: Re: 'The Chosen One' paradox In many books novels or other forms of fictional writing, the reader is introduced to a so called 'chosen one'. This character or being is of higher power or in general,

I believe "chosen one" stories are fun because it's not clear which way one should view it. The two viewpoints are two sides of the same coin.

If I may wax philosophical, Alan Watts was famous for arguing "Westerners love to talk about how they came into this world. You didn't come into this world, you came out of it!" Those are the same two sides of the coin. If you came into this world, then a higher power must have destined you to achieve this greatness when they put you into the world. If you came out of this world, you are simply part of a greater existence which overwhelmed the evil antagonist, and you just happened to be the most proximal part of that greater existence when the evil was defeated.

Thus, when we read such books, we never know whether we might be the chosen one too.

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