Sarah wrote: | Coliin, if god or anyone else knows about (can see) the future, it | means the future is determined. If the future is determined, then we | have no free will, only the illusion of it. | | Following your example, if god has a vcr tape of my life, and he | fast-forwards and sees me buying house number 1, it follows that the | time I spent looking at house number 2 was time wasted, because all | along it was "written" -- already determined -- that house number 1 | was the house I would buy. Otherwise god could not have had a tape | of me doing that.
When it gets boiled down to God and his vcr, who can refute that logic? ROTFLMAO! What if God has a thousand vcr tapes of your life, each one a possibility. (I would hope that God uses cdr or something a bit more modern, of course -- saves all that time rewinding!!) But God knows precisely which choices that you will pick, using your free will. How can that be? Cuz he/she/it is very fecking smart!! Does that mean that you don't have a free will, or just that you are predictable? Or perhaps God is like Merlin, living life backwards in time. God is all knowing about your future because he has seen it all. It doesn't affect your free will concept at all -- each choice was yours. God didn't even need a stinking VCR. He/she/it has been there, seen that! Or perhaps God is not time bound at all. Where/when is heaven anyway? Or perhaps all this God talk is pure hogwash, designed to distract us from the real shitty things happening in our lives! Hmmmm. Perhaps I am too amused ;P Ron L.A.
