YAY!!! I love your meta, it is hot! :D And I still can't believe I wrote this... usually I don't meta at all, for whatever reason, probably because someone out there usually gets to it before I do, or else I get distracted. But oh my god, this episode brought out the dork in me.
And pure free will doesn't exist in the sense that we don't create things with our actions just because we want it. Isn't that a prerogative of God(s)?
Yes, I believe that's right. So free will is also constrained by ability and human limitation--creation is, after all, an act of divine will that doesn't need prior conditions to be met before the choice can be made to create. Which is how ex nihilo creation works.
And that's why the angels aren't wiping out Dean's memories of Hell, or trying to mess with his ability to express choice, because the fact that he has a destiny to fulfill isn't the same as saying just sit down and accept it.
Exactly! And also, it seems that the nature of prophecy is indeterminate: when Dean breaks into Chuck's house to haul him over to the motel to help save Sam, Chuck tells him that he hadn't written this part. He's completely shocked. So the information Cas gave to Dean, and Dean's choice to act on it (*cough* and I love how Cas seems to know exactly what Dean's going to do), may have fallen outside articulated prophecy. If that's related to Dean's destiny, I don't know, because we don't even know what that is: "the righteous man who begins it is the only one who can end it" doesn't tell you anything about outcome, only that Dean's choices (and in 4.07 Cas tells Dean he does have choices to make) will become more difficult, and maybe more constrained, the closer he gets to his destination.
The Gospels of Winchester OMG!
I am sort of in love with Castiel reading one of the Supernatural books. He admires Chuck's work! And he sees the book and sort of gravitates toward it, and while Dean is standing there hollering and carrying on, Cas just keeps reading XD I LOVE THAT.
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YAY!!! I love your meta, it is hot! :D And I still can't believe I wrote this... usually I don't meta at all, for whatever reason, probably because someone out there usually gets to it before I do, or else I get distracted. But oh my god, this episode brought out the dork in me.
And pure free will doesn't exist in the sense that we don't create things with our actions just because we want it. Isn't that a prerogative of God(s)?
Yes, I believe that's right. So free will is also constrained by ability and human limitation--creation is, after all, an act of divine will that doesn't need prior conditions to be met before the choice can be made to create. Which is how ex nihilo creation works.
And that's why the angels aren't wiping out Dean's memories of Hell, or trying to mess with his ability to express choice, because the fact that he has a destiny to fulfill isn't the same as saying just sit down and accept it.
Exactly! And also, it seems that the nature of prophecy is indeterminate: when Dean breaks into Chuck's house to haul him over to the motel to help save Sam, Chuck tells him that he hadn't written this part. He's completely shocked. So the information Cas gave to Dean, and Dean's choice to act on it (*cough* and I love how Cas seems to know exactly what Dean's going to do), may have fallen outside articulated prophecy. If that's related to Dean's destiny, I don't know, because we don't even know what that is: "the righteous man who begins it is the only one who can end it" doesn't tell you anything about outcome, only that Dean's choices (and in 4.07 Cas tells Dean he does have choices to make) will become more difficult, and maybe more constrained, the closer he gets to his destination.
The Gospels of Winchester OMG!
I am sort of in love with Castiel reading one of the Supernatural books. He admires Chuck's work! And he sees the book and sort of gravitates toward it, and while Dean is standing there hollering and carrying on, Cas just keeps reading XD I LOVE THAT.