> So if you forget a moment about time, then you are left with > all the things that happen to you just existing in the present moment and > it is only an "optical" illusion that an event is being "predicted." >
Like you, i do not think that we are predestined for anything. Everything is a choice. BUT I do think things are presented to us by a 'guiding hand' so to speak. I don't believe in coincidence. These things can be put in our path and we can either take them or leave them. Two things come to mind; 21 years ago, I was living with a family, a single mother and her childen. i slpet in the lounge. I rarely went out on my own. July 7th 81 I had planned to go out with Pili to the cinema. When she got home from work, she had a migraine and didn't wnat to go. Instead of doing what i would have normally done, stay in, I went out anyway. I went to a bar, also unusual. There I met John and we have been together ever since. i think that was 'meant to be' for us both but we could have not followed thru. so choice is still there. the second(tho there are many) is this house we now live in. I came up here to look at a stud dog. I happeneded to notice the house prices and realised we could afford to live here and not too far from london, where John works. So we came up to view a house 12 iles away from this one. On the way, I decided to pull off the road into this town and I stopped at the first estate Agent I saw. this house we are in was on their list. We continued to the origianl house, which we hated staright away and we came back to here and bought this one after 5 mins viewing. Not only is this house better for the trains ervice but the other place is in a town with high crime due to high drug problem. Prediction are not about destiny,I think. It has something to do with space/time and when a prediction is made and it jappens, it is like the 'video tape' of our life has been FF and the incidennt is seen. There is someone on this list that has seen this work. I described to them a person they had not yet met(in deatil)and how they would form a good relationship with them and also how there work situation would alter dramatically but that they would find themselves in a good positon again very soon. It all came to be. However, it was still down to choice. My 'seeing' was not what made it happen. i was just able to see what would happen, regardless of me. Oh anfd the seeing wasn't asked for. It just comes in response to distress. bw colin
