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Author Topic:   Is The Future Knowable? another Omni question...
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Message 3 of 5 (58831)
09-30-2003 7:05 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Flamingo Chavez
09-30-2003 5:18 PM


Flamingo I have always wondered if that question wasn't in the same league as the immovable object meets irresistible force.
Consider what does it mean to know the future? In a practical sense we would have to actually occupy it otherwise there is no way of confirmation since we have no clue as to what the future holds. If we do so ( occupy the future) then it is no longer the future is it?

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10-01-2003 12:55 AM
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09-30-2003 10:01 PM


Flamingo That is the curse and the wonder of science. We must understand what are reasonable questions to begin with. Such is the point of my example of the immovable object and irresistible force. A lot of people fall for that illusion and I thought that it applied here.

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