Was it pre-determined from the beginning of time (or the not-beginning of time, if time had no beginning) that at this very moment the laws of the universe would command that you, in your present consciousness would be reading THIS right now, and that it was un-avoidable, and all free-will is an illusion? Or are you just fumbling through the universe like a drunken vagabond who happened to fall on this question like a vegas roulette on RED?
2007-09-30 19:01:01 · 16 answers · asked by Micheal M 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
NO Mike ▬
I was sent by God to tell you to find more admirable pursuits than these mind games that keep screwing with people's heads and causing migraines in some of God's simpler children !
☼(and btw -- clean out your refrigerator -- it is atrocious !!) ☼
2007-09-30 19:22:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Why are you reading this answer?
Was it pre-determined from the beginning of time (or the not-beginning of time, if time had no beginning) that at this very moment the laws of the universe would command that you, in your present consciousness would be reading THIS right now, and that it was un-avoidable, and all free-will is an illusion? Or are you just fumbling through the universe like a drunken vagabond who happened to fall on this question like a vegas roulette on RED?
2007-09-30 19:43:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am reading this question in order to try to see whether it is an interesting question, to sense whether there may be an intelligent endowed person behind it, to see whether it is about a matter that I would feel to know something, or even much, or even nothing, about.
That is why I am reading this question of yours. There may be a possibility that your question, together with the entity or entirety of you yourself, was pre-determinend from the beginnings of time, or not at all, but that it was to appear in the project of eventualities, but that at your own very moment of thinking the question it was the Universe that had projected and commanded that you, in your present consciousness, in your present moment, had to write this question.
You may be right to think that all free-will is an illusion, and you may even think that it is a glowing, even dazzling, illusion, and that may imply that you are a nano-cell, something totally invisible, hardly imaginable, or never imaginable, in the immensely wide huge Universe.
You are not fumbling thru the Universe like a drunken vagabond, and not even in your own more or less limited safe or dangerous surroundings, but you are a bit confused, and you have been allowed a more or less adequate tiny portion of knowledge, of wits, so that you may contribute your own function in that for you ever transcendental function of the immensely wide huge Universe.
Thus there is some sort of transcendental meaning behind your question that you are not able to grasp nor to fetch. Not yet. Maybe never at our present level of evolution. Maybe later after some metamorphosis or metamorphoses that may bring about one or more huge apotheoses of consciousness of glowing dazzling extension and impact on your body and soul and near and far surroundings.
It is the universe that commands ...
2007-09-30 19:53:10 · answer #3 · answered by pasquale garonfolo 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
so much uncertainty does not plague and i am glad it does not. i like answering questions and it helps me tickle the brain cells into a "go" mode. by answering i find answers to my own questions.
"it is the question that drives us" and finding answers gives me hope for the things to come. i ain't fumbling through the universe here. i have a definite purpose here on the face of the earth & that is to be worthy enough to enter into the kingdom of God. i am a wretched sinner here. i really wonder why God loves me so much and why He paid the price long back for the unpardonable wrongs i do now. here, i definitely exercized freewill in answering this question and i choose to end this response right here with a dot.
2007-09-30 21:53:31 · answer #4 · answered by Chief of sinners 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Haha. I looove the question.
This was inevitable. When the universe was set in motion at the big bang, laws were formed that could not be broken. That means that there is no free will and things are just following rules.
2007-09-30 21:22:01 · answer #5 · answered by asourapple100 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, I would like to point out that free-will is always associated with fate. No matter which course of direction we are taking, this is fate(predetermined events) and free-will working hand in hand.
Your second question denotes that it would be done likely by a person who can't even determine the difference between fate and free-will.
All night, i was thinking, imagining myself going online. I came home, i felt i needed shower badly- i was about to shower but, i saw my laptop and immediately logged in.
Deep inside me while at work something was telling me i will be on the computer at that certain time(time when i got home), i did come home and i went on the computer(answering to yahoo answer.) Something was also telling me while I was at work that i needed to have shower badly, i imagined myself getting all cleaned up at that time(time when I get home).
It was my choice to go online and hold off my shower time instead. Why? I saw the laptop- as it was predetermined to be lying there so I could see it.
My point is, seeing the computer was unavoidable, yet i had another choice to have a shower, but with my free-will, i freely chose to be on the pc instead. See how they go hand in hand?. Can't separate them apart. It is a causal chain totally linked to one another.
2007-09-30 19:39:04 · answer #6 · answered by oscar c 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I heard approximately some thing like that. yet i think of the homestead had exits. and not basically staircases that as quickly as to nowhere yet doorways that did no longer open or did no longer lead the place you theory they might. Even one door on the two or 3 tale that replaced right into a drop off too the backyard. i think of it replaced into on a television coach yet i do no longer remember greater effective than that. perhaps in case you googled haunted properties with some others info you will desire to locate it. Sorry i'm no longer lots help
2016-10-10 02:17:21 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm reading it to because it sound interesting. I'm always curious about what people have to say about their life and question like this is very difficult to answer. After reading all the answers given above, I'm beginning to grasp a little. I think you are very confused and am trying to find an answer here. I truly believe that many things are predetermined but you have a choice of either to go a certain path or not. In any given situation God always have 2 paths for us. Its your own will to choose the right path. God bless.
2007-09-30 20:02:03 · answer #8 · answered by apple 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Please allow me to answer your question:
"why did you type this question?"
I rather think that your being able to ask this question could bring you into the moment. There is obviously no room for a direct answer here nor any level of understanding that could explain why you percieve things the way you do but I think that almost everyone has wondered about it at some point in time. my opinion on the question you asked is not at all simple either,......."you are" undoubtedly the muse of your own mind so why not take up tap dancing?
2007-09-30 19:11:19 · answer #9 · answered by theoregonartist 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, I don't have much of an answer for you, except that I can confirm that I am drunk - but not a vagabond. Hope that helps.
2007-09-30 19:55:50 · answer #10 · answered by DrNick 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is no deterministic forces operating. Freedom is the nature, yet patterned, patterned not in the stiingent deterinistic manner though.
2007-09-30 20:53:11 · answer #11 · answered by Dr. Girishkumar TS 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋