I never proposed that people do not make choices, but the choices are more limited than people think.
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Destiny predetermined?
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I never proposed that people do not make choices, but the choices are more limited than people think.
Isolde Schulz
Member
Please take a look at:
Is Time Linear, or Can the Future Influence the Past?
It adds to the conversation without destroying it.
Trailblazer
Veteran Member
I believe that we can make moral choices but other than that much of our fate is out of our hands.
“Some things are subject to the free will of man, such as justice, equity, tyranny and injustice, in other words, good and evil actions; it is evident and clear that these actions are, for the most part, left to the will of man. But there are certain things to which man is forced and compelled, such as sleep, death, sickness, decline of power, injuries and misfortunes; these are not subject to the will of man, and he is not responsible for them, for he is compelled to endure them. But in the choice of good and bad actions he is free, and he commits them according to his own will.” Some Answered Questions, p. 248
We are forced to endure them because God set it up that way. What does that say about God?
Isolde Schulz
Member
It says that God is jovial and has an adventurous sense of humor. Who are we to comprehend it?
Trailblazer
Veteran Member
I do not believe we can comprehend God.
Isolde Schulz
Member
We grasp at straws through science to unfold it.
Trailblazer
Veteran Member
Do you think that science can help us to comprehend God?
Isolde Schulz
Member
Honestly, no. The Universe is much too expansive to fully fathom.
Isolde Schulz
Member
The cosmos is endless by some theories, and yet finite in others.
It's hard to choose, but delightful to have the choice.
It's hard to choose, but delightful to have the choice.
Not clear. Time is not strictly linear. As far as the past present and future determinism dominates in the outcome of cause and effect events.
The physical nature of our physical existence limits the outcome of ALL cause and effect in nature. The variation in the outcomes in cause and effect events is a natural variation that can be demonstrated by 'Chaos Theory,' which demonstrates the fractal nature of outcomes with many variables like weather, and human choices.
Isolde Schulz
Member
Truth is stranger than fiction. I'd like to see anyone disprove it somehow. Some say that only hindsight is 20/20, but I'd like to share how foresight can be 20/20 as well.