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I haven't been around here for some time so forgive me. I was going to post the same as sweetpea: what difference does it make to argue free will or predetermination? We'd never know the difference unless we are told the exact nature of our futures. Possibly, there is freedom of choice. If there is free will, we can change this destiny (overlooking that little... paradox... thingy... of how we were told what we now didn't do).

If there isn't free will, then any choices we "change" ultimately will lead to the same predetermined events.

Unfortunately we haven't a radio turner to the past [yet]--so I give this understanding. If a god does know all, despite free will, it is simply because s/he/it is higher than us. Two people, one on the ground and one atop a building stare down a road, metaphorically the future. The man atop the building can see much further than the man on the ground. Thank you frogza!

However, I do not believe in gods but simply higher intelligences than myself and give into the eccentric ideas like multiverse theory and alternate histories. Each verse has a set of predetermined outcomes to events, and we are given regions of choices free to us--like that of a dog on a leash. The dog has so much control in the area it has designated to crap in, like we have only so much control over the crappy lives ::bows::.

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