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Old 08-20-2004, 04:31 PM
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"Destiny Rules" has always baffled me: is "rules" supposed to be a verb ("destiny rules our lives") or a noun ("traffic rules")? I think it's just another senseless nothing of a phrase, the sort of phrase you'd find in a junior high yearbook next to your classmate's signature. It's vapid (when anyone starts talking about destiny, I generally check out) but it's nonetheless the kind of thing that strikes lots of people as profound.
I believe it's the former. Still cheesy and the whole "destiny" crap is just more rote garbage. If it's profound, so are the scrawling I found in a public toilet stall today.

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Of course, maybe Stevie had the right idea when she wrote: My destiny says that I'm destined to come.
Not in many years, by her own admission.
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