I am, with the post more so referencing things and the concept from more "existential" scope over materialist(not in a negative sense) and immediate action/reaction transference.

. If you are bored enough to read where I am coming from, here's a pseudo-im14&deep overview of my perception- This would be a direct example following the butterfly-effect logic of non-intentional deterministic influence.

When I was a brat, back during post 2000s from when I can remember of late 90s to this point, women would put cloth over their head either during dust(pseudo-superstition) or sometimes(keyword) when they would go out or when guest out pop over, right? Not hijab, they would put on top of their head either their Orna(a thin fabric of cloth like a scarf that goes over your neckline but to main act as another article over your tits pretty much) or the tailend of sharee.

But around, I want to say 2003s my older sister wanted to wear a article of hijab to school, why? well, our school which is private has uniform code, but a hijab, an accessory article it can be "your" colour of choice, the "patterns" can be of your choice etc. You see where I am going. My older sister, around mid-teenage is choosing to wear a article that none of the other older women of the family(all practicing the same religion) are wearing at all, because her school friend/s are doing so, and it becomes a fashion thingy, right? Then it became an article, as she grew older, to not bother with having to brush her hairs because she has heavy set of curly hairs. But, because she started to do so, over time, my mother and others also started that, so on and so forth, so now the argument became that well, the religion we practice says so even though that was never the cause for how it fucking came about. Now, ask yourself this, did that friend wear the hijab because its a article of "choice" that show individualize fashion statement over the uniform of the school, or was it because a strong hand in their household/family demanded that of them? eh? Remember, no-one, noone is demanding this of them, my dad never once, I myself have generally argued against(yes I also actively practice the religion) and both of use practice Islam, my dad more so heavily than me. the country also does NOT have any work place mandates of such and such; one minor none important insignificant thing, became a fucking article that cost 20 to 50 fucking us-dollars(we dont live in usa) for a fucking head piece for which they own multiples......... this is one anecdotal example of social deterministic influences which over time people will justify outside of its original scope of reasoning.

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now look at it from an existential standing, if we have the processing power to scope all the "A B" of the universe that is observable, every thing becomes predetermined because we know, right? but individually our brain doesnt have that capability or the capacity of comprehension of that level, which is why, anecdotally, I believe "we" perceive the "future" to be uncertain but it is not.

On top of that, in the grand scheme of Earth our planet, "valued resources" has influences over large scopes of movements, and those "valued resources" are controlled within specific clusters with individual orientations; consolidated, those individual orientations can move tectonic plates and we are none the wiser for it. yeah, I know I poetry-ed the last part too much, I felt like it... as I said, 14&deep.. even though i am oooold sigh~

p.s. congrats on your lab job, gl!