Quick distraction:
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Originally Posted by Futurama
Bender: Do you know what I'm going to do before I do it?
God(or God-like thing): Yes.
Bender: What if I do something different?
God: Then I don't know that.
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Saying something is a possible outcome to a given situation is to say that were you to go through the situation an infinite number of times, at some point that thing would occur. To use previous metaphors, if Bob could choose chololate, then at some point, bob would. If Bob choses vanilla 100% of the time then he never will, and thus cannot. Will not is the same as can not.
Why do you make the choices you do? You make them based on previous experiences. If you are asked to choose vanilla or chocolate, there will be a reason. Maybe you hate chocolate. Maybe you hate chocolate, but are willing to try it for some reason. The point is, you will have a reason. If you hate chocolate, there will be a reason for that too, maybe it brings back traumatic memories of your childhood. But there will be a reason you childhood memories are so traumatic.
Free will is an illusion, God or not.
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"Oh, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83 when I was the only practitioner of it, and I stopped because I was tired of being stared at."
Omnia mutantu, nos et mutamur in illis.
All things change, and we change with them.
- Neil Gaiman, Marvel 1602
Last edited by Zyr; 10-11-2005 at 04:48 AM..
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