The martini night was a succes, and while we were drinking we were playing chinese poker at 0.25€ per point. At the end of the night I chose to take home a cocktail glass rather then the money.
Yesterday night it was the "Night of the exam". the concept is simple: about 1000 students are put into a movie theater, and solve 35 multile choice questions. (general knowledge, ranging from politics to ancient popes and geography) After thhat there's a sneak preview. This year the movie they howed was: Thhe adjustment bureau, starring Matt Damon. It was a pretty good movie, altough I didn't like the supernatural aspect about it, and would have preferred a giant conspiracy theory. It adressed a question I have been asking myself for quite some time now: Do we have free will. Or do we have the illusion of free will?
I'm not suggesting that as it is in the movie, some higher power decides when and were we do what. I however believe that it moight very well be that life is just one giant differential equation, and that it's all just an endless list of cause and effect. a inevitbaly leads to b inevitably leads to c...
It's somehow a slighty scary notion that my entire life could potentialy already be mapped out. What I'll eat tonight, were I'll work, how and when I'll day, and all the time I'll have the idea that I actually consciously chose to do that...
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