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fatalism
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Much was also made of the plight of the stranded returnees who petitioned Governor Taft for food and transport home, appearing on mass outside the Ayuntamiento (City Hall) on the morning of July 29 where they "squatted in the park opposite the palace spread handkerchiefs over their heads in a futile attempt to keep the rain off, and waited with the grim resignation of fatalists.
It suffices here to say that the Ash'arites are neither fatalists since they believe in human choice and moral responsibility nor voluntarists since they believe in divine predestination, but are somewhere in between; however this paradox can only be resolved not at the discursive, theoretical level but at the level of intuitive spiritual experience.
That is, Baraka seems disgusted that white absurdist artists such as Beckett or Stoppard view the world as a land inhabited by a cult of fatalists who essentially have lost the will to effect change.
 
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