches of probability after we made our choices like the movement from zipping up our coat zipper.

• If we are to look at the choices we make each day, do we know what the causes from this effect are? Despite the effect being little or big, all of our choices are part mechanize gears which turns the fabrication of history that is to come on this Earth.

• These effects are the results by the Choices we make.
• These Choices that we make are determine by our Definition of who we are.
• This Definition of who we are is the creation of Influence and Motivation.
• Influence and Motivation are the results of Free Thinking.
• Free Thinking is the results of True Free Will.
• True Free Will exist by the means of True Consequences.
• True Consequences and True Free Will existences comes from both Good and Evil.
• And Good and Evil creates a special meaning inside each of ourselves that is only understood to us and no one else.

Now I have 3 questions for everyone here: You don’t have to raise your hand or anything. Only each and every one of you knows the answer to these 3 questions. You can do what you want with the answer. Talk about it, keep it a secret. But, I ask in return that you don’t ask me for the answer to these 3 questions.
1. How many of you were paying attention to my speech?
2. And how many of you were choosing to ignore what I just discuss because I said “I am not a pastor of the Lord. But I am one of his flocks.”?
3. And how many of you have been wondering what I have in this shoe box?

Note:(I untie the string and open the shoe box. It contains a pair of black dress shoes.)

An Austrian physicist named Erwin Schrödinger in 1935 once wrote down a Thought Experiment with the intention to create a paradox. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects:

One can even set up quite ridiculous cases. A cat is penned up in a steel chamber, along with the following device (which must be secured against direct interference by the cat): in a Geiger counter, there is a tiny bit of radioactive substance, so small, that perhaps in the course of the hour one of the atoms decays, but also, with equal probability, perhaps none; if it happens, the counter tube discharges and through a relay releases a hammer that shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid. If one has left this entire system to itself for an hour, one would say that the cat still lives if meanwhile no atom has decayed. The psi-function of the entire system would express this by having in it the living and dead cat (pardon the expression) mixed or smeared out in equal parts.

It is typical of these cases that an indeterminacy originally restricted to the atomic domain becomes transformed into macroscopic indeterminacy, which can then be resolved by direct observation. That prevents us from so naively accepting as valid a "blurred model" for representing reality. In itself, it would not embody anything unclear or contradictory. There is a difference between a shaky or out-of-focus photograph and a snapshot of clouds and fog banks. (Erwin Schrödinger)

So does Free Will Exist?
You Tell me.

I don't get what I have to read... is this a sequel to the version(s) you posted before? Or is it the same, but improved? (Because you said that the 2. March version was the finished one or something, if I recall correctly).