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"What if" question: I was building a time machine and a man who resembles my physical features, claims to be me, pop ups out of nowhere and warns me to stop building my time machine, he then disappears before i even ask any question, so should I trust the stranger or should I trust my freewill?

2007-06-13 18:16:08 · 7 answers · asked by 8theist 6 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

7 answers

Well, if your future self tells you not to build it... you obviously built it or else he wouldn't come back in time to tell you not to build it.

build on my friend, build on.

2007-06-13 18:28:33 · answer #1 · answered by heavy_cow 6 · 1 0

Save the cheerleader. Save the world.

I'm not so sure time is something that should be messed with. No matter what the technology would, eventually, fall in to the wrong hands and it'd all go to hell from there.

2007-06-14 01:49:11 · answer #2 · answered by ophelliaz 4 · 1 0

Doesn't your freewill make up the future anyway? Follow the free willy.

2007-06-14 01:24:22 · answer #3 · answered by RC 1 · 1 0

"Come with me if you want to live."
(reference to Terminator2 there, just in case anyone's wondering). Your premise reminds me of that movie. In any case, either way, you are exercising your free will because you are deciding. Trust does not mean there's no free will--you choose to trust with either option.

2007-06-14 01:55:22 · answer #4 · answered by teeleecee 6 · 1 0

Trust the stranger...

Don't you watch the time traveling movies?

2007-06-14 01:25:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

"Now as Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon who was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. And He said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. " Immediately they left their nets and followed Him.

Matt 4:18-

You have a choice to make with your free will. But it is always within the limitations of God's offer to us.

2007-06-16 13:22:34 · answer #6 · answered by Nina, BaC 7 · 0 1

nice avatar....

2007-06-14 02:23:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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