Okay so I'm going to do some weird trippy crap that might blow your mind. Here we go.
Everything in history that ever happened was destined to happen. Ever since the Big Bang, the atoms were arranged in such a way that every single event in the universe that we know has already happened was destined to happen from the start. The reason for this is because all of the atoms and atomic particles react with each other in such a way that there is only one possible outcome. The reason why we don't always know how certain things will come about is because we aren't tracking every single atom, every single force and every piece of energy in the entire universe and how they are affecting each other. If we did know, we could theoretically know the future.
What does that mean? That means that your parents were destined from the start to have sexy time, and you were destined to be born ever since the beginning of time. Hitler was destined to kill millions of people because the way that every atom in the universe react with each other, he was always going to become insane.
So 1. Knowing the future is theoretically possible and
2. Everything that will ever happen in the world is already destined to happen. There is this magnetic cassette that begins with time and ends with time (aka the big crunch), and we are currently playing in the middle of it.
EVERYTHING YOU WILL EVER DO IS DESTINED TO HAPPEN. WTF.
tl;dr you're a fgt
I want to try and explain it even more but I know you all have the attention span of a goldfish.
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I was a mistake. I am a error. I am a disease
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15 RepliesEdited by Verbatim: 12/19/2013 3:40:15 AMOh, the number of words I could use to describe this. Stupid. Bullshit. Pseudo-intellectual. Banal. Puerile. Mundane. Jejune. Boring. False. Superfluous. Futile. Lunatic. Preposterous. Ridiculous.
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Nope.
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I think humanity as a whole is a long way from figuring out if Determinism is true or not.
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5 Replies1. This is false. 2. Hitler wasn't insane.
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[quote]tl;dr you're a fgt[/quote] Well fruckle you too.
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What about electron uncertainty? Our act of observation changes how particles act so the outcome is different after we observe, which means we change the universe... Any explanation?
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Free will is an illusion. You will move how I decide you will move.
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3 RepliesNo shit. Free will doesn't exist.
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I highly doubt you're even remotely qualified to state all of this so factually
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much text,no reading,wow
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doge wins stfu fgt
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Irrelevant we lack the tools and the inclination for it to ever be relevant
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I know that I was destined to be alive, however, I'm destined to do nothing and of course, I'm destined to stop my genes from being passed on to the next generation.
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5 RepliesSo what is time?
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Plot twist: OP isn't gay and so aren't I
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... Or is it?!?
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sounds like a bunch of conjecturous (that's not a word but you take my meaning) wank to me
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Entropy. Idea dismantled.
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1 Replyexcept that contradicts entropy.....
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1 ReplyI like Forrest Gump's theory on this.
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No - by our present understanding, at the quantum level, outcomes are inherently random - for example, there's no way to tell whether a given atom will decay at the end of it's half life or whether a photon will reflect or pass through a window - we can only rationalize the outcome statistically. Your proposal would be plausible if reality danced along according to classical mechanics - but it doesn't, at least at the quantum level.
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2 RepliesOr someone could, like, decide to do something different and break the system.
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Absolutely not.