7 and 1/2 Americans Group 2 Section 19

Today we started to talk about Boethius, an interesting character who said that you don't need to rely on luck to be happy. You need only rely on the happiness from inside yourself because only you can create it. Another one of Boethius' philosophies was that everything was already predetermined in our lifetime so we minus well just live our lives in the sense that we are not living our lives but are living out a sort of puppet show where god is the puppeteer. We agreed that this notion of existence without choice is just not something we think is plausible. You need to be able to make your own decisions and not have to worry about some divine entity controlling you at every turn.