Chapter 41 The Misguided Frosting Cake

Thomas Nagel wrote "Nine Lessons for an Introduction to Philosophy". The book is well printed, but the translation is mediocre, and the meaning can be barely guessed; most Taiwanese books have this problem. There is an article about "free will", and gave an example: Suppose you go to the buffet, walk to the dessert area, and don't know whether to get peaches or chocolate cakes with frosting; the cakes are mouth-watering, but you know that eating them will make you fat , will become ugly, unloved, discriminated against, and become the target of ridicule in weight loss advertisements; however, you still yell: "Just die of fat!" and eat the cake.

The next day, I looked in the mirror, weighed myself, regretted it again, and thought to myself: "I wish I hadn't eaten that piece of chocolate cake. I can actually eat peaches." Thomas said: At that time, in the cafeteria, you had "Chance" does not take cakes, but peaches. What he said was "free will", and what I care about is "opportunity": in our life, no matter how bad this life is, God must have given us a few opportunities, which are like a few cars sent by God, Different models have different performances. It may be a bicycle, or a bus that carries people across the bridge to the other side. It may be expensive or humble; but there is one thing in common: we can drive this car for a long distance, until we reach our destination. where you want to go.We must have had such an opportunity in our life.

It's a pity that we always miss it again and again; we don't see the car sent by God, and think it's just a pile of scrap iron; or, we drive this car and hit the wall every day.I had this kind of friend who bumped into the wall every day, complaining while bumping against the wall, complaining about the unkindness of the world, which made his head cracked and his nose full of dust; when others do the same thing, they have achieved success. , the more you bump into the more the hell? "You drove the car yourself. If you don't drive like this, you will drive on a smooth road." Tell him like this, if you don't listen, you will bump into it again;

why?Can't figure it out.We all have "free will" but "fate" always picks that questionable piece of chocolate cake with frosting.