RE: Free will
April 1, 2016 at 8:01 pm
(This post was last modified: April 1, 2016 at 8:08 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Foreknowledge precludes freewill in that nothing else -can- happen, but that which said foreknowledge describes, or else it isn't foreknowledge at all. No choice can be made, no diverging paths of decision. One stream, one outcome, one conclusion, no deviation.
You don't -know- that you will go to work tomorrow. You have a reasonable expectation. However, you may die in your sleep, you may wake up and say "fuck work". If you -knew- you would go to work tomorrow, that would mean that nothing could happen to you tonight to prevent it, and you -could not- decide otherwise in the morning.
If you had foreknowledge of this, you would be incapable of choosing otherwise and nothing on this earth would be capable of stopping you from getting to work. Do you think that's the case, in your case, or the earth's?
You don't -know- that you will go to work tomorrow. You have a reasonable expectation. However, you may die in your sleep, you may wake up and say "fuck work". If you -knew- you would go to work tomorrow, that would mean that nothing could happen to you tonight to prevent it, and you -could not- decide otherwise in the morning.
If you had foreknowledge of this, you would be incapable of choosing otherwise and nothing on this earth would be capable of stopping you from getting to work. Do you think that's the case, in your case, or the earth's?
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