Circumstances vs. Decisions

Do your circumstances determine your decisions or vice versa?

  • Your circumstances determine your decisions.

    Votes: 5 29.4%
  • Your decisions determine your circumstances.

    Votes: 10 58.8%
  • I am confused.

    Votes: 2 11.8%

  • Total voters
    17
  • Poll closed .

ceo_pte

New Member
I know where I stand, but I am just curious what the general public would say!

Do your circumstances determine your decisions or do your decisions determine your circumstances? :biggrin:
 

mainman

Set Trippin
Originally posted by ceo_pte
I know where I stand, but I am just curious what the general public would say!

Do your circumstances determine your decisions or do your decisions determine your circumstances? :biggrin:
depends...
 

vraiblonde

Board Mommy
PREMO Member
Patron
Well, obviously your decisions determine your circumstances. But circumstances should determine your decisions as well. Not sure where you're going with this - or are you just trying to stir up conversation?
 

ceo_pte

New Member
Trying to get people to think! I agree. Decisions determine your circumstances! I work with alot of people and I see many of them just reacting to circumstances, w/o realizing that the situation they are in is a result of the decisions that they made.
 

Christy

b*tch rocket
Originally posted by ceo_pte
you should just chose 'i'm confused.' :biggrin:

But I'm not confused. :shrug: I'm just not a black and white thinker.

I'm where I'm at today in life with a little bit of luck and a little bit of good decision making. Some of the best decisions I've ever made in my life were simply pulled out my arse with very little thought involved. Some of the worst were well thought out and planned. :shrug:

I just go with the flow and make the best of what's handed to me. My father has always said, and is correct, that I could fall into a barrel of sh!t and still come out smelling like roses. I've got good Karma. :diva:
 

ceo_pte

New Member
Originally posted by Christy
But I'm not confused. :shrug: I'm just not a black and white thinker.

I'm where I'm at today in life with a little bit of luck and a little bit of good decision making. Some of the best decisions I've ever made in my life were simply pulled out my arse with very little thought involved. Some of the worst were well thought out and planned. :shrug:

I just go with the flow and make the best of what's handed to me. My father has always said, and is correct, that I could fall into a barrel of sh!t and still come out smelling like roses. I've got good Karma. :diva:

your opinion... I say it's more than good Karma!
 

Sharon

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Staff member
PREMO Member
Originally posted by ceo_pte
Decisions determine your circumstances! I work with alot of people and I see many of them just reacting to circumstances, w/o realizing that the situation they are in is a result of the decisions that they made.

That's what I thought you meant. As I've gotten older I try to make wise decisions so I don't have to react to lousy circumstances, but sometimes life throws you for a loop and you have to deal with it.
 

Christy

b*tch rocket
Originally posted by ceo_pte
your opinion... I say it's more than good Karma!

Maybe your karma's not so good then? :shrug: :lol:

Honestly, I still sit back in amazement as to how I got where I am today. I joined the Air Force on a whim. Went in "Open General", so I coulda very well wound up with a job sucking the crap out of an aircraft's toilets (knew a girl in the AF who landed that fine job). I was assigned an AFSC that I had no clue as to what in the world it was. "Radio Communications Analysis Specialist". Spent 6 years in the AF doing that, and have managed to land some pretty decent jobs out of it. It's not like I purposely chose this route, it's just where I wound up. :shrug:
 

ceo_pte

New Member
I am curious what people mean when they say life? Fore example, 'life throws you for a loop.'

I think good things happen to good people. My definition of karma is seed time and harvest time....
 

ceo_pte

New Member
Originally posted by Christy
Maybe your karma's not so good then? :shrug: :lol:

Honestly, I still sit back in amazement as to how I got where I am today. I joined the Air Force on a whim. Went in "Open General", so I coulda very well wound up with a job sucking the crap out of an aircraft's toilets (knew a girl in the AF who landed that fine job). I was assigned an AFSC that I had no clue as to what in the world it was. "Radio Communications Analysis Specialist". Spent 6 years in the AF doing that, and have managed to land some pretty decent jobs out of it. It's not like I purposely chose this route, it's just where I wound up. :shrug:

Who needs karma, I got God! My life is great! :biggrin:
 

Sharon

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Staff member
PREMO Member
Originally posted by ceo_pte
I am curious what people mean when they say life? Fore example, 'life throws you for a loop.'

I think good things happen to good people.

Then I guess I'm a horrible person. :bawl:

If you tried using that narrow pea-sized brain of yours, you'd know that BAD things happen to good people also.

Go thump your bible a little and tell me if Job was a bad person. :rolleyes:
 

pixiegirl

Cleopatra Jones
Originally posted by Sharon
Then I guess I'm a horrible person. :bawl:

If you tried using that narrow pea-sized brain of yours, you'd know that BAD things happen to good people also.

Go thump your bible a little and tell me if Job was a bad person. :rolleyes:

Exactly. A lot of really bad crap happens to a lot of innocent kids every day. They've done nothing to deserve it.

And sometimes really good things happen to really crappy people.
 

ceo_pte

New Member
Originally posted by Sharon
Then I guess I'm a horrible person. :bawl:

If you tried using that narrow pea-sized brain of yours, you'd know that BAD things happen to good people also.

Go thump your bible a little and tell me if Job was a bad person. :rolleyes:

Temporarily, he had to go through crap. After his ordeal he was blessed more abundantly than he was before he lost everything.

There are some sensitvie people on here...
 

Christy

b*tch rocket
Originally posted by ceo_pte
Who needs karma, I got God! My life is great! :biggrin:

Help me out here. So do you make the decisions that determine your circumstances or does God? Does God give you the circumstances and then you make the decisions? :confused:

Why make any decisions at all if God will take care of it for you? :confused:

And Sharon is correct, bad circumstances do happen to good people.

I knew I shoulda ignored this thread. :banghead: I knew exactly where it was going as soon as you posted it. :banghead:
 

ceo_pte

New Member
Originally posted by pixiegirl
Exactly. A lot of really bad crap happens to a lot of innocent kids every day. They've done nothing to deserve it.

And sometimes really good things happen to really crappy people.


:bawl: :bawl: :bawl:
 

ceo_pte

New Member
Originally posted by Christy
Help me out here. So do you make the decisions that determine your circumstances or does God? Does God give you the circumstances and then you make the decisions? :confused:

Why make any decisions at all if God will take care of it for you? :confused:

And Sharon is correct, bad circumstances do happen to good people.

I knew I shoulda ignored this thread. :banghead: I knew exactly where it was going as soon as you posted it. :banghead:

Stop crying... you give credit to luck or Karma, I give it to God. Your opinion and my opinion... There is something called free will, but you would probably just bounce through life on luck and karma...
 

Christy

b*tch rocket
Originally posted by ceo_pte
There are some sensitvie people on here...

I don't think people are "sensitive" moreso annoyed, as this entire thread was created as a lead in to more ceo_pte pontification. :duh:
 
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