and saw that you killed someone. but you didn't want to kill them, so you didn't. you changed your future. but why then when you saw the future did you not see you not killing the person? because your future wasn't killing the person but rather not killing the person. so did you see a false future?
and i just want to remind you that this is all hypothetical. i don't want you to tell me how seeing the future is impossible.
2006-12-13 08:30:49 · 7 answers · asked by Shamus O'Larry 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You sound like a pot head....are you a pot head? Are you on a high right now?
2006-12-13 08:50:04 · answer #1 · answered by one 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe that only works if you believe in different planes of existence where every single possible choice you could have made has been made and is floating around out there on another plane. Maybe you saw the future where you did kill the person, so you chose not to and ended up on the path where you didn't. It doesn't mean that there isn't a plane in time where you did kill the person and that that is also still out there somewhere but you are just not on that place anymore. You know, like there is a plane out there where I exist as a doctor but I'm only aware of the one where I'm sitting here in Y!A.
I don't know.
2006-12-13 16:38:37 · answer #2 · answered by Pico 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The timeline is already set in stone. If you were, in fact, able to see the future and saw you were going to kill someone, get used to being a killer, because free will is only an illusion.
Use the time before it happens to try to understand the decision that's already been made -- it was made 12 billion to 15 billion years ago when the visible universe first came into existence. Now is the time to try to figure out WHY that decision was made.
2006-12-13 16:35:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ever see the television Quantum Leap? It was a bout a guy who constantly changed bad outcomes by going back in time and changing circumstances that made the events occur. The way that worked was there was a 99.9% chance that the event would occur unless something was changed. In your scenario, when you saw into the future, there was a 99.9% chance that you would kill someone ... so that's what you saw. You decided you didn't want that to happen so you changed it .... causing the percentage of chance to fall back to 0%.
2006-12-13 16:38:21 · answer #4 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So you think you have constructed a paradox, eh?
All I can say is that you saw the future as it would have been if you had not made the decision, based on your vision, to change it.
This does not hold a candle to the classic paradox of going back in time and impregnating a woman who turned out to be your grandmother, thus becoming your own grandfather.
2006-12-13 16:44:17 · answer #5 · answered by pessimoptimist 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Elementary my Dear Watson,
2006-12-13 16:33:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
if you "saw" the future, you wouldnt be able to change it, else it wouldnt have been a futuristic vision.
2006-12-13 16:34:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋