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The word "wyrd" has come along way from its original Anglo-Saxon use, derived from the Old English verb weorþan, which means "to become." It relates to the modern day phrase "in turn" for its use to begin something while turning back or referring to something old. Wryd simply embodies the concept that everything turns into something else while relating back to the original influences. It somewhat testifies to the fact that there is no unique and original thought; only actions and thoughts conceived from past actions and thoughts that had affected oneself. It has taken on the use of "cause and effect", for if you think about it, no one presently acts without influence from past experiences.
Wyrd also takes on the labeling of predestined life; when a person choose to act or say according to what their destiny or fate has planned for them. However, a couple thousand years past the fifth century Greek Orthodox beliefs of predestined life, free will has begun to take its......
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