and wouldn't that mean that there is no such thing as free will or choice, I'm just curious.
2007-02-17 06:19:46 · 13 answers · asked by David 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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muy intersante
there is a space time continuum
so in a way free will might be an illusion
when you think about it in depth, the only possible pasts are the ones that led to what we have right now, and what we have right now determines what possible futures are possible
interpolation and extrapolation can shed light on these matters
2007-02-17 06:24:38 · answer #1 · answered by k eric b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting. If you think about it. Is choice an illusion? Is it something that drives us on a path and make us choose what we've already chose. Look at this though. Do you think its the ultimate college course in humanities. One that drives you to interact with others to make one complete. Learning from those who may have strayed letting you think about the choice when its your turn in the situation. If what you say is the case then we are to learn about why we made our decisions and understand why we we should or should not have made it. Maybe its all about learning humanities for some great society where everyone knows the 'rules' and live together in peace. time plays its part like a conductor putting everything on time in this human orchestra playing out a dramatic play which tells the story of the war against good and evil. Good question.
2007-02-17 06:47:33 · answer #2 · answered by brys' 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is the fourth spatial dimension. If you made two points, one red and one green, the drew a one dimensional line between them, you would get a series of points colored between red and green, arranged linearly from the red to green points. no two dots are exactly the same color. If this line was invisible some how, made only visible while intersecting a certain point, and you were to pass this line through that point, it would appear that the point was changing from red to green, while in reality, they are different points. Imagine the beginning of the universe is the red point, and the end is the green. There is a long, four dimensional object with the beginning of the universe as one boundary, and the end as the other. Time is the intersection of this object through three dimensional space. It appears we are changing with time, but we are really just the small variances within the infinitesimally short occurrences intersecting in sequence. Of course, as with the second dimension to the first, the fourth dimension can split off into the fifth, with alternative time lines every moment. In this case, yes, we do have 'free will'. But that doesn't men there is a god that gave it to us.
2007-02-17 06:30:46 · answer #3 · answered by dantes_torment 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've got dimensions, currents, waves, paths,precepts. Time is easily interrupted - shortened or lengthened. Free will or choice are causal effects or results. God formed the earth out of deep water without form and void and dark. God said Let there be light and darkness was divided just like God divided the upper water from the lower water and put the firmament between them on the second day and called it heaven. The third day he took the waters under heaven and gathered them together and called them sea and said let dry land appear and it was so.
Everything in the universe should be similar to water or move in the same way.
2007-02-17 07:42:06 · answer #4 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depends on whether you are a determinist or not and a range of other factors. Also, even determinists must still travel through time to find out if the future happens and how. No shortcuts for humans!
Spacetimes are the arenas in which all physical events take place — for example, the motion of planets around the Sun may be described in a particular type of spacetime, or the motion of light around a rotating star may be described in another type of spacetime. The basic elements of spacetime are events. In any given spacetime, an event is a unique position at a unique time. Examples of events include the explosion of a star or the single beat of a drum.
A space-time is independent of any observer. However, in describing physical phenomena (which occur at certain moments of time in a given region of space), each observer chooses a convenient coordinate system.
2007-02-17 06:28:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God exists outside the notion of time. God is timeless, in that he sees the passage of temporal time as you or I see a range of mountains far in the distance. At this distance the range of mountains seems to be one continuous line, yet as we get closer we see then mountains separated by miles and miles. God sees everything in the "eternal now". Hence, time does not "pass" for God.
So God knows all that you will do. But that does not mean you don't have Free Will. If I stand atop a building and watch two cars coming around opposite corners and know that they will hit one another, just because they do indeed crash, does not mean that I caused the accident or that the drivers did not act on their own.
2007-02-17 06:25:11 · answer #6 · answered by Ask Mr. Religion 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The line hasn't reached the future yet. It extends from the past into the present. That's what is meant by time being linear.
2007-02-17 06:28:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO the future hasn't already happened. The past or history has and the present is now, The future is to come.
2007-02-17 06:28:30 · answer #8 · answered by born again 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes the future has already happened but it has nothing to do with linear time.
The choices still exist, it is the outcome that is always the same.
Love and blessings Don
2007-02-17 06:25:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you want to be precise, there is no past nor future. There is only now--the present--that is constantly happening.
2007-02-17 06:23:58 · answer #10 · answered by Roland 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋