RE: Oh no not another free will thread.
April 22, 2018 at 9:10 pm
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2018 at 9:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
@Lut
To paraphrase a wise man (E. Scrooge), are these things that will be, or things that could be, maybe?
The former rules out classical free will. The latter, maybe not..and it;s usually the grist for the mill on stories about people who change their destiny (so to speak). There's a subtle difference in precognition in mythological stories between characters and traditions. We have cassandra, for example..cursed to see a future that will be but that no one will believe. Countless seers and sorcerors that see things that can be, maybe.
Omni god belongs to the first category. Not some rando seer who divines potential futures from pig entrails....but a being that knows the actual future. You do what it knows you will, every time. You can do no other, or it never knew to begin with.
To paraphrase a wise man (E. Scrooge), are these things that will be, or things that could be, maybe?
The former rules out classical free will. The latter, maybe not..and it;s usually the grist for the mill on stories about people who change their destiny (so to speak). There's a subtle difference in precognition in mythological stories between characters and traditions. We have cassandra, for example..cursed to see a future that will be but that no one will believe. Countless seers and sorcerors that see things that can be, maybe.
Omni god belongs to the first category. Not some rando seer who divines potential futures from pig entrails....but a being that knows the actual future. You do what it knows you will, every time. You can do no other, or it never knew to begin with.
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