RE: How Free Will and Omniscience Works
September 4, 2012 at 5:14 pm
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2012 at 5:19 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Unless a precognitive entity foresaw "or death" at which point it -is- or death, or the entity is not precognitive. You seem to be getting hung up on what our (flawed) perception of the event would be, but since you're the one invoking the precog perhaps you should be a little more thorough and willing to accept the consequences of your proposal? That which is determined before the fact can only be considered "choice" in the fevered dreams of apologists. Don't get me wrong, perhaps this is precisely the position we find ourselves in (ala Calvinist garbage), but it doesn't work for me (and it doesn't work for the myth of choice, consequence, and retribution).
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