[OT] Plato's Pub and Philosophical Society

[tbontob]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:

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The question gets more interesting when you throw in the two views of supernatural sovreignty, which are almost parallel to determinism and free will. One holds that God is in active control of each event, and that our free will is only an illusion; the other says that He usually only controls the general direction of things and allows us to make our own individual choices. The latter view would say that while God could control every event, He is powerful enough to work around (and in spite of) individual choices and still accomplish His will.

That seems to imply that God is embedded in time, and is dragged along with the "present" like the rest of us.

If you can view multiple points in time simultaneously, in fact, all time simultaneously, then the universe should look like some sort of lumpy/stringy 4-or-more dimensional construct.

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I thought about free-will and determinism a lot. There are pros and cons on each side.

Basically, I have resolved it for myself on a practical basis.

If determinism is in effect, then it doesn't matter what I do. It is all foreordained.

So, I might as well conduct my life as if free will was the opererative principle.

If I am right (free will), then I have tried to exercise free will. If not, it doesn't matter since my attempt to exercise free will was foreordained.