Re: Choosing OUr Parents

Drofinnah,

I agree with everything you said in the body of your post and it is a great perspective, but it doesn't really support your initial premise which was:

"i've heard this concept before... but do not agree... for if we had a choice coming in then we would know the outcome already"

You see, being able to make a choice does not imply that you know what the outcome of your choices will be. Yes, some choices have obvious conclusions, ("If I turn left at the next light I will be traveling West!"), but most of the choices we make as humans do not have obvious predetermined outcomes. We struggle with our choices and we hope for the best. Many of us make bad choices because they serve our emotional addictions, even when better choices are obvious to those around us.

I do not know if the ideas in the main post are true or not. There is no possible way to know for certain and so I choose not to have a belief about it...though I think it is certainly a viable possibility for how we get our parents as are many other possibilities.

My point however is that you could both be 100% correct. There is nothing in your post, which if totally true, automatically requires anything in the main post to be false.