A prayer that I found necessary to discuss in one of my blogs because it illustrated the meaning of Billy's weakness and might as well be recognized by all of us before we have a moment of anagnorisis of our past mistakes was:
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the thing I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference."(S.F. page 60)
This may or may not have impacted the reader when they read it, but if you were actually paying attention to the reading, then you would know that this prayer signifies the "disease" that Billy witholds.
But if we actually begin to realize Slaughterhouse-Five is sending an allegorical or subminal message to all of us that our destiny is impervious to any sort of alteration that any of us may or may not want to implicate on it. For example if we one day decide to drastically change our future by killing somebody, your actually fullfilling your destiny because thats ultimately what your destiny beheld. In other words, any sort of modification that you might try to instill on your destiny is actually performing and executing that destiny that your trying to avoid. And I implore you to do otherwise and begin realizing that each one of us has his or her destiny planned out.
We may start coming to hasty assumptions that Billy is a senile man because he, as Kurt Vonnegut describes it "could not change were the past, the present, and the future."(S.F. page 60) We need to stop being so hardheaded and realize that we ourselves are "lab rats" in Vonneguts philosophy.
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