## Define "Chosen One" @ Things Of Interest

* Author: u/traverseda  *With dread but cautious optimism**
* URL: http://qntm.org/orynth
* Score: 25

* Created: 2015-10-22T22:21:27

### Post:

[Link to content](http://qntm.org/orynth)

### Comments:

> **u/sam512** [+12]  (an hour later)
> 
> Just want to clarify that this was part of my "30 First Drafts" project of November 2010 and was probably written in about two hours flat, making almost no use whatsoever of the backspace key. This is the reason for those strangulatingly bad run-on sentences.

>> **u/alexanderwales** [+5]  *Time flies like an arrow* (3 hours later)
>> 
>> Do you have any plans for NaNo 2015? I really enjoyed 30 First Drafts; it's hard to believe that was five years ago.

>> **u/ancientcampus** [+2]  *juggling kittens* (2 days later)
>> 
>> To be honest, I *kinda* liked some of those run on sentences. Most of them.

> **u/xamueljones** [+1]  *My arch-enemy is entropy* (2 hours later)
> 
> Hey /u/traverseda, I'm curious. What's your reason for posting this now?

>> **u/traverseda** [+7]  *With dread but cautious optimism* (3 hours later)
>> 
>> Content has been a bit slow. I keep some filler to try to prop this sub up during slow times, in a vain attempt to keep it alive.

> **u/ulyssessword** [+1]  (10 hours later)
> 
> I remember that this sort of happened in [book title](#s " Harry Potter"), but are there any other examples of multiple chosen ones?

>> **u/sir_pirriplin** [+1]  (18 hours later)
>> 
>> It's also a plot twist in [movie ](#s "The Matrix Reloaded").

>> **u/PresN** [+1]  (a day later)
>> 
>> It's a plot point in the [book title](#s " the Mistborn Trilogy") that the prophecy was adjusted in secret to match the "chosen one", rather than the other way around.

>>> **u/ulyssessword** [+1]  (a day later)
>>> 
>>> Uhh, your spoiler is backwards.
>>> 
>>>      [Spoiler](#s " the Mistborn Trilogy")
>>> 
>>> gives [Spoiler](#s " the Mistborn Trilogy")

> **u/ancientcampus** [+1]  *juggling kittens* (2 days later)
> 
> I like the ending.

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