Saying that events are random and using that as an explanation for them is completely unsatisfactory to me. Sure, there is chance involved that one thing might occur or not occur, but there is always a reason. I don't think that determinism gives enough credit to the reason things happen. We may not always understand why things happen, but that does not make them random. I can agree with the fact that our consciousness interacts with the physical world, whose events are separate but affected by our actions, but I can't see anything as arbitrary.
Sorry for the delay. As far as WCW goes, "To Elsie" is an excellent one; it really brings out the shift away from Romanticism and toward a 20th-century American identity.
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Date: 2007-03-26 05:46 pm (UTC)Sorry for the delay. As far as WCW goes, "To Elsie" is an excellent one; it really brings out the shift away from Romanticism and toward a 20th-century American identity.