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07-23-2011, 11:53 AM
| | | | If you could, would you like to know how your life turns out? Music, career...etc.?
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I would. If there was a "time machine" or some other way having been invented to see one's future, would you want to see yours?
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07-23-2011, 12:13 PM
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07-23-2011, 12:20 PM
|  | Master of Reality | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | | Naw, false hope makes for a better carrot.
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07-23-2011, 12:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Takoma Park, MD (DC) | | | Absolutely not. If it turns out badly, I would be bummed. If it turns out well, I wouldn't feel like I earned it; I would feel like it was predestined. |
07-23-2011, 12:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Madison WI | | | how can my life have a detemened outcome, when I have yet to live it, To make the choices I will along the way? Or do you belive why bother its all carved in stone and we are just puppets living a story someone has written already? |
07-23-2011, 12:32 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | Not at all. I'd be bummed if it didn't live up to my expectations.
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07-23-2011, 12:33 PM
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07-23-2011, 12:58 PM
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Originally Posted by 8guy  how can my life have a detemened outcome, when I have yet to live it, To make the choices I will along the way? Or do you belive why bother its all carved in stone and we are just puppets living a story someone has written already? |
You mean fate? Or do you mean "it's your destiny"?
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07-23-2011, 03:40 PM
|  | Esteemed Nitpicker | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: A Galaxy Far, Far Away | | | One of the implications of Einstein's work is that free will is an illusion... |
07-23-2011, 04:00 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | I am old enough that a fair amount of my life has "turned out" already. Looking ahead would have been cool because I could have avoided some mistakes, but it also would have narrowed my horizons and ability to dream too.
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07-24-2011, 03:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Istanbul | | | Nope.
I'm here for the ride,what fun would it be knowing the end?
If I see I'm going to end up bad, I'd try to change it but would I be able to change it?
If I couldn't change it,then I spent all my life trying to avoid the inevidable. A life wasted for nothing.
Would I still ruin my life if I didn't see the bad ending? I certainly did by seeing it.
How I wish I could understand the universe more, maybe we'll find answers to all these questions one day...
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07-24-2011, 06:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Quebec, Canada | | | No.
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07-24-2011, 12:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: California | | | If I knew what was ahead of me when I was twenty, I would have killed myself.
I'm totally serious.
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07-24-2011, 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Bongolation If I knew what was ahead of me when I was twenty, I would have killed myself.
I'm totally serious. | Wow. Well I am glad you didn't.
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07-24-2011, 12:49 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Manitowoc WI | | | YES!
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07-24-2011, 01:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: North Dakota | | | No. We didn't find out the sex of our kids before they were born, either. There are some things in life that should be a surprise. |
07-24-2011, 01:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SteveC There are some things in life that should be a surprise. | I promise that you'll get them, too. 
[sigh!]
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07-24-2011, 01:59 PM
| | | | Probably not.
Only "Yes" if I had the ability to change things. Which would be ironic because if I am seeing a head of time, then how can I change what I would be seeing? Which "future" did I look into? Perhaps, if seeing into the future, and doing something about it, was part of your predestined plans? I think there are beliefs out there that involve an infinite number of universes that each one consists of something different. Sorta like that family guy episode.
As for the Einstein comment, free will may seem like an illusion, but I think he meant we were limited by certain things, such as not being able to fly. That is more of a evolutionary thing as opposed to concept of doing what is within our limited powers. Perhaps I am wrong and have not full read into his theory which touched upon this. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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